Adsense information please.

[Big Al]

I would be grateful for some advice from other members who have experience with adsense.

I am involved with many sites and some are interested in using adsense .

My questions are these, does it matter what size the site is to gain access to the adsense program?

How do adsense react to any reports of abuse, regarding complaints about their TOS, are they very strict or are they slack about keeping their rules? Any one had any experience with this?

Economically is it really worth while to use it? Can anyone post about their experiences of using this program and any problems they came upon.

Thank you in advance for any replies, as I am at this stage unfamiliar with using this program.
Thanks. AL

[Paul M]

adsense pays our server bills.

[Big Al]

Thank you. So it seems it is economically viable for a site with this number of posts and or members.

[TheLastSuperman]

^ Or if less members and posts, it will still help pay something, it's all how you use somehting and how much you put into the forum - If you never post or do anything constructive to gain traffic then it won't matter regardless right? Bingo .

[Big Al]

Thanks for your input. I do make many thousands of posts.

I am fortunate in that as I am retired I can devote a lot of time to posting.

Some of the sites are small and some quite large. Your input was helpful, thanks. Al

[BirdOPrey5]

Supposedly they won't count ads that show to you (the account holder.) You are not allowed to click on your own ads. If you do so too often they will disable your account.

I hear a lot of stories of people who have had their adsense accounts disabled for rule violations.

I have seen personally and heard from other Admins that ad revenue in general has dropped a lot in the past year- and this time of year is generally the best paying. It was getting so bad I decided to drop adsense altogether, it wasn't worth having at all.

Skimlinks and viglink type places bring in more revenue on a forum like mine then adsense ever did.

[Big Al]

Thanks for your reply. I remember reading about you discussing that your income was down.

Now I thought you were supposed to be having surgery today? Give the internet away for awhile and get some rest.

Your internet problems will still be here when you recover, so rest and recover while you have the chance.
Your health is more important.

[BirdOPrey5]

It's still Yesterday here in the USA.

I will go up to my surgery doing the things I have always done- keeps me relaxed.

[Princeton]

Adsense is great. You can't get any better. They just have a bigger pool of advertisers. The bigger the pool the higher the auction bids. The better return you will get.

The problem with so many sites is that they go overboard with ads. On many sites I've seen adsense, viglinks, and chitika ads all on one page!!

Having so many different ad types on a page harms your bottom line:

1. Google penalizes sites for too many ads on page.
2. Too many different types of ads will slow your site down.
3. Too many ads on page can turn people away.

Don't listen to people that tell you to place 2 large rectangle ads (side by side) above the content. It will kill your traffic, time on site, brand, and word-of-mouth. You need to think long term.

I highly recommend testing year round.

If you don't have Google Analytics installed get it now. It will provide Adsense statistics alongside page statistics for comparison.

Remember that with Adsense you get 60% and Google gets 40% (something like that) for each click. If you hire a 3rd-party service to take care of ads for you they will take a chunk out of the 60% - meaning you will end up with as little as 30%-40% return.

Good luck.

[Big Al]

@Princeton. Thank you for a very informative post.

Your points are well taken. Nice one. AL.