Ok, let's get right to the point. Why advertise a search engine ads on your site? Overall does it benefit you or the search engine? I mean really people, think about it, You are advertising for someone else and in reality this is something you can do for yourself by posting advertising banners on your site and you get the full income from it. For example www.astralenterprise.com/Puppy%20World.htm . Don't get me wrong, I like google but answer these questions for me, Is adwords on Ebay? Is adwords on webproworld? I think not. In my opinion, it's a waste of time. Let me know what you think, don't worry, I can take it.

When I first added Google Add Words to my site, I thought it was fine until I saved it and uploaded it then the next thing I know, I've got links from my site to my competitions? Doesn't make much sense to me. I'm new to the business myself and my goal is to get people to stay at my site, look at my site and buy something, Not click on the AddWord and buy from my competition. I had to munipulate my wording on my site so that the Google Addwords didn't show my competitions links. On top of that, my stuff is cheaper than my competitors and I'm still not doing great business. My goal was to get Google to advertise for me in turn, I'd place their addwords on my site. So far, not so good.

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Hi mr_computer_pro,

That really sucks. The one thing I've learned so far is to not advertise for someone else, unless you are getting paid for it. Do you see Ebay advertising adwords?, do you see Ebay advertising someone elses search engine so their customers can find something elsewere? I asked myself a question, why is google #1? The answer is very simple, "people", "websites". When you or me add adwords to our site, in the long run it benefits google not us, oh and it benefits your competition.

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Go to your Adsense control panel and restrict the URL of the adverts that come from your competitors!!!!

Having Adsense on your site will have no effect on your rankings (it says that explicitly on Google web site) - not sure what you were expecting from Google to adverise for you in return?

CBP

Since I posted this message, I've gone through tons of changes and that's great advice to restrict competitor advertisements. That's the best advice yet for anyone who uses Google AdSence. I do advertise through google now, although very limited and since I've expanded my business, I don't advertise for anyone else because although others say you get paid, after research I noticed those who I sent thousands of customers to their sites, strangly have never bought anything? Wonder how that works? I'm only advertising for myself these days.

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Google's Adsense TOS forbids you from disclosing your results or stats so it is very difficult to learn how others are doing with it.

But so many seem to use Adsense it must pay...

I do believe that ads of any kind are a distraction from your content and should be avoided unless they are needed to defray costs.

But why would a commercial site need to defray costs by diluting it's own message?

Seems peculiar to me.

Andi

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I like adsense for content related sites.

Why? Because if you build a site just to help others and put alot of time and effort into it - why not place the adsense onto the site to help get some sort of (like asking for donations would do) income back.

You have to pay for the domain, hosting, isp while online, design if you don't do your own, and lots of other things like scripts to make your site more beneficial to visitors, and other things....so getting some clicks from adsense is a good way to make some money back.

Now, if your site is soley based on selling your products - I would suggest not to use adsense. Atleast not on pages you are trying to sell your products on. You might on informational pages. But as suggested here, you don't want to send your potential visitors off to your competitors....and you don't want to block all competitive urls - you may end up with lower click through return.

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CallieJo

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in an other word, adsense can pay for the hosting and domain name.

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I agree that if you are selling a product, you should not be placing ads on those pages, but informational sites with great content and a large following can generate a very nice return for their efforts by serving contextual ads.

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of course it is much better to advertise by your own! but nobody is going to buy a place for a banner, to a site that has just started and has no more than 100 visits per day!!
adsense works for those small webs

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If you don't sell any product(s), there is probably no better program on the net at the moment.
As someone noted, for informative, small sites Adsense is a must.
If you sell products, think of Adwords, not Adsense.

AdSense? I like the checks. :-)

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Having Adsense on your site will have no effect on your rankings (it says that explicitly on Google web site) - not sure what you were expecting from Google to adverise for you in return?

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It is not supposed to affect rankings, but my experience shows that it DOES seem to affect how quickly a new site gets indexed. I've had nearly identical sites, one displaying AS and one not, and the ones that have AS almost always seem to get indexed much more quickly initially (doesn't seem to affect how often they get spidered again in the future though) Anybody else noticed the same?