Google Adsense is a fantastic way for any webmaster to monetize their website, but watching the click counter and income stream can be very addictive. This article explains how addictive it can become.
54% of all Google Adsense publishers admit having an addiction to this highly lucrative click income. A recent online study conducted by a small group of Google Publishers found that 54% of all Adsense publishers where addicted to the income potential of Googles Pay Per Click system. Some publishers need therapy.
It was also found that some publishers were so addicted they where checking their Adsense statistics up to 50 times per day.
Google Adsense is a system where individuals who own content rich website's can earn money by placing small targeted ads within the content of their website. The ads can be customised to fit within the scheme of the website and some successful publishers can earn in excess of $200,000 per month.
One publisher stated that her addiction started the day she placed the Adsense code into her html code. “I was introduced to Adsense by my boyfriend, who makes around a $1000 a month”. She went on to say that she doesn't blame Google for her addiction, but the fever in which forums and blogs promote the fact that anyone can become rich with this scheme inspired her to keep adding pages and checking her stats.
Kate, did state that she was earning a reasonable amount of money from Google Adsense, but told us she also spent a considerable amount of money on scripts, ebooks and promises of gaining all you would ever want to know about Adsense, from forum gurus claiming they had made their fortunes and where willing to share their secrets if you deposited $97 into their PayPal account.
Rags to Riches in 51 days Example.
Another publisher I spoke to told me his addiction had made him a rich man in 51 days. “I was browsing the net on October the 15th last year and came across a website that had a photo of a guy holding a Google cheque for nearly $200,000 dollars. Under the picture it stated that this was just a 1 month pay check from Google. Lights and bells went of in my head as I thought, Man, this is what I have been looking for”.
David, had been dabbling in online money making schemes for about 6 years and to date had not been successful. But he did have 3 website's which had 1000's of visitors to them and after reading all he could on the subject, David placed 2 small ads on each page of his 1000 page website. “I didn't sleep that night. I was so excited, i checked my stats every 10 minutes all night” he said. Just when he was about to give up for the night, David did his final stats check. “It was 5.50am exactly and I nearly fell off my chair. 1000 impressions, 98 clicks and a total of $18 income. I couldn't sleep that day as I checked my stats every 15 minutes and watched the income rose to over $58 for the day.
I was addicted to this thing, this scheme was going to make me rich and I wasn't going to miss a minute of it” David said.
David had gone from $32 in his Bank account to over $6,700 in just 51 days. He had checked his stats on average 60 times per day and had spent more than 612 hours during that 51 days optimising his sites and adding content. David also admitted just like Kate that he had spent quite a bit of his profits on “how to” books, but stated that it was money very well spent.
“I am addicted to Google Adsense” Kate told me, ” but what better addiction could you have than earning money, while doing something you love” she went on.
