Op-Ed: Has Internet Marketing Died or Reached New Heights?

We've all heard of Google Adsense and the revenue it has generated for marketers and Google. The thing is that Adsense is no longer considered the strong earner it once was for internet marketers as generating income online continues to slow down.

Adsense revenue has normally been generated at its peak by high traffic website owners who continually have fresh content for their users daily. As more users enter the online world with websites and blogs, it makes new bloggers and website owners wonder how they can generate any type of income with all the competition on the web. Research has shown that Adsense revenue has been difficult to come by for the basic blogger. In a study conducted by Technorati, of 174 blogs: 85% allowed comments on their blogs 33% used Google Adsense 45% generated no revenue 40% generated less than $5,000 per year 4% generated over $100,000per year The study shows the discrepancies of using Adsense or not. Though there are other methods of generating revenue through your blog, Adsense has become the household name for blogging revenue. Services such as PayPerPost and Smorty offer bloggers a way to generate some revenue by advertising an ad on their blog, but these services can only do so much for your blog. Is blogging becoming more difficult to generate any sort of income? Yes, but it's not impossible. There are no easy methods or schemes to reach high amounts on revenue in your blogs, but can a basic blogger ever get a piece of the action in the blogosphere?