If you’re into making money from home, you may have come across Adsense revenue-sharing sites.  So what are they?  Basically, Adsense revenue-sharing sites are networks where you can earn money from Adsense clicks, (the little ads that appear on a website).  The ads get rotated several times, to help both the network and you.  HubPages is an example, where you get credit for the clicks 60 percent of the time.  The credit rewarded to them is 40 percent of the total time.

The benefits of this methods are easy to see.  Since everything is taken care of in the Adsense revenue-sharing network, you don’t have to manage your own website.  This means you don’t have to worry about hosting costs or Web design, things that can be pretty annoying if you don’t know how to build your own site.

Secondly, you get some link-building power from Google.  Because it helps determine if your Web pages are going to be seen, this is important once you start building on the network.  In case you were to do all the things on your own, you would need to be a SEO genius to make your website ranked.  This is in contrast to Adsense revenue-sharing sites, which usually already have the SEO taken care of.

But, can we really use these features to say that Adsense revenue is an example of a decent home business?  It is based on what you are searching for.  If you want the ability to build a quick SEO site, Adsense revenue-sharing networks work wonders because everything is already provided for you.  But if you want the ability to maximize your Adsense income, you would do things on your own.  Why?  It gives you an opportunity to keep all of your content at a single place.  The editors determine if your content is worthy enough for Adsense revenue-sharing sites.  If it is not, it gets removed, inspite of the efforts you might have put into it.

Also, all the earnings remain yours if you do things by yourself.  It’s not this way with Adsense revenue-sharing sites, where you lose a portion of your money to the network.  Once you start earning hundreds of dollars, this can turn out to be very annoying.

In conclusion, Adsense revenue-sharing websites should not be considered as a dependable home business.  Ofcourse, what you gain in the convenience of someone else taking care of a website for you, you also lose in control.  It’s this element of control that gives you the most money and security, when it comes to Adsense.

Carin Davis is the editor and webmaster of http://www.CarinDavis.net. A site dedicated to the development and training for Network Marketers and Home Business Owners.