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Google AdSense

Display ads for site owners. The default first ad partner, and the one with the hardest payout floor.

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Counts, not a score. 6 of 8 things we look for are published by Google AdSense, and 2 we have not checked yet. A ratio would need a denominator from outside this site. A count does not.

What it costs you

What it really costs to startAll in, not the first-year promotional price.Free to join. Participation in AdSense is free of charge, and Google pays for clicks, impressions and other interactions with the ads you display.Free to join · source · checked 2026-09-07 · different for you?

What it costs to keep alivePer year, once the introductory pricing is over.No recurring fee. The ongoing cost is the revenue share: publishers receive 80% of AdSense for Content revenue after the advertiser platform takes its fee, about 68% when advertisers buy through Google Ads.Revenue share, not a fee · source · checked 2026-09-07 · different for you?

The gate before the first cent

The gate before it pays anythingThe traffic, sales or balance you must reach before a single cent moves.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

How long before the first paymentThe gap you have to fund out of your own pocket.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

Is it yours or theirs

Who owns what you buildYours, or a room you are allowed to sit in until the rules change?You own the site. AdSense only runs on a site whose HTML source you can edit, and Google will not set up an account for a site it cannot verify you own.Publisher owns the site · source · checked 2026-09-07 · different for you?

Can you take it with youThe domain, the list, the content. What actually leaves with you.Reports export to Google Sheets, XLSX or CSV. The site, content and audience stay on your own hosting; only the AdSense account itself is tied to Google.Reports export to CSV · source · checked 2026-09-07 · different for you?

Can it be soldIs there a resale market, and what does it pay?The account cannot be sold. AdSense terms do not permit transfers of account ownership; only name and address corrections are allowed.No account transfer · source · checked 2026-09-07 · different for you?

What takes it all awayThe single rule, ban or dependency that ends it overnight.Google can cut ad serving or disable the account at any time for policy breaches, and a disabled account is barred from the programme for good.Account disabled at any time · source · checked 2026-09-07 · different for you?

Put Google AdSense next to something else

The same questions, asked of two or three at once, with the source and the date still attached to every answer. These pairings come from articles here that already cover both, not from a ranking of rivals.

Google AdSense and Mediavine8 of 8 answered

Google AdSense and Ezoic7 of 8 answered

Google AdSense and Amazon Associates6 of 8 answered

Google AdSense and Monumetric8 of 8 answered

OR PICK YOUR OWN

Where these figures come from

Every page on this site that carries a checked figure about Google AdSense. Nothing here was typed twice: the profile above and the pages below read the same lines.

Three Ad Networks Count Where Your Readers Live Before They Count Them. A Blog in Your Own Language, Set Up for $17, Approved by the Two That Do Not7 figures

Amazon Pays a Cut of What Your Readers Buy Within 24 Hours of a Click. Most Beginners Lose the Account Before the First Check6 figures

A Website Costs $11.08 a Year Plus Hosting, and Earns Nothing for 6 to 18 Months. Here Is the Sheet Before the First Cent3 figures

A 14.4k-Subscriber Channel Is Listed as Earning $40 to $200 a Month. The Money Does Not Come With It1 figures

A Site Netting $500 a Month Lists at $10,200 to $30,000. What a Content Site Sells For, From the One Formula That Is Published1 figures

How to read this page

The ten things above are not our idea of what matters. They are what the checklists in twenty hand-written articles on this site already asked, counted up: country and eligibility came first in nineteen of them, waiting time and what you are paid in came next. The payout minimum, the number most people search for, barely appeared. It is one row here, not the headline.

A row marked not publishedmeans we opened the company's own pages looking for it and it was not there. That is a finding, and it is dated. A row marked not checked yet means we have not done the work. Those two are kept apart on purpose: an empty box because we were slow should never look like an empty box because they were quiet.

Found something that has moved? Tell us. It gets checked against the source and the change is dated on the corrections page.

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