Adsense drives me mad on a monthly basis I have this month experienced a considerable drop in ppc whereas last month was solid as of yesterday I am going towards affiliate marketing to add to my other streams of income ( I have a few clients who pay to advertise ) when u have a month of lousy ppc it simply annoys me as I have no control over the job Adsense (Google) should be doing somewhere I have allowed the tail to wag the dog and yes i said i wasn't going to complain
It depends on your site. Different people will have different opinions, and different things work best for different niches. So far, I'm satisfied with my Adsense experience. Even though some of my wise guy friends decided to help boost my earnings by generating invalid clicks (they've since knocked it off), Google never got on my ass about it. (I later let them know about the problem, and they just said "Yeah, don't do that".) My earnings are inconsistent, but they're fine with me.
I got banned for no reason. Well there was a reason but it wasn't my fault. Somebody clicked my ads many times and they blamed me. I just got reaccepted yesterday though so I'm feelin' pretty good about that .
With Adsense if I get a 3% ctr with big $1 clicks I make $3. With 100 Visitors to my site that I am selling products on I can make $120 with a $40 product with buying conversion rate of 3%. I choose to forget Adsense.
Good point Adsense OK for content sites or for really big portals where even you advertise a product adsense will not do a bad job.