Google Adsense - The Great and the Not-So-Great

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This post is my experience with Google Adsense. It may not be similar to other members’ experiences. However, I am sharing this for the benefit of everyone who is interested, and particularly members who are building their first affiliate website and are putting focus on Google Adsense.

The great thing about Google Adsense for me is, right now a payment of $133.53 is wending its way through cyberspace to arrive in my Bank Account.

Very good you may be thinking!

Yes, it is good and I am very appreciative that Google provides online marketers with the opportunity of earning through their Adsense program.

There are many stories about what can be earned from Adsense. I read many success stories on the internet when I first started with Adsense , about 5 years ago. Also, I know a very successful online marketer who ceased affiliate marketing and went totally with Google Adsense. He earned very big money. But, that was in about 2012. I don’t know whether that man is still earning that kind of money from Adsense. What I do know is that his website was built particularly for Adsense, and nothing else.

Talking about the present time, I am concerned about new members who have faith in earning income from Google Adsense by means of their very new website. Particularly because of one of my tutorials, I am in contact with members who are despondent because Google has not approved their account. They are focusing on earning income from Google Adsense.

I do not recall anywhere in Kyle’s training where he teaches the use of Google Adsense. I stand to be corrected on that, if I am wrong.

What Kyle teaches and places emphasis on are the correct methods of SEO which include writing content, quality content, and more quality content. And that is what each WA member needs to be focusing on. That is how new to affiliate marketing members will become successful.

To get back to the payment I am about to receive, I believe I have earned that amount due to nothing else but patience!

During my earlier years with Adsense I received a payment from Google every four or five months. My monthly earnings were approximately $25 per month and New Zealander’s accounts must reach $130.00 NZ before payment is made.

In April 2016 I received payment from Google of $134.54. That is seventeen months ago. So when this latest payment lands in Bank account today, that is where the patience comes in.

Many times I was going to cancel my Adsense account but I stayed with it because I have more than one website. Google Adsense is on only one of my websites.

As we all know Google has algorithms, and they have been extremely active in terms of Adsense. It didn’t matter what I tried I could not increase those Adsense earnings. Google suggested various actions to take, mainly around mobile. They didn’t work for me.

As I said at the beginning, I am sharing this story because I want to encourage new WA members to follow the training and act on it. Focus on regular publishing of quality content and your website will earn for you.

You will be successful.

Enjoy your wonderful life. It is precious!

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well done and congrats
It's a nice income stream if we could get it every week or so
well done again
cheers PB

Thank you for your comment Phil. I appreciate what you say.

I don't know if I'm going to focus on AdSense for a whole lot longer. Right now, it is the one source that is earning me the most revenue, more so than Affiliate Marketing as I would get a few clicks a day on my adsense ads on my site or one or 2 every other day. It seems now for some reason that has come to a screeching halt as I'm no longer getting any clicks. I've also started making just a little bit of commission from Amazon this year which is the very first time that has happened. I think I will start to focus much more on getting more sales from Amazon and less of an emphasis on Google AdSense.

Brian am pleased to read that you are getting some commissions from Amazon. That is really good news.
I think to leave Adsense on your website, but to not worry about it is the sensible thing to do.

And, thank you very much for your comment. I greatly appreciate it :)

You're welcome! :) I'm not going to completely abandon AdSense as there are a number of posts of my site with ads on them, so I will leave them be, but I'm not going to put an ad on each new post anymore and focus more on commission/affiliate sales.

That seems like a good plan Brian. That's what I have done over the years, just left the ads to do what they will!

Thanks for this.

My pleasure John. Thank you :)

Thank you, Valerie, for this post. I'm very new to internet marketing and I don't have enough experience to say but it's the first program that I am seeing that my website starts to earn.
You said that your income with Adsense does not increase ever since and that is to be observed in the coming years by the WA community who have had connections.
I think I have to learn what Rich had mentioned other than just sticking ads on the sidebar.
The simple steps maximizing every opportunity is what we are after here in the online business and every experience is worth to learn from.

I agree with you Jimmy, but my point is for very new members to not dwell on the fact they are not making money with Adsense. I don't know who realizes it, but Adsense works well with mature sites. Therefore, my argument is to move on with good content and get some authority into a site before dwelling on Adsense.

The fact Valerie is that you do nothing after you have already registered and Adsense approved your application. Adsense does its business and we don't know what is happening behind. The only good thing is that you will see in its report that your site starts earning and no more. You cannot manipulate Adsense so you don't use your time to work with it.

I do not use my time to work with it.
It seems Jimmy that you do not understand the reason for my post.

Your call to newbies is, don't think so much about Adsense just work with your content. And I agree with that. I don't know if I'm right in my understanding.

But I am reading between the lines of your statement and just to register my reaction that time used to think and think about Adsense has nothing to do with the earnings we can have. Nothing we can do after we have registered to Adsense. And I am saying this for others who are reading our discussion, it's not for you because I know you understand it.

Am I still unclear?

No Jimmy, you are not unclear.

You have said it very well this time, and I thank you for that.

Thank you for being kind and understanding me.

I like to be kind at all times Jimmy, but I have to stand up for myself as no one else will.

Anyway, we are all here to help one another, as well as help ourselves and when we log off at the end of each day, we need to feel good about the time we have spent on WA.

I think we are good friends, Jimmy :)

It's obvious Valerie. Please don't be disgusted if I want to drive something on an issue or a question. It's just my way of expressing myself. If you find some words that are inappropriate please blame the English language, lol, it's not my fault. I love people.

I'm never disgusted about what you say Jimmy. It might sound like that when I respond to you sometimes. But I just try to emphasize my point of view.

Anyway, I'm really happy to blame the English language as I've been told it is a very difficult language. And I agree with that, because there are so many words that sound the same, but have different meanings and sometimes different spellings.

I agree Jimmy that it is not your fault. I love people too :)

I also think another one of the issues is that members don't learn how to use Adsense, they stick an ad in their sidebar and forget about it. That said, if just doing that earns them a $1 a day, that pays for an annual WA subscription!

If you're in the right niche, and position ads within your body copy where they should become contextual to content, the payouts can be a lot higher, in certain sectors like financial, legal, hosting, health, etc. you can earn $5-$10 a click.

I agree with you Richard but a website in professions such as you mention are not for everyone.

And a $1 a day is good. I would happy with that.

Thank you for sharing, Valerie :)

My pleasure Carol. Thank you for your comment :)

Thank you for sharing, and yes Kyle does do a training on Adsense, I'm new to this whole internet thing so I have had no choice but to follow the training exact and I have Adsense on my site, but I don't remember where the training is, I'm in course four so maybe it's in course three somewhere.

This is very good and important information from an experienced person and so I would personally take your advice Valerie. Thank you

You are welcome Paul. And, thank you for your confidence in me.

Thank you for sharing your experiences with Adsense, Valerie. I appreciate your insights.

Randy

Thanks Randy for your comment :)

Thank you for sharing Valerie.....I'll remain positive....it will happen I know it will!!
Cheers Gina

That's good news Gina. A positive outlook is a great help.

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