Before joining, had you ever clicked an AdSense ad?

I've seen those Ads by Goooooogle things before I knew what they were, but it never occurred me to read them or click them. Who wants to hear an unnecessary sales pitch?

But now that I'm making a site that I want to put AdSense on, I'm trying to figure out who clicks these things. I know most people are a lot more, uh, materialistic than me. I don't mean that negatively, but it's strange that someone like me would be getting into this!

So what about you, were/are you ever an AdSense "customer" on some web page you surfed to? Did it change up or down when you joined AdSense yourself?

 

I never thought about it that way...that I was clicking to see a sales pitch
Sometimes I will search for something on a search engine and visit a site that I think has what I want. When I get to the site I find it doesn't have what I want but the ads look like they might. Kind of weird, but I guess I tend to click on google ads more on bad sites, just to go look at something else.

 

I clicked because the ads was the answer to what i was looking for.

 

Hmm...I think people clicks it because they can find what they are looking for in the site.

 

I clicked them when i was bored. Then i told my friend about the program and he went crazy.

 

When I first joined adsense it was very very new so hadn't clicked them before joining but now I tend to not click on them I guess because of some weird psychology that says I should be careful!

 

Hm, I guess I instinctively resist all attempts to sell me stuff. If I do go into a store to buy something and get too much attention from the staff, pointing out the good features of something, I leave. That phony, all-smiles marketing shit makes my skin crawl. The word FREE!! makes me instantly suspicious and defensive, not curious or covetous.

And now I'm becoming a seller! Well, sorta. My site is going to be content first, and ads incidentally. Despite a lot of time online, I guess I'm on the outside of general, capitalist internet society. Gotta learn!

 

We often become what we hate!

 

Indeed! But it's not a matter of me becoming a marketer, I just don't have it in me and don't want it in me. It's a matter of finding a way for a guy like me to do this successfully. A mere challenge, not an obstacle

i actually worked selling stuff on the phone in college. It lasted 3 weeks, I hated it so much I just quit one day before my shift, surprised myself. It makes me sick to have anything to do with people buying stuff they didn't even want before I talked to them.

Need to get over that I suppose. Or at least look at it in a different light...

 

I am the same mate. I hate selling things to people so i avoid it.

Recently I have had to break the lease on my flat and have had to get new tenants myself. This has been a nightmare because I am too honest and don't want people to feel bad after moving in.

Thank god there was someone who appreciated my honesty and rented it today!

 

Yeah, I actually have no problem with the idea that the ruthless and soulless will be more successful, financially, in life. (Generally speaking.) I agree and don't care.

I'll make plenty of money, although not millions, and sleep really well at night Being poor is a terrible distraction from a happy life... same as being too rich.

 

yeah I hear you. I am seriously considering packing in my job and moving to Dubbo in Rural NSW to study with these guys http://www.cornerstone.edu.au

I kind of have nothing left to lose and whilst I am fairly well off due to work in IT and no longer having a fiance and son to support I miss the toil and honesty that goes into working to help people. I figure you carry that attitude with you and you will always earn what you need or have to, nothing more and nothing less.

Back to original topic, can anyone think why our minds change to the point where we no longer click on the ads as a webmaster, is it not wanting to help out other webmasters or just force of habit?