After pulling my hair out for 6 months running adsense ads on my one forum. Six months and only making about $200 is just ridiculous. I wonder if the per pay click even pays for the bandwidth their stupid bot uses. Anywho I was lucky a private company approached me about running a banner. We now sell 6 months packages for much more than Adsense ever paid out. In the end the banners pay for the hosting of the site, with a little extra for improvements down the road.
Adsense is really worthless IMHO. I run it on my blogs and a couple of photo sites, which admittedly don't have much traffic and make virtually nothing.
To me adsense is only good for:
Really large websites with tremendous amounts of traffic
or
Web Developers who have 100's of MFA sites.. Throw enough s**t on the wall something will stick.
