Putting a hold on your AdSense payment
Posted on March 17th, 2010 by wsf
One nice little feature of Google AdSense is that it allows you to temporarily put your payment on hold. The idea behind it is that if you would prefer to not receive a payment for that month even though you have reached the payment threshold then you can simply tell Google to hold onto it for the time being. You may or may not have seen this feature but for those of you who don’t use it, you’re probably wondering what’s the point of it. I mean after all, isn’t it better to get paid as soon as possible?
I personally put my AdSense payments on hold from time to time just because I’m not yet ready to be paid. As strange as that sounds, I think it can sometimes be a good thing if you hold off for a little one. If you do put a hold on your upcoming AdSense payment then your earnings will keep building up until you release the hold. To me this sounds like a great way to start saving. It’s not as if you’re making weekly or monthly deposits into an account – it just sites there accumulating money. Then when the time is right for whatever reason you can choose to release the hold and receive the payment.
The advantage of this is that it is a great way to save for specific things. Doing this means that you may avoid wasting the money on something you don’t really need. Your hosting and domain costs for example; whether you like it or not, these are the bills associated with running a bunch of web sites. Don’t you think it makes sense to have your AdSense payment paid to you when your next hosting bill is due? Sure, you may pay monthly for your hosting but the chances are quite high that your host offers discounts if you pay annually. If this is the case maybe you should put your AdSense payments on hold and release them just when it’s time to pay the bills.
The other great thing about placing a hold on your payments is that when you do finally decide to have it sent out whether its quarterly, bi-annually or even less frequent, when the payment does come your way you’ll have a much larger figure to take to the bank.