Google Adsense Problems – Google Adsense Alternatives for Blogs

There are too many reports of Google Adsense errors lately. There are reports of incorrect status reports on Google Adsense, incorrect click reports of Google Adsense & even incorrect & late reports on Google Adsense.

This is nothing new to publishers, but lately Google has been quite non-responsive to these publishers’ issues. Last year Google announced that in it’s reponse to publisher’s concerns regarding Adsense, it was launching the list of known issues with Adsense.

But it is clear that Google engineers did not wish to keep the publishers updated on all the issues. The page now displays no information on the immense delays on reporting Google Adsense stats, Adsense earning issues etc.

While in a post on Webmaterworld forum Google announced a site maintenance. I may have missed the email from Google, but I cannot recall them announcing that maintenance either. While I would still tend to believe when Google says that “all clicks will be tracked & no Adsense earnings will be lost” during the periods when Google Adsense faces these issues, several reports from individual publishers point otherwise.

A report on incorrect Google Adsense clicks from Pinoy Money Talks raises the concerns that even the clicks may not be tracked correctly. Publishers have no way of writing to Google & getting some prompt response either. This hard attitude from Google is making it difficult for many bloggers to keep depending on Google Adsense as their sole means to make money online.

I have personally faced these issues with Google Adsense on & often. But I always had a great Adsense back-up plan in case I run into issues with Google. Especially in a bad economy, publishers need to balance income from blogging effectively.

Since blog advertising still remain one of the most popular ways to make money from blogs, I have focused equally on other ad agencies apart from Google Adsense. And so goes my suggestion to anyone who wants to build their income from blogs.

You can either depend completely on Google & hope that they are doing the best to help publishers & advertisers with effective advertising & profiting from blog ads, you have no way of convincing yourself that it is always true.

Refer to my detailed article on All the Ways to Make Money from Blogging, Google Adsense alternatives & some of the popular Shopping Ad systems for blogs.