I had not tried Adsense for search, because of all the negative comments I had read on the forums. But I finally decided to try it anyway. The comments are correct. This thing is a loser. 30 cents after 2 weeks (1500 uniques per day). Oh, boy. What a thrill! And to add insult to injury, there is the comment at the bottom of the report that says - "Revenue from AdSense for search may be offset at the end of the month by costs associated with performing searches." In other words, "We are going to pay you a pittance for your efforts, and if we aren't satisfied, we are going to CHARGE YOU MONEY, for IMPLEMENTING our fine program." I am OUTTA HERE. Pulling it today. What BS. I don't need these kinds of "favors". Is ANYBODY making money from this thing? Has anyone been charged for the searches? How much?
I make some decent money with it. I have it running on a page where a lot of people use it as their homepage so I get tons of random searches (I also allow users to disable it, so its only on pages where people want to use it). Also I've never been charge for searches, but my click through ratio is pretty high.
Interesting. How many others feel this way? Anyone actually have good successes with AS for search on small-medium traffic sites? I have the search box in quite a prominent place on one of my sites but if its going to be next to useless I'd rather replace it with something more worthwhile (more ads).
when it first came out I tried it for a while, didnt do to well, put it on another site that does about 30k in traffic per month and seen a 100% increase on the searches, not really making much, but the increase was enough to keep it there and have it round off the monthly check
I have had good success with Google search - i have tried putting the search box at various locations in my blog and then used channels to determine the popularity. the top left corner performs the best when it comes to adsense revenue
the only reason I put Google search in my site is to understand what my visitors are looking for. (Adsense records the search strings now)
Surf dude you asked if anyone is making money from it the answers yes "GOOGLE" One of my questions to adsenseguy on this forum was,could the google team have a look at it and come up with a way for us guys to make money from it. Out of interest have you customised your search landing page to make it look like your site ?
This does not answer the question. Do we get fined when we integrate adsense search engine into our website.
What are you saying??? I can't understand that kind of english. Please be clear. I or google??? Do you charge for using adsense???
Now where are you heading. I asked that do i get FINED FOR USING GOOGLE ADSENSE SEARCH ON MY PAGE. Where does toolrbar word comes in.
Let me translate: He is saying he does not belive he is getting charged for searches through his google searchbar. He is saying he gets a little revenue from adsense for search. his english is poor like many on this board but he is making the effort to post,and his english will improve without being mocked
Fined ? WTF are you on about ? If you want to ask about fines ??? start your own thread dont hijack ! google sometimes charges for users using the searchbar so you get less % of the keyword bid price. just go read the google T+C,s on the use of the searchbar. sorry i am out of this thread....