What is your experience with Google Adsense?

[Nomad]

I first started using Google Adsense through Hubpages. That was back in 2012. I did not have trouble getting approved for my Adsense. I used adsense on my Blogspot blog back in 2013. I used Adsense on my self hosted website for the first time in 2015. In less than 6 months, I was using Adsense on half a dozen sites, but I did not receive my first payment until 2017. Since then I have been receiving Adsense payment every month.

Do you use Adsense? When did you start using it? Do you make money with Adsense?

 

[Darth Cognus]

My experience is that they can be unduly picky about things if a forum has a very broad range of content and aren't always reliable at scale. For something small they should be fine. Ethically I snub them but that's more on them being the industry flagship of a borderline malware delivery service that harvests everyone it touches.

 

[Shortie]

I have Adsense and started using it on one forum I co-own a few years ago now. I recently got accepted for another forum I own too but at the moment, not making too much but have made something.

 

[Nomad]

the industry flagship of a borderline malware delivery service

This is an interesting interpretation.
I have been using it for almost 12 years without any issues, making is not always easy but it is better than nothing. Certain niches pay really well through Adsense, for instance insurance and finance niches can earn you really well.

 

[Darth Cognus]

This is an interesting interpretation.
I have been using it for almost 12 years without any issues, making is not always easy but it is better than nothing. Certain niches pay really well through Adsense, for instance insurance and finance niches can earn you really well.

This is from a largely end user perspective of adsense being used to deliver straight up malware for search results, suspicious at best content or heavily targeted cross site stalking essentially which webmasters blindly add to by plopping in scripts and going, be it innocuous seeming connections on a small site or sites which go off the deep end slapping in ads to make more of a buck. It was not always so dismal, but as time has gone on I've come to find adsense to be ethically dubious for me to employ. I would rather appeal to donations for hobbyist projects or explore advertising which is explicitly ethical or directly relevant (ie, related sponsor I can support). This is indeed not a good interpretation for easy money or general business sense, adsense is indeed the advertising platform most likely to make you some buck. But there have been many developments in the internet which I find myself on the wrong side of.