I’ve never been too fond of Google AdSense, nor have I ever used it as a primary (or any) source or type of income nor have I ever really tried to optimize any sites for it. With that being said you may find it as odd as I do – I’m very close to receiving my first AdSense check.

My current AdSense earnings are at a whopping $89.02. When I first started throwing AdSense on some of my sites, it just never took off, people just never clicked on the ads.

So I did what everyone else would do, and got my friends to start clicking on them……. just kidding.

So when creating a new site I often play with the idea of throwing AdSense on it, if it looks like it goes with the site I will normally do it, if not – I wont. You’ll notice there is no Adsense on this site – that’s because I am confident anyone visiting this site doesn’t really care about those ads and knows if they need to find something to just use Google directly. In other words I have respect for you guys and think you are an intelligent bunch.

So what happened? One of my sites which I had no idea would do any good with AdSense started to bring in consistent money. Not a lot, but some and it was consistent. So I just let it ride. I don’t want to go into too much detail of this site, but it’s not a blog nor is it a site full of rich content. I still can’t figure out why this site of all of them has the most consistent Adsense earnings. It definitely is an interesting beast.

Going forward I’m thinking of trying Google Adsense on more sites just to test out and if it doesn’t work out well, just yank it. Maybe it’s time you tried it too! Don’t be affraid to try it on any type of site either, you never know what will work.