Comments on: Why I Don’t Use AdSense on ProBlogger Anymore

By: Hooshmand Moslemi

Hooshmand Moslemi — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:41:28 +0000

While AdSense is perfect for blogs and websites with high traffic, it could be regarded as the first and easiest money making way for a newly published site.

However, many webmasters decide to not run AdSense on their pages anymore when they reach a point of growing. It’s true that if you optimize your site well for AdSense, you will get higher payouts, but compared to other methods of monetizing, it would not be the best option.

I also decided to not run AdSense on my websites anymore. Although I like it a lot, I thought to give other alternatives a try and increase my earning potential. Besides, affiliate marketing could be more lucrative and exciting.

Darren, I guess you have made the right decision, too and turned your website to a super money maker with tons of other channels. You have combined different methods with various models and also given other bloggers a lot of inspiration.

Problogger Rocks and Darren, You’re the Man!

Peace!

Hooshmand

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:39:38 +0000

I have tried many different methods to monetize my sites and blogs.
Adsense works great as much as I hate them sometimes. However, finding very, very targetted quality affiliate programs which offer services on a recurring basis has beat Adsense for me. The key is
laser targetting, quality,and ongoing billing. You really have to hand pick the affiliate programs. I would never completely rely on Adsense as good as they are. You can get lazy with Adsense.

By: Riad Marrakech

Riad Marrakech — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:09:39 +0000

Me too 0.00 centimes by day, I thank because I have no visitors lol

By: Cenay Nailor

Cenay Nailor — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:41:48 +0000

Thanks Darren, it’s good to know my thinking is supported by a professional blogger such as yourself. I removed Adsense on all pages in my blog because, like your blog, my readers tend not to click on them.

I will be creating a couple of niche sites this month, and plan to put Adsense there, since those readers will be most interested in the ad’s (since they are buyers, not readers).

I appreciate your candor.

Cenay’

By: Wayne John

Wayne John — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:17:19 +0000

Certainly interesting. Never thought of AdSense as cheapening the blog, but I can understand how a potential advertiser might see it as such.

I’ve been thinking about changing a few things around on my site in terms of advertising, so was checking out what you have going on.

Do you find the flashy-flashy ones work for or against you? I might be prone to think against, only because like you said in the video, we’re tech savvy people out here. I’m not being faceous, I think you’re right. Your readers are here because they are trying to do something and have already committed themselves most likely.

But, wouldn’t the flashy stuff be a negative when though of like that?

On the positive I think it’s eye-catching.

Just curious what your thoughts are on that. Cheers Darren!

By: PMF

PMF — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:42:31 +0000

As already mentioned, Adsense is not for every blog or website. But don’t be too quick to take it off, specially as so many people here have commented that they only had their ads up for a small amount of time..You didn’t give it enough time, it could of started to work well for you with a little time and effort. Anyway i have a UFO website that gets loads of clicks, problem is, UFO ads are like 0.1 – 0.3 cents a click. So i don’t make much at all. Wish i chose a site subject were the clicks were worth more!

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:47:37 +0000

I found that Adsense works very well on most of my info or product related sites and it is actually my main source of residual income. However I have not found that it does well on Internet Marketing related blogs. a) The readers are accustomed to the ads b) a lot of the ads are on make money online products, many of which have questionable value/ethics.

I removed Adsense from my Internet Marketing blog, partially due to point a. above, but mainly due to point b. There are too many scams in the field of Internet Marketing and I don’t want to come across as if I am promoting something in that field when I can not personally vouch for it.

I feel that this can mislead some readers, particularly newbies, who don’t always realize that Adsense ads are automatically inserted and are not a recommendation of the blogger or webmaster himself.

So for ethical reasons I remove ads from any site which might pull in questionable ads. I also removed Adsense from a site when I posted an article warning about the fatal side effects of psychiatric prescription drugs. After I posted that, the Adsense ads came along, promoting those same drugs.

But for simple subjects, such as electronics or basic and generally “scam-free” products, Adsense works great.

By: Netbooks

Netbooks — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:03:38 +0000

I have always shied away from using adsense as I dont want to appear to be seen as partaking in MFA sites

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:27:23 +0000

I’m redesigning my blog and don’t intend to use adsense on it anymore. Why? Well, as some people said, it makes your blog or website look cheap, PRETTY cheap. And I have two or three more reasons: 1. adsense ads are UGLY, specially the text ones, they make your site look polluted as hell; 2. sometimes they are 100% irrelevant to the content; 3. they are (and I think this is the worst part) a spamblogs /scrapers / parasites trademark!!! No matter what google does to fight them, spammers always use adsense to monetize. Do you want your site look like that kind of trash? Well, I don’t, so I won’t use adsense anymore.

By: Paul Warren

Paul Warren — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:41:59 +0000

Thanks for the very interesting article Darren.

I must say, I’m a bit of a late bloomer into blogging, but I’ve well and truely caught the fever now!

My current mission is pretty straight forward…

* Write the content.
* Find the readers.
* Capture our Niche.

…. * Make money.

First three are semi-done, so now we’re onto part four.

We’ll drop back in a month or two and let you know how we’re doing.

Many thanks once again, for allowing us to access your extensive knowledge base on this topic, it’s an awesome reference!

Sincerely,
Paul

By: arshad

arshad — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:26:57 +0000

Definitely adsense is not the best for bloggers like you , who are considered the top in your niche .But for people like me , it gets difficult to get private ads , so we got to start with adsense and continue earning via it until we become pros in our niches .

By: joe gelb

joe gelb — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:06:59 +0000

deffinitely adsense can hurt revenue

By: Suchmaschinenoptimierung

Suchmaschinenoptimierung — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:34:28 +0000

So after some time problogger did not reinstall Adsense. Seems that your initial estimations were right. Interesting and now that I look at your site and compare it to mine and must say: yes, Adsense does – at least for me – make a website look “cheaper”.
Hmmm – have to think about that for my site as well.

Andreas

By: Radu - Marian

Radu - Marian — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:16:19 +0000

Your reasons are eligibles but you forget the main important reason to do not remove adsense! A lot of users gives clicks in all pictures, in all links without understanding. Most users click in a website in all that running.

Am I right ?!
;-)

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:06:25 +0000

Great post – I have been looking for an alternative to AdSense for a while. I am currently trying out Rubicon, but it ends up that it mostly converts to AdSense anyway (although they get a higher CPM than I do independently which is interesting). Anyway if you know how to monetize a growing image hosting site I’ll be glad to share the profits!

By: Alexandru Savin

Alexandru Savin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:40:33 +0000

I have a fresh blog for about 1 month and now I’m mainly trying to get traffic to so I left behind the ads part for the moment, but now I would like to try it. I was wandering what is best idea for a starter to do. Start with adsens or go directly to this kind of ads? Till know, from adsense, I’ve earned a couple of bucks but any way I don’t have much traffic to it.

By: Maleisie.be

Maleisie.be — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:55:33 +0000

Although I’m a bit late commenting on this article. I myself used to run adsense throughout my site… however, I found that the sites position within other search engines but also Google improved when it was removed. Similar results from their analitics program, I deployed it on a handfull of pages only, this probaly gave Google the impression the site was not wel visited and down the site went. Wether or not all this was a coinsidence, I’m sur eit was not. Personally I cannot be bothered with Googles moodswings anymore. My life got a whole lot better :-)

By: Personal Development for the Book Smart

Personal Development for the Book Smart — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:30:26 +0000

Many people tend to avoid ads nowadays especially adsense ads. So I would say it’s getting harder to make really good money with Adsense.

By: Y. S

Y. S — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:54:05 +0000

Once again, thanks for sharing your experience. I liked it when you said that the viewers of pro blogger know what adsense really is and therefor they are less likely to click on them LOL! … I found that funny and true :)

By: Rajeev Edmonds

Rajeev Edmonds — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:13:22 +0000

I agree with the primary reason that is explained in removing Adsense Ads from problogger. The visitors on this blog are certainly more educated and aware of Ads then a normal internet user and it is less likely that they will ever click the Ad.