Why have I stopped using Google Adsense?

Are you considering to put Google Adsense on your website or blog? There are many people and groups, organizations, businesses that make money with it and that's terrific.

I have used it years ago when I started my first blogs on Blogger.

But after a while I deleted my Adsense account (after withdrawing the money I had there, of course). The reasons were:

1. Personally, I don't feel comfortable to display and make money with something on my website I don't recommend. Some people have no problems with selling stuff they don't use and like, which is totally fine - think of a salesman in a shop, but I can't do that.

2. Even if I do all the settings so that adsense will only give relevant ads, I still don't have 100% control over what appears on my own site - that I also didn't like.

3. Looked at my websites with the eyes of my own visitors: How would they experience my site?

I myself don't like to see automatically generated ads on any websites, because
a) I find them distractive and messing up the aesthetic of the site - look at this one, for example: wouldn't random ads all over the place look horrible on it? Travel by Andrea Gerak

b) I always instantly have the thought: "Can't this person come up with anything better to promote? Don't they know enough of their field to pick something for me to buy?" -

So what would these kind of ads on my site say about me?

4. That time I didn't know anything about SEO and such, and although some of my sites had okay Google presence, the pennies were only dripping painfully slowly.

Therefore I chose to display ads only for products and services I have indeed used and so can recommend, and in the forms of how I want them on my site to appear (and not how Google would put them there for me).

Other Wealthy Affiliate members will suggest you to use Google Adsense - so what's the deal?

Would I recommend Google Adsense?

No and Yes.

No, if you think the same way as I put it down above.

Yes, if these points don't matter to you much and you would be fine with getting those bucks onto your account from wherever you can. That is totally alright!

Do what feels right for you, go after your feelings about it.

If you fell "Uhm... Idunno... Errr... But what about the visitor experience on my site...?" and so on, it will not bring you what you would like anyway, because your uncertainty and not exactly positive vibrations about it will prevent from all the $$$ goodness coming to you - so why even bother to start.

But if you feel YESSS!!! about it, by all means do it, you will most probably get great results with it.