Goodbye Google Adsense!
As I said earlier in my Top 5 recommended money makers post, I am doing an experiment of ditching Adsense completely(except for rajawang and my personal blog) in this month of *July 2008. I know some of you might say I am letting a month’s of good income down the drain but I think this is the thing that I need to do so that I can fully test life without adsense.
I am not banned from adsense. Don’t worry about that. I do receive the occasional emails from adsense e.g letting me know that sometimes my other ads in the blog looks similar to adsense and ask to change it, sometimes the contain is against some of adsense TOC etc.
I have learned a lot from Adsense since I started blogging about 14 months ago. Much much more than I ever imagine from making in this make money online world. See the screen shot below:
USD$10K is way beyond my dream when I first signup with adsense and earned $0.01 on my first day.
Supporting cast thrown into the main fray.
So what ads company shall I use other than Adsense?
I believe in giving someone another chance if he/she fails at the first time of asking. And the same goes for an advertising company. So, I will give Bidvertiser another chance although they disappoint me some time ago. Maybe the time that I gave it back then is insufficient. Now I am giving them a full month.
I will also try adbrite in some of my blogs.
I will continue with Widgetbucks since they are giving me steady income of USD70-USD100 a month from the first day I put their ads in my blogs.
Shoppingads@auctionads will again be counted to bring in at least USD50 this month.
Nuffnang will complete the lineup for this month.
The supersub - socialspark.com
My Target for this month
As you can see from the excel chart above, I earned on average of USD$140 from income other than adsense a month. So based on my calculation, I will be very happy if I can tripled that amount to around USD$400 for this month. That will be about third of what I get alltogether if I am using adsense. USD400 is around MYR1,200 in local currency and that will sufficient for me at the time being. Anything more will be a bonus.
Conclusion
I am confident that I will reach that USD$400 mark, how bad can the replacement ads fare? since I am sure that my traffic this month will be more the same with or without any ads going on.
Do you have any opinion on my experiment?
Wish me luck!
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Tags: adbrite, adsense, bidvertiser, nuffnang, widgetbucks
July 4th, 2008 at 2:24 am
I hope you will earn that target of yours, because I have tried bidvertiser and it failed miserably. Good Luck.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Good luck.
(a) Why dont you try selling private ads on your site. That’s JOhn Chow’s biggest earner, and he’s earning something like RM100,000 per month, and he’s not on adsense at all!
(b) The 217,600 impressions, is that per month?
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July 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
You are brave. BTW, you said you are ditching AdSense in June, shouldn’t it be for July?
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July 4th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
All the best in your experiment…hopefully, it will pass your target…will be waiting for the result in at the end of July…right?
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July 4th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Lisa - Thanks.
Pinolobu-that screenshot is from April 2007 till June 2008, so that figure is monthly page impression average. No, I havent tried selling private ads yet.
Gaman - Thanks for the mention gaman, should be July instead of June..edited the post already.
Nimrodjo - Thanks, hopefully you will do well too.
July 5th, 2008 at 2:32 am
all the best friend. When you know you can achieve it, you can actually. Keep us updated.
July 5th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Good Luck on your experiment. I believe there are alternatives to earn good income even without adsense. Looking forward for the result as I am also curious and wanted to know the best replacement/alternative. Don’t feel secure to put all eggs in one basket….
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July 5th, 2008 at 10:04 am
that’s risky…hope u can get better result for july…
July 6th, 2008 at 12:13 am
All the best bro.
July 6th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Papajoneh - I will update once in a week if bidvertiser and adbrite can match adsense.
OnlineDIY - Yeah, we all should not put all eggs in one basket.
Chicken - Thanks.
Budzer - Thanks bro. Hope you will be successful too.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
That means average around 7,200 page impressions per day for the period April 2007 to June 2008. Not bad at all.
May I know:
- your average page impressions per day for the period January 2008 to June 2008?
- your level of traffic is increasing by how many percent every month?
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July 7th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
woahh… crazy experiment! bah keep us updated! all the best!
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
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July 14th, 2008 at 5:51 am
i ditch adsense a long time ago.. haha!
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July 16th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Did you get ban from adsense??