Google Adsense is Nonsense!
Yesterday started as a happy day. Finally, I had reached the $100 minimum required by Google Adsense to receive a payment. The happiness lasted about 2 hours, because I soon received this email:
There's no specifics, there's no appeal process, there's no only taking the money generated by these mystery "invalid clicks." All $100 is gone! And you know what...this is the 2nd time this has happened to me!! Last time I only made it up to $85, but I was so close. I can honestly say that I followed their guidelines. I read through the entire 'Terms of Service' the second time around. My wife even asked me, "You're doing Adsense again, won't the same thing just happen?" I said, "No, I'm gonna read the rules and make absolutely sure to follow them!"
So, now I'm completely throwing my support towards advertising the AdBrite (visit the button in the left sidebar if you are interested in joining). I thought I'd do a short list of Pros and Cons for my readers so they can make an informed choice.
Pros:
(1) You choose your minimum payout. No $100 nonsense. My minimum is $10, when I reach that (which I actually already have), I'll get my check.
(2) AdBrite admits how much of a cut they take (30%). Google Adsense is a load of crap because they keep their fees a secret, and I'm willing to bet they're way above 30%.
(3) Higher payouts per click. This is definitely a result of Number (2) there.
(4) Sell ads specifically for your site. If someone really, really likes your site, they can buy an ad that will just run there. Plus, you set the price! "Link Experiment," "Funny Shirts Apply Here," and "Blog Surfers Anonymous" are all advertisers who have specifically chosen my site. The rest of the ads you see are all targetted, contextual ads. (If you'd like to advertise here, just click the "Your Ad Here." Different zones are different prices, all are less than a dollar a day, though)
(5) No super-long list of terms, conditions, and loopholes that they can site to take away your money.
(6) Those "Active Interstitials" which I'm sure you've seen here if you are a regular visitor.
Cons:
(1) The ads aren't quite as pretty looking as Google's.
(2) They have mostly text ads to choose from (though there is a beta Banner Image program).
(3) The ads aren't quite as relevant as the ones Google usually found.
For small-time blogs like most of my readers have though, AdBrite is the clear choice. $100 on Adsense took almost 100,000 visitors to reach! You can set your minimum on AdBrite to $1.00 and be getting a check (albeit maybe a small one) or direct deposit every single month!
"It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account."
There's no specifics, there's no appeal process, there's no only taking the money generated by these mystery "invalid clicks." All $100 is gone! And you know what...this is the 2nd time this has happened to me!! Last time I only made it up to $85, but I was so close. I can honestly say that I followed their guidelines. I read through the entire 'Terms of Service' the second time around. My wife even asked me, "You're doing Adsense again, won't the same thing just happen?" I said, "No, I'm gonna read the rules and make absolutely sure to follow them!"
So, now I'm completely throwing my support towards advertising the AdBrite (visit the button in the left sidebar if you are interested in joining). I thought I'd do a short list of Pros and Cons for my readers so they can make an informed choice.
Pros:
(1) You choose your minimum payout. No $100 nonsense. My minimum is $10, when I reach that (which I actually already have), I'll get my check.
(2) AdBrite admits how much of a cut they take (30%). Google Adsense is a load of crap because they keep their fees a secret, and I'm willing to bet they're way above 30%.
(3) Higher payouts per click. This is definitely a result of Number (2) there.
(4) Sell ads specifically for your site. If someone really, really likes your site, they can buy an ad that will just run there. Plus, you set the price! "Link Experiment," "Funny Shirts Apply Here," and "Blog Surfers Anonymous" are all advertisers who have specifically chosen my site. The rest of the ads you see are all targetted, contextual ads. (If you'd like to advertise here, just click the "Your Ad Here." Different zones are different prices, all are less than a dollar a day, though)
(5) No super-long list of terms, conditions, and loopholes that they can site to take away your money.
(6) Those "Active Interstitials" which I'm sure you've seen here if you are a regular visitor.
Cons:
(1) The ads aren't quite as pretty looking as Google's.
(2) They have mostly text ads to choose from (though there is a beta Banner Image program).
(3) The ads aren't quite as relevant as the ones Google usually found.
For small-time blogs like most of my readers have though, AdBrite is the clear choice. $100 on Adsense took almost 100,000 visitors to reach! You can set your minimum on AdBrite to $1.00 and be getting a check (albeit maybe a small one) or direct deposit every single month!
Comments
Sucks about AdSense. You weren't kidding! They ARE jerks!
You can use AdBrite on your site along with Adsense as long as you only use the AdBrite text link ads. Using contextual ads from AdBrite will violate Google's usage guidelines.
Oh and after recently getting a big increase in my traffic...google sent me an email a couple of weeks later saying that my earning would be adjusted for suspicious clicks. I never click on the google ads myself, maybe three times total, because I wanted to actually read what the ad was promoting.
I think the entire code is surrounded by something like
[div class = 'adsense']......[/div]
Hope this helps!
You will get Best CPC. I am using this from last one month and earned more than Google.
Enjoy
This was over a year ago - I had earned less than $10!