Donation Link Pathetic or Found Money Is it Against Adsense Policy?

[Peachesbackwards]

I actually find adsense is great found money and have been making around $125 a month from Adsense after 4 months. They also have image ads too. I think your throwing away found money by not using Adsense.

[Arcticulates]

@Peachesbackwards:

If I could find a way to get my blog to make $125 a month using adsense then maybe I would work a way to keep it, but so far adsense really hasn't impressed me with numbers, I may need to give it more time and am willing to do that.

It is taking up a lot of space with some wierd kinda ads on weight loss on most of my posts, besides looking tacky they are not bringing in much revenue. I have given them 6 months so far, granted that I have been building the blog most of the time, and not really concentrating much on traffic till now.

But the amount even for 6 months low traffic has been not worth the ugly ads they have been putting up. I haven't been able to figure out a better way for them yet.
~K

[Bloggeries]

I"ve actually donated a few times in the past to people with donation buttons. Throwing one up is fine but if you try and drum business by "pushing it" it's different imo.

[mskatee]

I am going with pathetic!!

[Peachesbackwards]

I use Wordpress and the company that integrated my blog with its ecommerce software, Zeus Software, had the Adsense programmed inside the blog. I honestly don't think it looks bad at all. The thing is, I figure people are reading the blog anyway for the info first and if they don't like the Adsense, who cares as they're not contributing any revenue. Here's a link to my site, I figure I'll put it up this one time, you decide for yourself. The main thing is I look at Adsense as found money and the way my Blog is set up, I don't have to add any code or anything. Gifts and Free Advice There's only a few adsense ads on the Home Page but each individual Blog Post has more extensive Adsense which you can see by clicking the Individual Blog Subject line. Google does a pretty good job of matching ads with the subject.

[mskatee]

I don't think adsense is pathetic, I think the donation link is pathetic.

[Bloggeries]

Well I guess now I won't be putting a big donation box on the forum where the banner is...

(Just kidding I never intended / thought about that!)