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Four months after learning what <br> meant, my life has totally changed. I have practically tossed aside my roof contracting company that has been my focus for fifteen years now. With a little reading, a little guidance from my father, and 80+ hours a week working on my website, the income I generate from AdSense can now meet the bills without me having to lift a shingle!
Even in this short time span there have been ups and downs. My income dropped 40% two weeks ago and is just beginning to recover. But even with the problems I've had getting relevant ads, yada yada, my life has changed to where I can use my brain to make a living. One giant THANKS to google (and I even have clean fingernails now!).
Any similar experiences? I'd love to hear them
Lets just hope it doesn't go "poof" eh. ;)
My advice: play it safe, play it fair. In the end we all win.
Jens
But rather than expending all this effort on trying to game adsense, why don't you use the brain power for good and not evil?
Come up with a product / service / informational website? There are tons of things to be done out there.
If you're smart enough to game a bunch of PHDs at Google, I am sure you are smart enough to develop something people want to pay honest money for.
AdSense is a network that can earn money for you week after week, month after month, and maybe (if the network is successful) year after year. If you try something sneaky and get caught, you'll just be throwing away the opportunity to "make money while you sleep."
Instead of stealing from Google and its advertisers, you'd be better off shoplifting at a local store, where you might get caught but the sentence would be a lot shorter. :-)
Publishers can have gain exposure for their business in thousand on tens of thousands of different niche sites, which would be impossible anywhere else. Fraudulent clicks will ruin the opportunity for them as well.
How about this? We as publishers display ads, don't attempt to cheat the system, and Google pays us a fair value in a timely manner. We'll call it The Right Thing To Do(tm).
Just wanted to say thanks for bringing such a positive spin to a topic where we were discussing the wonderful things AdSense has done for us.
Keep up the great work, champ!
Realistically speaking , when google ushered in adsense would they not have foreseen bots and anonymizers and all their avatars.
To give yu an idea of the kind of people working there.
So many of us play soccer ... do yu know how many hexagons and pentagons are in there (ratio) ..would yu be able to visualize a 3d space with steradian angles and come out with a ratio....those guys can.
It is not about Phd's ..phd is just an ornamental qualification on a general basis...you have no idea what you are dealing with. No idea. Stick to their terms. Adsense is here for life.
My 2 cents...(this strange ctr scares me...0 to 16% whoa..)
Let us respect honesty and integrity. These things will give yu a bad karma as we say :-)
cheers
Niko
If your CTR rate is above the norm, you're going to lose your AdSense account.
0-16% whoa
There is no such thing as an average CTR for a collection of different, unrelated sites so you can't go above an non-existent "norm" if it well, doesn't exist.
Should you be talking about CTR norm for a specific site then yes, it will raise some flags. There is no guarantee that you will lose your account. I've seen sites rise and fall sharply on CTR wihtout Adsense being affected - but it's usually after some heavy publicity on a news site. Google knows where the extra traffic is coming from and figures this could be the cause of a higher percentage of clickthroughs.
freeflights is absolutely correct. They know too much for you to even dream of cheating in any big/regular fashion. And if you aren't cheating then don't panic about a sharp rise in CTR.
Because this is the first time in Internet history where low key, honest and hard working, no-cheat mom and pop folks see some return of their value proposition and their added value to the web community.
There are folks around here who were bleeding and sweating and lost a lot or didn't ever get a chance. All of a sudden life is good and persistence pays, efficiency and honesty carry fruits, it's like a nice illusion come true to them.
And to be taken this (for some the only) opportunity away by some wacko who will spoil lunch by toppling the table (so nobody gets fed in the end) is what creates scare, hate, mistrust - pretty much everything opposite to this opportunity.
That's why!
PS: Collective stupidity in greed easily leads to something like Germany with the € introduction: everyone cheated anybody, now everyone is complaining against anybody but nobody prevented the collective cheating. End of the story: all lost 20% income (due to the much higher prices now), taxes and overhead rose, mood declined, the whole thing is a self created mud hole. In the end all lost. Cuz we German's are morons!
Because this is the first time in Internet history where low key, honest and hard working, no-cheat mom and pop folks see some return of their value proposition and their added value to the web community.
Cuz we German's are morons!
Being English but living in Germany, i know exactly why the UK do not and should touch the whole EURO thing at all, especially with some of the recent EU decisions regarding the small airports and cheap airfares that has brought a many sleepy airport/town back to life and created thousands of jobs, but the EURO bureaucrat’s seem to have a problem with that, in fact they have a problem with anything that benefits the people and unless the idea has come from them, then its not the correct way bla bla bla
The Germans are not Morons, they just got sucked into something whithout being consulted, or even asked if they wanted it, they were just told its coming and whooopeee its going to change your life, (they got that part right, just they forgot to say it would degrade your quality of life and things would not longer be good value for your money) and if the Germans were able to vote on the € now it would be gone tomorrow.
