Google Adsense Is Not Working In Africa

I personally think Google adsense was not made for us African Web masters. Because no matter what traffic you have, you will not be able to benefit much from the traffic compared to a web site owner in the US. I talked about it on my blog today and I would like to know what other webmasters think about this
Follow the link below to see what I have to say about that
http://mambenanje(dot)blogspot(dot)com/2008/05/google-adsense-is-not-working-in-africa.html

I would like webmasters to express their thoughts towards this, because I think its a sensitive issue

i beg to differ

fine; i've been on google since december or november and earned $35 till now
bt it solely lies with me

1.  i didn't do keyword research
2.  i didn't go for high paying keyword niche
3.  i didn't use adwords or paid advertising
4.  i didn't post my blog articles on forums
5.  i mainly copy and paste
6.  i don't update regularly
7.  im only on blogcatalog and recently joined bloggerlog bt nt actively participating
8.  im on free hosting
9.  i have numerous ad units
10. i use a basic template
11. it looks ordinarily
12. im not online most of the time
13. i've nt used email marketing

If u say google doesn't work, then u're doing some or more of the above

im sure seun wldn't reply u, heck he stopped replying since he banned me(segebee)

so now im going for a redesign, getting an internet connection, gong for paid advertisements and creating other blogs and sites revolving on keywords or passionate topics; and i'll soon tell u how interesting the result will be

by the way people who make $100 daily get up to 10000 visitors daily! yes, daily.
so buckle up webmaster, there's lots of money to be made from google, get to work.

Real money doesn't come easily.

NB: u may want to stop browsing and save money for webhostin/design and internet connection

if this has been helpful, u may want to help increase my adsense earning by visiting my blog and clickin some ads

here's the address www.freebizinfo.co.nr

If you are talking in the context of Nigerian web professionals, you might be right. One can say Google Adsense is essentially residual income for the majority but that does not knock out the fact that one can earn a substantial amount from Adsense monthly, even in Nigeria. I'm talking out of first hand experience.

I have earned a monthly figure from Adsense that is more than the salary of many educated Nigerians. That I chose not to focus on web publishing does not negate the possibility of earning a full time living online from Adsense and the like.

well i certainly know that this google adsense is working because i was told so but there have been a few issues like,
my state is not listed in the google adsense stuff(akwa ibom state)

lagos state

i recieved my PIN from them

im thinkin of creatin a thread/blog/forum where we can collectively share ideas on making money
online for free

it'll b run by all

wot u think?

@Webguru that's a good idea & thank for replyinq my post @ Naija Pals

I really want to learn how to make legal money with my Wordpress blog.

Keep intouch @ Ztyle.

Webguru, Please let me know how it goes.

I have been thinking about this for some time now,
I just don't want to go through the stress of setting
it up by myself.

You may contact me at firihe[at]yahoo.com

I think the issue here guys is focus - If all you are going to do is set up the latest rip off of Nairaland or nigerian myspace or nigerian facebook, I doubt you will make it big via adsense.  However, if you are willing to do what it takes to cater to even the 1% of a **worldwide** audience, then you can make it, regardless of google's payout to African accounts.

In my opinion, our problem is that rather than be original, we rip off what is already out there.  Need I count them?
Nairaland - tons of wannabes are out ther
Facebook - omo Nigeria
milliondollarhomepage - millionnairahomepage

Why can't we be original and lead people to our sites?  The reason I focus on one forum at a time is that for one, I don't want to have to remember 100 different login credentials (sure, I can use the same thing for all my accounts but I am not that dumb) for 100 different sites that at the end of the day, offer me the same thing.

Be unique, be original and I guarantee you, you will make it.

@mambe
Yeah, there is probably a bias towards clicks originating from Africa.  Possible causes that just came to mind:

1) Many in Africa think they can make a living off of it which means that either they or their buddies find a way to manipulate the system by abusing the clicks, hence the lower amount paid per click. 

2) Companies that advertise on google probably don't see themselves making a lot of money and so don't want to advertise for that target audience.  Google responds by offering lower ad charges for the African market which in turn translates to lower amounts paid per click

3) It could be that when doing a straight dollar conversion, the amount of money an African company pays for an ad is not comparable to what a company in America is paying.  Of course, Google is probably paying out money in proportion to how much an advertiser spends.

@iyaboo
 google adsense was created to monetize website traffic and website traffic was not made to get google adsense. What I am saying is: I hate people who go arround chasing adsense and keywords while the real sense of a website is to provide value to the world. So create your website to add value to people's life and when the traffic is good consider monetizing it with google adsense or any other program.
 But the problem stays thesame, in Africa the money you will get is realy small

@Iyabo
 I love your point of taking high value adsense keywords into consideration when putting content on your site.
 But one thing I realy don't like [ but I don't think your a victim though ] is the fact that guys forget that a website is not based upon adsense its based upon value. Some people start websites just for adsense keywords even if they don't know anything about a subject matter. For instance: just because you said  "quit smooking" has highly paid keywords, some guys will just go and register a domain and start talking about quit smooking, while they know nothing about quit smooking. I believe guys should do what they love and understand, this things [blogs, web 2.0 sites] are driven by love then the money comes. So if you don't have the love for the business and rather think you will just use keywords and play a game of money making with Google, its a faillure.
 But its amazing that even if you love it and do something of great value and traffic, you still earn less in Africa than someone in Europe or USA. well like you said its because Adworks is not used by African Business'