Adsense all of a sudden make sense.

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So I had some websites ranking good in google and getting some traffic averaging 60-120 visits/month.

Not a lot of traffic, but some very targeted traffic. Leads for offline businesses in my area but no businesses buying them right now, tons of money wasted, I know.

I have many other websites selling leads already but just not those last ones I made. I have way too much work with my main business right now so I must choose my battles and make sure I keep my existing customers happy before I go fetch some more.

Sooooo.... two days ago I decided to put some Adsense ads on two of those websites to give the visitors some options to choose from once they pop on my sites instead of a page full of empty promises.

Guess what, 4$ after the first day. Should have thought about this earlier, the money was right beside my mouth!

I never really liked Adsense, I hate the look of it on any website, and so far, I had a total of 13$ earned with Adsense from some other experiment I made in the past. I guess I gotta switch the minding because this is gonna be my best Adsense month ever ! :p

If you're not an Adsense type of person, think about it. You never have too many income sources. I will get rid of those once I get some businesses to buy the leads but in the meantime I think it's a great alternative.

Do you Adsense?

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  • Profile picture of the author Mantasmo
    Yea I have some high earning Adsense websites. They're mostly "informational" sites in the health niche, so Adsense fits nicely in there. Most of my Adsense "empire" sites got killed by Penguin... but those were small earners (like $50/day combined).

    I'm also experimenting with some internal and aff offers on some of the more targeted pages though - sometimes a page that gets $2/day with Adsense can make $50/day with an offer (happened more than once to me, definitely not a coincidence).

    So yeah - always test several monetization methods.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    A little off-topic here but google
    just tweeted a similar story about
    how ads actually complement e-commerce.
    PubTalk: Docstoc's Jason Nazar says ads can complement e-commerce - Inside AdSense

    Google has mulled this over quite a bit in the past:

    1) What do you offer visitors if they don't find what they are looking for
    on your page?
    2) You MUST give them a choice.
    3) Surfing out with nothing for you, is bad.
    4) Ads at the bottom of an article answer the question,
    "Where do I surf to next?"
    5) Search boxes can be used in strategic places, even non-content pages.

    Paul
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    If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author Justin Lavoie
    Great article paulgl, gives alot of food for thoughts... I'm sure I can get more juice now out of some other websites with more traffic.
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