I know very little about AdSense but decided to add it to one of my blogs since that site gets thousands of hits per month. It is basically my hobby site but it seems that many bloggers have this type of advertising on their sites and some seem to make money with it. Does anyone here have any experience with AdSense? Do you really make money with it?
AdSense Questions
May 30th, 2007 at 01:47 am
May 30th, 2007 at 05:01 pm 1180544504
Adsense advertises some shlocky products and businesses that I would not want my name associated with. I campaigned against it being introduced to the website I used to work on. The "deciders" went with it and had such an uproar from users that they took it down within about three weeks, if I recall. Some of the readership did leave over the issue. It was problematic in that on one of our nature oriented sites, Adsense was linking products that were harmful to the site topical aspects of nature. It also served links to ads that the readership found inapproriate on a "family oriented" site which did have some users who were children. Another problem is that if you have reader comments on your blog and Adsense is allowed to link within the commentor's words, your commentors might well resent have their words "twisted" into an ad.
That said, a favorite website of mine recently added on Adsense. It annoys me and interrupts my reading, but I have not abandoned the site. If I could find a similar site of equal quality without Adsense, I would go to that one, instead.
It may bring you some money. But at a PRICE.
May 30th, 2007 at 06:12 pm 1180548725
However, I very rarely click on adsense ads (or any ads). I also think big businesses should not display adsense ads in their first page... looks silly if not greedy and tasteless.
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