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Adsense Kills Business (blogaboutcrafts.com)
8 points by nickb on Oct 14, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


People really don't understand how much control they're losing when they put AdSense on their site.

Case in point, Matthew Lesko, the question-mark-suit-wearing infomercial guy. Inscrutably, on his sites where you can order his products, he has AdSense ads. Visiting matthewlesko.com a week ago, one of the AdSense link units under his picture simply read "Scam", while on mlesko.com a text ad warned "Don't Buy That Grant Book!"


Agreed. Adsense CPC advertising has horrible, pathetic return.

Unless you're a spammer with 5 million spam landing pages..


Amusing to see the article surrounded by three fat adsense blocks.


Note that she's posting updates based on feedback she's getting.

Her blog is a 'free content' site, not a services site. She only has to worry about keeping it clean enough to be comfortable to read. Her issue is with sites ostensibly selling a product or service being cluttered with ads (for competitors even!).




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