Google Adsense Vs. Celebrity Sites
I have never been much satisfied with Adsense for celebrity sites anyways. Since last 5-6 months Google Adsense has been paying a cent or two for every click i get on my celebrity sites network. Believe me, i have lot of traffic on those sites and i really do get lot of clicks there. An average 100 clicks give me $2.00 only. I mean, this really is insane. Isn’t it? Is that what the advertisers at adwords are really paying for celebrity sites? I feel totally looted here!
Anyways, recently i was browsing my Adsense account and there in those green highlighted pointers it was written that verifying your website via Google Webmaster Tools will help us serve you better. Well, i thought this is it. Much targeted ads, much more money and much better revenue for the celebrity sites. So i readily added and verified all my celebrity websites. So what do you think? Problem solved? Am i earning more now?
Lol 😆 Not really. It’s even worse! Now an average 100 clicks give me $0.50 to $0.75. There you are Google Adsense. You really are brilliant with getting much more targeted ads.
My Dear God. Who in the world pays less than 1 cent per click to any advertiser program in the whole wide world?
I checked the ads running on my sites. Just reading the url and opening them in new windows. Each and every site is Made for Adsense (MFA). And they look worse. With absolutely no content. For God sake even blogspot blogs are being advertised by Adsense! Where is the Google TOS of “good landing page” being applied? I just want to ask, why is Google so dumb with their advertisers? And yet they come out brave and merciless when it comes to paid advertising on other sites which we have, by deindexing and banning and PR ripping things. What is it with you Google? Why don’t you get a life? Why can’t you live your own life and let live others their own?
Fact is, Google won’t let you sell advertising on your sites and blah blah blah, because they want people to use Adsense instead. But hey, they will not let you earn with Adsense either. Because they can’t filter MFA’s from their advertiser program. 🙁
So there you have it. Google Adsense vs. Celebrity Sites. You clearly know who the winner is! Don’t ruin your life. Get some better publisher advertisement programs on your celebrity sites.
Try out Adbrite on celeb sites i got decent CPC, check out my comparision @ http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/adsense-adbrite-kontera-epc-compared/
Thanks Amit. Really a helpful comparison. I have already started using adbrite on celebrity sites since a week or so.. And i have noticed a 200 percent change so far in the revenue with adbrite! Your comment just made it sure that i took the right step. Thanks
Thanks for the info, Sharat & Amit! I also have been experiencing next to nothing with Adsense. I am definitely going to check out adbrite!
Kim, i checked your site Divachickz. You are supporting just one unit of adsense. In my personal experience i have noted that an adsense link unit is a must have on any niche site. It is definitely a great value. Plus the placement can be made a little better by moving the 160×600 unit a little more upwards. Throw the ads on visitors face and you will get better revenue! Just my 2 cents worth of advice!
thanx Sharat I really impress to ur comment
I just wanted to buy few celeb sites but now I am wondering is it worthet?
Is anything changed for you in the past 6 months?
Well Zeljko, i would say that celebrity sites still return lesser revenue from adsense. However it is easy to generate traffic on such sites, thus giving you a definite income from the site. On an average, my Indian celebrity site gives around $60 for some 3500-4000 clicks. So it’s little better than before bu still pretty less compared to other niches.
Yes, you’re right. I have one celebrity site and it is so suck. High competition, but only a cent per click. Not recommended for other.
Your post is dated may 2008, now things have become much worse.. Can you update whats working now for your celeb sites…for me even adbrite is not working.. Need an update as to how you are monetizing your celeb sites..
Abhilash, i am still using Adsense, however i am not putting up too many ad units. Just one or two units only. That gives me much better revenue for every click i get. Apart from Adsense i am also using Infolinks. Gives good revenue on any kind of site but the sites need to be approved first by the editing team at Infolinks.
Thank u … this post help me to make a decision about building a blog talk about celebs …
keep blogging bro !!!