There has been a lot of debate regarding the death of Adsense due to change in Google policy for allowing a different click rate for content which tends to be much lower than click rate for sponsored ads. This according to some have made income from adsense websites reduce dramatically and making money from adsense untenable. There have also been counter claims that adsense is very much alive and kicking.
What is your experience with adsense??? Are you making any money or is it just waste of time???
My take that people have been trying to do money while riding this bandwagon of "Adsense is dead", hell some people are even trying to make money with bandwagons like "Adsense is alive".
To me,
Adsense is dead. Joel Comm and the rest of the gang is trying to sell hard that Adsense is still alive.
Affiliate Marketing is the way to Go! Seriously speaking and for long term profits purpose.
My opinion is that AdSense is "ok". I have some AdSense slots in my website (like in the end of pages and in the beginning of some pages) and they make some money each day even when I'm away. I personally think selling your own products and services or having good affiliate programs can work well.
I have Adsense on all my sites. It doesn't generate much revenue, but then again it never did more than it does now, so I can't say there is a big "before and after" for me. A few cents/bucks here and there. With more traffic it can probably get more interesting though. Time will tell in my case..
Well, I was (unfairly) banned from AdSense after about a month, but until then I was doing quite nicely.
My opinion is that thinking of AdSense as the way to make money on the net is a big mistake. It is *a* way of monetizing traffic, and there are dozens of others.
Notice that none of the big earners (not just on this forum, but in general) are too bothered about the claims being made - because they are monetizing their traffic in many different ways.
Of course Adsense is not dead. This was nothing more than a brilliant marketing ploy to create controversy within the Internet Marketing Community and draw attention to the author.
It worked.
He built a list of about 30,000 in about 1 month and then he sold out his coaching program (400 people at $1000 a pop) in one day.
