Advantages and disadvantages of Adsense

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You have had your website for a while, it is well visited every day and you are considering whether you should place AdSense adverts to earn money. Here are some of the pros and cons of this method of internet advertising. AdSense has hit the internet like a meteorite from another planet and people are excited about it. However, Adsense also has disadvantages and there are alternatives that you should consider.

ADVANTAGES

AdSense is a fantastic tool for webmasters in general. They no longer have to worry about making enough money to keep their websites successful, or at least keep them online. AdSense helps webmasters put their fears aside and focus on providing quality content for their websites.

In fact, the focus is now on providing high quality content (usually related to the highest paying keywords) that attracts a large number of visitors. AdSense can also be easily linked to your website. The ads can be easily changed in terms of colours, size and position, so you can play with them to maximise your revenue. AdSense is a great way to make money from your website on a permanent basis.

You can essentially make a living from your website if you develop quality material and update it regularly. With AdSense, many people are doing just that these days. It's also a great service because you can advertise on all your sites with the same account. This is beneficial for webmasters who have a lot of content because you don't have to set up multiple accounts.

However, as already mentioned, advertising with AdSense also has some disadvantages, which we will point out below.

DISADVANTAGES

The biggest negative impact of the AdSense programme on you is undoubtedly the deletion of your accounts by Google. In most cases, this is due to "click fraud", i.e. when someone generates fraudulent clicks on your site. There is a particularly annoying aspect to this. These false clicks do not necessarily have to come from you. It could be your competitor trying to take you out, or a competitor of the person advertising on your site trying to increase their marketing prices.

Revenue from AdSense is not always consistent. In fact, they're not even close to consistent. Anything you do to your website could turn out to be a big mistake that costs you a lot of money. It's this kind of pressure that has a negative impact on you. First of all, you always need to make sure that your website is visible to search engines when people search for the topic of your website. If you don't, you won't get any visitors, which means you won't get any money from AdSense. In a way, this is not surprising, because every method of making money on the internet through advertising has its own drawbacks.

After all, you have to constantly feed your website with better and better material, which is a big problem. Of course, some websites are well suited to this, but with some types of material it is more difficult. For this reason, copywriters are often hired to develop more and more material. When it comes to creating unique material, the best thing a website owner can do is conduct extensive research on a topic before returning to writing with a wealth of facts, putting the facts into their own words and expressing their own perspective.

So these are the pros and cons of using the AdSense network to earn money through advertising. It is now up to you to decide whether or not these are of benefit to you.

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Sanjay Sauldie, born in India, grew up in Germany, studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Cologne, did his Master of Sciences (M.Sc.) at the University of Salford (Manchester, UK) on digital disruption and digital transformation (2017) and was trained at EMERITUS (Singapore) in the MIT method of design thinking (2018). He is Director of the European Internet Marketing Institute EIMIA. Awarded the Internet Oscar "Golden Web Award" by the International World Association of Webmasters in Los Angeles/USA and twice the "Innovation Award of the Initiative Mittelstand", he is one of the most sought-after European experts on the topics of digitalisation in companies and society. In his lectures and seminars, he ignites a firework of impulses from practice for practice. He manages to make the complex world of digitalisation understandable for everyone in simple terms. Sanjay Sauldie captivates his audience with his vivid language and encourages them to put his valuable tips into practice immediately - a real asset to any event!

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