Do You Still Have Google Adsense on Your Website? Why or Why Not?
Here's today's question.
Do you still have Google Adsense on your website? Why or why not?
I stopped using Google Adsense last year (after using them around 7 years). The major reasons I did that was the low cost per click AND because the ads really slowed down my website's load time.
Plus, I came to the conclusion that the last thing I want my visitor's to do is click on an ad and LEAVE my website. We work so hard to get people TO our website, why encourage them to leave it?
Now, I just focus on affiliate links and selling my own products. This has increased my revenue and user experience.
I can't wait to hear your thoughts.
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I have never used it. I try to keep my sites as clean and ad free as possible. I feel it would detract from that quality on my sites.
It is good to see your logic here and makes me feel better about my decision.
Thanks,
Jessica
I had used Google Adsense for about 2 months it slowed down my mobile speed tremendously I uninstalled the plugin and I dont use it anymore
Thanks....I have been attempting to downloading it with no success. But now I will not worry about it. Oh yes, I guess I will It is a "task".
Long ago I wrote a blog (deleted) showing that it can be calculated if you really earn or lose money with Adsense due to potentially lost clicks on affiliate links. I wonder if the mentioned increase in revenue is perhaps just because you have been adding more posts and not due to removed Adsense.
As for users experience, actually you never know. Adsense follows their search history and shows them what they want, so it may be the opposite. But the site indeed looks spammy this is true.
Adsense is a great way to generate some passive income, it is low, a couple of $/day for 200-300 daily visitors, so it can cover hosting expenses.
On the other hand, wonder why you have been using it for so long. There are other options like Mediavine which offer far more, say 6 - 10 times more, or even more. But they require a minimum number of 25000 sessions/month which make them not applicable to new sites. Mediavine alone can generate you a full-time income, I am using it on two sites. Several other people here have also reported huge income generated by it, check in Nathaniell blogs, you will be surprised, he is over $5000/month with it.
Good to see you Jovo, I do wonder if Mediavine insists on placing a certain number of ads per blog post, most blogs that display mediavine do have minimum 4 Ads(that I find too many) I just do have 1 Adsense real max 2 per blog post.
Great to hear from you Roamy.
Mediavine has some settings and the lowest number of ads seems to depend on Frequency which you choose, so for Low Frequency it is for desktop 4 and for smartphone 8. There is also the distance between them in terms of paragraphs (3 maximum). But the Frequency can be set to Very Low and Extremely Low, I did not experiment with it.
It is too many in any case, but it may be that people are getting used to ads because they are everywhere. Assuming this is so, then this is the easiest way to generate income, no need to sell anything, just write blogs, provide some value so that people come.
I am using it to see how Google uses ads because the more quality the ads are I think that means the more quality my posts too.
I don't know, this is only my thoughts.
Yes Chuck, stopped using Adsense 2 years ago for exactly the same reasons. Slowed down my site, very poor return and Google stealing traffic. Don't see why I should do all the hard work in getting what little traffic I had just for Google to come along a steal my readers from under my nose.
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Hmmmmm, and I have been beating up myself for the past four months as I have not been able to work our some issues with them. Thanks guys.