A certain author and internet marketer wrote a report recently entitled "The Death of Internet Marketing". In case you live under a rock (or are new to online marketing) I'll briefly recap what the brouhaha is all about.
Basically the author claims that the Adsense contextual advertising program from which thousands of web site publishers, big and small, earn some actual income from, is . . . on it's way to that big internet marketing trash bin in the sky.
Many online marketers who were earning big money every month via Adsense have lost a lot of that income due to changes in the way Google runs their advertising program. Boo hoo. Somebody call a Waaaambulance.
By the way, if you haven't read this free report, you can easily find it online by typing the report's title into one of the search engines.
While I am far from making thousands of dollars per month from the Adsense program, the last time I checked my Adsense account there was still a steady stream of money flowing into it. Maybe I'll never make those big bucks following certain recently banned methods, but that's all right by me. I've got my system (slow as it may be) and I'm sticking with it.
And that's the point.
There's a big difference between the big money earners and the small potatoes people like me and many of you reading this article. All we want is a system that works. We don't have thousands of dollars to spend on fancy software tools or oodles of free time to build a gazillion web sites, etc.
Just give us some simple and successful marketing strategies that we can follow at our own pace. Yet, many of the big dogs seem to overlook this fact. Many of us small dogs are getting sick and tired of the big dogs over promoting their big "event" launches to us relentlessly, then walking away with our tails between our legs when we buy into it, but can't duplicate their success.
So what? The big players are losing their shirts in Adsense. They might have to give back their fancy cars and move into smaller housing. Oh well, that's the way the Adsense cookie crumbles, right?
Nice to know they're getting a little taste of what it's like for us small timers.
But you won't see me writing a report about it and hyping it all over the internet. Now, it's true that Adsense is changing from what it was in the beginning, but like the big guys are always telling us, change is constant online and you've gotta adopt to it or be out of business.
There's another free report online called: "Adsense Is Alive" written by another successful internet marketer in response to the original report.
If you read between the lines of both reports you'll see that they both have a hidden agenda:
**to promote a new way to make money online
**to promote their old way of making money online
Both of these reports are worth reading, if only to help you make some decisions about what you'd like to be doing online now and in the future to achieve your goals.
But gentlemen please, let's stop being so dramatic. You are BOTH right. Adsense isn't as lucrative as it used to be for many people, but, Adsense is also very much alive and kicking for a lot of us. Now, I'm gonna go and check on my Adsense piggy bank.
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