I decided to remove all of my Adsense in my blog because the tiny money i earned compared with the risk of getting banned. Anyway my traffic isn’t that much..

Finally, Folks, take my tip, If you can make money from it legitimately, please do so. Advert is Advert, no matter the form, no matter the site…… see you soon. Looking forward to learning from you Yaro.

Admittedly, I signed up for AdSense yesterday :p

Where have people seen evidence of Google removing sites from Adsense for quality of content issues? I’ve only seen fraud-clickers get kicked out, not scrapers and teh like.

It is unfortunate that the web has become top heavy with redundant and unfortunate web distractions – creating a proverbial ‘needle in the haystack’ situation. But then again, as Yaro mentioned, that is why we have the search engine in the first place.

And although commercialisation of the web is generally to the detriment of all those who look for genuine content, if it wasn’t there, would these same ‘genuine’ content providers have the wherewithal to continue functioning?

I’m just thankful there is the open-source modus operandi growing in parallel with other money-focused strategies…

At the end of the day, how many have you have thought to yourself -’Now the internet, that’s where all the money is to be made in coming years!’. Just seems there are too many fingers in the pie…

-Terry Zulit

Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur’s Journey asks the question of whether or not Google’s Adsense has gone too far:
Google has to be commended for providing one of the best ways to monetize a website. It’s so good because even the most average ……

I’m not going to mention names, but there are print mag equivalents to splogs, and the populace laps them up, making their profits fatter. Literary junk food.

I think that regardless of the type of ads, there’s nothing wrong with ads, provided that webmasters/ bloggers remember that it’s the content that really matters.

That said, my 10 or so currently active blogs barely pull in $2/d, but mainly because I can’t humanly post regularly to all of them. In fact, I make more money writing articles for other people’s blogs, in a given month. This is after 1 year of “problogging”. I’m doing something wrong, but I haven’t figured out all of the reasons. (Just some.)

Another troubling trend even on many legit sites is the attempt to fool users into clicking Adsense links by making them look like navigation or articles on the site.

Too many webmasters are trying to build wealth on the twin pillars of SEO and fooling users into clicking Adsense links.

I think a lot of people care about this topic because they are AdSense earners (I am one), but also don’t like the scraper sites and have been impacted (negatively) by AdSense obstructing their ability to find the content they really want online.

I wasn’t crying wolf with this piece, which I thought was pretty clear since I provided points arguing against my own points – more a case of devil’s advocate I’d say.

Like many people have commented, this sort of situation is self policing. If AdWords stops bringing in results then AdSense won’t pay so well and another advertising medium will take it’s place as the monetization method of choice (and I definitely wasn’t arguing against monetization or advertising).

That may take a while to happen though because the average net surfer doesn’t know what AdSense is – but that will change over time. I don’t expect the blindness factor though to have as big an impact on text links as it has had on banners, so the click through rates will probably always make AdWords a viable method for most niches.

Over at the EJ Blog, Yaro has made a good post about Adsense and how he is seeing more and more sites with Adsense on.  It’s a an interesting read and some of the comments are also somewhat interesting – good to see people arguing about somethin….

It annoys me when I read other sites and the ads are mixed in with the main content. It ruins the whole experience.

Great article!

Agree with Sonny. Totally.

Is it true that some website owners have bad content? Well, what’s new here? For the longest time, bad companies have produced bad products – I am a big believer in market forces. While they make some money in the short run, eventually people are smart enough to gravitate to good sites by saving them in their favorites.

There are site topics that are going to attract the right kinds of people to the right kinds of ads, and then there are topics that draw people who aren’t looking to buy much — or at least, not much having to do with your site’s topic. For instance, political sites tend to suck for Adsense.

I don’t think Yaro’s crying wolf, but Google isn’t particularly stupid, either. Being associated with splogs, spammers and general internet sleaze isn’t something they’re going to want.