The Influence of Adsense on the Net

| Monday, February 27, 2012
By Rui Ludovino


Since the introduction of AdSense, the web has transformed in a variety of ways no one would have ever suspected. Some changes are good and some aren't. This is a small exploration of how a brilliant marketing scheme has taken the web by storm. In this article, we will discuss how Adsense has changed our everyday lives on the internet.

Adwords was already a popular advertising even before AdSense came out. It was able to provide a lot of publicity through getting your site listed at the top in Google search queries. It was great for people who did not have the patience for SEO which usually takes time to build up. It made launching a website, a realistic way to instant profitability instead of a long term strategy with no immediate returns.

The power of AdSense allows you ads to on just about any site on the Internet that is related to the products that your company is selling. And so it's for that reason that AdSense has brought a new sense of advertising to the Internet. Before PPC, poorly ranked web pages had to advertise offline to get any real initial exposure. With Adsense, companies won't have to hire expensive professionals to create advertising campaigns for them anymore. There are no high costs of running your ads on websites which you have to personally look for. All you do is come up with a couple of meaningful words for your business, sign up with Google AdWords and let Google take care of the rest of the equation. Although it requires day to day management automation saves significant time for advertisers.

From a publisher's point of view, Adsense could be one of the biggest changes in internet advertising. Whereas one would previously have to jump through many hoops to get a website to even support itself now people are making fortunes off their sites. This leads to motivation for content, and resources for web surfers. That generally means site publishers have to worry more about what content lies on their site, and the overall way their pages look rather than be concerned with the economic specifics of maintaining a site's profitability. Although time is invested in Adsense, a large capital investment is not. That is how it leads to a blogging phenomenon a few years ago. Anyone could just write a page about a subject he was passionate about and making a living out of it through AdSense.

And thirdly, one can't ignore the impact AdSense has had over the casual everyday web surfer. Whereas people used to not even notice banners altogether (which psychologically is a very interesting thing to observe) the situation is completely different for text ads. People nowadays will take a long look at a sponsored ad. Why? Well because the whole setup brings forth a feeling of confidence about the advertiser. People don't ignore a text ad as easily as they do a graphical banner. Another thing to note is that graphical banners have become even less profitable nowadays. It is because of this that many people are walking away from affiliate type networks to AdSense. Of course, there are bad effects as well, with people making websites solely for the purpose of running AdSense on them and just as well, with a large phenomenon of 'click fraud', people creating artificial clicks for various reasons.

The good thing is, Google is keeping this under control. All in all Google AdSense is transforming the way the Internet works and it's doing so mostly in a good way. Now those with ideas can write them down, and make money from them. It is great for people who is looking for content as well as for those looking to attract a customer base can do so in a targeted way. Adsense has changed the internet through supporting the economic interests of businesses, and the utility of consumers.




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