mfishy - 12:29 pm on Apr 4, 2007 (gmt 0)

Interesting post mayor. My experiences have been quite different. Adsense seems to be the one yankig my chain if I use them. Paying pennies on the click in industries where folks are bidding $6-10.

Only once in my entire aff experience have I been burned badly by a merchant (and this was a pretty unique situation). When affiliate programs start to suck, like they often do for whatever reason, there are always more - with adsense.....I guess there is YPN if you get an invite and have all USA traffic and this and that...

My thinking is if you are bringing a small company a nice amount of revenue it might add up to 3-5% of their sales. To google, even if you are bringing in $300,000 a month, you may feel like a bigshot to your account rep, but you are nothing to them, nothing at all.

I get why one would use adsense, as it really is a turnkey solution, but it would make me nervous to let one company handle all my traffic.