Those 'Work At Home', 'Earn $$$' ads, are they worth it?

Or are they better off blocked?

[bouncybunny]

Started getting a few of these generic 'Earn $$$, working at home' type of ads appearing recently.

Are they worth keeping, or are they just a waste of time?

I suspect they are appearing because the word 'jobs' appears on some of my pages. But this is a very specific industry, so I'm wondering whether they are just going to annoy my regular visitors.

But perhaps they are useful to some of my visitors? Some of them are students and need all the $$$ they can get. Do these ads pay well?

[Green_Grass]

I think , they pay between 5 cents to 2O cents..

Have a few on my jobs site as well..

[tomthumb2000]

Most of the work at home ads are run by pyramid companies. Desperate distributors are looking for other suckers to sign up and buy the worthless product concerned.

if you have any interest in the financial welfare of students, struggling mothers or the average naive surfer you'll want to block these ads so they don't get scammed.

[edited by: jatar_k at 5:41 pm (utc) on May 24, 2006]
[edit reason] no specifics thanks [/edit]

[Atomic]

if you have any interest in the financial welfare of students, struggling mothers or the average naive surfer you'll want to block these ads so they don't get scammed.

This is why I block them. I don't want ads on my site that do nothing more than rip people off. I guess there's no need to mention that Google shouldn't be allowing criminal activity in its system and that this is their job? Yeah that's old news but they look at the system as automated but really they just make us do their work. Keeps their costs low and goodie for them. Do no evil indeed.

[Moosetick]

Consider all of those types of ads scams.

If an untrained/unskilled person could earn decent money from home doing one of those jobs, then a real company would set up and start paying people a fixed rate to do the job and keep all the profits.

Ban them from your site and do your naive visitors a big favor!

[Tapolyai]

There are some "work-at-home" companies that are not scam or pyramid schemes.

For example there are a couple which provide "live customer service". The individuals are at home, and get paid per hour $8 to $15. These vendors range from text based chats to complex VoIP solutions.

Remote receptionists are also not a scam.

[Atomic]

There are some "work-at-home" companies that are not scam or pyramid schemes.

This is true but these don't seem to the ads I have seen. I wish they were real because then I could leave them and not fill up my block list with MFA's and criminals advertising on AdWords.

[Moosetick]

There are some "work-at-home" companies that are not scam or pyramid schemes.

Those places rarely post jobs saying

"Work at home and earn big $$$. Great for housewives, students, etc."

They post their jobs in more appropiate places and may not even advertise the fact that they are work at home until they feel they have a qualified candidate.

Just go to any college campus and you will see tons of posters with those bad types of jobs. They say you can make thousands of $$ at home in only a few hours per week. Once you call you find out they want you to sell vitamins, kitchen knives, or some other household good.

[jetteroheller]

I block all this sites on the spot.

When they appear on a page about the unemployment problem, they create a very bad image.

[pldaniels]

I also block those adverts. I run a "home office" type of site (one of) and the first thing that started plaguing my AdSense space was those. Every day or two I have to cull them out.

Remove these adverts, they set a bad image for your site (unless your site is about something like that ;) )

[bouncybunny]

Thanks folks. Kind of confirmed my suspicions.

[Tapolyai]

Let me hijack this thread a bit...

Are you telling me that when you see a bad advertisement from Adsense, you get the domain name and put it in your competitive ad filter?

How big does that get?!

[pldaniels]

Big to the point where a lot of us are complaining that we need a lot MORE than 200 entries.

500 would be a nice start.

[Green_Grass]

Quite a few of these companies are only teaching how to make money from Adsense. If we can do it , why block the option for others.. Seems a little selfish.

;-)