Earning With Google Adsense

[34saving]

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My point was that it seems really hard to even have a conversation about adsense without violating the TOS . . .I didn't mean to pick on anyone . . .

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Yeah this whole conversation is making me nervous I certainly don't want to do anything to compromise the TOS. I am sure we all can agree that Google's AdSense program is worth checking out, and we'd recommend it to others That has to be the safest statement (I hope? lol)

[jmjj215]

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34saving - I wasn't feeling picked on. I hope I didn't make anyone feel that way.

I am sure we all can agree that Google's AdSense program is worth checking out, and we'd recommend it to others That has to be the safest statement (I hope? lol)

I second that!

[jmjj215]

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On that note - if anyone here has a personal finance blog and you espouse sound principles, I would love to have you as a YNAB affiliate (pardon me for the *ahem* shameless plug, but mbhunter's post above gave me the idea!)

[mbhunter]

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You're looking for link partners I'm guessing? I was confused by your use of "affiliate" because I talked about affiliate programs, and those are usually commission-based. I didn't see such a program on your website. In any case, I read your articles and liked them. I placed a link in my link area under the "Personal Finance" section for you. The blog title and the tag line would be fine if you decide to link to me.

I'm not sure what your profit margin is, but say your cost for your $19.95 software is $5. If you gave a 25% affiliate commission to anyone who brought you a sale, you'd still have a 200% profit margin and you'd have a team of affiliate partners helping you to sell your product. Your volume would go up a lot I'm sure, because you've incentivized your affiliates to give you better placement of your link. I'd put it in my sidebar and plug it in my making money posts if I got $5 per sale! Other people might too!

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Most definitely. I am adding you on to my regular link section as well.

[jmjj215]

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mbhunter - oh, I'm much more generous than that

I guess I need to make my affiliate signup link a bit more prominent on the front page. I pay 45% of gross ($9), pretty much splitting it 50/50 w/ the affiliate after transaction costs. I want more people to budget their money and get their finances in order more than I want to make a killing. You can check it out here:

YNAB Affiliate Program

[jmjj215]

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I might need to set up a separate link section for great blogs too...so much to do, so little time!

[altyfc]

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I'm a big believe in AdSense and it's been a very significant bonus to our business.

If you have a good knowledge of how to get traffic to websites, and how to get visitors to click, there is good money to be made.

I wouldn't say it's something that comes to those who just sit back and relax, but the rewards are there for those that work at it. The beauty is that it's recurring income and semi-passive, so can keep on earning money for you when you stop putting in the hard graft.

Aaron

[PrincessPerky]

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Google search box, I just looked and I make more on google search than on adsense (though I don't do anything special for the adsense, cept leave it up)

My mother and MIL like searching with google, all it took was switching their main start point to my site , if I can convince a few more people to do it....

[altyfc]

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You might want to be careful with that approach. If Google are getting a lot of clicks from the same IP, this might arouse suspicions of fraudulent clicks.

Aaron

[jmjj215]

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Princess, I'd stop that immediately. You don't want to lose your privilege of having an AS account just for a few clicks. Don't solicit clicks or searches in any way! It's not worth losing that potential future revenue stream.

[mbhunter]

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Jeffrey had a post in another AS thread here -- basically, focus on your content, and the clicks will follow naturally if the content is good.

The rest of this post is not meant to pick on Princess, just to explain in a way that Google's T&Cs won't:

To turn the tables, if I were in the Google AdWords program, I'd be paying for a click-through every time someone followed one of my ads. I'd want the click-through to be someone interested in the content of the ad, and someone clicking based only on his/her free will.

If there were no restrictions to screen out visitors who didn't care one iota about the content but instead were doing it to help out a relative or put money in their pocket, I'd be wasting a lot of money as an advertiser, and I'd probably use the program less or quit it altogether because there's little return on investment for me.

So Google is protecting the integrity of its ad program by setting ground rules and by doing everything it can to make the content "king" by discouraging any and all financial motivations for click-throughs.

[altyfc]

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Jeffrey had a post in another AS thread here -- basically, focus on your content, and the clicks will follow naturally if the content is good.

I'm not sure I fully agree with that. If you build good content, you have a good chance of generating traffic, but not necessarily clicks. Higher clicks can be generated by high traffic, yes, but it's far easier to double your AdSense CTR (if you're on a low %) than it is to double your traffic... IMO.

Aaron

[34saving]

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It's really hard to find the balance though. My blog is all about stuff I'm interested in. So, ALL of the ads are in one way or another geared for me. In a lot of ways I'm the best possible consumer, yet I can't (and don't) click on my own ads. (I have a Mac so hovering to get the URL doesn't work either.) For example, I recently realized my daughter has a peanut allergy. I blogged about it. I now have 11 ads about allergies on my blog. Several of them are specifically about peanut allergies. I'm the ultimate consumer because I need advice and an epipen, etc., but I can't click. (My mom could click for me . . .as long as she doesn't compare the advice and products in too many different different ads . . .or click on an ad twice . . . or get too interested . . I agree that Google should ban your own IP from getting click MONEY, but I think banning people from outright clicking on their own ads hurts the advertisers.