Is it a scam?

Question

Yesterday, I've ended up in this website: http://www.mmmse.blogspot.com Please check it out. I want to sign up to adsense immediately but was thinking if it was just a scam. Please help.. Thanks! Have a nice day!

Answer 1

All the way!!

Answer 2

You can make money with AdSense. That part is not a scam.

Whether that guy made much with it, I doubt. With AdSense ads you'll get a portion of the revenue generated for Google by visitors clicking on your ads. Advertisers pay for the click, Google splits the revenue (not 50/50) with you.

But, since most adsense ads see a click-through rate of less than 1% you'll have to generate a lot of traffic. Say you had 10,000 visitors/month, 1% clicked on an ad, the click-through-cost was say $0.50 out of which you got $0.20.

You'd end up with: $20.

But, still. If you publish a lot of content (blog or whatever) it is basically free money.

Answer 3

Well, it's not actually a scam ... but it's not actually as big a money maker as this guy claims.

The way you know it's not a scam is that he doesn't charge you anything. He doesn't ask for money to learn his secret to making money. he just tells you his secret: he signed up with Google Adsense.

Google Adsense is a real thing. An approved website can display ads pushed from Google and get paid by the page view. How easy or hard is it to get approved? Do you really want ads cluttering up your webpage? No idea. But I do know this:

The money you are paid depends on the traffic you drive to your site.

If you don't get lots of people going to your website, you will make, litterally, pennies. You must have hundreds of thousands of page views to make any money at all.

Go to Google Adsense and read their information for yourself.

Answer 4

It's not a scam, but then again getting that much amount of money is very rare. I only make pennies on the dollar, like everyone else. But if you can get a lot of people coming to your site/blog, then the money really adds up. It's free to sign up, too. You'll have to give your social security number because of the required taxes you pay on it. However, if you make very little money, then I don't think the IRS will come after you. For example, if you make less than $10 a year (my case), the tax is only like a few pennies. It would cost the IRS more money chasing after me for the few cents (even a letter stating I owe them money would be wasted money on their part). But if you're not into the whole 'giving out your SSN', then maybe you should pass. Other than that, enjoy!

Answer 5

Adsense is legit... its the reason that Google is so insanely successful right now...

making all that money from adsense is probably a scam, unless you have a site that is really flowing in traffic.

There are people making money on adsense through click fraud-- i.e. dishonestly inflating your site's statistics. But it is, I believe, illegal.

Answer 6

Could be legit. Some people do make money with Google Adsense blogging.

Answer 7

Every get rich quick scheme is a scam. There are two ways to make money - working hard or stealing it. These guys seem to be opting for the second one.

Answer 8

Generally more often than know if you're asking Is this a scam? You allready know the answer. Keep in mind nothing is done on any scale in this world if it doesn't proffit someone, if you don't know who has to pay to make something work then odds are either it's you or you don't want to know who's being exploited to make it work.

Answer 9

Google Adsense is not a scam. We've been using the program since it opened to the public in June 2003 and we're now earning 5-digits a month. Go to WebmasterWorld.com forum on Adsense http://www.webmasterworld.com/category89.htm and learn more from those who are using the program

In terms of earning money on Adsense, your mileage varies. One website with the 10,000 uniques a day can earn $50 a month while another may earn $5,000. It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Adsense. The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Adsense is through trying it.

The amount you can earn will depend on the

1. Responsiveness of audience to the ads = A travel website that provides information on travel to Spain will attract visitors looking for ways to arrange their travel and spend money on their vacation to Spain. Your site provides the info, but the ads will provide hotels, travel agencies, tourist destinations, car rentals -- ads that are likely to get the attention of the users of your site. This is a site that will most likely do well with Adsense. However, if you are a gaming website where the main purpose of the user is to play games on your site, then Adsense will not perform as well.

2. Ad format = some types of ads do better than others depending on your content and layout. In our case, large rectangles in the middle of the content is the best, while leaderboards do not generate as much as income. Skys are the worst for us. Experiment and measure the results via channels and see which formats work best for you.

3. Ad placement - check Google's heat map as they have tested where the best placements are https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=17954&ctx=en:search&query=adsense+heat+map&topic=0&type=f

4. Ad colors - sometimes ads blended into the content works wonders, but sometimes ads that contrast your site colors work best

5. Number of ad units on a page = we are allowed maximum of 3 ads + 1 ad links + 1 search box on a page. Maximize the allowed number based on the resulting look of your page (you don't want an overkill of ads). Users going to your page and reading your content may ignore the banner or rectangle at the top of the page, but may click on the ad at the bottom of the article

6. Smartpricing - the big unknown in Adsense. No one knows how this actually works. But it can affect the pricing of the ads on your site. If the advertiser paid for $0.50/click - but your site is smartpriced - then the cost may be discounted lower (e.g. $0.25). So you may try to develop a site based on high paying keywords but if smartpricing gets to you, then you may not get as much per click as what you are expecting from your keywords.

Here is Google's explanation of smart pricing https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9562&query=smart+pricing&topic=0&type=f

Google's smart pricing feature automatically adjusts the cost of a keyword-targeted content click based on its effectiveness compared to a search click. So if our data shows that a click from a content page is less likely to turn into actionable business results -- such as online sales, registrations, phone calls, or newsletter signups -- we reduce the price you pay for that click.

Experiment with the factors above (except smartpricing, which you can't control), and see which combination works best. Remember though that not all sites do well with Adsense - even if you get gazillions of traffic but your visitors are not interested in looking for ways to spend their money, they won't be interested in your ads and won't click.

Answer 10

Hi.
Watch out for that stuff.
There out there all the time and will take your money and not help.
I have tryed alot of thing's from off the internet and every one of them have just took my money and did'nt do what they said.
Me I give up trying to make some money from off the internet,it was'nt fun as I thought it would be.
Good thinking,your right they out to get ya..
Good luck.
Take care.
Sharon.

Answer 11

Always a scam