No doubt, Google adsense is one of the best way to make money from website. But I am not using it anymore.
I often get asked Ammar, Why you don’t use google adsense?
There are many reasons and here is my answer to this question. In this post I explain Why I hate Google Adsense and why google adsense sucks!
8 Reasons Why I hate Google Adsense?
You may think I have personal reasons for writing this post.
No, this is not like that.
I don’t want any new bloggers, my web friends and new web-masters to quit blogging just because google adsense is not approving their blog. There are far better ways to make money without adsense.
Let me know in comments if you want me to write another post on making money without adsense.
1. AdSense Make Readers Leave The Site
The first thing I hate about google adsense is it make the readers leave the site.
How?
When someone click on ad, they leave your site. Because adsense links doesn’t open in new tab. Majorty of Adsense ads are CPC based. In order to make money readers have to leave your blog.
So, would you like to lose readers just for few cent?
The visitor that leave your website can be;
- A lost subscriber
- A lost sale
- and so on..
2. Getting approved is so hard!
I’ve been asked so many times by other bloggers, why google adsense is not approving their sites.
Google is getting strict day by day. They don’t approve any blog easily even if its six month or one year old. If you make site perfect to apply for adsense. There are less chances they’ll approve the site.
3. Too many rules to follow, Huh?
Just Try reading their terms and Conditions you’ll know what I mean.
They have too many rules to follow. Even if you follow them, they’ll ban your adsense account. Once you get ban, you’ll never get adsense back!
4. Email Support Just Sucks!
Google adsense have email support. But you’ve to wait for too many days to get reply from them.
You might need another support to get their reply. 
5. Once you get banned, you can never get back in.
If you try getting approve for adsense for a new blog. They won’t approve your application. Even if you follow all the google adsense rules and TOS. There are chances that adsense will ban your website.
Once you get banned just forget adsense. They won’t let you to get back in the program again.
6. Low Cost Per Click (CPC)
If you are not from US or Western Europe – forget about big earnings.
For rich European countries price per click is relatively good. It could be $1 2$ or even more than this. It depends on keywords.
So, If you are getting daily 100-1000 daily you won’t earn much money.
That means, if your sites get small portion of such traffic – you will receive $0.01 – $0.05 for clicks.
Might be around 1$-10$ a month. Adsense pays very less per click.
If you have high traffic, many big advertisers will contact you to pay much better than adsense.
7. Little Editorial Control
Do you know Google has over 100,000 advertisers or might be more than this.
You have no control which one can advertise on your blog or not. Isn’t that sucks?
If you want full control over ads you can use OIOPublisher for WordPress. This is the best plugin to manage all ad spot, advertisers, payments and stats.
8. Big delay in payment
First in order to receive money from adsense you have to verify your home address. Adsense sends pin that might take 2 or 3 months depend on where you live.
Adsense minimum payout is 100$, once you reach this minimum amount. You have to wait for many weeks or a month to receive checks.
Your thoughts please
So above were few reasons why I hate google adsense [You Should too!]
My blog niche is blogging, most of readers are bloggers and webmasters. They don’t click on adsense and other reasons for not using adsense are given above. That’s why I am not using google adsense anymore on this blog.
I haven’t listed other reasons why AdSense sucks and it is not really the best way to make money from blogging, but I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject.
Leave me a comment below as always. I’d be glad to hear from you.
Recommended Reading:
- 5 Question to Ask Before Using Google Adsense
- 12 Things to Do Before Applying for Google Adsense
- Top 5 Ways to Make Money without Adsense
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Yes, these are solid points against Adsense especially if you are not getting huge traffic. Someone who makes 1000s a month using Adsense may not worry about these points but one reason that really annoys me too is the fact that it takes my visitors away. Well, some may just use their right mouse click to open page in new window – but how many of them know this?
One more – Some guys who got banned got their accounts back. Though it’s a hard process, it sometimes can be positive at the end.
Tell me, what else do you use in the place of adsense?
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Not every one have time to manually open ads in new tab.
Gettin adsense back is really a hard process..
I do monetize my blog from direct ad sales, sponsored posts and affiliate marketing.
What aout you Enstine?
I’m good bro and thanks for posting engaging content
I still have adsense on my blog and I’m working on more ways to generate income
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Great. Its better not to depend too much on adsense.
Its true Enstine,If once an adsense is blocked ,then forget to have it back.they will never approve .Actually they will never let you enter your blog address in the disapproved account.They just make your adsense account blog URL input box read only defaulting with some useless text.This is what happening now.
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nice reason to forget this google programs, but some feature like keyword detection from google adsense is really great and i never find in another ads programs, and one more. if i try to leave google adsense what adsense i should use cause i’m not an a affiliators and just use adsense for my blogs income.
that’s it…
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You can try some other adsense alternatives like bidvertiser , chitika, media.net or infolinks
i’ve been trying for infolink and get some difficult of click value they just give me how much i got. and if i want to get the details of my data i have to get premium publisher account . that’s really sucks….
Have you tried http://kontera.com/ ?
Haha Awesome Post Dude Adsense really Suck!!!
Adsense is having no reason for disapproving any website, Sometime they disapprove website because site owner hair color is red :p
But I don’t agree with your 1st reason.
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Haha, not sure about red color hair owner.
Google might have updated their system. Links might open in new tab. Not sure about it. As I already said good bye to adsense months ago
Agree with you ali, adsense sucks for non-US bloggers. Even after good CTR and traffic my adsense CPC is very low
Try media.net
Let me know your experience with them.
do you mean media.net?
if yes, then they didn’t approved my apps. just because i do not have much traffic from canada, US, UK.
first they look for it
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then focus more on increasing blog traffic first.
I’d already applied for Media.net month ago but still no reply from them.
Did you’ve any experience with them.
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I had good experience with them. I just used it once for 2 days. It was good. Just email them your problem. They’re good at replying back
I can understand the hatred you have against AdSense Ammar :p and it’s totally justified. When I first applied, instead of rejecting they straightway banned me! I was…confused actually as to figuring out, what did i do wrong? Luckily it was for another blog and not the current one.
Your points speak out the feelings of most of the bloggers who are mainly from Asia. Of course if one has a blog that receives 100000 visits, he/she can easily earn a lot of money from ads but reaching that point needs heavy work and luck.
Nowadays, I don’t even bother checking my AdSense dashboard because I know there’s nothing spectacular to see rather going there would be total disappointment.
Anyways, I can suggest everyone to look into Yahoo ads media.net
I see that I am getting good clicks and it seems to be a potential competitor against Google AdSense.
However, AdSense can be a goldmine if the blog receives hundreds thousands of visits so there is no need to go totally against it.
Great points laid out Ammar.
Cheers!
Hi Mushfiqur,
Greatly appreciate your commment. Adsense rarely approve any new blogs specially the bloggers from Asia. That sucks!
You’re doing good by not checking earnings daily.
Yahoo media.net ads are good. I’ve tried it once and they works really work and they pay good amount per click. That’s cool. No?
Hi Ammar,
That’s a really awesome article!
Actually google adsense is the best and biggest Add network that everyone want to use it. That’s why google is making adsense approval system strict day by day. Though adsense is a best earning programs online but it is not only one earning programs, and there are so many earning programs available. So webmasters can try elsewhere as well.
The best alternative of adsense may affiliate promotion I think.
After all I will tell, although you have posted all the important points at a glance that’s why you dislike to use of adsense, but most of people check mark their first choice on adsense!
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Hi Dipankar,
That’s right adsense is one of the best network to make money but they are getting strict day by day. They don’t let any blogger specially new to get in to their program.
Affiliate marketing is no doubt another best way to generate money from blog. Choosing best affliate product and promoting them by writing reviews, placing banners can help to increase affilate sales.
If we have good traffic lot of commpanies would contact us to place their ads on our site.
More Traffic = More Money.
What do you think? Are you agree with me?
You are absolutely right Ammar. I strongly agree with you that if we are able to drive more traffic on our blog then we can earn a good amount from our blog.
But the important thing is that the traffic must need to be unique and relevant. Otherwise our bounce rate will increase.
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nice post.
yes, you are right. i also do not like that much but still i m working with it because i trust it and i do not know other adsense.
please let me know good adsense please
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Great, keep making good money with adsense.
Hi Ammar, I COMPLETELY agree with you and this post, it was about time for someone to say what you said here. Google Adsense Is just making a fools out of us and they are making billions from our hard work while we get cents.
Payouts even here in Europe are late and when they ban you, they don’t say why and don’t even give you another chance to joins, that role of untouchable God is so bad.
People need to realize how Adsense is old school and that they need to give other companies a chance.
thank you for sharing
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Hi JamesW,
Glad to see you here after a long timme. Thats right, We should give a try to some other companies. Now adsense is not really the best way to make money from websites.
Thanks for your commment.
Very well written Ammar. I am completely agree with the last point about their payments. It took so much time to get a cheque. I have also gone through your other article regarding selling ad space. Can you please tell me one thing is it necessary to sell ad space on a blog via a 3rd party, like OIO? I can controll them from my side also….Kindly let me know as I am new to this area.
Thanks for sharing valuable articles.
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Santanu,
OIO Publisher is a plugin that can easily help you to sell ad spaces with ease. Just checkout their site once. If not OIO Publisher you can create a killer advertise here page and payment mode as paypal. In this way you can get more advertisers. Direct ad sales works really great.
Checkout my blog advertise here page for more info.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Cheers!
Thanks a lot for the suggestion.
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I know how you feel like. But although what you saying was true but a lot of people love Adsense because it bring them some/many income. Right now I only like Infolink
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Thanks for understanding my feelings Tan, lol
You can also give a try to http://www.media.net or check out my post on making money without adsense.
While you hate it, others enjoying its passive earnings..anyways… i really doubt about this and i would like to ask: do you really stop using adsense or adsense did not approve your request?
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I had stopped using Google adsense.
I don’t care if they approve my site or not (if I apply for adsense) Because, I can make a lot better money than adsense
Hey Ammar.
Another BIG thing is the Age Rule. Google doesn’t know there are teenagers who are lesser than 18 in age blogs like professionals. They think we will waste the money or something. And that’s total crap.
But you said about the banning. It’s not like that anymore.
!
Google have changed the TOS and now we can get back our banned account simply by assigning it to investigation if we are on the Ethical side.
Thanks for sharing it up!
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Hi Amal,
Ah, I forgot the age rule. Thanks for reminding me. Teenagers can get adsense on their parents name. No?
If I’m not wrong Banned and Disabled account are two different things in adsense.
Right?
I am a Teenager, and run my site on my Parent’s Name
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Cheers!
Mee to here have the same views, I also don’t like adsense much, but gonna try it in upcoming days!
Lets see what results come!
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Hi Ammar,
These days, I couldn’t comment in any blog because I am really busy. But after reading this post I have to comment.
You are 100% correct if a blog niche is internet relating blog like blogging tips, SEO tips, etc. What will happen if it is a technology blog? When beginning we can’t get 1000-5000 visitors per day for a technology blog. So we can’t get paid posts or direct ads.
So I think that if it is a technology blog Adsense is the best way to make money. If I am wrong correct it.
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Hi Raplus,
I really appreciate your time in leaving comment on this post.
Yes, Adsense works good but no on all blogs. It might work perfect on tech blog with good traffic.
If not adsense, there are other adsense alternatives too. Like http://www.media.net
Yes , you are mentioned all points correctly. Payment procedure is very very slow.
My adsense account is banned near about 2 years tell date not get back.
Therefore use other advertising ways like direct advertising, buysell ads, affiliate marketing or any adsnese alternatives to earn money from your blog.
Direct advertising is the best way..
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That’s right.
My best way to make money without adsense is affiliate marketing and direct ad sale.
Thank you for all the great tips. I would love a post about how to make money blogging! Thanks!
You’re welcome. Good luck!
I agree with you Ammar. Not just a little bit but more than 100%. As you know, I have adsense that is more than 1 year old now…But I never used it on my blog due to low cpc and less earnings…Hell yeah there are a lot better ways…
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Right Saqib, there are a lot better ways to make money than google adsense. We just need to found out perfect one.
If not adsense, then how do you monetize your blog?
I am in you team Ammar. I also hate them because they don`t tell the damn reason ! the damn reason ! of rejecting your application .They just ask “Your site do not follow our policies” and every body is confused o man :0 which policy is not followed by me and you are right there are lot of ways out there to earn money and i am also not using adsense and earning good for my pocket
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Thats strange Tayyab, these are the reasons I hate adsense.
We can make more money online, We just need to find out other ways to make money without adsense.
Ammar you are a great blogger and you know the feelings of other bloggers also. I’m also irritated with AdSense now, as you mentioned getting a 1000 Page views daily will get me only $0.10- $1.00 and yes it’s true sometimes when i get about 2000-3000 page views still i can make only $1.5 maximum and my CTR and CPC both are so low. don’t know why but one of my friend from US makes at least $5-$7 from AdSense and he gets only about 200-300 Page views daily. i have seen that you use Publicity clerks and i have also got approval from Publicity clerks can you suggest me some tips for optimizing my blog so that more and more subscribers will get attract to buy the ads.
Hi Varun,
Thanks so much for sharing your view Varun. Publicity clerk is good, to get more advertisers you need to focus on increasing traffic.
You can also try buysellads
Good luck, let me know if you have any other question.
I got disapproved from Butsellads but now my blog is approved with publicity clerks.
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Agree with your points. But Adsense is not meant to use on all types of blogs. There are certain niche blogs like Coupons, Prices, Exam Results etc where mass traffic can be easily attracted. I know many guys making 6 figure income only using Adsense.
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Ammar, please help me, i am a blogger on blogger.com. Request u pls give me 2 or 3 best advertising platforms suitable for indians apart from adsense. I want to display related ads on my website. cURRENTLY I M USING CHITIKA AND QADABRA.
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Sure, give a try to http://www.media.net , text-link-ads , bidvertiser
Hey Ammar!
Couldn’t disagree with your article. Though advertising is the primary source of income for the company itself, it pays too less to the people who actually, are making money for Google.
Adsense ads are hard to get, easy to lose. When we accidentally click, it is lost forever. All the bucks we have in our account, are simply trashed.
I hate using Google adsense ads on my blog. Ironically, I am using them, right now. As there is no other income source for me, I had to depend on them and I will surely move out.
Thanks for the share.
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Koundeenya, Thanks for your comment. It is better not to depend much on google adsense. As no one knows what can happen.
I always recommend to have multiple source of income. Have you tried affiliate marketing yet?
hahahaaa
…….nice post Ammar…I think if you know how to use high CPC keywords in your blog then you can easily make more $$$$$$ from any country…
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Hi Ammar
You make some great points about Google Adsense.
I’ve been using Adsense on my blog for a while now but it doesn’t make me an awful lot of money. I’m not keen that it takes visitors away when they click on the ads.
I also don’t like that the payment threshold is so high. I’d rather have the money in my wallet rather than Google’s!
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Hi Tim,
Glad to see you here. Good to see that adsense is working for you.
But NOT for all. Most of bloggers specially New are not happy with adsense.
Thanks for sharing your views.
Keep visiting.
Hey Ammar, a very strong post, really. But just wanted to know why this post now when you have your most Popular post is 12 Things to Do Before Applying for Google Adsense. Ain’t it contrasting? Though you have strong points to defend the post. Like your gutsy approach. keep blogging always. I am loving it!
That post was created long back. I’ve seen the comments most people are saying adsense is not approvinng their blog. That sucks!
Thats why I decided to create another blog post on why I hate adsense and why it sucks!
I agree with Ammar on most points but being in Asia doesnt affect much in approval. I got approved by 20 days old site with 8 posts and about 100 visitors per day with some few AMAZING tricks. The main thing is quality content as everyone hates plagiarism. Also Ammar Can you email me about some ways to earn from affilate marketing i dont know much about it. MY email is ———-
Hi Biswas,
You can go through our affiliate category to learn more http://allbloggingtips.com/make-money-online/affiliate-marketing-make-money-online/
I agree with you in the fact that adsense will lose your traffic however it will always stay the bst CPC program
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Thanks for commenting Anis
“Wasting of my blogging career”
Slow, a lot of terms and so on.
That’s my opinion. And thanks a lot for this
Thanks for sharing your opinion Danial!
Nice information Ammar, but then what are other ad networks which pay well than adsense?
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Have a look and let me know if you face any issue
Hi , Ammar . I am shocked by the amazing number of comments on this post . And that too in such a short period of time .
Basically , I hate Adsense too ….
Why ?
I would go with all the reasons you have mentioned Ammar .
For blogs with less trafific , Adsense not only generates Nil $ but it also will decrease the traffic which is already considerably low .
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Hi Navneet,
Thanks a bunch for sharing your views about adsense!
Totally agree with most of your point. maybe disagree about delay payment point because they used method such as western union which is easy and fast.
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I see alot of hate for adsense
Well yes all of their process is very slow, also if you get payments in form of check it will take a month + month to get check, then another month to get it cashed.
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Yup I agree with your Ammar, getting approved for Google Adsense is really hard and maintaining Adsense is hard too, due to all those terms and conditions.
Recently I had applied for Google Adsense for my photo gallery site http://beingcreative.co , but they didn’t approve my site and gave the reason that the site has less content, and thus it would be hard for them to place appropriate ads according to the content, moreover they do not accept photography collection sites.
Now I have some questions, if they are so much concerned about showing ads related to content, then why do we see ads related to what we have recently searched for, or ads based on AdChoices.
Secondly, if they do not accept sites containing only photos and with little text then why does Wallbase.cc has an approved Google Adsense slot?
Do you find any reason behind these?
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Rahul, I don’t really understand what google is doinng with us. They don’t approve blog which have good quality content but they approve blog which don’t have any content just images. So strange?
I’ve no specific answer to this..
Might be we need to contact google for this. But they ar too lazy at replying back
very nice post, but i totally disagree. Because it’s depend on site/blog.
For example like a blog ABT, is not efficient for google adsense.
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I agree with many of the above points but I would like to add the many peoples blogs are not that popular to attract advertisers So adsense is a good way to earn money. I’m saying this because about an year ago my blog was not popular enough and Adsense really helped me fulfilling my wishes of owning gadgets and stuff from my online money. I also agree that Direct Ads pay a lot more than adsense and I know that because I earn twice the amount with direct ads that I would earn with adsense. Sorry for such a long comment but I couldn’t stop my self.
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Hi Jimmie,
What sorry? I really appreciate my readers time that they take to leave comment.
I’m glad adsense is working for you.
Thanks for commenting.
Cheers!
Thanks for your kind reply Ammar, I wish you all the best and hope to see more such articles in future
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I second the second and fifth point and in fact the other remaining points too ))
But after reading your post and knowing about you I will never ever apply for adsense. I just hope I dont see any more inspiring posts. Thank you so much for the share!
Getting approved is so hard that sometimes I determine that I will never again apply for Adsense. But many inspiring posts about “$1000 daily from adsense” attracts me towards this “worthless” CPC based ad network. I cant help
Adsense does work for few bloggers but not for all. They rarely approve any good blog these days. No one can really understand what are they doing.
I’m glad my post helped you. But I think you should apply for adsense once. If they approve your blog thats good.
yes…. Ammar you said here some good points about Adsense. I think if you are from Asian continent, then its too tough to earn much more than compared to other countries. The main point you said AdSense makes the readers to leave the site by a single click. So you are losing the readers. It is a huge traffic loss for the new site
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Right Ahsan, Even its not good idea to put adsense on new blog.
I’ll post again what I mentioned on the Facebook post thread…
I have a love hate relationship with Adsense… I hate them because they have total control and can do whatever they want. Yet I love them because they have the largest selection of advertisers and their content works really well with sites.
With that said, if you have an authority site that is “real”, you should be able to find better methods of monetization, through selling your own ads, affiliate marketing or building your own mailing lists and products.
Adsense works extremely well for niche sites too. The problem most site owners see is instant earnings on a per click basis, versus trying to actually get conversions on $20+ commissions.
It’s a toss up, but Google is the powerhouse and adsense is making them and their publishers a ton of money. Any method that is dead simple and easy for site owners to implement will always make money.
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Hi Zac,
Thanks so much for sharing your views about Adsense. +1 for your commment.
I really appreciate your time in leaving comment.
Regards.
No doubt Ammar that things are very different and difficult now a days. When I started blogging some 4 years ago at that time getting Adsense account was a piece of cake and they approve even a one page free blog. But again I think it all depends on your blog traffic and content. So the love and hate story with Adsense will continue.
Also I like your point that many newbie bloggers are leaving this field just because Google is not approving their blogs. This is very dangerous situation and I think you surly have to share your earning secrets with those bloggers in your next post.
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Right, Zac Johnson shared his love hate story with us above.
Newbie bloggers shouldnt quite blogging. Thanks for giving me idea about next post.
Ammar Ali , hahaha you are right , Visitors does not click on Google Adsense ads because people have become very smart .
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That’s right. Readers are becoming smart day by day. They don’t want use to make money with adsense
Yes. You mentioned some very good points like losing a visitor etc. But most important thing is CPC. CPC is currently very low. Yeah I know its depends on keywords. But its suckz!
But i disagree with you about approvement. Its quite easy if you can make a good site. Quality contents matters.
Now the very big question for a new comer what will be great for money making than adsense? Affiliate? I think affiliate marketing is too tough. And touhger than adsense. So can you suggest anything easy than adsense? I think answer is NO. lol.
The main reason of huge use of adsense is this.
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Hi Hamlet,
Glad to see you here, Thanks for sharing your views. I appreciate it!
There are lot better ways to make money. One of them is affliate marketing. Affilate marketing is bit tough, we need high targeted traffic for this. But once we get money will start coming
I am inspired a lot by this blog and as i luckily got approved by adsense but its very hard to earn clicks
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Thanks Jay, Hope you won’t face any thing about with your adsense account.
Hi Ammar,
You are absolutely right. Am doing adsense for more than two years. But till now my earning is $42. Adsense is really a waste stuff for asians. Better we can try bidvertiser, chitika or kontera. Thanks for giving information about media.net ammar.
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Hi Nirmal.
Glad you found this post helpful.
You should give try to other sources as well to make money blogging.
Hi Ammar, I’d totally agree with you on all the above reasons. I think it’d be much better to fill out the ad spaces with affiliate offers or private advertisers rather than taking the risk of adsense. Because they can kill you anytime without giving any reason like you were getting fraudulent clicks DUH DUH, life ends.
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Hi Sarah,
You are right. We can’t really understand adsense. I like your last 2 words, lol
adsense still not supported at my country, so i need to write in English in which i’m not that good
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Ammar your reasons all are acceptable and also thinkable.Yes cpc is very less and recently one of my blog got adsense approval after passing 2 tests.Till now that not give better results but i hope in future it may be worthful to me.
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Hope adsene will work good for your blog. Use high paying keywords that might help you to get high CPC
Hi Ammar,
I was shocked by the fact that ” If you are not from US or Western Europe – forget about big earnings” !!!!!!
So here’s another way to be punished just because you are from the 3rd world!!
I have bachelors in physics. If I were from USA , I would have a better future!!!!
But I am from Jordan, and I am very proud of that
That’s not fair, and one day that should be changed.
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Hey Dima,
Glad to hear that. That’s right. Google pays less for non US or Westren Europe visitors. You can read some of above comments to know what I mean.
Hope that day will come soon.
Keep visiting.
You mentioned that if once account gets banned you cant get again. No it isn’t, Now you can get back the adsense account from Google Adsense Appeal form, My one friend recovered his account
So..would you like to share how?
Here is the link for appeal form Google Adsense
https://support.google.com/adsense/bin/request.py?contact_type=policy_disabled_appeal
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Yeah you said true all these points are meaningful and most worst point is once u get banned will never get it back, but what are the other options we have as we know other ad networks pay even more less CPC and all.
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That really sucks!
yaa shivani … m agree wid u and i also have a question that what is the proper way or options which helps us for the good results….. plz rply
!!!
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Hate Adsense only for the #8th point. We have to wait to reach $100 to redeem our payment. Leaving this aside, I love Adsense
Thanks.
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Good to see that you love adsense..
i guess these points are valid ammar…i never google adsense has low cost per click…and yes i knew that whenever we make the click we are increasing the bouncing rate on our site.
believe it or not i receive my cheque after 2 weeks when they have issued it…that is very late indeed…getting approved is a time taking process as well but even after all these cons, i still prefer adsense because it is my primary source of income…i guess it all comes down to opinions
Cheers,
Gautam
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Gautam,
I’m glad to see that you got adsense cheque and its working for you. Make sure to protect your adsense account.
can you expand on that response ammar…how to protect our adsense account? do you have a tutorial on that?
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There are some people who won’t let you earn money with adsense. They’ll try their best to get your adsense disable by invalid activity.
Agree with you Ammar…btw nice post…thanks for sharing with us..
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You’re welcome Aparajita.
Of Course I Agree With Your Thoughts, But I Never See The AdNetwork On This Planet That Pays Well Like Adsense, Did You Think 1$,2$,3$Per Click Mean Low Paying???
If adsense is working good for you Raja, then its good.
CPC depends on the keyword and country of the visitors.
100% agreed. Getting in adsense is getting tougher for new webmasters and I also remember that they did a huge cleanup by banning lots of webmasters last year or so.
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Right, Thanks for comment Keral.
Hmm, really strong and true reasons to hate Adsense. I think you should keep hating Adsense as you are making more from affiliate. Anyway this should a great post for guys running after Adsense. Thanks Ammar
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We should stop running for adsense. Special this is for new bloggers
Strong points suggested. Adsense could be a option to earn money but it is not the best for many reasons. Users generally dont click on the adds as they open in the same tab.
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Yeah, thats the first reason I don’t like adsense.
Hi Ammar,
I see that you have good reasons for hating Adsense. I agree with you that trying to make the rules of the game stricter, Google makes things too complicated. Thanks for sharing your perspectives. To be honest, I wasn’t aware of some of these aspects before. Thanks for opening my eyes
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You’re welcome David, Have you ever used adsense?
You said they never accept website below 6 months or high content, but they approved me in one month and 14 posts.
Yes when I join Adsense there was only 14 posts on my website.
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Oh never! Adsense was, is, and will be a boon for new and pro bloggers. Don’t just look upon cons of adsense. It has more pros. Can you name a company which pays per ad click more than average adsense click? $0.15 at least?
Have you tried media.net? Check out above “Recommended Reading” links at end of post. They will help you!
Hi Ammar,
I was saying yes to your every point that I read. I had to wait several months before the pin came to my address, whole time thinking it may not come now that its too late. I would like to switch to other methods. Thanks for sharing your views.
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Sure Vicky, Good luck.
BTW, what kind of methods you are going to use now?
Dear Ammar,
I am one of those lucky to get the approval but earnings are very less.Problem is that there are no good alternatives.Please suggest a better advertiser for a website dealing with Jobs in medical Sector.I also want to ask you,how many affliate programme ads i can put after putting 5 google adsense ads…
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Try media.net
or use some affilate programs like clickbank, shareasale etc.
why should worried if we are not in usa?
optimize your article and set the target as usa in webmaster tool. through that way we get organic traffic from usa.
also google will pay maximum cpc for organic traffic.
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Thats exactly why i hate adsense, they disprove anyhow and their rule is to complicated to be adhered to, meanwhile when follow the rules doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get banned. But those who make thousands monthly wouldn’t count this as adsense fallback. Well i still manage them on my blog.
Ammar Bro i have problem whenever i write new post then it appear in search result after 9 days. i analyze my every post appear after 9 days in search result..
first i was better but now its showing like this my blog age is 1 and half months old on blogger platform.. what should i do.. whats the mistake.. please reply me i will soon back..
Hafeez, off topic discuss is not allowed. Email me such questions using contact form of this blog.
ok I will contact my email….just look into your account my email is waiting for you.
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Hi
This sounds scary stuff I thought you could just sign up for Adsense and that was it. My blog is only just starting I might have to look at all options when I start monetizing it to make the most of it. That is presuming I get some success.
Great insight thanks lee
The points which raise here are solid enough to hate Google Adsense but there are still some points that do favor Adsense like living worry free about finding advertiser to display ads on your blogs especially valid if you are not into affiliate marketing.
PS: Although I do hold an Adsense account, even I don’t display Adsense on my blog because of the low earnings.
Oh! should I change my mind? I’ve been planning to apply for Google Adsense wishing I’d be approved…Maybe, I’ll try but thanks anyways for this post. At least I’ll have myself ready to accept and understand if it works or not
….. You’re such a great blogger….
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I have AdSense on my blog but I barely make $100 a year from Google. I was thinking about getting rid of it and use the space for something else.
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I just read your blog post to confirm that what is happening with other bloggers. I found it that your post is 90% true and I agree with you..
I faced these problems. I not agree about just americans or western will earn more. You can get your traffic form US and western coutnries and get more click rate.
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Yeah, getting adsense is hard. I tried many times to apply it including hiring someone to get it for me. It is time for me to concentrate other money making method like affiliate.
ur ri8…
I am also hate dis,..
Ur ri8 dat many of new blogger tryng to approve for adsence bt they cant get…
Im also faced this bt nt for long time….
Now i dont need google adsence 4 make many….bt i thnk every 1 tryng to aprove adsence bt they have nt sence that without visitor adsence any service are notng so fast tryng to increas your visitor ..dont wst ur tym 4 addsence…..
i am happy with Adsence i got 1st payment already and waiting for next one…
here my blog Qmobilez.com which made on Blogger platefrom
awesome. Happy earning with adsense
Well, I don’t believe that there should be any reasons on which one skip the most paying advertising platform. I can understand, Adsense never works on our niche websites, as we do have a very specific kind of traffic. But still, It works great!
One more thing, can you please specify any advertising that don’t make your reader leave your blog?
Editorial Control is a very good thing, it makes you responsible and honorable in front of your audience, and yeah! Adsense comes up with too many rules, but there is no rule if you are playing the game honestly.
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I think the blogs which write product reviews should not use adsense because it shows the ads of the competitors of product then which may decrease chances of getting any further product reviews from the company.
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I am not a AdSense fan but I still believe that- as AdSense is the best contextual advertising program containing huge number of advertiser so, it will serve relevant ads to any kind of website.
Earning from any ad network is depend on your traffic amount. If you have huge traffic then you can easily earn better revenue from AdSense. And if you don’t have much traffic then you can’t earn a decent revenue from any ad network.
At last I’m totally agree with you that it is too heard to approve and maintain AdSense account to generate online revenue for lifetime.
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Hey Ammar Ali,my adsense account was disapproved.But i tried media.net and i thinks it’s the best alternative for adsense.Till now i have earned $35 in nearly 50 days.They have great support and service.
Usually i get traffic from U.S,Canada and India.My website is now 6 months old and wan’t to know how to monetize the site by not using adsense?
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WOw man! Awesome post ! I have to believe that Adsense is a Shit ! As a blogger I used to think that blogging is mainly for adsense..You changed my way of thinking ! Very well Written !
Very well said Amar,
Still i wonder why people go behind Google Ads only?
Their rules are very much strict, we must be on panic every secondary even after they approve. because i heard they will deactivate anytime if they find it anonymous.
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Hi Amar,
Well written on Adsense. Adsense really disappoints me many times. Its worst email Support and Hard policies sucks more. Worth reading.
Thanks,
I Don’t Think So! Ammar
AdSense is Surely The Best Ads Provider For Bloggers!
It Also Supports YouTube Monetizing and The CPC is Not So Low!
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Do you have google adsense account?
Nice article Ammar.You said quite right that the CPC for asian customer is very low but i don’t think that getting an adsense account is too difficult.Many blogger fails to get it because either they apply before 6 months or they post copied contents.What do you say?
Can’t say. It’s hard to understand google. Sometimes they approve just 1 month old blog.
Thank you for your thoughts on Google Adsense. It’s nice to know misery loves company. I found Google’s customer service a lot like trying to meet the great and powerful Oz to get back to Kansas. I have ads on one of my blogs and not making much money. I think I am going to try fiverr.com as an alternative. Thanks again for your blog.
Hey Ammar,
Well, I signed up a long time ago but I don’t like them for the reason that they make people leave your site and unless you have a heck of a lot of sites your take away is a joke. No one is ever going to get rich from Google Adsense.
I find their ads annoying myself and I seriously don’t think too terribly high of the person who’s site I’m visiting and they have them on there. To me it just says they’re more about the petty money they can make then helping their readers.
Not that I don’t visit the sites anyway but I’m allowed my impressions.
Good reasons you shared and I definitely don’t care for them myself.
~Adrienne
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Hey Andrienne,
I’m glad to see you here, welcome!
Thanks a bunch for sharing your views about google adsense. Can I know how you are currently monetizing your blog without adsense?
I’ve noticed lately that although I’m getting more clicks they’re paying less. Having said that I’m happy to leave Adsense on my blogs because I look at it as offering another service to my visitors. Sure they will be taken from my site if they click on an ad but if I’ve done my job an piqued their interest they will use the back key to come back. If they don’t then they didn’t find my post interesting enough and probably wouldn’t have stuck around for long anyway.
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Hey Ammar,
After reading this article I’m confused. I started a blog back in January 2013 to earn money through adsence. But now I’m totally confused. Man what to do?
Great article.
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I know money making from adsence is possible, are you making money from adsence or affiliate? What is best at your point of view? Give me some suggestion – I’m new here
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Affiliate Marketing is working best for me
I support you strongly Ammar in case of blogs which review products. Such blogs should not use adsense because it will affect already set up advertisers.
Adsense shows most relevant ads, so imagine if you are writing a paid post for “Bluehost”, then adsense will most probably show ads of “Hostgator”.
Am I right? Kindly correct me if I’m as I just share my thinking.
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I don’t have much experience with adsense, so can’t say!
Usually if we write about HOSTGATOR, adsense will show ads related to hosting companies.
Hi
You are 100% right..google banned me two years back..after that i never applied for any new account. i use kontera and its giving me 200+ usd monthly. in recent days only im getting natural traffic from google and bing.