How to Make Money With Google AdSense in 2026?
Can you still make money on Google AdSense? Indeed. However, it’s not so easy anymore, and it works a bit differently than most guides tell you.
AdSense now pays mostly for ad views, not clicks. And views are harder to get, because Google answers more searches on its results page.
So let’s skip the hype and look at how it really works: how you get paid, how to get approved, how much traffic you need, and how to avoid getting banned.
Can you still make money on AdSense?
Short answer: yes in 2026, as long as you have steady traffic. AdSense is still one of the easiest ways to earn from a blog, because Google finds the advertisers for you.
The catch is traffic. Ahrefs studied 300,000 keywords and found AI overviews reduce clicks by about 58% for the top-ranking page. In other words, ranking #1 gets you far fewer visitors when Google answers the question first.
Fewer clicks means fewer page views, and page views are what AdSense pays on. So AdSense works best for sites that already get visitors or that are building traffic from more than just Google.
How does AdSense actually pay you?
If you already know how AdSense works, feel free to skip ahead. If not, here’s the quick version. AdSense is a middleman. Advertisers pay Google to show their ads, Google matches those ads to your content, and you get a share of the money.
You’re paid per view now, not per click
In November 2023, Google announced it was switching AdSense from pay-per-click to pay-per-impression, and the change rolled out in early 2024. An impression is one ad being shown, so you now earn mainly when ads are seen, not clicked.
Clicks still matter, since some advertisers still pay by the click. But you no longer need people to click to earn something.
How the money is split
Here’s how Google explains the split:
- The advertiser’s platform takes its fee first. When Google Ads is the buyer, it keeps about 15% on average.
- You get 80% of what’s left.
- Overall, publishers keep about 68% of the money.
RPM is the number to watch
RPM means revenue per 1,000 views. It’s the easiest way to compare pages, months, and sites.
Google’s AdSense RPM formula is:
Page RPM = (estimated earnings / page views) x 1,000
Google’s own example: $0.15 earned from 25 page views gives you a $6.00 RPM. Once you know your RPM, you can estimate what more traffic is worth.
AdSense requirements before you apply
Google’s official AdSense eligibility requirements are shorter than most people think:
- You’re at least 18. If you’re younger, a parent or guardian can apply with their own Google account.
- Your content is original, high quality, and attracts an audience.
- You can edit your site’s HTML, so you can add the AdSense code.
- Your site follows the AdSense Program policies.
That’s it. Google doesn’t set a minimum number of posts or a minimum site age.
Still, I wouldn’t apply with a nearly empty site. Wait until you have enough useful posts that a visitor could spend real time on your site, plus clear navigation and an About, Contact, and Privacy Policy page.
How to get started with AdSense, step by step
1. Build a site worth approving
This is the step most people rush. If you don’t have a site yet, here’s how to start your blog.
Before you apply, get the basics right. Your site should load fast, work well on mobile, and be easy to navigate. Every post should actually help the reader.
2. Pick topics advertisers want to reach
Your niche has a big effect on earnings. Advertisers pay more to reach people who are about to spend money.
A blog about saving money is a good example. A broad post on “how to save money” attracts some advertisers. A specific post on “how to save money on car insurance” attracts insurance companies, and they bid much higher.
You won’t earn that CPC yourself. It’s what advertisers pay for Google search ads. But it’s a good signal of how much advertisers want a topic. Tools like Ahrefs Keywords Explorer show this number next to every keyword, which makes it easy to spot the topics advertisers care about most.
3. Sign up and connect your site
Signing up is the easy part. Head to the Google AdSense website, sign in with your Google Account, and add your site. To verify that the site is yours, Google lets you choose one of three options: add a code snippet to your site’s head section, upload an ads.txt file, or add a meta tag.
Then request a review. While you wait, keep publishing and don’t change your site’s structure much.
4. Add ads.txt and set up consent
An AdSense ads.txt file is a small text file that tells advertisers you’re the real seller of your ad space. Google calls it optional but highly recommended. AdSense gives you the exact line to add.
If you get visitors from the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, you also need a Google-certified consent management platform to show personalized ads to them. AdSense has its own free option under Privacy and messaging.
5. Choose Auto ads or manual placements
AdSense Auto ads let Google decide where ads go. You can still turn formats on or off, like anchor ads, vignette ads (full screen, between pages), and side rails, and you can exclude pages or areas.
Manual ad units give you full control over placement.
There’s no single right answer. My advice: start with Auto ads, keep the more intrusive formats off at first, and use AdSense experiments to compare settings. Let your RPM decide, not opinions on forums.
6. Add payment info and verify
Once you reach the verification threshold (usually $10, but it varies by country), Google may ask you to verify your AdSense account by confirming your identity and address. Address verification uses a PIN sent by mail, which usually takes about three weeks to arrive. You have 4 months to enter it.
Don’t put this off. No verification, no payment.
How much can you earn with AdSense?
Your earnings depend on two numbers: your page views and your RPM. Earnings = page views ÷ 1,000 × RPM. So 50,000 page views at a $5 RPM is about $250 a month. But nobody can give you an honest number without seeing your site. Two blogs with the same traffic can earn very different amounts.
What moves your RPM?
| Factor | Why it matters |
| Niche | Finance, insurance, and software attract advertisers with bigger budgets than celebrity gossip or memes. |
| Visitor country | Advertisers usually pay more to reach readers in wealthier markets like the US, Canada, and the UK. |
| Season | Ad budgets tend to rise before the holidays and drop in January. |
| Ad layout | More ads isn’t always more money. Too many hurts the reading experience and can lower what each ad earns. |
| Page speed | Slow pages lose visitors before ads even load. |
How much traffic do you need?
Here’s the simple math:
Page views needed = monthly goal / RPM x 1,000
The RPMs below are examples, not benchmarks. Plug in your own once you have it.
| Monthly goal | At $2 RPM | At $5 RPM | At $10 RPM |
| $100 | 50,000 views | 20,000 views | 10,000 views |
| $500 | 250,000 views | 100,000 views | 50,000 views |
| $1,000 | 500,000 views | 200,000 views | 100,000 views |
That’s why AdSense alone rarely replaces a full-time income for a small blog. It’s a good base layer, not the whole plan.
Find your real RPM
In your AdSense reports, look for the Page RPM column. Check it by page and by country. You’ll quickly see which posts are worth updating and promoting.
How to get traffic when AI overviews take the clicks
Getting traffic is perhaps the hardest step. No visitors, no ad views, no money. And Google search alone is less reliable than it used to be. Here’s where I’d focus:
- Write what AI summaries can’t. Real comparisons, original screenshots, tested tips, and opinions give people a reason to click.
- Build a second traffic source. Pinterest works well for visual niches like food, home, and crafts. Pick one platform and stick with it.
- Start an email list early. Subscribers come back without Google, and every return visit is more page views.
- Update your best posts. Fresh, accurate posts hold their rankings longer.
There’s a lot more to learn about how to get traffic to your blog, but these four matter most right now.
How to get paid by AdSense
AdSense pays once a month, as long as your balance reaches the AdSense payment threshold. It’s $100 in the US, €70 in the eurozone, and £60 in the UK. Other currencies have their own amounts.
Here’s the monthly payment timeline:
- By the 3rd: last month’s earnings are finalized and added to your balance.
- By the 20th: any changes to your payment details must be done, and your balance must be over the threshold.
- 21st to 26th: Google issues your payment.
If you’re under the threshold, nothing is lost. Your balance simply rolls over to the next month.
Most people get paid by bank transfer. Depending on your country, other AdSense payment methods include wire transfer, SEPA, and PayPal Hyperwallet.
How to avoid getting your AdSense account banned
A suspended account can wipe out months of work. And Google allows only one AdSense account per person, so if yours gets banned, you can’t just open a new one. These are the big rules.
Never click your own ads. Google counts this as AdSense invalid traffic. So are repeated clicks, asking people to click, and bots.
Use content you have the rights to. No copied text, images, or videos.
Don’t mass-produce AI posts. Google’s guidance on AI-generated content says pages made at scale with AI and no added value can break its spam policies. AI can help you outline or edit, but a human should write, check, and stand behind every post.
Be careful with paid traffic. It’s allowed, but Google says publishers are responsible for all traffic to their ads. Cheap traffic is often bot traffic. Some people buy traffic on purpose to earn more from ads than they spend, known as AdSense arbitrage. You buy low and sell high. Sounds simple, but it’s risky, and I wouldn’t try it on a new account.
Test, test, test
What works on one site can fail on another. So test instead of copying someone’s setup.
Change one thing at a time, like a new ad position or turning on anchor ads. Run each test for at least two weeks. Judge it by RPM, not clicks.
It’s slower than copying someone’s setup, but it’s the only way to know what actually helps you increase your AdSense earnings.
What about AdSense on YouTube?
YouTube creators also get paid through AdSense. To earn from ads, you need to meet the YouTube Partner Program requirements: 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 watch hours in the past 12 months or 10 million Shorts views in the past 90 days.
Is AdSense worth it for your site?
| Pros | Cons |
| Free to join, no traffic minimum | Low earnings until you have real traffic |
| Google finds the advertisers for you | Your income depends on one company’s rules |
| Reliable monthly payments | A ban can cut your income overnight |
| Works on almost any topic | Too many ads can slow your site and annoy readers |
So, can you still make money on AdSense? Definitely. It’s just harder than it used to be, and it rewards sites with steady, engaged traffic more than ever.
Can you live off it? Yes and no. A decent site with good traffic can earn a real income. But Google is strict, and one policy change or one bad update on Google’s side can change your income overnight.
That’s why I wouldn’t make AdSense your only income source. Once your traffic grows, some of the best Google AdSense alternatives may pay you more. Affiliate links are worth adding too, since they often earn more per visitor on posts where readers are ready to buy.
AdSense is great, and I still think it’s one of the simplest ways to start earning from a blog. Just treat it as your starting point, not your whole plan.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
How much does AdSense pay per 1,000 views?
It depends on your niche, your visitors’ countries, and your ad setup. Check the Page RPM column in your AdSense reports for your real number. Google calculates it as earnings divided by page views, times 1,000.
How long does it take to make $100 on AdSense?
Divide $100 by your RPM and multiply by 1,000. At a $5 RPM, you’d need about 20,000 page views. How fast you get there depends on your traffic.
Can I use AdSense on more than one website?
Yes. You add each new site to your existing AdSense account. You don’t need a separate account per site.
Can I get AdSense if I’m under 18?
Not on your own. Google only accepts applicants who are 18 or older. A parent or guardian can apply with their own Google Account, and payments go to them.
What happens if I click my own ads?
Google treats it as invalid traffic. It can lead to lost earnings or a suspended account, so don’t do it, even by accident.
Is AdSense or affiliate marketing better for a new blog?
They work well together. AdSense earns on every page view. Affiliate links earn more per sale but only on posts where readers are ready to buy. Many bloggers use both.
How long does AdSense approval take?
Usually a few days. Google says it can sometimes take 2 to 4 weeks. Keep publishing while you wait, and don’t make significant changes to your site.
Why was my AdSense application rejected?
The most common reasons are “low-value content” (too few posts or thin, generic ones), a site Google couldn’t reach or crawl, and policy problems like copied content. Fix the issue Google names in the email, add more useful posts, and apply again.
Does AdSense pay for clicks or views?
Mostly views. Since 2024, AdSense pays per impression, though some advertisers still pay per click.
that was a great and useful article.
especially the Get Traffic to Your AdSense Website section.
I’m working on making traffic for my website for days and this blog really helped.
thanks
Thanks, glad to hear it helped 🙂
Very insightful article. Thanks for sharing
Cheers,
Stephen
Hey,
Can you give me more ads placement to test them on my site?
Use the ad inserter plugin and test out as many placements as you’d like. I couldn’t tell you what more placements to use because every site and niche will perform differently. So it’s all about testing and optimizing. You can also try Google’s auto ads and run experiments with that as well.
Good luck,
Stephen
How to find low CPC or High CPC ads?
Well, there are many factors that determine a low or high CPC. For example your niche, the articles and keywords that you have on pages with ads, the country of your users, how much time they spend on site, etc. There is really no clear answer simply because there are so many things that can influence this.
Some niches like: insurance, health, and business for users from countries such as US, Canada, and Australia will have a higher than average CPC.
Hope this helps, good luck,
Stephen
Wow!!! This is really a lesson. Both the tutorial and the Questions. Thanks a lot.
Please I just started blogging 3 weeks ago.
My own question is
1. I want to use paid traffic and i know i have good content. I saw a site;
….com; do you know if they are OK for traffic?2. If I use paid traffic, should i land the traffic straight to the ad-sense page or do i land them on a landing page and allow visitors to click on their own to navigate to other pages?
3. Can I use my homepage as my landing page?
4. Do you have an idea about the CPM for Nigeria traffic?
5. Can I add ad-sense in every page of my blog?
6. What are the things needed to be in place before they approve a request?
Hi there,
1. No advertising on my site, please. Also, I only recommend traffic sites that I personally test, see my website traffic sources that I work or worked with.
2. Straight to the Adsense page, it’s up to you if you use a paginated post or not. See my AdSense arbitrage guide for more details.
3. Yes, but I don’t recommend that, because you will not make a profit most of the time.
4. Nope, it also depends on traffic type and website Niche.
5. Yes, but make sure to have more content than ads on the page to keep Google happy. For example, don’t put ads on Contact pages where you only have a contact form and no other content, you will get policy strikes if you do that and risk your account to get suspended.
6. Who are you talking about? Google Adsense? A website with enough unique content that’s nicely-created without using copyrighted text or images.
Hope this helps a bit,
Stephen
Nice Article!
I have just started with Adsense and I am getting around 2-3 clicks per day but the overall revenue per day has not exceeded $1.
Is it normal or am I doing something wrong?
Regards,
Hi,
Yes it’s normal. You might not even earn $1 from 2-3 clicks even if the traffic is from US. But yeah, it’s normal. It depends on the GEO (country) of the traffic, and the niche, duration on site, etc…
Keep going and you will see improvements in a few months. Focus on quality content more though.
Cheers,
Stephen
Thank you for the article, but i still don’t understand how much adsense pay in average
That depends, there is no way to know how much you could make on AdSense. It depends on many things, the country of the traffic, the article and keywords, the niche, the time spent on site by users, the device, how many ads you have in relation to content, etc… many many things that can impact your AdSense earnings.
So in reality I can’t really give you a straight answer, because nobody can, not even Google, since it depends on too many factors. On average though, you can expect a CPM between $0.3 and $2. It can go lower or higher though.
Good luck
Hello Stephen, thank you for this article, great insight. I enjoyed it.
Ok, basically I started using Google AdSense a few months ago and just as I got to about $25 in earning, I was told to verify my identity by using my national ID card, thought surprisingly because I knew I was yet to reach $100 threshold. I proceeded as instructed but to cut the long story short, I didn’t know I had limit to the number of times I could verify my identity because I was told my documents were not supported (apparently what we use as national ID card in my country is not a standard one just yet). I tried it three times and was told I had reach the number of trials, so a failed identification. During this process, ads stopped showing on my website because they had this message that ads will not show if I didn’t verify my identity. I tried contacting Google but they didn’t have a support system to help solve this issue.
This happened in January 2020 and ads has stop showing since then, any other means to help solve the problem was not stated by Google and my site has become redundant since then.
I have two questions Stephen;
1. Do you by anyway know how I can solve this problem, most probably if you’ve encountered such.
2. If the problem cannot be solved, should I proceed to use other means of monetising my site and what other means can you advise me to go into..
Thanks Stephen.
My name is Peter from Nigeria.
Hi Peter,
I’m sorry to hear that happening to your AdSense account, I’m sure it sucks. Unfortunately, I really haven’t encountered this issue in the years that I have been using AdSense to monetize my sites.
I’ve signed up with AdSense so many years ago that I don’t even remember what the process was. In any case your best bet is to try and contact them or post on their google adsense forums link: https://support.google.com/adsense/community?hl=en
Also see if there’s a way to contact them through this page: https://support.google.com/adsense#contact=1&topic=3373519
The tricky part is that they won’t give you email or chat support unless you earn a certain amount of money, so you might not be able to email them directly, in which case, posting on their forums is your next best thing.
For your 2nd question, to be honest if you have other ways to monetize your site (if the site gets a lot of traffic and your losing revenue) yeah I would change from AdSense to pretty much anything else, like Clickbank banners, CPA offers, etc.. but nothing scammy or illegal as Google might still look at your site when you contact them etc.
Hope this helps a bit, wish you all the best to solve this issue.
Stephen
Thanks Stephen, I appreciate the quick response.
Firstly, I have surf the whole internet trying to solve the problem, I have also checked out the links you put up there several times, both the google help and community, but there was no such thing as solution to the problem. I was hoping to get their mail in order to contact them, but as you said above, it’s nearly impossible.
Everyone on the Community that had similar issues are all as confused as I am with pretty much no solution. There is no contact support at all and that’s the painful part.
I am still hoping they release it soon enough.
Secondly for the clickbanks, CPA and all, what’s the best you could advise me to go for, I just need a little bit advise from an expert. Like the best organisation that offer the best online…
Thanks once again and so sorry to disturb you
Hi Peter,
Yeah that’s sad to hear, I know how tough it is to get in touch with them even I struggle many times and in the end resolve my issues by Googling for 3 days lol.
Anyway outside of talking with them since this is really an account problem that needs to be addressed asap by them, I don’t really know what options you could have out there.
So yeah, until then I would look for something else, you could take a look at my affiliate marketing guide and see some of the networks that I recommend, but in the end it doesn’t really matter which one you chose, it’s more about the products that are related to your niche and website.
So register on Clickbank and Commission Junction and also sign up for some CPA networks and take a look at what products and services might be a good match for your site and try and place some of those on your site.
If you want something like AdSense I think Media.net is an alternative but kinda hard to get approved and also the numerous native ad networks like RevContent, Taboola, Content.ad, MGID, etc.
Good luck man, and don’t worry you didn’t disturb me at all… sometimes it takes a while for me to reply like a few days or so but yeah I’m glad to help.
Stephen
Thanks Stephen,
You’ve been of great help. Wish you luck in your endeavours.????
You’re welcome, and thanks, good luck to you too.
Hi Stephen,
Your Adsense tutorial appeared when I search for updated information about Google Adsense. And I really appreciate your effort in sharing this load of information that you have written.
Thank you so much!
One question though is, based on your actual experience – what particular Adsense tool that you are using is very helpful in :
1. Adding/inserting Adsense ads inside or outside of the WordPress website articles.
2. Monitoring Adsense Performance, particularly a possible source of “invalid clicks” that may result to “click fraud”.
Can you recommend the best tool that we can possibly use?
Thanks again Stephen.
Cheers!
Sammy
Hi Sammy,
Glad you enjoyed the tutorial, now for your questions:
1. I use Ad Inserter or the PRO version of it for more functions, but also I sometimes manually add the code directly into the template files.
2. I monitor solely by using Google Analytics that is linked with Google AdSense. Using UTM tags with macros from the ad networks on all my arbitrage article links will show me exactly what source is sending me invalid traffic, bots, and traffic that is not performing well on site. Yes, there are some services out there that will help you against click fraud etc, but I never use them anymore, since Google does a pretty good job in filtering out the invalid clicks.
As for the best tools to use, check out my internet marketing resources page, those are all the tools I use daily in all my online business including adsense and arbitrage.
Hope this helps.
All the best,
Stephen
Hi Stephen
i have 1200k view with 2 cclick ads
i placed well the ads but no results
Can you help me solve this problem
Where is the traffic coming from? Is it SEO or Do you buy it from a network? In general, if the ads are placed well, it’s only a matter of traffic source being the problem.
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for the wonderful guidance. But 1 question wondering me is how google pays you? And with the currency different cuz i am living in asia
You can get paid directly into your bank account or even with Western Union, the currency will be the one you set up in your account when you first create it, or it might also be country based I can’t remember well since I’ve opened my account so many years ago.
Good luck,
Stephen
Google Adsense pays pennies, these days. The best method to monetize a blog is to accept sponsored content and review products. Even the articles that I write about health does not convert well, sometimes clicks are not recognized by Adsense, I just keep it on my blog as a side income, not to make a living out of it.
It depends on your traffic, GEO, niche, placements, time spent on site by users, and many many more… It can pay pennies if your traffic is from India and Brazil for example, but it can even pay $1+ per click for US traffic, usually I have around $0.6-$1 for US clicks.
Of course, it’s always good to diversify your income and try to have a few more options other than AdSense, but trust me, if done correctly you can still make money in 2019 using just AdSense alone.
Regards,
Stephen
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Hi Benedict,
I’m very happy that you enjoyed my article and I really hope that it will help you out in your journey, however at this time I don’t do any private mentoring or coaching.
The reason is pretty simple, I’m busy almost all the time with all of my projects and I feel that publishing good quality guides on this blog will be able to help more people than I would to help if I simply did one on one coaching.
So glad you liked my articles and I hope you stick around to read other stuff that I have planned for the future but for now I’m afraid I can’t do any 1-on-1 coaching.
Good luck and all the best,
Stephen
Hi Stephen, thanks for so great article!
I have just one question. I tried to use Google Analytics with UTM tags to track bad publisher ids. The main problem is that GA has big latency in showing stats. Usually I have to wait up to 12 hours to get publisher’s clicks registered and during that 12 hours I get tons of bot clicks. So the entire process of filtering bot clicks is quite slow and inefficient. How do you solve that? Do you use some alternative tool? And if yes how do you use it? Thanks a lot.
Hi Michael,
Well sometimes when you want instant live data then you will have to use a paid tracker, such as RedTrack or FunnelFlux.
I haven’t talked too much about these paid trackers because usually, people want free stuff and the UTM tags work just as fine with the exception of data delay like you mentioned, also you lose the AdSense clicks data that Google only shares with Google Analytics, which is super important.
Also, sometimes, depending on how you’ve set up your UTM tags, and when you know what you’re looking for, you can even use the Real-Time tab inside analytics and see all the traffic live, most of the times you can pretty much tell when some users are bots, via the medium or traffic source channel, and if you see that you have 100 visits, for example, all from the same ID/medium/etc, hovering on just the 1st page of your article, you can immediately block it.
Hope this helps,
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for the answer.
Actually it would be awesome if you at least briefly discuss paid solutions for visitors tracking. How do they support bot detection? Do they show sessions num/session duration/page views? Do they support UTC params? Creating accounts and testing those services can take a lot of time and $ so it would be really nice to know your experience.
Hi Michael,
There is a reason why I don’t recommend or use any paid tracking systems while doing adsense arbitrage.
That reason is simple: You can’t see the AdSense clicks from different UTM parameters in any tracking software, that’s simply because the AdSense data can only be automatically shared with Analytics.
So yes, there is a delay in data like you said previously in Analytics, but it makes up for it usually by showing you exactly which users clicked on adsense ads and which one didn’t (and you can then block them).
Since Google only shares AdSense data with your Google Analytics account (make sure to link them from the account settings), seeing this important data (adsense clicks) in any other tracking software other than Analytics is basically impossible.
The only way a tracker excels a bit over analytics is the instant data…but that data is not really that helpful if you can’t see who clicked on AdSense ads. You can, however, figure out if someone sends you bot traffic if the bounce rate is 100%, time spent on site is 0 seconds, etc… but it’s not really worth it to lose the AdSense clicks data in my opinion.
So I would recommend you to go ahead and use just Analytics with Adsense linked and UTM tags, and don’t worry about losing too much money (like I said you should be expecting to lose money with AdSense arbitrage, at least in the beginning), because every day after you filter out the bot traffic it will become better and better (hopefully).
Hope this helps and clears out the confusion between paid trackers and analytics.
Stephen
Your answer is super helpful. I will continue to use just Analytics to filter out bots at the end of every day. Thank you so much an good luck with this fantastic blog!
Thanks, glad that I was able to help you. Good luck also 🙂
He actually explained almost everything on how to make money with google adsense.
Thanks to the writer for this guide
Appreciate the support 🙂
Thanks
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Thank you Fadjirin, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Thanks Stephen it is a very nice article. I understand a lots of things about google adsense.
I am designing a educational tutorials site for various examinations and all the materials are free in my site.
I invest a lot of money on it for this materials design.
I design the site in such a way I hope traffic will be high.
But I have no such idea about google adsense.
Is it possible that I income standard income from google ad sense from educational site in India.
Hi Debashis,
Well from my testings I didn’t have a lot of luck doing arbitrage in India, but mainly because the traffic was not really that cheap, and the users didn’t click as much on ads as other countries, also not to mention the very low CPC that AdSense is paying for clicks from India.
So while adsense arbitrage targeting India is not profitable (at least for me it wasn’t, also depends on the ad network), you could make money with your sites in India, if the traffic you’re getting will be free, from social media or search engines.
Best of luck,
Stephen
Thanks for the article
I removed adsense and cancelled the account.
All the ads look like bait links with a big ass ‘click here button’.
The ads make the page look cheap and ugly.
Hi Faisal,
Yeah that can happen, but remember that you have a section under your AdSense account to block ads that you don’t like, and they won’t appear anymore.
You can also choose only ads from certain categories that are more serious and less spammy.
But yeah I understand your concerns, however AdSense has probably the most mild ads on the web, and I doubt you will find better ad companies that will deliver cleaner ads, good luck though.
All the best,
Stephen
Thanks a lot for this wonderful article. I never knew that auto ads might reduce earnings. I was just considering using it on my site but this article has actually exposed me to what I needed to know about it. I really appreciate.
Stephen
I must say I am amazed by what you just put up here and hey I am a big fan
I am about to get an account on megapush and I will do that buy your link as I did not see anything else worth doing to say my thanks here.
I appreciate your works and I will update this comment section with my success story on Adsense once I do.
Thanks again and I appreciate your article.
Thanks for the nice words Nnoli,
You don’t really have to buy through my links, but I appreciate it, you can also try PropellerAds if you feel that MegaPush is not for you.
Wish you best of luck in your journey.
Cheers,
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
I read both articles, this one and the one for arbitrage. “TOP”
I have a small experience with Native Ads (Specially Taboola) for arbitrage website.
My Questions:
1- Even if I see that an article is working well for someone on Anstrex, when I tested it on Taboola, (Impressions, CTR, clicks ) Are Too Low.
What CPC do you advise to start with?
My case is (base on traffic that I got using Facebook Ads):
Adsense CPC is between 0.15 and 0.4
Adsense CTR 10%
2- From your experience with Taboola, do you recommend to start with a high CPC even if we will lose money on Adsense on this case?
Thanks,
Abdou
Hi Abdou,
1. About Taboola CTR: You need to keep in mind that these ads appear on a bunch of websites around the world, which means that some of them will give you better CTRs than others. So basically Sites: A, B, C, might perform better CTR wise than sites: X, Y, Z. Only way to figure it out is to test and blacklist/whitelist some of the ones that are working or not working.
Another reason why you might have low CTR and impressions is the fact that you made maybe the same ads and the same type of article as the other ones… Of course this can work well sometimes to just copy everything someone else did, but the fact is that it can also hurt your CTR since people are already familiar with that type of ad/article, and so they won’t be interested to click on it anymore.
The CPC you’re paying and the GEO you’re advertising in, can also be a major factor of low CTR/impressions.
2. You can’t base everything on the Facebook Ads CTR, because these are different types of traffic and they will behave differently, there are many things that can increase or decrease the CPC as I’ve explained in both articles, so this one is guesswork or just trial and error.
I haven’t used Taboola in a few years now, so I don’t really know what things have changed or not, but usually, I keep it simple. I create two campaigns, one with low CPC and the other with slightly higher CPC, with different ad sets, and see which one performs better and brings me a better ROI. You can try this one out if you like, and of course, if you can afford to lose some money to test.
Do you have a paginated article page to which you’re sending the Taboola traffic? If not, you might lose money anyway, so make sure you have that one implemented.
I hope this helps,
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for your answer,
Yes for sure i have pagination on my website (thank’s for the notif).
I still learn a lot just for turning ON comment notification on your blog.
Big Thanks,
Hi Abdou,
I’m glad to hear that… keep on pushing 🙂
Good luck,
Stephen
Nice article stephen… after finishing the article.. i had spend more time to check your discussion with Mr. Jimmy.
Glad you liked it 🙂
Hi Stephen again after a long week,
I tried again Adsense arbitrage with megapush but it is just not working. I just placed only 1 ad at the end of the article and I got 15 clicks after 1000 visitors and made around $0.60 targeting India and after an hour it is only 5 clicks and $0.20. I am not gonna follow megapush traffic from now on. It is so frustrating I can’t tell you. Anyway, looking forward to your thoughts on this.
Jimmy
Hi Jimmy,
That sucks to hear, but I told you like 3 times not to focus on India, as it doesn’t convert for me either. No idea why you didn’t try any other countries or ideas that I’ve mentioned before. Do you still have money left in MegaPush if so, you can try other countries. Also was it mobile or desktop traffic? Send me a screenshot with your website to see the ad positions, and see how they are stacked. But yea 90% of the fault lies on India, sorry to say that.
I think I will be finishing the arbitrage article today, or maybe early tomorrow, and you will see more details in there that could maybe help you. You could also try Propeller or other native ad companies like Taboola, Revcontent, AdNow, Content.ad. (be careful with Revcontent though, they do have still a lot of bot traffic, you need to make sure to catch it before it can ruin your budget).
I just did a quick test this week on megapush but not for arbitrage just for CPA sales, and for me it converted well. But I never touch India, Brazil, Russia, China, US, Mexico. I just had too much bad results from these countries that it’s not worth it for me anymore.
Regards,
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
I heard that google adsense ad serving has been disabled on auto blogging blog post where content gets published from feeds. I mean to say it violates the google adsense policy now. Is it really true. Is it same with the curated content site. Does adsense ad allows on curated content site. Is it adsense safe. I just did not got the actual answer to be honest so I thought I should ask this silly question which is really a stupid thing. Both auto blogging blog post and curated content seems similar to me. Let me know it anyway.
Well, like I’ve said earlier in the post, you do want to have a high-quality website, that means no auto blogs what so ever… Are people still doing them? If so why? They are useless.
Anyway, I don’t really know about curated content, but I guess it should be fine as long as the content is unique and not copy/pasted from different sites without being edited first into a nice solid article.
However, I could be wrong, as I never did that… In general, Google wants awesome and unique content, if you have that, they shouldn’t care. Obviously, that excludes auto blogging.
You could also create a post / question on the google adsense forums and see if someone who knows more than I do about this issue can clarify this for you.
Cheers,
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
I just send push notification traffic directly to site url. I have google analytics connected to google adsense but I did not use UTM tags. I just could not get it actually how to use it with my article. As far as traffic is concerned. Time on page is around 2 minute but average session duration is only 10 seconds which is terrible. You are right. Even though if clicks were legit I could not have made profit with India. I had a loss of $2. With Israel, Spend $0.60 on megapush and I had 2 clicks on Adsense and made $0.34. Next day I saw it and it was only $0.17. Bad luck. How you get rid of this problem. Do you still get your Adsense balance reversed. Anyway, I was curious to know is it invalid activity on Adsense account. I mean is it risky despite the fact that it was real human traffic. I thought for a second that I should stop using megapush traffic to avoid any sorts of problem with Adsense. Let me know it.
Hi Jimmy,
I corrected the name thing so don’t worry about it, it was pretty funny.
Anyway, you need to use UTM tracking tags for analytics like so:
https://yoursite.com/your-arbitrage-article/?utm_source={camp_id}&utm_medium={feedid}
Those are the megapush tokens, and you could see after that in Analytics which feed/campaign is performing better.
Also about the invalid clicks, yeah I had them too and I still do have them, like I said to you earlier, if I have for example $1000 per month check from AdSense, they will hold like $25-$30 for invalid clicks… so yeah it still happens to me, but I’m buying hundreds of thousands of visits, so it adds up pretty quickly.
I can never get rid of them completely, so far I haven’t had a problem with AdSense because of this, now I can’t guarantee that it will be the same for you, so who knows… I would just keep continuing and see if you can improve the site/traffic and not get so much invalid clicks.
I told you earlier a few ways to minimize invalid clicks, ad position is important, tag your ads as “advertisement”, leave 20px padding at top and bottom of ad, if you have mobile traffic make sure the first time the user enters your site the only ad you can have is a 300×250 for mobile, otherwise it will be a full adsense ad and that can give you invalid clicks as well.
Also, try a campaign just for desktop, and see if it’s better or not, but use the analytics/megapush tracking tags as I’ve explained above.
Even though you had some bad luck I still wouldn’t be discouraged if I were you. You did not lose that much anyway like $5? You learned a couple of things, plus the most important being that the traffic converts and that with a few adjustments you can make it profitable. You just need to test things more, like ad positions, different countries, desktop vs mobile etc. Btw, desktop traffic should be cheaper on megapush than mobile if I remember correctly, so yeah try that too… test some new countries like Jamaica, Fiji, etc…
Good luck.
Hi Stephen,
I have got something very important to discuss.
I send push notification traffic to my adsense site using megapush. It was India traffic and I got 1400 visitors spending $4.5 and I checked my adsense account and I made $3.1. After an hour I checked it again and now it is $1.19. I am confused right now. What went wrong.
What would be your advice.
Hi Jimmy,
Hmm… I think some of the clicks were deemed invalid in the eyes of Google. I had this happen to me a few times in the past.
That can happen for various reasons such as: multiple clicks on an ad from the same IP, clicks on an ad that was almost instant when the user entered the site (without spending time on site too much), or maybe the users clicked on the ad by mistake and then when entered the advertiser site immediately hit the backspace/go back button to your site, signaling to google that the click was a mistake, this can happen because of your ad position etc.
I use this text – Advertisement – before my ads, to make sure that they know it’s an ad, and also leave a bit of space between my ads and text / images about 20px top and bottom.
Also if you have paginated content like next page buttons and adsense very close to it they can mistake the adsense ad as the next page button so be careful with that.
It’s good that you started though, and seen some results, even though they were not very good, it’s still something that you can learn and improve from, plus now you know that it’s not bot traffic and the users are real, a concern you had in the past… too bad about the invalid clicks though… I’ve seen with my own eyes $25 gone in 1 minute from US clicks, so yeah I understand the feeling.
Have you used {feed_id} into your UTM tags for the link? Do you have analytics linked with Adsense to see more info such as what feed brought you the most money, which feed was not very good in terms of site engagement etc?
Have you tried Israel? Chances are that even if the clicks weren’t invalid, you still wouldn’t have made it profitable with India.
Hi Stephen again,
I was just thinking to create a basic site on insurance as it has very high CPC rate. Do you think that if I set up a new domain and post few articles on that topic and drive traffic to it then even few clicks will generate amazing revenue. Also is it necessary that traffic needs to be from Google to get good CPC. Should I go for .com or country specific domain like .us or .uk. Is it ok to have let say .us domain and traffic is from different countries like Thailand, France etc. Will it get higher CPC in that case. Let me know it. Also from which countries you are getting higher CPC in your adsense account through push notification traffic. Let me know it.
That niche could bring you a higher CPC but is not always the case like I said previously there are many things impacting the CPC, you might even see a lower CPC and then can’t figure out what’s going on… In general, though, it should give you a higher CPC than let’s say an image site or tech site.
Go for the .com, always. Check out my guide on how to choose a domain name if you need more help. The .com/.uk/.us/.org extension does not matter CPC wise, but it does matter a bit when trying to rank a site, and when you want to sell it later or if people will trust your brand.
About my countries, I couldn’t really say, it’s always changing… plus I’m doing a mix of native arbitrage and push arbitrage so it’s really hard to distinguish between the two. In any case, if I target US I can get $0.5-$1.5 clicks, but I don’t target US anymore, I more or less target almost the whole world, some days, for example, Israel could be my top earner other days it’s South Korea. So it depends.
I checked your traffic status on http://siteworthtraffic.com. It is not exactly correct but it just gives a general idea. Also I had a question on something that I forgot to ask. When we are sending traffic to Adsense site whether it is from push notification or native ad then is it necessary that the majority of the traffic needs to be from English countries to avoid spam and invalid clicks in general. I heard this thing all the time. Can we have a site that just gets traffic from non English speaking countries. Will that not be OK. Also Is there any specific countries ( Push notification traffic ) that you would recommend for Adsense site when it comes to health and fitness niche that can be highly beneficial. Also please write an article on adsense arbitrage quickly. Can not wait for it. Look forward to your reply soon.
Haha that site is fake as fck. The stats are totally not reliable. My traffic is nowhere near what they claim, in reality, is much lower.
You can use a multilingual plugin for wordpress and have articles in other languages on the same time. I tested that a few times and it worked ok. I also buy traffic from all the countries regarding of their language. I just set “English” as a language in every ad network I use, and if the user’s browser or computer is in English that means he/she understands what I’m saying. But that’s just my tactic 🙂
For countries well I don’t do health and fitness that much these days… but to be honest any country works, it depends more on their CPC over all. For example India or Brazil will have kinda the same adsense CPC regardless of niche. You also need to keep in mind that most of the ads you will have on the site will be from retargeting, meaning that they won’t even be about health all the time, but rather sites that your users visited in the past..
The arbitrage article is coming, I’ve just been a bit busy these past days…
Cheers,
Stephen
Hi Stephen as always,
Of course I am here to make you bore with my questions. Lol. Anyway, This site is a brand new site and you have an amazing articles on it. I was just shocked to see the amount of traffic it is getting having only few articles. How you are getting traffic on it. I mean from which sources you are getting from it and which countries you are targeting for this one. I was just astonished by the traffic numbers. Are you monetizing this site in any form. Btw, When you are coming with the next article that I am eagerly waiting for. Look forward to your reply soon.
Haha, that’s great that you spied my site, btw what tool did you use? Because I don’t really have really good numbers lol… Anyway, I’m not targeting any particular country but most of my traffic is from the US, UK, AU. All the traffic is organic (meaning from Google search) and free. Some of it is also from social media since users are liking and sharing my stuff.
Monetization is not really that much at the moment, I only focus on growing my email list and I will see after that… I had launched a couple of courses and products in the past even before I had this blog, so I might cook up some course in the future who knows. At the moment I just have a few affiliate links here and there, like the bing ads promo, trackers, etc…
Hi Stephen again,
I have one site on health and fitness that include topics like Yoga,weight loss, workout, healthy eating etc. It has Adsense ads on it. What countries are you gonna recommend. I was thinking to go for India but as you mentioned that the CTR and CPC is terrible so I am looking for another option. At the moment I am thinking for Israel just because the CPC on megapush is $0.002. I don’t know what the CPC rate is on propellerads for Israel so just need your little bit guidance on it which countries I should target for making profit. As I mentioned that my niche is based on health and fitness. I know there are a lot of factors that goes into that to break even or to make a profit but your experience will help me a lot as I do not have big capital to try and tweak the things so your reply will help me a lot. Look forward to hearing from you soon.
The CPC on Propeller is a minimum of $0.005 for every country. So it’s much better to use MegaPush if you want cheaper clicks in some countries. But I didn’t do that much arbitrage on MegaPush, in fact I only did it like 2-3 times and I only did it in the US… 1 time I broke even, the other time I made a profit and the 3rd time I lost money. I don’t blame MegaPush for that because I still use them for various CPA offers, but I simply blame the US push traffic in general, as I’m not doing promothing anything in the USA anymore across all push traffic networks…they don’t convert well for me.
For Israel I’m getting $0.35 average CPC in adsense, but their CTR is also a bit on the lower side, so the CTR depends on your ad positions and of course the advertisers and if they have good ads etc to increase CTR.
I understand your funds are low, and this can also be a problem because you won’t be able to test as much and also if you have for example a total of $100, you invest them all, maybe test 2-3 things out, but only end up making $50 back in AdSense what do you do then?
Also keep in mind that AdSense pays very very late, so if you invest money every day for the whole month of March, you will only be able to get your money back at the end of April, which kinda sucks when you’re doing arbitrage as it limits the amount of traffic you can purchase, and sometimes you might not even have funds to send traffic for the whole month and the other month before you get paid.
So it’s definitely very tricky and hard at the beginning, especially without much funds.
Now, of course, I can’t give you an exact formula on how to get successful from the first time with arbitrage, as even I messed up and had to learn the hard way what works and what doesn’t. You have to remember that there are many things that can improve your profit, even the slight adjustment to an ad position or ad style can make or break your profits.
But to give you a general idea: Stay away from US, AU, NZ, UK, CA, traffic. It’s just too expensive and too limited to break any profit.
Yes, you could try Israel, which is a good option for low CPC in megapush and high CPC in AdSense, but again the CTR, niche etc, all play an important role.
I did have 1 site that was doing very good with arbitrage on Israel, the other 2 sites were losing money on israel… so as you can see not even me could make the other 2 profitable…sure I could’ve tested more angles and articles but I’m testing so many campaigns, AdSense, CPA, affiliate etc…that I simply don’t have time anymore lol.
The funny thing is that the site that was profitable with Israel was in a “fun” niche and nothing serious like health or fitness related sites (one of my arbitrage is also in health), and funnily enough the health site did badly on Israel arbitrage. But I’m not saying this to discourage you, I’m saying that you should try and see what happens, and if it doesn’t work try out another country.
Let’s say you have $100, the minimum for MegaPush.
You could test 10 campaigns for $10 each right? Of course, you don’t need to create all 10 campaigns at the same time because that would be a stupid thing to do since you don’t know which will be profitable at first.
But you can try one on Israel if it doesn’t work well try and tweak the ads on site if it’s still not working well end the campaign. Then you can try to advertise a different article on Israel or chose to go and create another campaign in another country for example in Philliphines, Thailand, Singapore, Ukraine or anything else that has a cheap CPC in megapush.
I think MegaPush has cheaper clicks for Desktop traffic than mobile, right? So you could do a campaign only on desktop and get a ton of cheap traffic for $0.001-0.002 in specific countries, usually CPC is higher on desktop in AdSense, it depends though.
The funny thing is that you have all the info you need inside megapush, if you see a country that has a cheap CPC (keep it under $0.005 at beginning, preferably find countries between $0.001 and $0.003) you could try and spend $5 – $10 on it and see how it works with your article and website. This is how you find real winners. You can even stop the campaign faster than spending $10 if you see them not clicking on ads or not making enough if you really want to save money, but leaving them to work for a while can also increase CPC.
For example I have profitable campaigns that are running in Guam, Turkey, Iran, Namibia, Puerto Rico, Mauritius and countries that people never advertise in, sure the CPC in adsense isn’t big in fact it’s under $0.1 a lot of the times even $0.05. But they are still profitable, it just depends highly on your site and niche I’m afraid, and you need to test things out. Again the only real good advice I could give you for this, if you have limited funds is to stick to the cheapest traffic you could buy (except India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia) and think outside the box.
I hope this helps, Good luck.
Stephen
Hi Stephen once again,
I was just curious to know before your Adsense arbitrage article comes up. When you are promoting an article with push notification traffic then from which devices you get the most clicks on Adsense ad. Is it desktop,mobile or tablet. Same question with the native ad traffic. Also there are many factors that how much money it will generate from Adsense like traffic source, niche, content etc. But on an average let say you spend $10 on push notification traffic and native ad traffic. How much revenue it will generate in both cases in general from Adsense. I am thinking to target India on megapush where CPC is very low like $0.002 or $0.003. Is it possible to make $20 from Adsense while spending $10 on push notification traffic. Also check out froggyads.com. The CPC rate is good enough.Anyway, Look forward to hearing from you soon.
Hi Jimmy,
Well like you already know, the adsense rate depends a lot. It’s not an exact science, I’m doing it for the past 3-5 years now ON and OFF on different sites and it always differs.
For example: The same article on the same site, running the same ads and everything is the same right? For $10 spent I get $20 today yeah? Good. Well, tomorrow for the same thing from $10 spent I get $15 or $14 without me changing anything. Then on another day from the same $10 invested I can get $25 or even $28-$30.
It’s all very weird and I think the days also matter for example most advertisers won’t probably run ads on google on Sunday, so weekend ad revenue might be lower etc…
But to answer your question… for me personally, it depends because I have 3-4 websites that I do arbitrage on, and I’m building the 5th one now. Every one of them is different, I use multiple ad sources and countries for all of them, and with some campaigns, I do lose money (meaning that if I spend $10 I get back $2 lol).
Overall I would say that from Push Traffic I get back 1.5 – 2 times my money back, and from native (even though I’m doing more push traffic nowadays than native) but from native I get 2.5-3 times my money back. (not always the case, there’s always some bot traffic that can ruin things a bit) But at the end of the month, I also have to take a look at how much money I lost doing experiments with new articles in new countries etc, so I always lose some money for testing.
Now for India, I don’t know man… I did multiple tests on India and for me I never got them profitable as much as I wanted. But I also tested it more on PropellerAds than MegaPush, because I knew about PropellerAds before MegaPush, but I guess it’s the same on MegaPush too. Because I would pay $0.002 or $0.005 in propeller for India, and never make 2 times my money back, because the CPC in adsense was something like $0.02 – $0.04 and the CTR was bad too, in fact, the best case scenario with India was when I broke even (meaning that I spent $10 I got back $10).
So I stopped doing India, although it’s sad because India and Brazil have a lot of cheap traffic but can’t make them to convert well for arbitrage, I even wrote Portuguese articles for Brazil and still failed many tests 😀
With push I target mostly mobile because they have more mobile traffic, with native I target desktop if the CPC is worth it, because you usually pay more for native desktop traffic ($0.05-$0.1 per click for US desktop), so the website ads need to perform good to be able to make a profit with native desktop, but yeah that’s usually what I do.
I also target some desktop on push but very little, like 90% traffic I buy from push is mobile.
Cheers,
Stephen
Hi, Stephen!
I’d like to read an article on Google Adsense arbitration. I’ll wait
You have very interesting content.
Regards, Aleks!
Hi Aleks,
Yes, the Adsense arbitration article is coming soon 🙂 so subscribe if you want to be notified when it’s up on the site.
Cheers,
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
Was just waiting for it and it was just amazing to read. I have a few questions about ad placement. Can we place a leaderboard ad ( 728*90 ) on a site that is probably called a header ad I think and
automatic responsive ad that starts with title of the article and below that there is an image and then automatic responsive ad and then there a full article. Are both these placement violate Adsense policies. I tried to find answer of it but could not get actually. What are your thoughts on this. Also I wanna know when you are using a site like revcontent,content.ad etc to drive traffic to your site that involves a lot of bot traffic then how you get an idea of that and how you separate the good traffic which is human traffic from the bad once that is bot traffic. I mean, How you are keeping your adsense account safe while promoting a site and having a mix of good and bad traffic for so long.
Also are you gonna recommend any plugin that can keep our Adsense account safe from the bot traffic. I thought you would mention something like this in the post but nevertheless it was a great article to read.
Hi Jimmy,
Nice to see you again enjoying my articles. You’re right I forgot to talk about some things and trust me I know… I specifically forgot about what AdSense plugins to use to insert ads to your site, and also a few more things… but the post was already 4600+ words long and I forgot lol. Will have to update it today or tomorrow for sure.
Anyway regarding your questions:
I think there might be some issues with that ad setup, mainly that it will push the content below the fold, and also the responsive ad that appears after the image can be against their rules too.
Here’s what Google means by ads that push content below the fold (Basically you added so many ads that visitors will see more ads than content when they first enter your site and they will have to scroll down a little to find the text and main article).
See these 2 examples that I took from Google’s Ad Placement Policies (Read it here)
and also:
As you can see, the ad setup that you described can be violating some of these rules, mainly that you have too many ads first with just a title and images that push the real content below the fold and then the ad after the image can also be seen as misleading and against their policy.
For the bot traffic question, well I didn’t include that into this article because it’s not the AdSense arbitrage article it’s just a more general guide for people who are getting started with adsense, so I didn’t want to confuse them with something that most of them will never do (buy traffic for adsense sites) So I will have to talk about this in another article that will be all about AdSense arbitrage entirely.
But to keep it simple, I never used a service against bot traffic for my adsense sites, and I even had multiple $300+ days in AdSense doing arbitrage and never had a problem, however as I say always, this does not mean that it will be the same for you and Google won’t give you warnings etc… as much as I know…
I do have a certain amount of money that is deducted from my payment at the end of the month for invalid clicks, but it’s not that much, for example, let’s say I earn $1000 this month in AdSense and it was all from arbitrage… I think Google will deduct about $20-$25 from that for invalid clicks, and other than that I never had any other problems or warnings from them, this without using any plugins or services.
I just block the bad traffic sources really fast and constantly monitor my analytics and adsense and if I see a network that is sending me a lot of traffic that’s bouncing really fast and not clicking on anything I immediately block it using the IDs that I get from the UTM tags that I use when I create my ads inside those native networks.
Sometimes I started promoting things on that ad network that are not adsense websites, for example, affiliate and CPA offers, and I just create a white list and a blacklist of good and bad publisher IDs from that, and I use those for when I’m doing AdSense arbitrage. You could also try and do this, although you will lose some money, at least it’s an extra step that you can do to better protect your account, plus you have the chance to also earn money with another method and in another network with CPA/affiliate products, which is also good.
You can also spy on your competition and see where they post their arbitrage ads and on what sites, and manually create a list of good sites and IDs that you can use inside your desired ad network (this is a bit more complicated though, you have to use a native ad spy tool and then go to each website and view the source of the page and search for it’s native ID that they use with RevContent etc, and usually that is the ID that you can then block or whitelist inside your ad network, like I said this sounds a bit more complicated and I’m not sure I’ve explained it to you well lol)
Anyway like I said I will have to add these things and more in a new post about AdSense arbitrage only… so you will have to wait a little bit more for that if you’re curious about arbitrage more.
Hope my answers help you Jimmy.
Cheers,
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
Thanks very much for taking the time in answering my question. Though there is still one and hope you can spare a minute of your precious time on this.
Question: Does google adsense policy requires to declare in our website that it is affiliated with Google Adsense, just like what Amazon does?
Thanks again for your time Stephen.
More power!
Sam
Hey Sam,
To be honest, I don’t think so (not 100% sure though), but I do know that you need to specify that you share your user data with Google Adsense and other 3rd parties in your privacy policy. Also, I always use a small text like ADVERTISEMENT before an ad, so I never had any problems so far.
In any case, I’ve never seen a website using Adsense to have that text in the footer like the ones using Amazon, so I don’t think that’s required, but the privacy policy one is.
I hope this helps, but yeah you should check it out also since I’m not 100% sure about it.
Cheers,
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
Thanks again for taking the time in answering my question.
If ever we have several websites and plan to monetize the traffic with adsense, do we have to seek approval from Google to add adsense code in each individual website, by submitting all the websites to them?
Best regards and more power!
Sam
Hi Sam,
For many years, you only needed to have an AdSense account and you could then just copy/paste the ad codes on every website you owned without resubmitting it to Google.
From last year though they changed that, so now every website you have, you need to add it into your AdSense account first, and wait for it to get verified and approved before you can put ads on them. So, unfortunately, yeah, you need every website approved now.
Good luck,
Stephen