Is adsense worth it?

I've used adsense before, and I am of the opinion that not only does it pay too cheaply, but the ads can be irrelevant. I didn't like having to mess with stuff just to try to fix it. If you're adsense ads are on a blog, you're better off doing affiliate marketing.

Statistically speaking, it takes just as many visitors to get an adsense click as it does to earn an affiliate commission. It's like choosing between .30 and $30. If you decide to continue using adsense, you shouldn't put adsense on pages that you are promoting affiliate products.

Good luck,
Joey

Some niches are better suited to Adsense than others, especially those that don't have a large (or any) selection of related affiliate programs to promote. While Adsense can make you pull your hair out at times due to fluctuations in CTR and CPC, my Adsense income has been a lot more steady and predictable than sales of my own products.

I used to worry about ads scaring visitors away, to the point that when I started I had the ads placed unobtrusively. For months I had practically no Adsense income. When I moved the ads into the hot spots (top and bottom of articles), suddenly I was making decent money -- I could have kicked myself for trying to be a "nice" guy for so long. I left a lot of money on the table, and had I known the true income potential at the time I could have started earlier on other similar sites (playing catch-up now).

While I would love to get more income by promoting other things, my favorite niche is unfortunately best suited to Adsense for monetization (plus it's a good CPC niche, which helps). I don't think the ads bother anyone (never had any complaints about them), as long as the articles provide them with good content. Those who vehemently hate ads are probably using AdBlock Plus anyway.

Depends on the niche!

That goes for all monetization methods. In some cases Adsense is one of the best methods and other times you'll find that affiliate marketing is equally effective. Even then you have a whole group (quite large in fact) of people who will tell you that CPA is the way to go.

What are your goals, what is your planned monetization method?

I've used Adsense for many sites and never had an issue, and have even made a pretty penny doing so. So it all depends. It's like asking what kind of car you drive. Whatever it is, it fits you, it fits your needs, and excels in both.

BP

Yes - Adsense is worth it!

For me, it is a 2nd income stream. But it's reliable, steady, passive and easy.

I do dislike the way ads are sometimes rendered, but Adsense allows writers to concentrate on what they like to do. The only problem is developing the initial momentum.

Will

With heads high I say a big YES to adsense income.

You can make thousands of dollars weekly from adsense if you have the knowledge and SEO skills.

I see a lot of people trying to make money making one big mistake, they don't educate themselves on the act of making money from their area of specialization, I recommend 100k ebook for anyone looking for breakthrough with adsense.

Adsense has been just a steady, passive extra income for me. Nothing to brag about, but I like the check I get. Ads don't chase me away. You'd never browse the Internet at all if ads chased people away. Most people develop ad blindness, so I wouldn't worry about it chasing people away.

Then don't put ads everywhere, but use them carefully and strategically

My experience is that, unlike 10 years ago, people are not uncomfortable with ads anymore. And, they click on them. However, it depends on your niche audience. I wouldn't use AdSense on a social responsibility project site (but I'd still sell ad space on it).

You can also block unwanted ads.

Why do you dislike ads on other sites?

adsense is def a great way to start creating an income online, its how i started

i worked on adsense sites for over 14 months before deciding to sell up all my sites for a nice 4 figure sum and shift my focus on other areas

i found creating adsense niche sites teaches you a lot about marketing and its a great building block

if you do create adsense sites i would not rely all of your income though on adsense sites as its very un stable if your getting most of your traffic from SEO

paul

Adsense is great for income.But i think these days the income from adsense can't be the only income from website where ads is showing you have to have some product that driving traffic to that site where ads are showing.

I think Google adsense is the better way to earn money online, And it's also generate the the traffic where you showing ads, But some peoples (internet users) not like it.

Adsense is worth it for certain types of sites.. such as fan sites, personal blogs, small news sites etc. For Affiliate sites or Merchant sites it's widely regarded as a "traffic leak". Use it wisely- you do not want adSense ads to distract your visitors away from what you are really trying to achieve..

Often when people start out making affiliate sites they will use AdSense at first while traffic is low and infrequent to generate some income from the initial outlay then remove it once there is a healthy flow of highly targeted traffic coming in.

About 2 years ago I really went for it with Adsense creating a number of niche MFA sites

The reason I started was because I had put some ads on a small site and made a bit of passive cash and thought there was potential there.

THE REASONS I GAVE UP = Not enough revenue

Even with good ctr's some sites I owned only made a few bucks a day. Given the effort required to get them ranked and drive traffic definitely not a good ROI

In my view it is very difficult to build a business based on the Adsense model that has enough momentum in it to give me the earnings I am after.

An example

Health/Diet Niche Site - I had one site in the health/diet niche ... potentially this should have given me huge returns. Using all the normal processes I researched and worked out I should have been getting a dollar or two per click. Plus because it was so niche I was getting a up to two hundred visitors a day to my site.

Fact is though I hardly made anything ... a classic case of a site with good traffic not converting.

I make my money from providing internet marketing services to local businesses but am also getting into building and selling my own digital products (which is primarily why I joined WF).

I got to say having your own products rocks ... you do the work once and get paid for life

I launched an eBook yesterday and immediately sold a copy ... loving it.

Not sure from your posts if you are talking about MFA sites (I think the concept is pretty much dead) or including Adsense on a blog/sight you have as an extra income. Either way I would think selling your own products is a better ROI

Play nice

BERNARD

Yeah, it's worth it.
One thing I like about adsense is that it is reliable.
You can make over 100 sales in 1 day with affiliate marketing, and then next to nothing for an entire month.
But with adsense you will get steady money over time. It's good if you are not into taking huge risk.

After landing in a page, if I found a page more ads that gives me a signal that I have to leave the page! I don't want to see a page with more than half of ads and less content. I believe, the thing is same for most of the people. It's not a better way to use adsense. A good mixture of contents and ads could be helpful instead.

yeah, adsense is worth it. it depends on the traffic you make. if you are able to get 10,000 daily visitors to your site, adsense can get you more than $1000/day

I made alot of money, mad money, I was poor rich overnight with adsense at one time, the first year it started.

Then boom it went dwindling down, they changed the payouts and such and started earning crap, they started blacklisting the automated sites.

Needless to say unless you have a very large site with very large traffic coming in, or you have hundreds of mini sites you are not going to earn much.

I really do not even add adsense to my sites any more, one affiliate link will pay more in the long run and I am at a hate love point with google.

I still have some sites with adsense up lets see what I made this month, I don't even check it any longer. Okay I see they changed the layout up too but I have made 80 bucks in 9 months with four sites that still have adsense on it.

Not worth it to me.

Adsense is only making me pennies per month, not even dollars,
so i think it is completely useless,
but i've heard that google bumps you up in the ranking if you have adsense on your site?!
is it true?

i like adsense, its my first income online

Any money-making method if you can scale it out is worth it. I know Adsense is a great way of making passive income, the only downside is that your sites can lose their rankings whenever their is a change in the Google algorithm, other than that if you can find a way to scale the Adsense earnings, it can be a nice income.

Adsense is a major source of revenue for me.

Those that aren't making money are probably targeting the wrong niche, wrong keywords, or not getting enough traffic.

I have one niche where the clicks are not worth enough to justify Adsense so I use CPA offers. But other niches that I targeted "for" adsense can pull in more in a day than I suspect many people make all week at a 9-5 job.

I make a good amount from Adsense but i do have to put alot of time in. It is worth it if you put the time in.

I believe if you set it up right e.g change the colour of the add's and put them in clever positions then it is easily worth it.

I did really well with Adsense several years ago when I got into it. Then I decided to replace all my Adsense ads with ads that had my affiliate links to other products or links to my other content-rich websites which focused on obtaining people's e-mail addresses.

The profit difference between the two was staggering. I ran a few more tests in more than one niche to see if this was a fluke and BOOM......I no longer use Adsense. Any and all links on my websites (in most cases, though there are exceptions) should go to websites that I own or can profit from.

RoD

These answers are like night and day.

Just make your site simple, and dont include too many ads all over the place. When people land on your site/blog... guide them to the action that you want them to take.

Adsense ads don't chase people away. Maybe if they click on it and they don't come back to your site, whereas they may have stayed, read a few articles, and bookmarked or subscribed...maybe.

You just need to change the placement of your Ads.