Over the past six months or so I started relying more and more on Google AdSense as a source of income. In fact today it represents close to 50% of my total income (the other 50% comes from my own products and affiliate marketing).
Why is that? For several reasons, including:
- I don’t need to waste time selling/managing ads.
- The ads match the content of my sites.
- The advertisers are large and credible companies.
- The earnings (i.e., the eCPM rates) are top notch).
- I can monetize global traffic (most CPM networks monetize your US traffic only).
- Payments are always on time, and you can trust Google will pay 100% of what they owe you (this is not the case with some networks around…)
So yeah, I think AdSense is one of the best monetization strategies around.
Still I see many bloggers and webmasters complaining about it. That is why I decided to run this post. I want to know what challenges you face when trying to make money with Google AdSense. Maybe you had problems getting accepted? Maybe the amount you earn per click is too small? Let me know in a comment below.
As for why I am asking this, well, stay tuned. I have a related project coming up in around two weeks, and I’ll write about it here.
