Google AdSense - who here does well w/ it?
 

Anyone here use Google AdSense? What type of sites?

i was making 20-30 bucks a day on a webchat site. until Google made me pull it off

I dont know, they havent processed my request to use it yet, was like 3 weeks ago I applyed :Oh crap

It's supposed to take up to 2 days. Maybe you deleted the email on accident?

Would you recommend using it vs. say using an affiliate banner?

depends what kind of traffic u got, i find it does well for me on mainstream sites.

u will get on faster if u apply via blogger.

There's no real way to figure out (ahead of time) how much you will get per click?

I've got a handful of mainstream sites that I use with adwords. The trick is getting an adwords advertisers account and finding out high PPC keywords.

Not really, there are sites out there (adsenseadwords.com) that display the average max $ per keyword. Others say the adsense payout rate is comparative to Adwords.

It against the TOS to use it for adult sites.

Idiot.

And AdSense pays only on clicks and not impressions, correct?

Correct.

Correct.

LOL, great minds think alike :)

its rocks for my mainstream sites

:winkwink:

yep, sign up as an advertiser, go to add a keyword and make play around with your PPC amount. You'll eventually find out which keywords are best and which give the best payouts and how many searches to expect a day

I make about $50 a day from each of the 1-2k forums i run.

In the beginning i only made $10, but its like the users found out that it was relly great sites adverticed through adsense.. so they started clicking

whats the most you have gotten per click, anyone?

Where'd you get that sig. from?

$0.78 on my Offroad forum

depends on if the ads pulled by adwords are relevant. Mine was pulling "Free Chat rooms" , "Get your free online chatroom" shit like that. Since it was extremely relavant it got lots of clicks.

I also had a AFF banner on the page too, that made 30 bucks in about a week on the ppc program.

in conclusion, if the ads pulled are relevant then you CAN do well. If they're not, you probably won't make shit

So why did Google make you stop, if you don't mind me asking.

eat penguin shit you ass-spelunker. I wasn't using it on an adult site. It was a web based IRC chat site.

Fuck you. :321GFY

I have some sites that will do over 1.50 a click, usually its for niches without a whole lot of traffic.

because I had adwords on a login page. The shit was displaying in a frame and it happened to appear on the login page and I guess that's against TOS.

BTW there's lots of rules that ARE NOT on the TOS page. and they'll pull your account if they're having a bad day :mad:

He's talking about AdSENSE not AdWORDS.

For the dumbfucks like Sperminator and others... The original thread poster is talking about ADSENSE.

Fucking illiterate newbies.

I know what he's talking about jackass

i was talking about adsense. So how can you call me illiterate? :error

Travel is consistant. High PPC words are usually stuff like payday loans, etc. The AdWORDS and Adsense PPC are totally different. You will get in between 10 cents and 1.50 for a payday loan site, but if you want the top spot for ADWORDS, it gets in the multiple dollar range. College education keywords do rather good.

home refinance type words are WAY up there. I saw one that was near $30

I'd guesstimate my cost/net profits at about 1:4 ... not bad!
Really depends on what you are promoting, some keywords/markets don't do anything .. and their guidelines are full of holes and inconsistencies.

Edit: Yea, I'm a moron. I'm talking about AdWords too...
So sue me.

Sorry, not illiterate, but stupid. Adsense and adwords are two different things. :2 cents:

very nice! i'm starting to do more mainstream, and having a mortage/loan website is on my to-do list, so looks like it should rake in some nice cash :thumbsup

I think I'll look into it!

its great for mainstream sites, just put in a code and you have targeted ads.

Google Adsense basically owns my house.

what the hell are you talking about? adsense comparative to adwords? all adsense is, is google using you to send their adwords clients traffic instead of the google search. then they take a cut.

they are basically the same thing!

adwords is the program for advertisers to add their ads

adsense is the program for webmasters to display adwords on their site

:pimp

That is actually PRETTY different

they are totally different when it comes to evaluating CPC. Most people are wondering what subjects would yield the highest CPC Ads. From my own experience, Payday loan, college education, and other financial related topics do well. Travel is one that is a large market and can perform consistant.

and the difference goes to Googles pocket?

If you have a LOT of content, Ad Sense makes a LOT of Sense :)

there's a way of doing CPC

The way google works for webmasters using adsense is not using the top (highest) PPC results for whatever particular keyword. I believe the actual technical equation is alot more advanced and constantly updated but its basically;

Google likes the top PPC to go on google's search page, this helps guard against high priced click fraud from advertisers. It also means google doesnt have to pay out 50% of that amount to their webmasters.

So generally you'll find #5 and below listed on adsense randomly, though this is variable based on number of searches and clickrate for that keyword throught google's search pages.

There's also a variable of what percentage of an advertisers budget goes on adsense as adsense is less productive generally than google's search pagesm (I said generally but there are exceptions) and google wants to be sending decent traffic to their advertisers otherwise they wont be spending more on google's traffic.

Using adsense to determine what keywords are hot is not a foolproof way to find out the CPC but if you use it properly it will tell you how many searches to expect on a keyword (I go for #1 on google's adwords gets 1/8th of the traffic of google's #1 search listing, which is a low estimate but it works in my favour). Also if you adjust your phony keyword PPC in adwords you can see what kind of dropoff you get the further you go down and how many advertisers there are for a particular keyword. It is by no means a way to 100% accurately guage a keyword value but it does provide an educated guess

I make $50-90/day from several sites.

What webchat site is it? Just curious.

I used to own a big one.

it was actually a friends site. http://www.chatbomb.com

Yes, there is no way to know how much they are charging their customers and what portion they are giving you. You just have to trust it. They claim they have a sophistocated formula to help serve relevant ads and remember, they also have to protect themselves from clickfraud..which is said to be as high as 20 percent of all paid clicks!

I'm not sure if they don't let advertisers with high CPC keywords show up on Adsense sites. I just imagine, and from experience, that Google just does not pay out 'fairly' on high CPC, due to the clickfraud as you mentioned. This is why when 'Mesothelioma Lawyers' was topping $100 per click a while ago, there is no way Google was going to give you any reasonable chunk of that from Adsense ads.