Adsense : Good Idea Or Bad Idea

[sachin1361]

For lot of webmasters, Google AdSense has become a great income generator. Since the program pays the webmaster every time a visitor of their website clicks on the ads that Google displays in their web pages, the same has become a truly viable and profitable option to earn a living online. As a matter of fact, there are countless webmasters who have dropped their day jobs so that they could focus on the AdSense program.

They build dozens and dozens of websites, all of which carry their AdSense code, hoping to generate amazing earnings from such an approach. After all, if one website can generate $25 per month (a low average at that), how much could 100 websites be able to produce for the webmaster? For more details, visit How to Increase Website Traffic.

But success with the Google AdSense program is contingent on 3 things:
(i) Click Through Rate (CTR), or the ratio of people who will click on the ads vis a vis page impressions
(ii) Page impressions, or the number of people who will get to visit the website
(iii) Cost per Click (CPC) attached to the ads that will be displayed,

The CPC can be approximated by checking out the going rate of the keyword to be targeted before building a website. The resource that can be found at is an excellent tool to help anyone in formative the probable CPC for certain search words or phrases.

The CTR can be improved by arranging the AdSense blocks in a manner that would make them look like organic parts of the website.

Most difficult is the page impressions to achieve.

Page impressions are actually the same to what is generally known as web traffic. Web traffic refers to the volume of users who manages to load up a particular page of your website. It is said that traffic is the lifeblood of any online venture, and this couldn't be truer for websites that earn via Pay Per Click (PPC) programs. For more details, visit Learn Tips on How to Make Money With Google Adsense.
The success of your Google AdSense campaign would depend on the volume of traffic you'll be able to generate for your website, or websites.

You could try a lot of marketing tactics, but often, these strategies take time to gestate. Additionally, each and every competitor of yours would be trying out the same techniques, and there is no real guarantee about how much traffic you could derive from them.

This has led many webmasters to try out PPC advertising for their PPC earning campaigns. The way it goes is that they will advertise their websites through Google AdWords. Google will then display their links the way it displays AdSense ads. The webmasters who decide to take this route would then have to pay Google every time a user clicks on the ads that lead to their websites.

How do these webmasters earn, when they're supposed to spend for every click?

Well, most of them build websites that are exclusively made up of AdSense ads. Hence, whenever a user is led to their pages, he'd have no choice but to click on the relevant ads that appear therein.

There are some webmasters, on the other hand, who rely on the strength of their content. They use AdWords to expose their websites to people, hoping that those very users would love what they'll see and they’ll keep coming back every now and then.

There are pros and cons to this strategy, however. Let's take a look at the advantages first.

You will attain guaranteed traffic.
You will attain highly targeted traffic. Since your visitors will be composed of people who are interested with the subject of you website, there is a higher likelihood that they will click on the ads that would appear on your pages.

Google is cracking down on websites that are merely composed of AdSense ad blocks. If you opt to use this approach, and your website is composed exclusively of AdSense ads, chances are, your website would get de-indexed and your AdSense account would get suspended if Google catches you.

The best way to go is to rely on the strength of your website. Prepare unique, premium content and hook your visitors with the same. Content is king in the World Wide Web, after all.

If you decide to use AdWords to get some traffic, make sure you have a mailing list in place to capture their contact details and ensure for yourself some repeat visitors. PPD advertising should only be used to gain initial traffic, until your other marketing strategies would finally produce the desired results.
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[sachin1361]

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[rufman]

I am considering using Adsense, I use Adwords and its pricey but it does generate businesses. Great post.

[tmarek]

Lol, oddly enough I have a fairly popular blog. For the sake of testing (on #2 now) I decided to test out Adsense. I haven't made a penny at all.

I'm not bashing Adsense or anything, I know some websites that make a handsome chuck of change from it, but don't rely on just Adsense alone for your income. For me, Adsense is a bad idea. For you, it may not be. Go ahead and test it out for your website, I would be interested in the results you get from it

[tyroneshum]

I see AdSense as another PPC program that can give you traffic and pennies too. I think using it will be a good idea, if and IF your website or blog is already stable and has its own credible traffic. However, if you are just starting out, I think you shouldn't use it as once since there is no guarantee yet that you could run it smoothly and make it stable.

[Roddick]

success with the Google AdSense program is contingent on three things:

1. Cost Per Click (CPC) attached to the ads that will be displayed;
2. Page impressions, or the number of people who will get to visit the website; and
3. Click Through Rate (CTR), or the ratio of people who will click on the ads vis a vis page impressions.

[IncomesInternational.com]

When did this forum start to allow spam?

This is the biggest load of bogus nonsense I've read in quite a while.

Have you ever seen an adsense site? They are the ugliest most pathetic things online and in reality very few people have ever made any significant amounts of money from a 'made for adsense' website.

The blog I am currently running and promoting is not even 2 months old. I work hard at creating good quality and informative content. I have a regular base of readers and my uniques are increasing daily.

Is it a coincidence that I am making money from adsense? Not at all. I'm not saying I am making huge money but the blog is still so new that it doesn't even get a proper look in from alexa yet.

I have good content, so the ads being delivered are relevant to the pages and therefore the visitors see an ad that is appealing and click on the links.

Adsense is a great way to create an alternate income stream from you blog or website but unless you are Chow, Shoemoney, Rowse or Starak, you won;t be making thousands of dollars for a long time to come.

Keep producing good quality content that is relevant to your niche and let google do what it does best - deliver ads relevant to your site that will appeal to your visitors and they will eventually start to click through.

Yaro, I think it might be time to start and mod this forum a bit closer. It's a great forum that shouldn't be diluted by spammers.

[tmarek]

Andrew, I echo your thoughts exactly.

Adsense splashed all over a page is downright ugly, and it only works very well in a few key areas.

I've been talking to Yaro regarding help modding this forum a bit closer, I'll see where I can get with that.