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5 Reasons Adsense Sucks
Everyone loves to clap and dance about how they have a hard on for Adsense. I go hangout at a forum and everyone is talking about all the programs they can sign up for that will pay them for every click they bring. I just shake my head.
I’ve played with Adsense, and I gave it a fair go. I have it left up because it does make me anywhere between 6 cents to a dollar a day. This really isn’t an attack on Adsense in general, but programs that pay you by the click. Here are the 5 Reasons Adsense Sucks: 1. It’s too easy to get banned Doesn’t seem like the most productive business model to use something that can easily slip away. I know there are plenty of people that try to abuse the system and they get banned. That’s how any program works. The problem is that it’s really out of your control. You don’t know who’s clicking and you really have no control over that. A competitor or someone that just doesn’t like you, can come to your site and just click away. They could use suspicious proxies to do it and Google flags your account for termination. You’re supposed to be ever vigilant with your stats, but sometimes it’s just hard to figure out. 2. You can’t lead, blend or blind link You have to make it aware to the surfer that they are ads. You can’t hide the fact, you can’t tell them to click the ads, you can’t blind link, you can’t blend them in, etc. That’s no good. Blind linking isn’t the most profitable thing you can do, but sometimes it is a final ditch attempt to send a visitor off to an affiliate. Adsense sucks because you just can’t do anything with it. You just have to throw it on the page and make it apparently obvious that it is an ad and hope they’ll click on it. 3. Throwing Money Away It amazes me that most people that use Adsense know of Adwords. I constantly hear people that use Adwords bragging about how they make money selling affiliate products. Since you have to make the visitor aware of the fact that they’re actually clicking a sponsor, without leading them toward it, without trying to blend it in, etc, you’re just sending away targeted leads for some pocket change. You’d make far more if you just sent these targeted leads off to the affiliate yourself. 4. Adblock and Similar Programs I use Adblock and it is one of my favorite tools for my browser. I never see an Adsense ad. There has been over 20 million downloads of this so far and as other programs become popular your Adsense revenue will decrease. People just don’t want to see your ads. 5. A Gambling Business Model I don’t appreciate the business model of Adsense. It seems like gambling. This is a program that is highly susceptible to abuse. The whole model is based on the fact that you get paid per click, but a click isn’t intrinsic value. Even though Adwords collects revenues on the basis of clicks, they’re not going to have Adword customers unless they’re making money. Basically people are getting paid for not necessarily making value. Plus there is the fact that there will people looking to abuse, making rings of cheaters, finding proxies to click with, etc. It’s not based on a profit model, it’s based on a gambling model hoping that the click will turn into some sort of profit. If you look at affiliate programs, you get paid a commission when you make a sale. You can send a 10,000 clicks to a product and if you don’t make a sale, you don’t make any money. When a sale is made, you make money. Value for value. A business model that works. ——- Like I said, I do use Adsense lightly. I use it on blogs that I don’t update or do anything with and it makes me some pocket change everyday. It’s not worth your time to invest your lively hood into it. Get with a real program where you’re paid to make sales, not clicks because Adsense sucks. June 29 2008
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