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Booted From Adsense

Posted on 22th December 2007

What a last few days. Never got around to blogging anything. I’m pretty new to running a web design company, updating my blogs, and affiliate marketing all at once. Plus decided to go and buy a few domains, also got my pin for Google to receive my payment. It paid off after all. A lot of hours, a lot of weeks for this payment but the other way to look at it is the unique content I published over the past 2 months will always be making me revenue, with my affiliate programs: CJ, Google Adsense, Paddy Power and more.

Had a job to fix and computer for a friend of mine and told him about the free advertising option on one of my web sites. (www.webmastersmallorca.com) he could use to promote his business and decided to place him on Google Maps and embed the Map on my web site.

Next day a phone call from a another friend who requires a flash banner to advertise his computer repair company on my website, so I decide to place him on Google Maps as well, now I got to make a index page for maps of businesses in my area, with only 2 links. This is something I hate, being re-directed to a page with 2 links, maybe a picture, and a standard amount of ads.

Walk the dog and think? Lets create a page for businesses in my town in which I know the exact location of on Google Maps and places them on my website (www.webmastersmallorca.com/santa-ponsa-maps.html) Place a simple Google Adsense banner on the top of my web page which interest’s the viewer about will provide more information about the services or location they are looking for.

Excellent! People who know about any of these services now have an easy way to find and get up to date directions to their location. A free service provided by Google Maps and with a little knowledge of HTML and a place to store your personal photos online this can easily be achieved.

What about the people who don’t know about the businesses? WebMastersMallorca.com used excellent SEO (search engine optimism) to make sure your web page is found which is included in our cheap advertising rates. So let’s offer business owners in my area an option to have their business placed on our Santa Ponsa Maps. First 20 entries were free to get higher results in search engines, index new pages more regularly and of course to keep my regular site visitors more informed and updated about the Island in which I am promoting.

So were straight back to what I said in my first article about my mistake in promoting bars and restaurants in which only 50% are opened all year round. It did not work. What happens on the Island in the winter? Real Estate! What costs a lot of money? Real Estate! What makes a lot of money? Real Estate!

Hundreds of people search my site everyday looking for one thing or another relating to mostly Santa Ponsa and Magaluf. With-in my site are ads by Google Adsense which promote companies who provide a service of Real Estate Agents, Direct from owner sellers and business owners who wish to sell their business or services in Santa Ponsa. All is good for me, if one of my vistor’s are interested in one of these ads and click, through the Google Adsense Program, I receive my commission maybe between $X.XX and $X.XX.

My knowledge of the area helped me with the excellent services in which I provide for people who wish to advertise on Santa Ponsa Maps. For any real estate companies, holiday home renting companies, or direct from owner property seller’s who would like to advertise cheap, our prices include exact placement of Google Maps, Professional Search Engine Optimism, to make our clients gets noticed from less than €20 for 1 year of professional promotion and advertising.

Excellent promotion, business owners get noticed, site visitors and better informed and more content is built to receive higher rankings in Search Engines.

How Do I Protect This Plan? Buy, protect and copyright Santa Ponsa Maps. I always want to keep anything relating to Mallorca and especially Santa Ponsa on my WebMastersMallorca.com website. So how do I promote it? Let’s say a client rings me and wants the address. “Have you a pen” No! “Ok”

“www dot webmastersmallorca no spaces dot com forward slash dot santa dash Ponsa dash maps dot html”

Got that? “Yes excellent, will contact you later.” Never gets to your site. It’s a must buy www.santaponsamap.com. Simple, easy to remember, easy to promote and basic keyword’s which helps a lot when I come to search engine results with Google.

As well I purchases www.magalufmaps.com and have great plans to promote this quickly before Christmas for the little increase in tourist the Island gets for the Christmas and the New Year’s Holiday Season.

A lot happening in one day! Great news phones starts ringing need this website updated with 3 days, another call need a site designed by next week, and in the middle of all this I find a site for sale called www.masterbartending.com. Got to love the domain name, and was well worth the bin price. Content I was planning on changing as soon as possible, which will hopefully be updating with-in the before the new year.

So ending the 2nd day of waiting for my usually reliable host, StarLogic.com to point my domain names, I end up waiting 72 hours.

A little hint when promoting your web site,

“Wait the extra 24 hours in case your host’s expected transfer time has not being met.”

Thursday, looking to be a good day when a client asks me to design a web site for his Internet Cafe. So an idea comes to mind which might help me boost my Google Adsense commission and my other affiliate programs like CJ and Click Bank.

My plan : If I provide a free web site for any Internet Cafe on the Island, designing a basic home page with some information on opening hours, services, a little Java etc.... and most important a few quick links to my sites. It’s got to work.

Sorted!, Come home to check my email and to my disgust Google has disabled temperarally myadsense account.

 

While going through our records recently, we found that your Adsense
account has posed a significant risk to our Adwords advertisers. Since
keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage
our advertisers in the future, we've decided to disable your account.

Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the
interests of both our advertisers and our other Adsense publishers. We
realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in
advance for your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any questions about your account or the actions we've
taken, please do not reply to this email. You can find more information
by visiting
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153&hl=en_US.

Sincerely,

The Google Adsense Team
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not accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message.

It’s like playing god with some lively hood. They are keeping the $168 commission I have earned, removed all Google ads from my pages, which of course made a right mess of my Sporting-Info.com website. (off the topic, which I will be selling to any serious buyers who have an adsense account and would like to make some easy cash)

Not one bit happy, so I have sent an email to Google pleading my innocence (in which I am)

So 2 days after receiving my PIN number from Google I receive an email that my account as being disabled. Twenty-four hours later one of my sources of income has been taken from me and there is really nothing I can do about it. Ok, it’s only 36 hours later and no reply from my innocent plead that had no involvement in the in-valid clicks, (which in I am100% honest). I have an notion of why the clicks might have accrued, and will continue to research this issue until I send my second plead, if Google give me one:

"A publisher who has been banned for the Google Adsense program has ONE chance to appeal and as rejection they will receive no further contact from Google"

After reading hundred's of blog posts, forum, and Google advise F.A.Q’s pages and not usually being a type of person to give up I am starting to realise that if the Goggle Adsense Program decides to ban me for life there is very little I can do about it.

Ok, just for fun let Google it "make money online without adsense" The first twenty results at least contain "Make Money With Adsense" nothing more. So I go with "Adsense Account Disabled" More and more forum post about how lucky a certain person to get reinstated in the Google Adsense Program, some of which received full payment, some who were deducted the payment for what Google found to be invalid click and other received no penalty. Please let me state there were a lot more “congrat's you are the lucky one”.

So not looking to good, as a new affiliate to the Google adsense, my plan to continue building a mass selection of useful information sites for all categories with Google ads placed around my sites to

1. Help maintain the updates of the site to keep visitors interested what I have to write about.

2. Show my visitors relevant ads or links relating to the website in which I make revenue from.

And this is what the Google adsense program is all about. At first I love it as I stated in one of my earlier posts. It is my bread and butter, and now like a flash it’s gone. So in my next few post I will update you with my progress with Google and possibly edit this post if my account as been reinstated and believe again that Google is one of the honest affiliate program's.

If not, well its going "A new me for 2008" experimenting with ways other affiliate programs and am 100% confidant that with enough work and research there are hundreds of way I can live without Google Adsense. Comment

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