If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Adsense is cool right? Putting Google Ads all over my site will make me tons of money right?

Well… perhaps if you have either an extremely high traffic website, or have a zillion sites with decent traffic, then yes.. you may see a reasonable Adsense Income.

I used to think along the same lines, even up to a few months ago I kept thinking that I needed to get more websites online and get some adsense blocks on them.. but then my thinking changed, and I’ll tell you why.

My take on the whole Adsense game is this: If I want to throw up a series of websites that are full of Private Label content (content someone else wrote, but I can claim as my own - but then again, so can hundreds of other people!), and display the maximum number of Adsense ads that I’m allowed - well.. this isn’t a difficult concept, and yeah.. I could easily do this.
But…. Why?

Why would I want to encourage visitors that I’ve worked hard to get to my site,
to leave it by clicking on a Google ad? Oh yeah, I forgot - I ‘may’ make a good
chunk of change from that click. Or, I may make a few cents.

» Recommendation

Wouldn’t a better way of doing things be to set up a website after researching and writing my own content and perhaps including some expert articles from other sources. While busy researching, I’m also hunting down affiliate products that I can recommend to my visitors, products or services that my visitors will find attractive and things that fit in with the theme of the site.

Compare the commissions you’ll make: A few cents from Adsense clicks vs a 25-50% commission (or more!) on an affiliate product or service.

Not to mention that I’ll then be keeping my hard earned visitors on my own website,
and I’ll have a better chance of adding them to my contact list. If they don’t make a purchase today, at least I can keep in touch with them and build that relationship.

Of course, I’m not saying that it’s an absolutely horrible idea to use Adsense on your website, or that you can’t build a contact list if you have Adsense on your website!! If someone is determined to leave your site, their going to regardless of what content is on it lol.

I’ve chosen to remove all adsense blocks from a few of my sites, and from what I’ve witnessed so far, it has been beneficial to building my contact list on these sites. More people are visiting pages other than the one they arrive on, and are remaining on the site longer. More people are signing up to receive my newsletters, and this means that I’m now building relationships with more people.

Work At Home Moms in many cases, need to make money online and it’s very easy to fall into traps that may look like a terrific idea, but I’d like to encourage you to really think it through.. is it really as beneficial as it may sound?

Are you going to have enough time each and every day to promote your website, gain backlinks, write blog posts, and everything else that will need to be done for each and every website you build in order to gain enough traffic to actually make some money off of your Adsense ads? These things take time, and the more sites you have, the longer it can take.. especially when you’re dividing your time between sites, family, laundry and everything else us Moms have to do in a day

Think about it, I’d love to hear your opinions!

Wishing you the best of success!