You’ll read various opinions and verdicts on adsense and putting ads on your blogs. A lot of the internet marketers will have made their first bucks with adsense, and some of these guys slate it. I don’t think adsense should be discredited and disregarded completely, for newbies starting out with blogs its a good way to test the waters and their niche as often the adsense revenue on a daily basis can be a good indicator for if there’s potential there to start an opt-in list, offering affiliate products etc and pushing the blog further. If you’re making $3 + dollars a day, it’s not bad going. It indicates that you’re getting quite a decent amount of traffic (probably through not even doing much SEO yourself) and that there’s potential to make more from it. For many people it gets addicted and they start making blogs here there and everywhere. Although it can be a lot of fun starting a new project every week, you’ll find you can probably make money from adsense alone as there’s not enough time to start pushing other things on like 25 blogs (unless you have a small team). There’s people out there, and I don’t doubt them, that have achieved success from Ad sense boasting daily revenues of $100+ per day. Often these internet marketers will have loads of blogs and in good niches, they’ll have adverts that people will want to click on because they have a desperate need for them.

For me, Ad Sense hasn’t made me rich. But it has provided a small consistent extra revenue stream which hopefully will get bigger as the months proceed. However, I’m not pinning all my hopes on it. As it took me four months just to reach the payment threshold, with one or two blogs being regular earners I’ve learnt just to focus on improving my blogs – driving more traffic making them more appealing to visitors and looking for affiliate programs I can join. Adsense is also too temperamental to depend on. Just the other week one of my blogspot blogs got put on hold from Google, because Google’s Spam bots marked it as Spam. Even though, I hand produce all my content on there. Frustrating to say the least, and now I’ve got to wait an indefinite period of time, before someone reviews my blogs. That’s another thing, choose the platform and your hosting company carefully. I have a mixture of some blogspot blogs and some wordpress blogs. I much prefer Wordpress and Hostgator for my Webhosting. Wordpress just because it’s easy to use, and very versatile. Hostgator because they’re the nuts, great customer service and cheap price plans. I also got $20 off through clicking on an affiliate link much like the one I’ve got on this blog (please click on it if you’re interested and I’ll pay you $20 after 3 months). However, another thing that makes blogspot blogs unreliable, if you have too many of them Google does see you as spamming and will shut you down – often you can’t appeal either. There was this guy making over $1000/month just from Ad Sense with like 100 blogs and they did this to him. I don’t think he backed up the blogs either. So a lot of hard work down and a continuous income stream down the drain.

There are alternatives to Adsense, such as Chikitika, but I’ve had even less success with them than I have Adsense. My advice would be start out with Adsense, see how it goes, make sure you play by the rules and then look for other ways in which to make a decent living out of your blogs.