I have wanted to get rid of the AdSense strip for a while now, but I’m in a bit of a cleft stick: I’m just over halfway to the payment point (Google only sends payment when you reach a certain threshold: in my case, it’s in the very low 3 figures — as low as one can get). To quit now means adding that pittance to their engorged market capitalization ($77 billion, as of this writing). I need it more than they do.
But as soon as that target is met, I’m inclined to take it down.
[composed and posted with ecto]
Here’s a simple graph of my traffic volumes (as Google sees them: generally accurate for non-robot traffic), the click-throughs, and resulting revenues.
As you can see, it’s small potatoes. Over the past 30 days, the mean has been $.13/day, the max $1.54 and the median $0.00 (at least half those days have been revenue-free).
So at best, it’s a distraction, at worst an annoyance.