Comments on: Why I Reinstalled AdSense on My Blog in 2010 – Reason #5

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By: Stocks on Wall Street

Stocks on Wall Street — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:46:35 +0000

Makes sense for some reason Google fails to accept me, really frustrating. .-= Stocks on Wall Street´s last blog ..Goldman Sachs- The True Winners in the SEC Case =-.

By: Ryan McLean

Ryan McLean — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:41:46 +0000

It does take trial and error…but you need to make sure you are testing your results and that means testing how adsense stacks up against other income earners.
I would never put adsense on my blog again because I have found email marketing to be WAY more effective. Email marketing build over time increasing your passive income. Adsense doesn’t have that building effect

By: Gary David | Build Your List Fast

Gary David | Build Your List Fast — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:00:46 +0000

Thank you for sharing this Paul and the previous 4 posts that you made. I’m really not a big fan of adsense, but when you pointed out all important details about adsense, I’m thinking twice now.

Keep it up!

Kind regards,

Gary

By: Paul Piotrowski

Paul Piotrowski — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:06:44 +0000

@Rob: That’s cool Rob. Yeah, I think AdSense has been treated like the “ugly sister” for a long time. I know part of this is due to the crappy performance that it had a few years back after the AdSense “golden era”. Meaning, in the beginning everyone made a pile of money with AdSense and it was so easy because advertisers were dumping money without measuring ROI, there was a lot of click fraud, and other shenanigans that made it possible to make a pile of money quickly.

Then, Google cleaned things up and changed a lot of the rules and implemented harsh restrictions that slashed a lot of people’s incomes big time. At the same time it made it harder for new AdSense advertisers to make money in the beginning. Couple that with the over-hyped promises from the early days where people were saying “Just throw up a Blog and you’ll make thousands with AdSense overnight!” and you’ve got a really bad recipe.

Today, I’m looking at AdSense from a realistic point of view. It doesn’t matter if it starts out making me $1/day,$100/day or even $1/month. The point is to establish a baseline and then work from it. The daily reports you get from AdSense are invaluable. It allows you to test and try things with a daily cycle. Meaning if all of a sudden you bring 3x as much traffic to your site, your adsense earnings should go up THAT DAY. In direct ad sales it doesn’t work that way. It could be months before advertisers pay you more for the ads on your site due to your traffic increase.

By: Rob Cosman

Rob Cosman — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:20:25 +0000

Paul, great series. I had first started my website thinking that I would not put any adsense up there. You’ve given me great reason to put it up, and thats what I did this weekend. Great article. The nice thing is that I can design my ads to they kinda look the part of my site now.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:50:18 +0000

Its definately a trial and error thing with adsense. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. You’ve just got to keep experimenting.

Interesting series of posts