My earnings have dropped since last few months. So, I would like to know if anyone is making a good earning from Google Adsense or the earnings have dropped like mine?
If you can meet the minimum traffic numbers, Exponential is an option. Higher quality ads than AdSense, but the fill rate isn't always as high as one might like.
I used to earn couple of thousands dollars a month via my Android games. I created them to learn unity and not to earn money but the games were picked up by some game magazines and took off.
Google then banned the whole account for some "likeness to merchandise" reason. They kept the whole money too
Yeah I got click bombed I think after purchasing some sites on flippa. Maybe someone else wanted them more. out thousands of bucks plus a lifetime adsense ban.
Me too. I was making very decent money and opted to convert to Objective-C to see if Apple would approve one of my more popular apps. I couldn't gain any traction and didn't renew my developer account after the first year.
This happened to me a long time ago. I was banned for unclear reasons and lost more than $500. They never explained exactly why and I've been a happy user of ad blockers since, no exceptions.
I joked that taking my money without explanation made for a fascinating legal spectacle. Its not that I care about the 400 euro, I'm honestly interested in their explanation in court. How an agreed exchange can be canceled by one party keeping the money. You can write whatever you like in a TOS legally its a joke, everyone knows this. I know it is no your decision but someone some day should have Google (you) explain for this business formula? or should that be theft? Who knows!
At that point they quickly restored my account. ha-ha
I put some AdSense in my blog then earning like less than 100 bucks, but I left the money untouched, after a couple of years of inactive use of the account, Google sent an email and took my money. I was like WTF
I made about $200 per day and had 500 clicks per day from AdSense, steady for years. Suddenly it dropped to $30 per day and 1-5 clicks overnight. Traffic was consistent, about a million daily page views, and 40k active registered users a day. 1-5 clicks was clearly wrong. I contacted AdSense support and asked if I should try making changes to the ads, or wait for them to debug the issue. They said to wait.
Well, I waited a month as they escalated it to different departments, and someone went on vacation. Finally I get an email with their official answer. It says they can't tell me the issue, because it's classified information. However, I could try labeling the ads, "Sponsored Advertisements".
That's the great support I get after making them about 100k in commission. Thanks Google.
I used to work for a company that ran entirely on adsense, (Directories and such) then Google changed the way websites ranked to be more social media friendly and every website tanked. Shares and likes became more important that keywords and semantics and the owner did not know how to adapt to the new SEO model.
> Shares and likes became more important that keywords
Many seem to think so. If true, it means that Google now "Pageranks" not thanks to websites contents maintainers establishing links to other sites, but to visitors posting links on social networks. They switched from the 'authors side' to the 'audience side'.
(Yes, there are many contents maintainers who also are active on social media, however they don't post the overwhelming majority of non-spam links published on social media).
I had a site that had 60k unique visitors a day. Adsense decided it didn't want to show ads on 90% on requests. I was making $150/month with server costs of over $500.
A company approached me to join their private ad network and the next month I earned $5700.
i made 1500$ from my Nokia phones related blogspot.com site before 2013,then Nokia lost market-share i lost my visitors & revenue.
before panda and hummingbird(mostly panda), SEO is very easy for self hosted WordPress blog, create some post and make more tags ,you easily ranked on google search.
This is some kind of service? If you are talking about selling my own ad space, then it's not possible. I run such a website, that people come, they look around for few minutes, download image and never return.
Have used AdSense on latextemplates.com for 7 years. I wouldn't call it "good money" but it's a welcome addition to my income. Haven't noticed any drop the last several months, but 4 years or so ago there was a huge drop when they updated their algorithm.
I dislike Google and would love to move to something else, but everything I've tried is so much worse so I've just been stuck with it. Any suggestions?
Me, 10$K/month. Because of AdSense revenue, I took many hours building a new website (online since last month) and hope that website it will eventually make some money. I really don't like having ads on website I visit but don't use AdBlocker (hide it behind other windows). I think WikWik.org is a great site (I'm the author) and for sure would not have exist without AdSense opportunity.
It has been years since I had made money off Adsense, but do a Google search for "smart pricing."
Back in the day, I was making decent money off a new account and then that income dropped off a cliff after a couple months. The issue was that the traffic was low performing and I guess it took a couple months for Google to figure it out.
Take a look at your traffic and how well it might be converting for the people paying for those ads. If you're pretty sure it's crap, then do more searching for how you might make that traffic perform better.
For example, my issue was that I had a lot of traffic coming from developing countries and these people weren't going to buy anything. Another example might be that a site short of content isn't aligning well with the ads which Google is showing.
My company (user generated content, user profile pages) reached $10k/mo in 2010 with AdSense. As soon as we crossed that threshold, we started getting automated threats asking to check "all other pages" (we had about 20m user profile pages back then). Despite our best effort (keywords filters in Hungarian and Thai, heuristics), the account was banned when it was earning $17k/mo. Fortunately, my bootstrapped start-up had a freemium model, so I could keep the payroll and seemingly survived this blow (although as I now understand, the long term impact was very negative). I tried to appeal, only to get automated responses. Tried to approach AdSense team via contacts- a few emails, and they stopped responding. Finally , I found some AdSense employee patrolling webmasterworld.com - miraculously, he reinstated the account! We immediately reduced exposure to 5k/mo and sold the remaining inventory first with Exponential and then transitioned to header bidding with 4 different DSPs.
I'm guessing, since people/companies are isolated and don't even consider suing a big entity as Google, there's no one that's going to do anything. And the police/law certainly won't go after someone as large as Google. I'd guess that, if EU would take it on, they could bring them to justice, but they seem to only be after GDPR money currently.
Can't people band together and bring a class action lawsuit? Looks like there are enough people screwed over by Google for this to work, isn't it? Even if Google doesn't reinstate the Adsense accounts, they should at least not withhold the money these people already earned
You'd need a driven lawyer to pick up the case and find all the people that want to use, I think it's as hard as finding needles in a haystack to be honest.
So many companies think that their automated processes are great, but then they block users from giving feedback on when it's wrong, so they never hear otherwise.
No, some third party maliciously clicked on some ads and a purchased asset had some prohibited/adult user submitted content that together wound up getting me a lifetime ban.
I used to make decent amount (for my purposes) around $1000 a month. This was when the ads were based on the content. Then a few years ago they based ads on the user (as personalisation is all the rage) which for me was ridiculous as my site was about general social, political and environmental issues, so you'd end up seeing an add about shoes or something you were shopping for on another site which was completely unrelated to why people came to my site and completely out of context so the ad clicks and revenue dropped while site usage was growing. No way to reach a human to change it back. Some option on AdSense implies you can but has not worked.
Also at some point got banned for false clicks except the site they said that was violating their policy was not mine. Their automated responses of course did not help. Only a few months later a friend of a friend who luckily worked on the team was able to reinstate the account (but not the list revenue in the meanwhile if course). turns out they had a big they didn't admit false flagging my site. Wonder how many others they caught out...
Have ended up sticking with them as don't have time to look for alternatives (tried Chiquita but not very good). (The site is a side project only.) Would like to build my own niche for maybe non profits only, though I'm sure someone has done that already so I probably need to just invest some more time to look into it more...
I think adsense earnings dropped since oct 2018 or something, and it often refuses to fill up impressions.
Also what kinds of ad units do you use? I m testing auto ads now and seeing a drop in earnings (which is typical for most of google's automated recommendations for me).
What alternatives to adsense monetization are viable nowadays?
I see so many people screwed over by Google. Are there any Adsense alternatives that have human support, not too high traffic requirements and just don’t suck overall?
I built a blog in 2008 with few articles and luckily got my account approved in Adsense.
after a month I was banned for lifetime with reason of invalid clicks and violating terms.
I still don't know why that happened?
last I try to re-apply in 2013/14, again I was reject for no reason.
I can really see a monopoly of google in this ad-space. because they can always throttle our traffic if we use other network.
I created and ran a website called jscompress.com for a number of years. In its peak time, I made around $350-500 per month on it, with no maintenance.
2013-2015: $350-$500 per month
2016+: ~$125 per month
I attribute most of this to the rise of ad blockers, which impacted me especially bad because it is a website targeted at developers.
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Google then banned the whole account for some "likeness to merchandise" reason. They kept the whole money too
At that point they quickly restored my account. ha-ha
Well, I waited a month as they escalated it to different departments, and someone went on vacation. Finally I get an email with their official answer. It says they can't tell me the issue, because it's classified information. However, I could try labeling the ads, "Sponsored Advertisements".
That's the great support I get after making them about 100k in commission. Thanks Google.
Many seem to think so. If true, it means that Google now "Pageranks" not thanks to websites contents maintainers establishing links to other sites, but to visitors posting links on social networks. They switched from the 'authors side' to the 'audience side'.
(Yes, there are many contents maintainers who also are active on social media, however they don't post the overwhelming majority of non-spam links published on social media).
A company approached me to join their private ad network and the next month I earned $5700.
before panda and hummingbird(mostly panda), SEO is very easy for self hosted WordPress blog, create some post and make more tags ,you easily ranked on google search.
*sorry for my english
I wanted to change provider, but most of them are more scammy than AdSense.
I dislike Google and would love to move to something else, but everything I've tried is so much worse so I've just been stuck with it. Any suggestions?
Gods we were young back then.
Back in the day, I was making decent money off a new account and then that income dropped off a cliff after a couple months. The issue was that the traffic was low performing and I guess it took a couple months for Google to figure it out.
Take a look at your traffic and how well it might be converting for the people paying for those ads. If you're pretty sure it's crap, then do more searching for how you might make that traffic perform better.
For example, my issue was that I had a lot of traffic coming from developing countries and these people weren't going to buy anything. Another example might be that a site short of content isn't aligning well with the ads which Google is showing.
What did anyone do with thier domain names from failed adsense sites?
TL;DR Avoid like a plague!!
Also at some point got banned for false clicks except the site they said that was violating their policy was not mine. Their automated responses of course did not help. Only a few months later a friend of a friend who luckily worked on the team was able to reinstate the account (but not the list revenue in the meanwhile if course). turns out they had a big they didn't admit false flagging my site. Wonder how many others they caught out...
Have ended up sticking with them as don't have time to look for alternatives (tried Chiquita but not very good). (The site is a side project only.) Would like to build my own niche for maybe non profits only, though I'm sure someone has done that already so I probably need to just invest some more time to look into it more...
"(but not the list revenue in the meanwhile if course). turns out they had a big they didn't admit false flagging my site."
Should say
"(but not the lost revenue in the meanwhile of course). turns out they had a bug they didn't admit, false flagging my site."
Amazing how this company can maintain its reputation behaving like this.
Also what kinds of ad units do you use? I m testing auto ads now and seeing a drop in earnings (which is typical for most of google's automated recommendations for me).
What alternatives to adsense monetization are viable nowadays?
I can really see a monopoly of google in this ad-space. because they can always throttle our traffic if we use other network.
You need to find other paths of revenue, ideally out of Google.
2013-2015: $350-$500 per month
2016+: ~$125 per month
I attribute most of this to the rise of ad blockers, which impacted me especially bad because it is a website targeted at developers.
I did a writeup on it and why I sold it: https://vancelucas.com/blog/selling-my-passive-income-stream...