Is AdSense Still Worth It?

[Mxty]

I have a blog with about 1,500 page views / per month at the moment. It's about a year old now but I've only really been putting work into it in the last few months.

I earn a bit of money from it through from guest posts (£350), affiliate scheme from generating quotes (£250) so far and failing with Amazon with only 2 sales worth a grand total of about £2. Which I've plowed it all back into links & content.

I was wondering whether it's still worth while getting Adsense on my site as an additional revenue stream.

A tool they use online estimates you get $7K revenue a year from 50,000 page views a month. Which when you break it down on what I currently have is pretty damn poor, I'd be looking at a little over $17 a month, although I do hope my page views grow exponentially.

My question really is, does it do more harm than good, I hate when I go to a site with ads, and are there any better higher paying alternatives?

 

[SiouxMarketing]

If I was you, I would look into https://ezoic.com/

They are very good at raising your income for adsense and other advertising platforms.

 

[Mxty]

Hmm thanks @SiouxMarketing it looks like one to try increase CTR after implementing something like AdSense? Struggling to understand it to be honest, just seems like an A/B testing platform no?

 

[Project-Shadow]

You wouldn't get approved for ezoic as they require 15k minimum page views per month.

Honestly if you're earning £600/mo from 1500 page views you should focus on expanding how many guest posts you're getting and the quote generation as you're doing £0.40/per visitor as it is.

AdSense and ezoic ecpm are way down so best case you'd be doing an extra £10 a month from ads.

 

[Mxty]

Thanks for the insight. 15K page views a month, hold my beer!

Sorry those figures weren't over a month, probably over the last 3, when I've actually been putting effort in. I've gone from about 300 page views 3 months ago to 1,500 (estimate) this month.

But no, thanks for the opinion, and you're probably right, just wanted to create an extra revenue stream potential.

 

[Elvlin]

If you put one a few banner ads, than people will be fine.
just make sure you ads don't distrub customer experience.

 

[Mxty]

Is there better alternatives though? Would using Amazon Associates banners for instance likely generate more revenue?

 

[Dinasaur]

anyone who can guide me in starting my own blog please help me.

 

[LoungeMedia]

Depends, if you want to make money then yes it is worth it

 

[Mr Positive]

Not worth it

 

[Mxty]

Thanks, @Mr Positive

 

[Himanshu Thakur]

You wouldn't get approved for ezoic as they require 15k minimum page views per month.

Honestly if you're earning £600/mo from 1500 page views you should focus on expanding how many guest posts you're getting and the quote generation as you're doing £0.40/per visitor as it is.

AdSense and ezoic ecpm are way down so best case you'd be doing an extra £10 a month from ads.

Yes, it is worth it, if you have big plan then you should focus on other things

 

[Brain Hamm]

Worth, also try other things

 

[limez]

If I was you, I would look into https://ezoic.com/

They are very good at raising your income for adsense and other advertising platforms.

I agree that they will raise your income but the only downside is that your website will experience a full slow down. If you have a fast website right now, expect to experience -50% slow loading.

I left Ezoic because of that.

 

[jokowi]

Adsense is worth but do not really hope for it

 

[zionbar]

short answer: no.
long answer: hell no...fuck adsense.

tbh its good for specific niches if u have a ton of traffic but 90% of cases its the worst way to monetize.

 

[Project-Shadow]

Thanks for the insight. 15K page views a month, hold my beer!

Sorry those figures weren't over a month, probably over the last 3, when I've actually been putting effort in. I've gone from about 300 page views 3 months ago to 1,500 (estimate) this month.

But no, thanks for the opinion, and you're probably right, just wanted to create an extra revenue stream potential.

I mean if you're expecting to hit the 15k then it's worth it. I've put them on a site that gets 50k a month visits and it's boosted income by 10% (+£500/mo).

It does have its downsides like site speed but the cache feature is worth the money although you'd nuke some profit as it's £20/mo for the basic package.

Ezoic is way better than AdSense but you really need the volume for it to be viable.

 

[Mxty]

Yeah click payment seems pretty poor, I've read that Mediavine can be a good solution, but you need 25K visits a month, so i'm a little away from that

 

[Mxty]

@Project-Shadow I'm confident I can, after a few months and a bit of effort. Do you have any idea what you could roughly expect to be earning from Ezoic from 15K page views a month?

 

[Project-Shadow]

@Project-Shadow I'm confident I can, after a few months and a bit of effort. Do you have any idea what you could roughly expect to be earning from Ezoic from 15K page views a month?

It depends on your niche. Finance / legal pays the most at $15+/ecpm. Garden outdoors does $8-13 ecpm. General and games can be as low as $1-3 ecpm.