Adsense is Effing Alive!!
Have you ever had an experience where you think something bad has happened to someone you know. You go through the tears and all the emotions that bad news brings. Or what if you felt that your business was going to collapse and you just didn’t know where to turn. You just can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Imagine thinking that all your worse fears were occurring, even though it went against everything you believed in. That was how I felt when a guy called Scott Boulch came along and plunged a dagger into the heart of Google Adsense.
I had never heard of Scott, but he got the internet world buzzing with his claims that you cannot make money with Adsense. I have read both reports and I cannot believe that he has had the gall to write them. You know me to be a pretty easy going kind of guy. If I like a product and I think it will generate income for you then I will promote it. If I don’t like a product then I will tell you not to buy it. I have never, though ripped a product apart. Until now that is!
I can tell you unreservedly that I make significant money through Adsense each month. The system works and I’m living proof of that. I am extremely angry that someone would come out and claim that the leading educators in Adsense know it doesn’t work, but plug it anyway. I would really love to know what’s behind Scott’s agenda. And if he genuinely has felt let down by Google then when I calm down I would be happy take him for a beer and explain how Adsense can be extremely lucrative and show him the best ways to profit from it.
Want to know more? Click on http://www.adsenseiseffingalive.com
Best Wishes,
Ben Shaffer
PS Please click on http://clarifywithben.com to post your comments. I would love to hear your thoughts on what is the biggest controversy to hit internet marketing since…
September 21st, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Personally, I have no idea whether Adsense is alive, dying or dead and frankly I don’t care. I used it, made a trifling amount and then had my account shut down and the money taken off me by the ‘Powers That Be’. I was the victim of clickfraud and they gave me no chance to appeal.
I couldn’t care less if Google, Adsense and the whole shootin’ match went ‘down the pan’
September 21st, 2006 at 5:29 pm
I just started reading the second part, you did not mention what he teaches there. Is is a real answer to life after AdSense? Or just more hype? I’ll come back and let you know what I think when I complete it. I assume your “good” AdSense sites still making money saw some dip in revenue, just not enough to call them “dead”?
September 21st, 2006 at 5:48 pm
I’ve read both reports, too.
What it seems to me that Scott is saying is simply this: “People who get the money from Adsense are at the bottom.”
And, I think Scott’s right. He points out that “Google” makes more money than the one who gets the Adsense money. And, the one who makes the sales off the advertisements on Adsense should make more money.
And, since Google has changed algorithms, you can’t keep up with the changes unless you are staying on top of it.
He’s not saying that Adsense doesn’t make any money, but rather that Adsense is just a lower form of making money.
So, is Adsense totally dead. No. But, are there other ways to make money.
Yes.
Read the reports yourself and decide is the best way to handle it, rather than listening to me, Ben, or even Scott himself.
Make it a great day!
Brother Paul
September 21st, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Although I am still waiting for my first adsense check, I do believe in the program. if it is true his bottom line fell out sorry for him. I have yet to see the second writings he promised so can’t comment on that. I am getting clicks albeit it has been slow.
As far as Bens straight shooting, I have been around long enough to know he is just that. I say keep promoting. I have always liked your e-mails and can understand how you may feel when this comes along and blatanly accuses all promoters of adsense products to be lying. What C++P. Sorry you have felt that….it certainly is no fun. I do want to read what else he has to say and to find out where he is going with it but I do not even think of the people selling adsense stuff as wrong or bad guys.
September 21st, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Ben, THANK YOU for doing the report. I was “ho-humming” my way around the DeathOfAdsense. If not for Jeff Johnson, I wouldn’t have seen it anyway. Truth is, anyone worth their salt would have gone CPA a long time ago. I learnt this in Ros Gardner’s FIRST edition of the SuperAffiliateHandbook. So… “ho hum?”
Also, your clarification on Smart Pricing was great. It gives people a good incentive to set their sites straight whether or not they use black hat SEO type approaches. Oh, and anyone looking here - go grab Ben’s article directory program. It’s a massive traffic builder. I know because I’ve been building one myself. Darned you should have told me about 3 months earlier!
cheers,
Stuart
InternetMarketingSingapore.Com
Singapore: Internet Marketing Growth Spurt
September 21st, 2006 at 6:48 pm
I think everybody is entitled to a point of view.I
If for him Adsense is dead then so be it. There are alternatives, after all.
The whole internet marketeering “Industry” is not of one view and nor should it be. There do appear to be a lot of charletens out there who will promote anything to make a few dollars and I’m glad you are not in that category Ben. I like your open and honest approach.
However, when you have some marketeers telling us how we can make $10,000 dollars in a month by just buying their program, system, book or conference call we need to hear voices from the other side pointing out that, making money from Adsense is not a simple thing.
I’m happy to hear all points of view but I’ll make my own mind up from my own experience.
You gotta hand it to the guy though. What a headline he chose. If he’d said something like… “I think Adsense is a bit more difficult these days” would we have even heard of him?
Keep up the good work Ben but don’t let a little thing like this bother you.
September 21st, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Hi, I am new to Internet Marketing. I only have one site and working hard on it in order to monetize it. i don´t know too much about AdSense but from my own and short experience I think this guy scott is right. How can you make huge amounts of money with Adsense while they are paying 5 cents per each click?????
There is another “expert” saying there is no money with Adsense, at adsenserip.com, so scott is not alone as i can see it.
Anyway, i´ll keep my adsense ads on my site to see if i can make some money with them.
September 21st, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Honestly, this announcement of the death of Google isn’t less trustworthy than most promotional papers in circulation.
How often haven’t you got your socks blown away - or at least been told that that had happened to the marketer when he tries to persuade you to use his affiliate code. ( I expect I will be able to recognize the most successful marketers from their bare feet !).
How often haven’t you been told that what other gurus are promoting is garbage but this fellow (who happens to be a close friend) owns the truth and can tell you that, if you accept the bargain of what should have been 299.00 dollars, but for a few hours you will -as a personal friend - get it for just 97 dollars.
I am not an expert on Adsense but I try to keep up with the development. What I experience from my own income is that the fluctuating level of the value of clicks on the same website seems to me to be without any sense of rationality. This apply to my main stock photo website with + 2000 visitors on workdays and for the number of small or very small website I also own.
I have read the two reports by Scott Boulch with great interest and - compared to many other reports and campaigns - I think he knows what he is talking about. I admit that what he is pledging for in the second report seems to be too complicated for my daily life. Probably also economically too risky. But I don’t find any justification for saying it is garbage.
He isn’t telling us that it isn’t possible to earn some decent money from content rich Adsense websites. But he tells us that it is possible to earn much more on a position higher up in the pyramid. - I am sure that is a truth.
By the way I am always wondering why people who claim to have the smartest way of generating a lot of income online are taking their valuable time to make instructional material for others. The truth behind that might be that they can beat their previous income generation by moving higher up in the pyramid by activating us on the ground to co-operate with them and to give them our money.
Some thoughts from Ben Schaffer would be greatly appreciated. (I regard you as a very trustworthy colleague, in fact.)
Thanks for your concern.
Best regards
Soren Breiting
A-Z Fotos – http://www.azFotos.com
PS
I still have to enjoy your recent report.
September 21st, 2006 at 7:37 pm
Ben,
Obviously the title of Scott’s download is purely a marketing trick. He admits himself that AdSense is NOT dead, but that it should be used as icing on the cake, not as the cake itself.
Really what he means is that making AdSense money from garbage sites is (mostly) dead. This is pretty much true. He claims that this happened when Google started allowing separate bids for AdSense sites vs. Google search results, but that is not so — it happened when the search engines started fighting back against all the useless, spammy sites out there by delisting them from their indexes, which took away their free traffic and therefore their revenues.
But I disagree with your response. We also have made big money for ourselve and our clients with AdSense but we have belatedly realized that building a business with AdSense at its core, rather than as icing on the cake, is a bad business model which will work in the short term only.
In short, too many web site publishers were blinded by easy money from AdSense. Many of them filled up the internet with junky sites to everyone’s detriment. But even the serious content publishers fell for the temptation and went for lots of cheap clicks on ads which took visitors away from their sites instead of trying to keep them there and build long-term relationships with them. Fast money caused many a webmaster to become very short-sighted and that was a big mistake.
We have not dumped our AdSense as we are still addicted to the revenues but we are trying to focus more on capturing email leads and getting visitors to return to our sites rather than focussing on making money from them only once. We are recommending the same to our clients.
You can see more on this subject at my blog:
Is Google AdSense going the way of the Dodo?.
I admit that I used the same kind of provocative headline as Scott, but 1) I never said that AdSense is dead, just that there are better ways to make money, and 2) I said it first.
September 21st, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Well, Ben, you’ve had some interesting articles and I for one have learned some stuff from them. I’m a programmer at heart and not a marketer. BUT I also know that the “gurus” are hiding more than they are telling. I know you have pointed this out too.
I have a customer who receives a LOT of traffic to his site. Lots of good information in his area. Ranked high (thanks to me) in all the search engines. But his Google AdSense nets him a piddly $60 or $70/month. We have done everything everybody has said and just no big break thrus on raking in the money.
So I went looking at the “get rich with no effort” schemes and saw the light bulb about what they are doing. I tried them too. I think you said it after I realized it “Why would a hugely successful business reveal their secrets?”
You have to buy MY report to know that, if you can’t figure it out for yourself.
All the methods they give tho, will work. So will AdSense. But not for 15 minutes a day and not without a LOT of research, testing, etc etc. Just like any business, it takes a commitment to it to get money out of it. And the willingness to drop it and move on.
I have not read this report on AdSense and don’t plan on it. I know what he will be saying before reading it and so why bother.
Keep up the good work tho. You are one of the few I’ve seen actually speak the truth behind the curtains on occassion and have had some excellent tips on how to do things.
September 21st, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Ben,
I strongly hope that you got the point Scott is trying to point out. Too many “gurus” “or “internet marketers” still do not. After one week has passed already.
The average click value per visitor has gone way down after Google implemented Smart Pricing. That is an undisputable fact.
Please read the above two sentences again.
Unfortunately, you have not touched that topic at all yet.
I have to agree with a lot of what was already said above though. The second report (”food chain theory”) is one of the best I have ever read as it addresses why many internet marketers fail. They build sites having thousands of pages, using the latest magic page generator of course, do not employ any exit strategies like PHP includes to serve the Adsense code and expect to get rich.
Then average click value drops or Google closes their accounts.
What to do now ? Oh yeah, replace Adsense with Yahoo SM. Please remember we are talking about thousands of pages.
Anyway, being uninformed about CPA networks I will read YOUR report now.
Keep up the good work, your newsletters are actually worth reading, same goes for the Callen brothers by the way.
Star
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:06 am
Hi Ben,
Aint controversy WONDERFUL.,..clears the air, steels the mind, clarifies one’s goals…Hmmmm exxxcellent.(as Mr.Burns would say)
Scot wanted a buzz. Instead he got a hornets nest. Again I’m sure that’s exactly what he wanted.
And Ben it looks as though the hook he thru, well, you bit HARD, and thats great for us ‘bottom dwellers’, gutter crawlers or WHATEVER Scot called us adsense guys.
Meanwhile us small-fry get to REALLY see where the the cream-on-the-cake lies…Hmmm, Articlesites, thanks a heapo Ben. Pity you’re not giving the article site software away. Ahh, just a pipe dream I guess.
Anyway the BIG picture of all this would seem to say, entertain more than one stream of income Adsense, PPC-CPA, etc.
However whereever ones individual dispositions lie then yeahh follow those primarily but do have more than one ‘iron-in-the-fire.
Thanks Ben
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:55 am
Scott admits in his e-book that his Adsense sites were ‘junk’ sites and it is not surprising that they got hit. I agree with his pont on the ‘gurus’. Some of them are still selling ‘cookie cutter’ programs and sites stuffed with articles from the big article databases ensuring triggering of duplicate content filters in the search engines.
Any sites which do not develop naturally (or look as if they are) and ones which use keyword enhanced content are now going to be spotted by Google, whose bot is now much smarter. I have that heard that LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) is being used to pick up non-natural text. LSI involves checking the other words near each word and seeing if the proximity of those words fits that found in natural text.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:58 am
Hello,
i think what we may know, it’s the fact described in these reports are real.
Is smart pricing applicated to all content sites, now ?!
It’s the key-motive of these reports.
Is there now a systematic smart pricing ?
Because he writes that now, the PPC is ridiculous when someone clicks on an ad in a content website instead of clicking on an ad obtained with a search result.
If it is the case, it’s at least problematic !
Let see.?I don’t refuse immediately the content of these reports. It may be interesting !
Bye.
September 29th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Well I read both copies and also took part in the survey. My experience with adsense is nothing but positive, my revenue from adsense publishing has remained stable and I continue to get the Google electronic tranfer each much. I am not complaining.
I think the ploy that Scott used should be a lesson to all in viral marketing techniques, wish I’d thought of it, he has generated huge interest in his site and whatever he is going to try and flog has a head start.
I think people forget that this is business and all is fair in business.
Just my two cents - back to the factory more adsense sites to put up and promote, the only thing I would say is that I build sites by hand and nurture them along - I don’t have 1000’s and I earn a good income from Google, Amazon to name two.
Cheers
Mike Russen
October 7th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Well, I think Scott agenda is that He just want to do ‘marketing’ effort to popularize click flipping. 1st phase, he let people to download reports free, 2nd phase is also free and just wait for ‘adsense’ guru to ‘reply’.
Joel Comm take that reply…and I think Scott is already know that guy will reply his 2 controvertial reports. And the 3rd report he just show one of the ‘Adsense’ losers that it’s a time for click flipping to come into a solution. He got it man…$1000 up front & $300/month membership times 300 members. Means $90,000 per months.
One thing that click flipping is not the only solution, is that Scott never say that how this business model will last. I think I read “if click flipping is not dead, Adsense won’t either”. But what about if Google change the policy that it won’t display to ads that solely for ‘click flippier’ schemes next January 2007? That also apply to YPN and other contextual ads…
Well, I think that will become the end of click flippers
And he already get $90,000/month from members.
The wise thing to think in this game is: “If I were the owner of Adsense, what will it benefit for advertisers & internet search community?” And I think the answer will always giving the best quality information/ads for them. Always think the global picture before join into a scheme…
Well, what do you think about it guys?
Sincerely
Kusuma