Adsense has become more and more popular lately, people even refer to it as “Online Money Generator”. And yes, it is true that Adsense is unique and a very exciting way to generated revenue from internet with one or more websites. Commonly, as with anything new and popular, there are always an increasing number of scam artists that are monetizing on peoples urge to learn. Together with the popularity of Google Adsense, a whole new breed of scam artists have been born – The Adsense Scammers.
The Adsense Scammers usually use some very intriguing ad copy (marketing text) on their websites, and tries to lure new customers in with screenshots claiming big Adsense income or big increases in Adsense income from a certain date and forward. The truth about most of these screenshots are sadly, that anyone can do such a screenshot - and then alter it in any graphics program like Adobe Photoshop. The image then reflects a very “colored” truth, and this is possible due to the changes Google has made in its policies to allow publishers to disclose their earnings, but on the same time not to allow publishers to reveal impressions, clicks and ctr.
So what kind of products should you be careful about purchasing ?
The Adsense scam products can actually be categorized into the following:
1. “The BIG Adsense Secret” E-book.
Adsense Scam claim: Several websites claims to have the “unrevealed Adsense secret” that you simply can’t live without it! Usually they claimed that these secrets will double or triple your Adsense earnings virtually overnight. You can buy yourself and access to these “underground information” for only $30-$100.
Adsense Fact: There are no secrets to reveal about Adsense. Anyone can earn with Adsense, and to improve performance read up on ad placement, ad colours, website content and website traffic.
2. “Million Dollar Keyword Lists”.
Adsense Scam claim: When you purchase a list of “fresh top paying keywords” you can literally skyrocket your Adsense earnings, simply by changing a few words on your pages. These scam sites claims that they have developed new techniques to finding these keywords, and that their members/customers are making a “killing” creating pages based on these keywords. It is not unusual to meet claims of people making $10-$20 per click using these lists. The Adsense Scam Keyword lists can be yours either on a monthly subscription from $20 per month, or for purchase for anything from $20-$200 per list.
Adsense Fact: Yes, you can improve your earnings per click by changing/optimizing your page content. However, the obscene claims of clicks that pays $10-$20 or more are nothing more then “clever” marketing in 95% of the cases. The reason is that Google (and the advertisers), are very selective about which sites that are allowed to display these high paying keywords. Usually, advertiser select to only show these ads on Google’s search result screen, meaning that they never get displayed on publisher websites. The so called “new techniques” used to generate these keyword lists, are freely available to anyone interested, and only requires a bit of work on your part. You can download a 100% Free list of keywords here, and if you want to further examine keywords simply do the following:
Signup with Google Adwords, and then use the keyword sandbox tool to find a lot related keywords to your initial keyword idea. Then simply copy/paste the results into the traffic estimator tool at Adwords, and you will get an idea of the value of the given keyword.
3. “Automated Adsense Software”.
Adsense Scam claim: This is one of my “favorite” Adsense Scams! Visitors are encouraged to purchase some “set and forget software” that will generate Adsense income on “auto pilot” mode. Most of the software does nothing more then copy content from sites through various scraping methods (reads a webpage and gets the content from it by copying or mirroring). All you will have to do is upload their script to your website, enter a few details and the script creates thousand of content pages – just waiting for it to generated cash into your pocket. Each of these “unique Adsense cash scripts”, can be yours from range between $90-$1000+