Comments on: Why I Don’t Use AdSense

By: Bora

Bora — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:20:25 +0000

I know this is old talk but i think very good!! I think small traffic site make no money with cpc or cpm and better use self serve like OIO or Komoona.

By: Dan Harvey

Dan Harvey — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:34:51 +0000

You could probably argue those three points with any advertising firm that you decide to hook up with. I do applaud people who completely go out on their own to sell ads but at the same time adsense provides value for those who don’t have the time to or the user base to warrant it. Good article though

By: Oster

Oster — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:38:36 +0000

I still believe adsense is a good way to earn money.

By: Games

Games — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:54:50 +0000

Adsense is very reliable.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:42:16 +0000

Ben and Repliers – I wish I’d seen this blog a little earlier. We are launching a new site that provides site revenue sharing for independent digital publishers like musicians, film makers, writers and so forth.

We put AdSense on our info page and planned to put them on our beta site. The info page received a lot of traffic and we were up to nearly $100 in Google earnings and then bam – one day we were banned. Unbelievable, we have no idea why we were banned but we learned our lesson. AND we used their PPC service to generate a lot of that traffic and I know we paid more than we were earning!

I caution against using AdSense, not only can you be left without ad inventory at anytime – you do not get paid for the money you accrued in the month of the ban.

We are exploring alternatives ad options. Part of the genesis for the new site was the idea of creating an aggregate traffic flow thereby allowing individual publishers to profit from the higher ad fees of the publishing co-op. I am thankful we learned our lesson before we let our supporters down.

BTW – Keep up the good work on your blog!

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:01:51 +0000

Of course, there are OTHER reasons why Adsense isn’t a good bet for your website: I listed ten reasons, some of which Ben dealt with, but some of which he didn’t… One of which is that Clicking on Ads takes readers away from your blog…. Don’t you want your readers to stay?

Kenneth

By: analyst

analyst — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:10:58 +0000

1. I must compliment you for a beautiful write up.
2. I sacrificed Adsense in favour of Bidvertiser and found that its clicks is generating more revenue for me than Google Adsense in my blog for free Indian share tips and am much satisfied because of transparent policy of Bidvertiser.
Regards

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:55:47 +0000

Thanks for the post, I have been working on a few articles about who to use and why not to use adsense… the why to use was much harder to write as my list of why not is larger

By: hitesh sahni

hitesh sahni — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:46:15 +0000

Please also include the eligibility conditions that each alternative demands from the blog in your coming post.I am waiting.Thanks for the reply.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:37:23 +0000

@ hitesh, I’ve got a post set to be published tomorrow that should help you find some alternatives.

Also, AdSense does allow you to send in an appeal form. But they tell you they only allow you one appeal and in my experience, they send out a canned denial almost every time. There have been stories of people getting their accounts back but they are few and far between. Also, these days some publishers are getting warnings before they get banned but that’s hit or miss as well.