Career in Adsense

Is it possible to pursue full time career using adsense

[kaymeis]

Sorry,

there is a question I forgot to ask. Is it possible to pursue a full time career earning income from adsense?

kaymeis

[anand84]

What if Google suddenly decide to move over to other forms of revenues and restrict the number of Adsense publishers..

Remember that it is a known fact that allowing adsense on personal webpages is one important reason why there are so many MFA pages today..

[emodo]

You could, but it is playing with fire.

Any change in how the adsense program works (payouts, clicks, ad style, billing model) and you could very well be screwed.

A better idea is to diversify your incomes through CPA affiliate programs

[kaymeis]

What does CPA stand for?

[castar]

Cost Per Action. In answer to your original question, yes you can. Then save like crazy and start a franchise :). As previous stated, it would not be wise to put all your eggs in one basket. I supplement with another non-contextual ad network that doesn't do as well as adsense but provides significant income.

[kaymeis]

Which are the best CPA programs out there?

kaymeis

[Tapolyai]

Someone posted a long time ago their Adsense earnings for one month, obscuring account and other information.

I have taken that image, and posted it above my computer on which I do my work. The number was staggering. It CAN be done, but as others have said, it is dangerous.

If I had obligations, I would do it.

[jchampliaud]

AdSense is like any other business relationship, it can go bad and you can lose out if that’s all you have. I believe one of the keys to long term success is diversification. That is AdSense along with affiliate programs and direct advertisers. Anyway that’s what I’m trying to do, but I’ll admit it’s not easy. Right now AdSense is by far my biggest income maker. It gets kind of additive, create site with AdSense, upload, create another watch earnings grow. All the while forgetting to try to find other income streams.

[whbiz]

It is good while it lasts. To rely on it solely on a long term may not be so advisable but who knows, it will be here for a long time.

[europeforvisitors]

Is it possible to pursue a full time career earning income from adsense?

Publishing = a career

AdSense = an opportunity of unknown duration

[emodo]

As always EFV hits the nail on the head.

[dollarshort]

Agree with jchampliaud, making a career out of adsense or online advertisement is like any other business, you have risks and rewards, ups and downs, lots of sleepless nights. Its not the comfort of a steady paycheck. If you have strong work ethics and some courage you can do it.

[europeforvisitors]

making a career out of adsense or online advertisement is like any other business,

What "any other business" do you have in mind? A video-rental store or a shop that specializes in Nintendo games? That may be an opportunity, but it isn't a career. The same is true of a business that's built around AdSense. New program TOS could prohibit your type of site, you could see a drastic decline in earnings because of smart pricing or other evolutionary changes in the network, competitors could reduce the pool of AdWords/AdSense advertisers (which would affect bids and earnings), and so on.

A career isn't just a job or how you make your money today. A career is how you earn your living and (ideally) develop and improve yourself professionally over many years. If you're looking for a career, then you need to think beyond AdSense, YPN, FastClick, Commission Junction, or any other single source of income that could evaporate overnight.

To put it another way:

AdSense = tactic

Career = strategy

[elsewhen]

making a career out of adsense or online advertisement is like any other business

i disagree. on the spectrum of risk associated with different business models, relying on PPC advertising (and AdSense specifically) is very close to the risky extreme. so in that sense, it isn't like any other business. although most businesses are risky, i suspect that few have the potential downside of an AdSense-based business.

i think the OP used "career" to mean "full time". although you could go full time with an AdSense-based business, you would have to be extremely risk tolerant.

[dollarshort]

Any job is subject to downsizing, outsourcing, discrimination ect, there are also high risks in any business ventures example, 4 out 5 restaurants go out of business in the first year, (well known statistic) I think adsensers within the tos may have a better shot. Just look around, how many small stores have closed thier doors due to competition from Walmarts, Home Depot the list goes on.
Also jobs (careers) in accounting, engineering, radioligy, legal, HR, tech support can be outsourced effectivly (January 2006 BusinessWeek)

[universetoday]

Now that people are reporting reasonable incomes from YPN, I think it's reasonably safe to say that the Adsense concept will continue on for a little while. I don't know about you, but getting a job has never been a big problem for me. Adsense lets me do what I love full time, and I plan to use this time to make as much headway and build my brand as much as possible. Even if Adsense drops away, I'll still have something valuable built up. The worst case scenario I see is that I'll have to go back to work while the advertising market recovers. And as a previous poster said, everything has risk.

[howdyhi]

The calls for diversification make good sense. At the same time, it is my understanding that the AdSense TOS says we can't use AdSense and competing ad-delivery companies on the same page. How do you diversify and stay within the TOS?

On the career question...sites with good content and lots of traffice are always going to find people willing to advertising, if not through AdSense, then through other channels.

[nuthin]

was thinking about this the other day.
full time i work as an SEO for a firm.
we rely on Google to rank our clients websites based on the work we do.
if Google decided not to favour our SEO work we do, i would probably be out of the job.
so i think its pretty much the same if you live just off adsense earnings /// in particular if you rely on your SEO ability to drive traffic to your web properties with adsense ads displayed.
i could quit my full time job tommorow and just rely on adsense income and be pretty well off, but working full time for now keeps me busy.
if i quit, because all my websites generate a nice profit automatically -- i wouldn't know what to do with myself -- although sitting on the beach in the carribean sounds good. :)
diversity is the key though.
get some advertisers for your websites paying monthly fees, combined with adsense income == killer.
adsense dies, you still have those advertisers keeping you a-float.