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Yeah I’m talking about Google AdSense. Well I call it AdCents. You know why, right? You only a few cents (and dollars if you’re lucky) per day. Today I’ll just tell you a few things about it and hopefully you’ll stop using AdSense.

Now think about it. Is it worth it? Is it worth putting those (ugly) ads up for a few dollars. Do you care about your site more or the revenue from it? Plus do people even click on ads anymore? I don’t think so. CPM? That pays like nothing.

You have to stick the banner in your visitor’s face and just hope they click on it. Or you trick them into thinking its a link and make them click it. Either way, its annoying. You’re just shoving visitors out.

You can be a lot less annoying, but then you don’t get the clicks. I know there is a balance between them. I tried it and the most I ever made in a day was $3. 3 dollars? WTF? And that was just because I got lucky that day. Usually it was around $1.

Oh and remember the $100 goal? You need to make $100 before you can get your first check. Hmm lets do the math. Lets say you make $1 per day. So, it takes you 100 days to reach the $100 point. Holy shit! That’s like 24 weeks. I wait 24 weeks and I just make $100? And that’s even if I was lucky.

A lot of people just quit. They don’t have the patience to wait for that $100. A good example would be me. I have like around $50 in my account. I’m done with AdSense. I don’t care about that $50. There’s tons of people like me. But, what happens to the money left in the accounts? Google takes it!

And trust me, you’re not gonna make a few grand per day once your site goes big. Maybe you could. But, you would do a lot better with private sponsors. Do you see any popular sites using AdSense? I never saw one.

Oh and you might have seen those screenshots of people’s AdSense accounts showing that they made a few hundred dollars that day. Let me tell you something. Those are fake! People do it to get traffic and to get their name out.

Update: A few haters were saying that I’m just posting this because I don’t make money off AdSense. Well let me tell you something before you go into “bitch-mode”. Its not just me. A lot of popular bloggers are saying the same thing. The guy over at CenterNetworks was complaining about what they make from AdSense compared to their private sponsored ads.

I asked people on Plurk and if they use AdSense and if they like it. About 95% of them said they don’t like it. There are tons of people out there who are still worshiping AdSense. I call them “AdCents bitches”. When you talk shit about AdSense, they’ll eat up you up man. They would kill you. I guess its their only source of money and they consider it the “big bucks”. They’re just being loyal. These are the people over at DP.

And one more thing, I didn’t stop using AdSense on my blog because I wasn’t getting paid enough. I stopped because I thought it was degrading my blog a bit (and its ugly!). Like do you see any popular blogs using AdSense? Well there is a handful of greedy bloggers who put in both AdSense and private sponsor ads. But, that’s a different case. (/Update)

So, don’t hope to get rich by using AdSense. I say quit AdSense and start getting private sponsors. That way you would be making a lot more and the ads are probably going to be a lot less annoying.

Does Google AdSesne have double standard? What do you think? The answer would be yes. A bit surprised? I am.

I noticed this a few months ago and I forgot about this. Last night I was just surfing the web and I saw this. I saw AdSense ads on milw0rm (a site that shares exploits). Last time, I checked it was against AdSense’s policy to put ads on a hacking/cracking related site.

Accounts get closed (and sites even get banned) if they have a bit of hacking/cracking content. No exceptions. You can’t hide. They’ll find out sooner or later. But, why the fuck does milw0rm get to use AdSense (take a look at this screenshot)?

Now this is just crazy. Its a bit unfair, don’t you think? milw0rm has been using AdSense for years now. I’m just mad at AdSense. They treat low-traffic sites like shit and let the popular ones do whatever they want. Oh sorry, I forgot high-traffic sites make them money. So, its okay to bend the rules for them.

So, do they have double standards? Its a rhetorical question. What can we do about it? I don’t know. Contact them if you want.

I’m glad that I’m not using AdSense anymore. Plus its not like you even make a lot of money. Few dollars a day. Who cares. Do you?

I thought why not write a quick post about how to get some visitors from Google Knol. Well Knol launched last week and it isn’t so popular yet. Here’s our chance to take advantage of it!

Okay first of all, lets clear things up. Don’t expect a rush of traffic from Knol (like the “Digg effect”). So here are the things you need to know:

Go write a Knol

Are you thinking about what you should write? Well write about the things you’re good at. Like I wrote a Knol about resellers. Find out what you’re pro at and the write about it. Just don’t spam and make sure the quality of the content is good.

Add a few backlinks

Go to my Knol about resellers. See how I added a backlink to my blog? Do that in your own Knol. Make sure the links are relevant to the Knol and try to keep the number of backlinks low (so it doesn’t look spammy). Plus you can also hyperlink a few words on your Knol to your site (keep it relevant!).

When should you start writing?

ASAP! Knol is pretty new right now and there aren’t a lot of Knols. So, you should take advantage of it. People will see your article, rate it high (if they like it) and then later on (hopefully) more people will read yours instead of the newer Knols on the same topic.

Why should you do this?

Well people noticed that Knols are ranking high in SERPs. Now that’s good for us. Jack some traffic! Your Knol ranks high, you threw in a few backlinks, people see your Knol and they check out the links. Tada! Simple as that.

Plus don’t forget you can also make a few bucks from Knol. You can link your AdSense account to Knol and get the revenue from the ads displayed on your Knol. So, there we go another reason to invest a few minutes in Knol.

This is even better than “Digg effect”

I’m not joking. You only stay on Digg’s front page for a few hours and you get about 15K visitors on average (and it crashes your server). On Knol, you’ll be up there forever (and no server crash!). No one’s taking you off, buddy. There is no front page that will take you off after a few hours and make you say goodbye to the huge traffic wave.

In my opinnion, this would be great way to get some long-term traffic. Writing a Knol doesn’t take you that long. I wrote my first one in about 10-15 minutes. Well good luck and let us know if it worked for you.