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Do you click on adsense?

Posted by melisasriwulandari • 4/18/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: adsense

I just want to know your opinions about this matter. You see, I'm questioning the effectiveness of putting adsense in your blog, considering that most people simply ignore it, and most just don't even see it if they used a reader.

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4/18/08

myriadlife

No I don't and from my experience other people don't either. Likewise other online adverts. I personally haven't had any success with it.

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4/18/08

BlogBadly

Sometimes if I like the blog I do, but don't tell Google

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1. 5/07/08
  
  veryheaven
  
  right. if you like the blog, click on the ads, you help your friends getting some bucks just because you are so kind to click. nothing wrong with it. thought it´s an unspoken but obvious rule (?)in the social blogsphere. bloggers unite for all kinda things - so why not uniting for adsense clicking - or why do we drop entrecards? i´ll set up a group on BC - a fanclub for adsense friends: you click on my ads, i follow. that´s community thinking - no?
  *
  @gadgeteer:
  can you make a widget similar to the one you developed lately for entrecard-dropper-promotion?
4/18/08

2mk

As ADsense Publisher i don't click Adsense. Because i know that was ads.

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4/20/08

melisasriwulandari

So why do we put adsense on our blogs, just hoping that people will click on it?

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1. 4/28/08
  
  luq
  
  'hoping'? what most of us dont know is that even though we dont bother with the adsense much, our visitors are actually very adsense friendly, the first time i put it on, i never expected any clicks as i dont click them but i was totally wrong about it..
2. 4/28/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  well, I'll be so glad to be proven wrong.
4/20/08

SomewhereElse

If I read something I am interested in, then I might click it. I havent yet though.

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4/20/08

Donlewis

I never have. But who knows? Things change.

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4/20/08

melisasriwulandari

So do you have adsense on your blog? When you don't even click adsense on other people's blogs?

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4/20/08

timethief

I do not have advertising of any kind including adsense on my blogs. I never click adsense ads or any other ads on blogs.

I also have the Adblock Plus addon to my firefox browser that I highly recommend to others. Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. It's a free download - addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

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1. 4/26/08
  
  DocNicole
  
  Wow great tip! I am going to do that. Thanks
4/20/08

manumartin

Never....
usually i click on good content and never on ads

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4/21/08

Arcticulates

Adsense is good sometimes!! Yet a problem at other times,concerning the wrong advertisements, that had nothing to do with my blog subject.. I am hoping that as I use it, on my blog that it will have something that will enhance my blot, so to speak, that will compel them to click on it...tho that doesn't happen very often...But one could hope!!!

CU,
Arcticulates.blogspot.com

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1. 4/22/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  Yes, one could hope. Maybe I should change my adsense layout.
4/21/08

creative666

I click on ads if they are relevant to something I am interested in..

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4/21/08

Anilg

Normally I don't click on adsense ads
But if they are related to the kind of information I was looking for, I clicked on them

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4/21/08

sophielc

If I am interested on an ad I might click on it. If you blog about making money online, your adsense ads don't stand many chances of getting clicked on because your readership is probably made out of bloggers who have trained themselves not to click on their own ads; unfortunately, they are also unlikely to click on another blog's ads.
If you are in a niche where your readership is not mainly made out of bloggers, I think you might be more successful with adsense.

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4/21/08

melisasriwulandari

What have I been doing wrong? My adsense earnings = $0. lol

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1. 4/25/08
  
  dreesyach
  
  am still $0.00 too..
  Horraaay!!
4/22/08

dued8jam

I do! if I find them interesting

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4/22/08

jsinkeywest

I say everyone should click the hell out of each other 24/7 you got to EAT

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1. 4/22/08
  
  jsinkeywest
  
  And for the record I have many times clicked ads just to help a person I thought may need the support but if they got money and it's multi author or whatever I don't click much.Thats just me
  Just like I stumble plenty of people and never get stumbled who cares
2. 4/22/08
  
  timethief
  
  @jsinkeywest
  
  "I say everyone should click the hell out of each other 24/7 you got to EAT."
  
  "And for the record I have many times clicked ads just to help a person I thought may need the support but if they got money and it's multi author or whatever I don't click much."
  
  I say that you should think twice before spilling your guts on public forums. Yes, it's high time for you to carefully read the Google adsense contract and to understand that posting here is "public".
  
  (1) You just informed Google that you are prepared to breach the contract ... DUH!
  (2) And you confessed to doing so in the past ...DUH!
3. 4/22/08
  
  sayzlim
  
  Remember to read before doing anything rashly,
  what if the user doesn't have Adsense account and click on the ads 24/7???
4/22/08

melisasriwulandari

Is exchange clicking illegal? I mean, I'll click on yours if you click on mine kind of thing?

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1. 4/22/08
  
  crkian
  
  It is
2. 4/22/08
  
  timethief
  
  Please read the contract. Clicking your own adsense links and/or creating groups to click mine and I'll click yours is a breach of contract. The last thing you ever want to do is to muck about and get blacklisted by Google.
3. 4/22/08
  
  timethief
  
  @melisasriwulandari
  "Is exchange clicking illegal? I mean, I'll click on yours if you click on mine kind of thing?"
  
  YES! Collusion is an agreement, usually secretive, which occurs between two or more persons to deceive, mislead, or defraud others. You entered a Google adsense contract that prohibits you from doing what you suggest in your sentence above.
4. 4/23/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  OOOhhhkay... Just wanna make sure.
4/22/08

Dukepro25

If it looks interesting - SURE!

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1. 4/22/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Oh! And...if you plan on making money with Adsense, you need a killer marketing plan.
  
  We're talking about thousands of clicks here if you want to make any money with it.
  
  Here's hoping!
4/22/08

lawrencevon

Nope.

I don't even remember the last time I clicked on a web ad. :-\

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4/22/08

XIII

Ditto, I hardly click on it. Maybe once in a blue moon when I'm checking out a review for something and there's a relevant ad for the product.

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4/22/08

lauramichaels

Very rarely. I only click on it if the material I'm reading really got me piqued about the subject and the ad promises 'deeper' info.

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4/22/08

boazstuff

in the past, yes. Why? Cos I don't really know about adsense back then. Now that I know, somehow or rather, I will not click. Do I have adsense? Yes, within my post.

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4/22/08

recycleholic

Rarely. I've actually become so accustomed to ads and their placement I just mentally skip over them. With that said, I've seen Adsense make some decent money when the traffic is there and the ads are relevant. Somebody out there clicks them

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4/22/08

mopaper

I don't know if its accurate to say most people don't click ads. Google makes millions a year from AdSense and Adwords. I've had AdSense on my site since January. I'm still testing. I just started getting clicks in February. This month is sad so far.

When I visit another site and the info is good I click the ads. I refuse to let myself be psyched out by "ad blindness" theories. Publishers are continuing to make money from AdSense obviously because people do find the ads a benefit.

I'm in the middle of having changed my niche about a month or so ago from focusing on blogging to SE (Search Engines etc...)A focused niche is vital to making money with AdSense. But some do make money without one. It takes time for your target market to find you with a niche and to produce enough content for the crawlers to know what your site is about and begin to send that traffic.

I like the mindset that said we gotta eat and we should be more supportive of blogs that have AdSense instead of ignoring them. Why let Google sit on the money publishers should be getting for carrying their advertisers. I'm not promoting anything illegal but that we should not purposely ignore ads because of a trend on the web. Bloggers work hard on their sites.

I love when I go to a blog and find ads that I'm interested in. Not only can I help that blogger but I find something of interest, what a win win. I don't ignore ads. I ignore the "attitude" that says we should ignore them on blogs. That's just crazy. Thanks!--good discussion topic for bloggers.

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1. 4/23/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  I agree!! We should not have the "ignore ads" attitude. Who knows you might find a gem!
4/22/08

jsinkeywest

I spent time this morning thinking why have bloggers go on your site at all.They stay two seconds they ask you to do stuff they have no intention of
returning,alot are just running a numbers scam.Or they think they're some guru all of a sudden.If you think about it, I know in actual proof cause I have a niche travel blog that makes great money and no bloggers go on there.So think about that.
I have seen people say DO NOT stumble my blog pls.these people know the deal.
ps if you have adsense on a blog that has blogger traffic you will make nothing,on a niche travel heavy keyworded blog that I post once a week to makes 5-7 a day not much but that 2-3 hundred a month works for me.Want to change your wallet change your primary focus,besides most bloggers are jerks anyway.
And to all the people that don't click ads must be nice to have moma's money cause most people in this world need money so click a ad cheapskate what's it costing you.jerky

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4/22/08

india901

Yes I have. And I even signed up..

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4/22/08

wehireu

No.

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4/22/08

Showbizchika

I click an ads as long it can help to my research..No matter if the publisher can earn..We put an ads to earn money so lets help each other to earn..:;-)

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4/22/08

chicky401

If I am interested I will click on the ad. Yes I have adsense on my blogs. My life blog only has 1 ad at a time though because that is more about my life then putting money making stuff on it

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4/22/08

timethief

Above I said: "I never click adsense ads or any other ads on blogs." This is the truth. However, when it comes to finding my stolen content on a splog then I click the crap out of every adsense ad on the splog, prior to making a formal complaint to Google and to all the other advertisers, as well as, to the web host.

Remarkably, I have found that clicking the crap out of the adsense ads and reporting splogs to Google can often bring about a happy ending faster than a DMCA complaint does.

@Showbizchika
I hope you understand that everything we post here can be found using Google searches. So if you think your cute little: "We put an ads to earn money so lets help each other to earn..:;-)" has gone unnoticed then you would be foolish indeed. It amounts advertising your eagerness to breach your own Google adsense contract and to encourage others to do likewise.

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4/22/08

machinehuman

Ad what?

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1. 4/22/08
  
  timethief
  
  @machinehuman
  I believe adsenselessness clicking is the topic of this thread but, I could be wrong.
2. 4/22/08
  
  machinehuman
4/22/08

timethief

@machinehuman
Say what? You mean you haven't made your billions from the Google empire yet? No problem. Take the shortcut. Write a book on becoming an adsenselessness millionaire and you'll find suckers falling all over themselves to click to purchase a copy.

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1. 4/22/08
  
  machinehuman
  
  There are two ways to get rich - born rich or marry a rich. If there are others I ignore.
2. 4/22/08
  
  machinehuman
  
  "We'll die in the class we were born" - The Clash
4/22/08

sayzlim

It'll depend on situation,,
if you are looking for content, it is normal to click on ads...
but Google can't control the user if they want to click on the ads,
I can click on the ads I want on any blogs or any website,
but don't form any groups or something alike...

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4/22/08

timethief

@sayzlim
"If you are looking for content, it is normal to click on ads".

Are you smoking something strange? Content is found in blog posts, not in the ads. Blog posts are the original writing of bloggers that one sometimes finds sandwiched in between the all the Google adsense and other click me ads that cover many blogs today.

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4/22/08

sayzlim

@timethief

well, if I reading the content on blogging,
of course some of the ads are related to blogging...

so isn't it normal to click on the ads?

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4/22/08

smallfishbigmoney

I will do so sometimes if the ad looks interesting enough

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1. 4/22/08
  
  timethief
  
  If you are interested in the product click away but if you are clicking as a so-called "favor" to a friend when you have no intention of actually purchasing the product then watch your back.
2. 4/23/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  Do they will really know that?
4/22/08

sayzlim

Actually,
what will happen to the user who clicks on the ads randomly?

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1. 4/23/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  You mean you click on your own ads? I don't know.
4/22/08

mothicfuture

As for me, I am totally against "Blogging for Money$$$$"

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4/23/08

mopaper

I think if Google is wise they are checking any thread on the web that talks about AdSense and will use it to understand the physche that has been created to keep users from using their ads--or any ads. It has worked.

This is a great discussion. It proves a theory I have that "Ad blindness" is a myth. People are "brainwashed" to think of blogs as something other than what they are-- publications. A fear mentality has been created. People do not click ads because they are afraid Google will do something bad to them which leaves the playing ground free for a few to earn from advertising programs created to do just that---earn revenue.

This is a social network, totally different mentality than a business network where no one would be discussing "if" they should make money. Blog PUBLISHERS provide a great and unique service to the search community no other group can provide.

I like Blog Catalog out of all the social networks because it focuses on bloggers as a community in a way others do not and it's organized better.

But for business networking I would look for groups on Blog Catalog and other sources where you don't have to explain why you want to make money online. Its a real waste of time and energy to do that, when you could be working on ways to improve your business.

The bottom line, there would be no world wide web without advertising. Every one here advertises something if you choose to advertise free its a choice.

But few if any publications can survive on or off line without advertising and marketing. I'm a writer and blog publisher. I place ads and they serve several purposes.

I don't know about others but I can use the money they produce. Think about it, who questions the purpose of advertising in a publication? When you read a magazine or newspaper and decide to contact an advertiser do you hesitate? Of course not.

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4/23/08

csiunatc

I treat adsense much like any other link on the site. If it interests me, i click it.

When I visit sites that are relevant to me, the ads should be relevant too. And many of the sites advertising through adsense gives some really good information. If you can get information you need and at the same time support the blogger, why wouldn't you click on one?

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1. 4/23/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  That's right, I don't know whether Google filters their ad clients. But if they do, it should increase people's confidence that they wont be disappointed when they click on them.
4/23/08

ShanLeeCook

I'll click on an ad that's related to the content and draws my interest.

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4/23/08

melisasriwulandari

Well, I don't primarily blog for money... But it'll be nice to get some out of a hobby (blogging).

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1. 4/23/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  Don't you agree?
4/23/08

genopianist54

sometimes

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4/23/08

shoppingkharma

The only way that I will click on Adsense is if the ad appeals to me in what I am searching for. Sometimes you find something you want to buy or sign up for. I never click on the ads for the hell of it, only if it is something I am looking for.

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4/24/08

melisasriwulandari

Yap, we might actually find what we're looking for by clicking on ads.

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4/25/08

melisasriwulandari

And considering that some if not most of us blog with hope of getting some money, we should not have the ignore ads attitude.

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4/25/08

e2mostwanted

Unfortunately Sis, we have no right to force anyone here. Please bear in mind that clicking ads is differ from reading ads (www.readyou.blogs.ie). For those who hate ads just use adblocker software as Timethief and others do. For all that have weird hobby, which is just love to display ads, please remind your visitors that your ads is forbidden to read.

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1. 4/25/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  Not forcing anyone. I said 'should'.
4/25/08

nardeeisms

No. Adsense and I haven't been getting along lately. I may reconsider the "relationship" later on, but for now, the answer is a firm NO. - Nards

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4/25/08

musampa

never

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4/26/08

melisasriwulandari

Why not? really?

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4/26/08

shoppingkharma

Never say never. If the ads are relevant to what you are looking for why not?

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4/26/08

mikesilvia

Adsense is by far the most effect CPC. You may find some better CPM rates out there. Lately Adsense earnings has been down though!

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4/26/08

ozegold

If it's relevant to something that I'm interested in, or looking for, then I'll click an ad of any sort, be it adsense or anything else.

As for using them on my site, yes, but I don't over do it - too many ads of any sort can be a distraction.

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4/26/08

carlgalloway

Hmmm, trying to think of the last time I actually noticed adsense, I think my brain automatically filters them out

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4/27/08

melisasriwulandari

Just sharing, yesterday I clicked on this adsense, and I got jackpot! I mean, I found this wonderful website where I can watch anime for free.
Just saying, we do MIGHT find some diamond among all those ads.

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4/27/08

vivacoco

I click Ads sometime if that's related to the content and interested.

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4/28/08

luq

i click on them once in a while if i find something of interest..

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4/28/08

Buddy

Well someone out there is clicking on them, Adsense is a multi million dollar industry, multi billion probably.

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1. 4/28/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  Not including you, I presume.
4/28/08

dheeraj01

Bet my $%# - no body does but expects others to !!!
dheeraj-haveabreak.blogspot.com/

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1. 4/29/08
  
  mothicfuture
  
  Hahaha.. very true.
4/30/08

Arcticulates

This is so silly, how much does it really hurt to click on an ad? You can even press the shift key and open it in another window, which keeps it from interrupting where your reading...I have clicked on them, and found some really good deals, and also have found junk, but, I just use my pointer finger and click it right off...No big deal. It takes a nanosecond to do. I like the ads on the Blogs; it helps me find places on the internet that I would have never known were there! Just my humble opinion, and if it helps a fellow blogger make a few extra dollars all the better.

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1. 5/01/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  Is right-clicking it and opening it in a new window considered as a click?
5/01/08

Theloniouskrunk

I do........it's not that much work..

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5/01/08

rearvumirr

I do when it is something I am curious about. My highest adsense clicks came from my article about CNG vehicles

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1. 5/01/08
  
  Theloniouskrunk
  
  I just read it...and clicked. Not hard.
5/01/08

gosmelltheflowers

Nope - never have done..

Adsense = no sense!

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5/03/08

alieblue

I was very anti-Adsense but re-added it to my blogs several months ago and have been pleased. Won't ever be a millionaire from the profits (or be able to quit my day job), but it's a nice addition to my bank account. I played around with location, color, look to have it be noticeable without "LOOK AT ME ! I am a site covered with ads!"

I am now far more aware of Adsense ads on other peoples' blogs and if it is selling something that interests me, yes I will click.

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5/05/08

Cybrspin

I personally will click on 1 - 2 ads during a visit to any blog i enjoy. I believe it feeds good karma back and the author deserves a little help, for a little blog I do ok. I only click on ads that interest me and i spend a min or two on the sponsors site. I have even made purchases this way in my life

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1. 5/05/08
  
  Loverly
  
  I absolutely agree with everything u said
  
  tresvanty.blogspot.com
2. 5/06/08
  
  DocKC
  
  I had to reply to you because this was such a very nice thing to read. Karma is huge in my world and I believe you get what you give. You seem like a really kind person! Doc KC
5/06/08

HighlanderCMI

In answer to the original question - No, I don't click on AdSense and don't use it on my own blog. I am there for the content and the content alone - in much the same way as I don't go to the cinema for the adverts.

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5/06/08

lllChrislll

I do click on adsense sometimes, not a whole lot.

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5/06/08

DocKC

What a great discussion. I actually learned a lot about Google AdSense. I've debating putting it on my blog and am still up in the air, but I got some great information out of this discussion!

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1. 5/07/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  So what's your conclusion? You're putting it or not putting it on your blog?
5/06/08

Arcticulates

I may get in trouble with adsense for writing this, but...live free...is my motto...Soooooo, I am wondering about this...because of this discussion, and I also see adsense advertisements on here, if anyone of us should click on it, would it jeopardize blog catalogs contract with them, because after all this discussion is drawing attention to the ads. I have a feeling it would if it were my blog!...but I am new to all this, so I could be wrong which isn't unusual!

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1. 5/07/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  Well, I think the blogcatalog people put some adsense in this page because they want us (blogcatalog members) to click it.
  Those people who will get into trouble are those who click on ads on their own page. for example, if you have adsense in your blog, and you click on it often, just to get earnings, you'll get in trouble with google if it finds out.
5/07/08

Dicky22

to veryheaven,
I THINK THAT IS A GREAT IDEA..WHY DON'T YOU START IT?

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1. 5/07/08
  
  melisasriwulandari
  
  Nope, not a good idea I think. Don't want to be banned by Google.
  I don't know how they can find out, timetheif actually provided some reasons, but just in case, I'm not doin anythin like that. Let nature takes its course.
  If you want to click, for whatever reason, just click. But I'm making no exchange deal.
5/09/08

ancer

Yes I do. Not all links lead you to MFA sites.

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5/13/08

casualinconcern

Yes, I do click ads. If I am reading a blog or am on a website that I enjoy, I make sure to look at the ads and see if there's anything that would be useful or of interest to me, and I click them if I do find something. If I don't find anything useful or interesting, I don't click them. Simple as that!

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