Google Adsense Exposed

Joining Google Adsense is the easiest way to make money online. Is it? No doubt, Google pays you when visitors to your site click on an Adsense ad. But do people really click on Adsense ads. For each 100 visitors, you may not get more than 20-30 clicks.

Google will reward you with a few cents for each click. In order to reach a few thousand dollars each month, you need a lot of visitors to your site. Most of those visitors will never click on Adsense Ads.

Here lies the trick. You need a lot of traffic to succeed with Google Adsense. Building traffic is not an easy game. In my opinion, traffic is the most important thing a new comer to the world of internet marketing should learn.

Most of the people using Adsense will tell you that in order to make money with Adsense you need to focus on niches where competition is high and payout is good. Niches like Credit Repair, Mortgage, and Student Loans are a few where people like to pay up to $10-20 per click on Google Adwords.

But hey, they are paying this much money for a click on the Adwords Search Network. Many will pay only $2-5 while advertising on the Content Network. Adsense is in nutshell the content network.

Many advertisers understand that traffic on the content network is not targeted, so they pay less on the content network. Google keeps a good percentage of it as its commission before it pays you. Google never discloses how much its percentage is.

You only will get between $ 0.5-1 for each click. Getting traffic to a highly paying market niches is also not an easy job as many people are competing to snatch that traffic from others.

So why would you want to waste traffic with Adsense when you can get a much higher payout by displaying affiliate products using affiliate programs like Clickbank, Commission Junction etc?

Have you ever heard of CPA Marketing? You can make a lot of money with CPA Marketing. CPA companies can pay you $2-5 for getting a form with two to three fields filled online. For getting a zip code submitted, these networks pay you as high as $2.

While promoting Adsense, always keep this in mind that Google can all of a sudden terminate your Adsense account for no apparent reason.