AdSense Ads Hindering Your Link Development?

[titaneye]

I'm totally new to AdSense [hence my recent threads]. I recently put some AdSense ads on my website, and have gotten quite a bit of criticism about it, in fact a lot of people won't exchange links with my site because of the ads. There seems to be a lot of webmasters that are totally against AdSense, most stating "AdSense means your website will be here today, gone tomorrow", or "AdSense ads means your website is unprofessional, and that you're an amateur webmaster". Am I the only one receiving these types of criticisms? Are scraper sites and search spammers ruining the AdSense brand? Do you think AdSense needs to create more ways to blend and customize the ad units, and move away from just serving generic ad units? Perhaps this point is the future of PPC? Thoughts?

[briggidere]

i would only exchange links with an extremely excellent site if it had adsense rather than a good site without.
i have not come across many excellent site with it, but there are some. it all depends on whether it looks like your site has been built for the purpose of making money through adsense rather than providing a good customer experience.

[ken_b]

Look, there are snobs everywhere, forget them and move on to the more reasonable crowd, of which there are more than enough to go around.

[titaneye]

It could just be my site. Would someone be willing to let me pm them my url, and let me know if my ad placement looks spammy or not?

[jomaxx]

I have had millions of people pass through my doors without a single mention of AdSense. Almost every website contains advertising or some other way of monetizing traffic. It's accepted.

OTOH, if you're really hearing this over and over, maybe you're being a bit too aggressive in pushing ads on people. If you want to get inbound links, especially the golden non-reciprocal ones, you have to put the user experience first. If there's a lot of value there, people will link; if it looks like the site is meant to be a moneymaking engine, they won't.

[martinibuster]

Some webmasters, usually from a non-profit website, will not link to commercial websites. I usually follow up with a request to review the content and judge the website on the merit of it's content. I get a sixty/forty success rate. If you choose to do that, be sure you have strong content.