Google AdSense

Any one making money from this?

[Jesse_Smith]

Is any one making good money from this? With the targeted links, about how much would 500,000 impressions get you? Possible to make more from this than selling stuff from Amazon.com? I'm woundering if I should try deleting my Amazon text links on a few small sites and try applying to test it out.

[eljefe3]

>>I'm woundering if I should try deleting my Amazon text links on a few small sites and try applying to test it out.

Testing is a great thing to be done in a constant search for the best ROI. Whether it is testing products, descriptions or anything else, testing will allow you to see what creates the best ROI for your site.

Please let us know how your test with adsense works out.

[linkshark]

>about how much would 500,000 impressions get you

I would like to say, but I believe it would violate the TOS.
[webmasterworld.com...]

I am thrilled with Adsense performance so far. My site(s) happen to target popular and expensive CPC keywords, so my earnings per click are high. Put it this way-- better than other 3rd party ppc feeds by a long shot.

[chiyo]

OK we are trying it one some pages which are mre tangential to our sites theme so which don't attract our own text advertisers.

We run info sites for business professionals so i guess our "fee per click" may be higher. The section we are running it in is in our hotel and travel reviews page, which i guess also attracts high CPC as its a competitive area. Our pages are very highly targeted.

If this continues its beating Amazon returns out of the water, with MUCH less admin. I think it also looks useful for the user as well.

So so far, very impressed. However our users may be clicking on them as they are "new", or per click return may reduce, or our CTR may reduce as more sites start using it and/or the novelty wears off. So we will monitor closely over the next few months before broadening out to many more pages.

I just have a feeling that this is "too good to be true" but I'm an eternal pessimist!

[edited by: rcjordan at 9:08 pm (utc) on June 23, 2003]

[linkshark]

>I just have a feeling that this is "too good to be true"

Me too.

[europeforvisitors]

I enrolled in AdSense when it was announced several days ago, and it's doing extremely well on my travel-planning content side.

For more on the program (and other people's experience with it), see the various AdSense threads in WebMaster World's "Google AdWords and Advertising" forum:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[keeper]

I haven't really heard too much bad news from publishers so far *generally*.

Is there any advertisers out there with good conversion rate figures they want to share? I would be interested in how it stack up against conversion rates of regular adwords advertising.

[vitaplease]

I could even imagine people buying some well visited info sites.

[europeforvisitors]

Is there any advertisers out there with good conversion rate figures they want to share? I would be interested in how it stack up against conversion rates of regular adwords advertising.

Is it possible for AdWords advertisers to break out numbers for the AdSense network (as opposed to content sites generally, which may include large corporate partner sites that aren't necessarily targeted to specific audiences)?

[Jesse_Smith]

::::I would like to say, but I believe it would violate the TOS.

They don't tell you that until after you get approved! I just got in and have it up on three sites.

[irock]

I just made $85 yesterday from AdSense... not too bad for a text ads program.

[NeedScripts]

OOOOOO

From the kind of payout I am seeing, I feel that Google is making lot of money for AdWords and is gonna make 100 times more with AdSense.

Keep it up Google.

Need Scripts

[Jesse_Smith]

Yep, it looks like this makes more than Amazon links do! In almost two months, Amazon has made me $197.00 from the text links at the top of all my content sites. At the current rate, just from having the Google Ads on a few smaller sites, I would make $120.00 in two months. So today I added it to some more sites, and will probably end up adding it to my three largest sites, and probably to my Amazon store sites.

This is looking like the payout per click is higher than the click rates were back in 2000. Per click, the best way to go!

[keeper]

Is there any advertisers out there with good conversion rate figures they want to share? I would be interested in how it stack up against conversion rates of regular adwords advertising.

I'm still not hearing much from Advertisers.
Lets hope its profitable for them cuz if it isn't, this rollercoaster ain't gunna last long....

[jimh009]

Google AdSense is most definitely worth experimenting with. I have no complaints at all about it, and the ads are becoming more targeted the longer they sit on my web pages - happily.

Jim

[Oaf357]

I too am experimenting with both Amazon and AdSense. I'd be very interested in seeing the results of other people's experiments.

[div01]

So far in limited deployment Adsense is blowing away Amazon and my popup metrics. I am just wondering how long this honeymoon will last.

[anxvariety]

I am a publisher using Google's AdSense.

Extremely pleased! Excellent job Google!

[tdpdawg]

I know that you cannot use Adsense as a pop-up on your site, but for some reason, I am now getting a pop-up ad on my forums after installing the Adsense banner on it!

Is this happening to anyone else? Is that pop-up (which is related to the theme of my site) coming from Googles Adsense?

[Oaf357]

I would think not. Check and see if you have any Ad/Spyware running.

[tdpdawg]

Oaf357, thanks! That proved to be the answer!

I downloaded the free Lavasoft Ad-aware and it cleared up the whole PC from pop-ups.

[Oaf357]

Glad I could help.