My experience with AdSense

One recommendation you are going to get from almost every blog guru (pro blogger) with regards to monetizing your blog is to get into the AdSense program.

This is the process flow chart, so to speak:
- AdSense belongs to Google
- Google has another program called AdWords. With this program marketers buy words that are most probable to be used by a search engine to direct traffic to their sites. The words will be part of an ad, that a publisher (somebody with a blog or a website) may display through AdSense
- AdSense is a pay per click action
- A visitor to your blog or website who clicks on the ads displayed by Google to match the content of your blog/website, will generate money to you

Simple, right?
Well, there are a few issues and sorry for raining on your parade:

1. To make money you have to have heavy traffic to your blog, meaning that if you blog about what your cat, dog or neighbors did on any given day probably won’t generate it
2. The pay, generally speaking is very low, a few cents
3. You get paid only when you reach minimum $100 and with a normal blog with only 2-3 visitors a day you are most probable to never meet the payout
4. If you are interested in some ad you see on your blog, please make all the effort and DO NOT click on it. If you think you are dying of curiosity, try to do it from a totally different IP provider because otherwise you are going to be penalized big time by Google.
5. What Google won’t tell you is that if people living in your proximity click on ads you may still be penalized and accused of fraudulent activity.
6. I had my account canceled and missed the payout exactly when I reached $100. Bear with me here: if you have ‘fraudulent activity’ -as in family members clicking on ads for example- you should have had it for at least a few months, because this is how long it takes to make the money. How come only when it’s payout Google finally realizes that something is wrong? Does it make any sense? Not to me. In my books AdSense is nothing but a scam, not worth the time spent writing quality content.
7. If some people made money in the past with AdSense, for sure it’s not the case anymore.
8. It does not matter what suggestions you are going to find on the net regarding making money with AdSense, all of them are past tense.
9. Don’t have high expectations because you will be disappointed
10. Don’t sacrifice the time you would spend with your kids to write articles thinking that you are going to get rich with AdSense. You won’t and you are going to wake up one day realizing how stupid you were, you much you neglected your family even if driven by the good intentions of making the extra buck.