Is Google adsense dead?

I get about $200 month from Adsense, but that is against a ton of traffic.

The actual CTR on my site is about 6 clicks per 1000 visitors.

Since I am not monetizing that site in any other way at this time, I am not going to cry about the low returns I am getting from Adsense just yet.

I made decent money from Adsense, decent meaning enough to pay some bills and give me extra money, but it never helped replace my day job.

Creating niche products to offer to your customers will inevitably multiply your profits; assuming your marketing funnel can convert viewers into buyers. But if IT CAN, your earning potential becomes uncapped and you only have to replicate the system.

Adsense works fine. Getting lots of traffic to a website is the hard part.

In my experience with Adsense, as well as talking with many other website owners who use it, typically 30 unique visitors = $1 of Adsense earnings, on average.

This means that 1 unique visitor per day = $1 per month in earnings.

So if you want to plan to make $1000/month in Adsense earnings, you have to ask yourself "how can I build a website that gets 1000 visitors per day?"

Also, keep in mind that just because you use Adsense, does not mean you cannot also use other monetization methods. A few years ago I had an authority site with only Adsense on it. Then, I added a link in the right side column with an advertisement on it that led to a sales page of an ebook. Pretty much instantly, my total earnings of the website doubled from the addition of ebook sales revenues.

So I would say, don't rely solely on Adsense. Embed Adsense ads in the content but also embed link ads or sidebar ads for relevant products.

Adsense is not dead. Esp not if you can run it at large scale.

Personally I prefer other methods of monetization compared to adsense, I've always made more money on sites that I've stayed away from adsense

'Dead' is a word we hear to often in this industry I believe.

Article marketing is dead...
Email marketing is dead...
Social-media is dead...
Forum posting is dead...

Blah, blah.

Nothing is ever really dead, there are always people out there making money with the latest 'dead' craze.

If you were doing what they were doing, you would be making money - as simple as that.

Now that's not to say it doesn't get harder to make money with certain platforms, believe me - it does. But, it doesn't by any means make it dead.

You just need to put your optimize for conversions and such with things like adsense.

But, if I were you - I would be pushing my own products and not relying on Google for my pay cheque.

It's been that way since back in '11 when I got a nice big ban from adsense - best thing that could have happened for me at the time. Forced me to learn other ways to monetize which ulitamely lead em to where I am today.

Adsense is by no means dead, i'd argue it's more popular than ever, and depending on ads you can get $10+ for a single click, and there are plenty people making thousands off it monthly. The tricky part is not getting banned by google for invalid clicks.

In my opinion Google Adsense pays out too little money. You're much better off monetizing the traffic you get by selling your own products. This will YOU will determine how much you get paid.

I bookmarked a blog post on Digg and it was a hit. I got 7,000 visitors in one day. I had about 100 clicks on these adsense ads and only made a few dollars. I believe if I had anything else I would have made a few hundred off of this. If 7,000 visitors is not enough to make decent money with adsense, then what is?

Mine are the same as yours.

It's never made any sense to me to be paid pennies when people leave my websites instead of staying there.

I've never used AdSense on any of my sites and don't intend to use it (or its equivalents).

I know there are some people steadily making four-figure monthly incomes from AdSense but I strongly suspect that (a) there are very, very few of them, (b) they have enormous traffic, (c) most of them have approached it on a trial-and-error basis by starting huge numbers of sites and then building up only the ones that "seem to work", and (d) it's a largely SEO-driven business model which is probably one of the more precarious ones to adopt.

for me adsense is still alive, i got lot of money from adsense...

Adsense isnt bad at all. Its just the method..
Think about it, ads are a way of exposure through interruption. Would you like it if someone stopped you on the way to work and bugged you five times with offers of window cleaning, a new amazing coffee maker, or cheap suites?
Pshh!

Adsense certainly is not dead, but there are usually better ways to monetize your traffic depending on the niche. Do some exploring and see what you can find! Look into CPA offers and Clickbank for starters!

when adsense was just started, I nearly banked 5grand from them, but now that it's more popular and more exposed , it's also more saturated

It clearly depends on your niche. If you were in the mesothelioma niche and got 100 clicks you would have made at least 1k.

I use adsense because it is quick and easy. If I see big earnings from one site, I know I could probably make more by using another form of monetization.

Adsense is completely dead, I recommend everyone just take their sites down and never use adsense again

CPA is something I have heard about for a long time, but it scares the crap out of me.

Hey Robin, its Dan, you wrote content for a big portion of my old sites that made me tons of money. I sold of most of those but have a ton more making really great money through Adsense and CPA. Shoot me a PM and i'll give you a free membership to my WSO. You'll learn exactly how to rank pretty much whatever you want and bring in really good Adsense and CPA money. Its some pretty advance stuff but it works. I owe you that at least for all the hard work and great articles your wrote for me. With your writing skills and speed you should be able to make a nice living off of organic search pretty easily.

my adsense income is not so good, i think if anyone want to income lots from adsense he must spend huge time on developing his website. He need to write lots of unique articles, update his site daily and he need correct SEO for his sites to keep unique visitors regularly.I think its now quite tough. Nowadays a website for adsense income needs a proper team.

I remember I read an article where a guy talked about having 1000s of pages of unique content. He was making about five figures a month. I have to imagine that something like that would take years.

The CTR on Adsense is poor. Google has been running the same general layout of ads for years with only minor tweaks. I think most people have become ad blind when it comes to Adsense and that is why they do not click.

I only use google adsense with my youtube videos and I earn 100-200 usd per month

But Paul, the CTR has considerably dropped over the past few years. That was the point I was trying to make. I also monetize in other ways, but the CTR of Adsense is getting so low that I'm thinking it is time to pull those ads off the site and replace them with something that has greater earning potential. I'm also an Adwords user and the CTR on those has dropped too. Mostly because of increased CPC driving me out of the view on Google search and Penguin damage to those sites that ran my ads outside of search.

I like Adsense because I am still making good amount of money form it. And for making more money from Adsense I am still creating new sites.

You should push your own products imho.