ADSENSE NONSENSE MAKES NO SENSE
June 20, 2008 by moneypenny
Filed under Finance
Well I must be one of millions of bloggers and website owners who have Google ads or adsense on their sites. While some people dispute that its worth having these, I decided to go with it when I started my Italy site and then subsequently with my wineblog
http://www.wineloversworld.blogspot.com
which is on its way, through votes, to being listed among the top 100 wine blogs.
Now I know Google has to be careful of not finding crime and tax evasion.
But does it have to make it so impossible to manage your Adsense account?
You have separate passwords and e mail adds. You must list addresses, tel number, tax nos and leanings etc, But that’s OK.
But now I have a pin that they e mailed me in the post! So I tried to insert it into my account to verify it so I could receive payment. And I had a whole list of gremlins rush at my throat.
It won’t accept my county/province It says it doesn’t exist, yet it appears on their dropdown list.
It doesn’t like my telephone number either.
And it doesn’t stop there either: It also doesn’t like my IBAN bank code, or my SWIFT code, although I know for a fact they’re right. I received funds internationally just this week.
I’m wondering if its all worth it. They also tell you you can’t receive more than 12,000 dollars a month in commissions into a bank acc.
Now I take it some people make that a month on clicks on their ads. But how many?
Its here! So during our “blog off” today from midnight on for 24 hours we’re going to discuss Adsense or Google ads and how they’re helping you or not.
Any comments on Adsense you have, we will discuss and answer questions too.
We may even get Adsense to respond and explain and who knows, maybe get them to contibute to our supported charity, Accion during the Blog off.
Yes it’s here! from midnight today (local bloggers time) the 20th June www.digitalmoneyworld.com will be blogging along with B5media, to show our support for those less fortunate. Show up, be entertained and give some thing back.
“The Great Blog Off”
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Show up, participate in the discussion by leaving a message, we already have 15 opinions for you to read and discuss.
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Tell us your experience with Google adsense.
There a prize for the person who can come up with the best pun on Adsense we already have nonsense, no sense, senseless, So come on. An all expenses paid trip to the moon in 2011 for the winner!
Moneypenny
It’s been doing me well with a few hundred quids for almost 3 years for now.
Unless you have a niche which has high paying keywords, depending on your traffic and target audience, it may or may not work as well for you.
Well, moneypenny, I owe you at least one reciprocal comment in our cage-match duel to see if you can unseat me from the Comment King throne.
I want you to know that I appreciate ambition, enthusiasm, hopes and dreams… I just love the hissing sound they make as I deflate them.
I think Google is an amazing company in so many ways, with Adsense not being one of them. It’s such a potentially great program, but is such a mystery and such torture.
Have you ever known someone who got banned? I do. There was no communication possible with Google… no clear explanation… they lost their accumulated unpaid funds, and were, essentially banned for life without even understanding what they did wrong.
I have adsense on a bunch of sites and am getting better with it (after a year) but still make a pittance. How great it would be if they had someone to look at your site and say: here’s what you’re doing wrong, here’s how you could improve, here’s what you gotta change to be in compliance, etc. There’s none of that.
I have a site that was doing pretty well with adsense. I got hacked by a phishing scammer and the crap he put on got the site delisted from Google. I cleaned the whole thing up, rebuilt the site, upgraded, and have been waiting a month for Google to review and relist it. The adsense $ disappeared with the traffic. A little help here, Google?
The whole affiliate thing is a mystery to me, with huge potential time wasters around every corner. I guess i just have to start reading DMW more diligently… and commenting!
Seriously… great job with DMW. you got this joint jumping!
thanks for your comment on the adsense post and on Digital money world Sean.
It so interesting to hear how others have fared with them. I like your idea of asking google how I could do better with my ads. That makes sense as it’s a win win. maybe Ill ask for an interview with adsense and put it to them.
Well Benson if you get a few hundred quid, and have done for three years ( quid that’s pounds for the Americans) you must be doing something right so give us some tips then.
Heres a fellow bloggers view on adsense
If you’ve been reading a while and have a good memory, you may remember that at one point for a few days this weblog bore the emblem of Google AdSense, which supposedly matches the content of the site with advertisers, and pays the site producer (i.e. me) an unspecified amount per hit (on the advertiser site, not the blog). The idea is that if you’re reading this particular content, you’re more likely to be interested in the advertising the computer matches it with.
What’s the connection? Read on.
The first targetted advertising that appeared on A View from Carmine Superiore was for IVF treatment, I suppose tagging on to the label Mother-over-40. No problem. Next we got something on some cosmetic surgery clinic offering breast implants – I guess after I wrote about breast feeding. Hmmm. Tenuous, but still not a problem.
Finally, I wrote about our beloved chickens. Google AdSense picked up the word chicken and went into overdrive. We were instantly treated to the details of a Dutch company that sells second-hand equipment for the mass slaughter of battery-reared birds – equipment capable of “dealing with” 2,000 plus birds per hour. Nice stuff. Not!
I’m telling you this now because today at scuola materna AJ will be watching a cartoon of the story of Chicken Little. I was searching the Web, hoping to remind myself of how the story goes so that we could do some preparation (rather like reading the synopsis of the Italian opera you’re about to see so that you can at least follow the goings-on if not all the words). And lo and behold there it was again! Beside the description of this well-loved children’s story, we have Ads-by-Google Dutch-Company-Selling-Chicken-Slaughter-Equipment. Hmmm.
Now I know that a computer can only do so much of the work of a human, and differentiating a website that clearly is pro the humane treatment of animals and one that discusses factory farming in a positive light is clearly beyond the program’s coding. It sees the word ‘chicken’, and ‘thousands of cruelly-slaughtered chickens per hour’ is what you get.
Google AdSense? Google NonSense!
I can see only two remedies, one for Google AdSense and one for me. Google could make it a policy to turn away advertisers that may cause offence in easily foreseeable contexts. Like this one. And if that’s unthinkable, could overcome her avarice and turn off Google AdSense.
And that’s just what I did.
Forget about adsense, how about actually using digital money in your blog?
this site pays for ads in e-gold/paypal
http://pay-ads.com/
BTW it’s in spanish, but you might be interested in this:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=11785883555
It’s probably symptomatic of the big growth of e-gold outside the US in recent years.
Im not Spanish. but I can gather however that you are promoting e gold ad revenue rather than Adsense. While its nice to hear about some kind of competition, (Albiet infinitely small) I want to keep this debate on track. Its about Adsense which millions of people have an agreement with.
If you want to talk about E gold ads then post this on a day when e gold is being discussed.I will however be interested in your experience with Adsense, if you have one.
Moneypenny
Hi Moneypenny, My experience with adsense has been awful, that is why I started looking for alternatives.. not just e-gold, but also Paypal enabled payers… that’s why I think that the link above is fairly relevant (well, the second one a bit less so..but given the nature of this blog I thought that you might be interested anyway..)
Adsense gives a lot of trouble to set up, asking for all kinds of verifications and ID and taking very long to pay out. I still have an account, but also a long list of complaints…
Andy please join the discussion during the 24 hr blogg off on 21st June 12pm onwards and give us some of your complaints so we can get adsense answers.
Moneypenny
I have AdSense on a couple of my blogs, and have found it to be okay. Since I only make about $400 a year from it, it hasn’t been too difficult to deal with. I never thought of it as a serious revenue stream, thinking I’d make very little. So it’s actually exceeded my extremely low expectations. I guess that means there’s something to be said about low expectations.
Blog off starts tomorrow at midnight the 20th. please show up and give your point of view and donate if you can every dollar helps!!!!
Moneypenny
I get to see AdSense from the other end of the equation. Many of my B2B and Healthcare clients want their ads on the content network of Google Adwords, translate as AdSense. I have found that the trouble is that it takes a lot of work to keep up with the junk sites that have no content but somehow command a $4 click cost. If you have a content driven site that is not consumer oriented AdSense can be a great program, as PPC marketing emerges from new media status and is being more broadly adopted by big business.
On the webmasters end I have not seen the platform to be very good, but with so many advertisers on Google it can be hard to resist. Like a great AdWords account a good AdSense account takes work weeding out the advertisers and types of ads you don’t want. Thank Google for the ability to block… …on both ends of the AdWords/Adsense equation.
Congrats on the success of wineloversworld. I finally got stumble upon and this page was first on my list. I am in a wedding on Saturday and rehearsal is tomorrow so I will not be participating in the blog-off, but I will definitely support the cause!
Thankyou Tisa enjoy the wedding and thanks for supporting the cause and stumbling in.
M
Adsensth – the little green fairy of blogging. Seems harmless enough at first…
Adsensth. I like it! that could be my new pen name!
I’d like to better understend how the adsense system works. But it seams to me that it is a very difficult way, for the tax departements, to chek all the money exchange it might allow.
I don’t earn enough on adsense to make it worthwhile. I should probably just drop it altogether. My niche on my personal site isn’t high paying (keywords) so it doesn’t really matter.
I am new to Adsense and I am already a little skeptical as to how one can make money from it. First thing: I just started yesterday and I got 8 clicks on my ads. Yet, they are reporting no earnings. Does anyone have any thoughts for why that might be?
The second thing: It seems that, based on the research I’ve done, that people only average about 1 cents per click – and in the case of one Google Adsense example – only $4 per 1,000 clicks. So if we use the following parameters:
1. On average, only 10% of people who visit a page actually click on an ad and;
2. You only get 1 cents per click (I’ll take the high example)
If you agree with those premises, then would it be correct to expect that in order to make $10 (1,000 clicks), you have to attract 10,000 visitors to your site? Is that right? If so, how do you make $1,000 a month like some people are claiming? I would be curious if any Adsense money makers out there could enlighten me on how many visitors they average and how making money is possible (there just doesn’t seem to be any good stats out there).