Sure, get enough of them and those 5 - 20 cent clicks add up nicely.

Three cent clicks add up when there's hundreds or thousands of them. Heck, even if there's one of them, it's three cents more than I had yesterday.

I don't worry about it.

Yes, but if you can find another program or affiliate program which is paying out higher, wouldn't you make the trade off? I mean, do you still consider three cents a click be worth it?

if you can find another program or affiliate program which is paying out higher, wouldn't you make the trade off?

Maybe, IF the work involved was equal, but that's not the question you asked in your opening post.

well, even at five cents a click or less, without a replacement program, I don't know if I would show ads at all.

I do run other ad networks and affiliate programs; I have a lot of sites. I'm also doing some direct advertising. I don't look at it as an either/or situation.

Do you think that people get too "used" to using Adsense, even on poorer performing sites?

well, even at five cents a click or less, without a replacement program, I don't know if I would show ads at all.

I guess that depends on the other goals of your site, and if you consider displaying ads to be detrimental to those goals. In my case, I really don't have any other goals besides advertising, so given a choice between displaying ads that pay something, and displaying no ads, I will display the ads.

You might find something that pays more per click, but will it get clicks? I've tried affiliate programs that pay a lot more per click than Adsense, but they get so few clicks that it's not worth it to remove adsense.

20 cents a click? ah luxury

*dreams*

Depends on CTR. I would rather have 11 clicks at 10cents than one click at $1

I have tried affiliates but in my niche they get fewer clicks than Adsense and most clicks don't convert.

I am averaging about about 2-3 cents / click from the past few month but have a huge site get about 2000 odd clicks /day so its okay.

well, even at five cents a click or less, without a replacement program, I don't know if I would show ads at all.

You have to appreciate the long-term view with AdSense:

Say 10 clicks per day x 0.05 cents average x 365 = $182.50 per annum

Multiply that across 10 pages/sites = $1,825.00 p.a.

Bear in mind your original 0.20 cents is considerably more than many are earning...it's a numbers' game, it just depends how good you are at playing it and IF all you do is rely upon AdSense then you'd better learn it fast:-)

If it's just an additional low income stream or as an assistance to visitors, then that's a different question and answer altogether.

ok, well if you consider it an assitance to visitors, then definitly go for it, and the earnings are a plus ;)

Cheers,