AdSense on Blogger is it worth it??

daisy_jean

LeeSouthEast wrote: »

I've got adsense on a blog. Earn about £20/month from it. The way I look at it, every 3 months (£60 payout threshold) I get my Sky and mobile phone paid for by Google for the payout month.

Out of interest, what is your blog about, and how many visitors do you get each day?

LeeSouthEast

It's a personal finance blog, and uniques are about 30 a day.

Jamie0

As you have put AdSense doesn't actually cost you anything and therefore integrating it into your blog has no negative effects so long as you don't cover your blog in ads and discourage viewers.

My logic when putting in my blog was that AdSense is easy enough to remove should you dislike the experience, plus it gives you an easy way to track the amount of viewers that visit your blog .

Mr_Smith_3

If you write a blog regularly (or even occasionally as you do) you might as well add AdSense to it for a potential additional income. But creating a blog for the sake of trying to make money from AdSense is a waste of time in my opinion.

cally6008

mateypeeps wrote: »

I cannot test if the end-of-year payment happens anymore as I exceed the threshold too many times in a year and got paid for December already.

If anyone know if this end-of-year-whatever-amount payment does happen still, let us know, and also where the information is hiding in the Help section on Adsense.

I dont think it does happen as my last payment was in April 2008. I'm still on £56 and debating asking them to cancel it.

UK2010

LeeSouthEast wrote: »

It's a personal finance blog, and uniques are about 30 a day.

You might be much better off looking at the sites who advertise on your blog (obviously don't click your own ads) and see if they have affiliate programs. If they do you'll probably make twice as much joining their affiliate programs and putting their banners on your site (the highest paying one anyway).

Look at it this way, if the same ads keep appearing on your site they must be making money from your traffic or they'd pull the ad/keyword. You'll cut out Googles share if you can join their own or similar affiliate programs.

domestic_goddess

I have a blog that gets about 150 unique hits a day and I got rid of adsense because it took so long to build up to the £60 threshold. I donated it to the Haiti fund and removed the adsense.

There are planty of other ways to make money from your blog but the first thing to do really is build it up with some good content and start commenting on other blogs. If you're contents good people will find you.... I am regulatly asked to do sponsored posts and there are other better paying networks out there for ads. I have kept mine ad free at the minute but there's plenty of options out there.

Also, I personally prefer sites without Adsense - they look better generally IMHO

laurenjs88

What blog sites do you use? I am thinking of starting one

dirtb4g

I have been reading up about wordpress as i am interested in starting a blog just for some practice as i was supposed to learn how to build a website in university but never did get the hang of it.

Mrs_Money

boliston wrote: »

I wonder if adsence will suffer as more and more people block ads? Adblockplus is pretty much "must have" for anyone running a slower PC, such as myself.

I'm not quite sure what you are referring to - Adsense are not pop-up ads - they are part of the webpage - I've never heard of any way to block them?