After one month of using Adsense here as an experiment, I decided to remove it, no banners, no cheap referral pronotional ads, nothing. Now my blog looks much cleaner and not only it looks cleaner, but also it earns MUCH more. Serious, here is why it earns more.
If I display 3 referal banners, say hostgator + PayPerPost + Text link Ads, I get MAYBE one sign up in 2-3 months. Maybe not, but the blinking banners are here and annoy the visitors.
If I display adsense, with current traffic I get about 5-7 clicks a day, this niche (whatever it is) turns to be very low paying so I earn between 3-5 dollars a day at best. Having such a busy advertisement-filled blog, means some more serious advertisers would not want to associate with me. In other words, I make a few bucks a month and have a crappy looking blow.
Now, Ads were gone. ImpulseBlogger looks clean and professional and people are ready to pay higher prices for a review here. Also, having Adsese away allows me to review the highest paying products — Online Casino sites and this means I easily could make $70 a month and that is if I am picky and only take adverts I like. If I was less picky I can easily go over $100. So… Much as I love Google, it bought me an ass-kicking monitor and loads of other pleasant stuff, I think for now I will stick to the clean look that unfortunately Google cannot provide.
