I was surprised to find that the publishing quality of this book is very poor. It looks like something someone printed from their own printer with no professional layout experience whatsoever. There is even a watermark “Achieve #1 Ranking” running through every single page!! Given the high price of the book I at least expected a book that looked like something you would buy in a bookshop. Be warned this is not the case!!!
The content itself is just one tip after another and nothing of very much substance. I feel cheated and dont understand the high ratings given by others. I bought this book based on the favourable reviews & no one mentioned the poor, poor quality??!!
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve been placing google ads on my site for a year or so now, but I wanted to see about making more money. I ordered this book and The Adsense Code by Joel Comm. It appears Joel’s book was out in 2006 and this one in 2008. I read them both and there was tons of great content in each book.
But I started noticing similarities between the two titles and began cross-referencing to see if any of the content was the same. It seemed suspicious.
[. . . ]
I thouight this couldn’t be with all the great reviews of the Best Damn Adsense book, so I started looking at the authors of the 5-star reviews for this book.
Just looking for some additional ideas on how to maximise Adsense revenue, I purchased “The best damn Google Adsense book”.
Clearly written for beginners, I’ve gotten very little value from purchasing this book. If you know all the well-known Adsense optimisation tips, it’s unlikely you’ll learn anything new.
If the publisher had made it clear that the book was intended for beginners, I wouldn’t be so annoyed, and wouldn’t have purchased this expensive book in the first place.
Rating: 1 / 5
I am in shock over how poorly written and formatted this book is. Just thumbing through the book when I first got it, I knew I had been ripped-off. [. . . . . . . ]
You would be much better served opening an Adsense account and going through the tutorials.
Rating: 1 / 5
Given all the glowing reviews for this book I expected much more. There are some useful tips but not nearly enough to justify the $31+ price. Most of the content can be obtained from Google’s on-line tutorials and some on-line searching. Additonally, as others have commented, the book is in serious need of editing. The typos and poorly formatted sentences are dictracting.
Rating: 2 / 5
on 19 Jan 2010 at 11:01 pm 1.Kevin 7 said …
I was surprised to find that the publishing quality of this book is very poor. It looks like something someone printed from their own printer with no professional layout experience whatsoever. There is even a watermark “Achieve #1 Ranking” running through every single page!! Given the high price of the book I at least expected a book that looked like something you would buy in a bookshop. Be warned this is not the case!!!
The content itself is just one tip after another and nothing of very much substance. I feel cheated and dont understand the high ratings given by others. I bought this book based on the favourable reviews & no one mentioned the poor, poor quality??!!
Rating: 1 / 5
on 20 Jan 2010 at 12:29 am 2.Robert K. Smith said …
I’ve been placing google ads on my site for a year or so now, but I wanted to see about making more money. I ordered this book and The Adsense Code by Joel Comm. It appears Joel’s book was out in 2006 and this one in 2008. I read them both and there was tons of great content in each book.
But I started noticing similarities between the two titles and began cross-referencing to see if any of the content was the same. It seemed suspicious.
[. . . ]
I thouight this couldn’t be with all the great reviews of the Best Damn Adsense book, so I started looking at the authors of the 5-star reviews for this book.
[. . . ]
Rating: 1 / 5
on 20 Jan 2010 at 1:36 am 3.John Pospisil said …
Just looking for some additional ideas on how to maximise Adsense revenue, I purchased “The best damn Google Adsense book”.
Clearly written for beginners, I’ve gotten very little value from purchasing this book. If you know all the well-known Adsense optimisation tips, it’s unlikely you’ll learn anything new.
If the publisher had made it clear that the book was intended for beginners, I wouldn’t be so annoyed, and wouldn’t have purchased this expensive book in the first place.
Rating: 1 / 5
on 20 Jan 2010 at 2:43 am 4.M. Moore said …
I am in shock over how poorly written and formatted this book is. Just thumbing through the book when I first got it, I knew I had been ripped-off. [. . . . . . . ]
You would be much better served opening an Adsense account and going through the tutorials.
Rating: 1 / 5
on 20 Jan 2010 at 3:08 am 5.Robert Mitilieri said …
Given all the glowing reviews for this book I expected much more. There are some useful tips but not nearly enough to justify the $31+ price. Most of the content can be obtained from Google’s on-line tutorials and some on-line searching. Additonally, as others have commented, the book is in serious need of editing. The typos and poorly formatted sentences are dictracting.
Rating: 2 / 5