AdSense Disabling Arbitrage Accounts by June 1st

[Freddy81]

They told me my account will be disabled at 1st June, and also added that I'll receive payment for all outstanding earnings in accordance with the standard AdSense payment schedule.

For this day (17 May), does it mean that they will pay for April 1-30 earnings, or for May (1-18) also?

[amznVibe]

What blows my mind is that people are making 5 digits a month, 6 digits a year off this technique I was only vaguely aware of. Even if there are barely 1000 people doing it at those levels, that's MILLIONS per year going through Google. Stunning.

Perhaps this will also lighten up Google's content server load.

But on another note, are visitors that click happy? Click a vague ad on one site only to click another ad on the destination? Are there that many people who don't read content anymore?

[MyNewPC]

This is beginning to attract some main streem news:
See here: [news.google.com...]
Blogs and internet-only media is not mainstream.

[cmendla]

Blogs and internet-only media is not mainstream.

I'm not sure this story will make the lamestream media. It's a little more complicated that "Paris Hilton goes to Jail"... It might make something like the Wall Street Journal though..

cg

[old_expat]

As to why those affected are less vocal here, it could be that it's still early on. Maybe around June 1st, we'll see more of them here.

It could also be the bashing.

Would you come out and subject yourself to all these snappy comments .. in order to help those who are reviling you?

A bit of maturity in this thread might yield some informational dividends.

[heyday]

For those of you who may think this has only affected a few people... let me tell you that this is huge. I know quite a few people doing this and they ALL have been shut down. All of them. And if you are doing this and you haven't received your email yet....just be patient....you'll get it.

I'm sure we will see something soon on the official Google Blogs about this.

June 1st will be an interesting day on the content network. In my opinion there will be far less inventory available which will kick up bid prices big time. The next step in my opinion is you will see minimum bids go back to 5 cents if not higher.

And for those of you who never realized what some of these people were making.....they were making A LOT......thousands and hundreds of thousands a month.

heyday

[Elsmarc]

The next step in my opinion is you will see minimum bids go back to 5 cents if not higher.

I hope so. Since January my adsense cents/click have dived 40% from last years average.

[koan]

Yeah something definitely happened since January because with all the growth in traffic and CTR on my sites, revenues have been stagnant. Many threads have been made on that topic. Something was going on.

A bit of maturity in this thread might yield some informational dividends.

That may be, but when you see people glorifying themselves as legitimate businessmen making tons of money on the back on real content publishers, you can't expect them to stay completely neutral on the news they may be gone for good, this time, after pleading Google for years. How should people feel when they lose a user on a $0.03 click?

[callivert]

they were making A LOT......thousands and hundreds of thousands a month.

How should people feel when they lose a user on a $0.03 click?

well, I feel a bit stupid actually. Here was I, diligently plugging away at building a handful of sites for pennies, when all the while I could have been riding the wave. It's not like I didn't know how to do it either. Any research on SEO will pretty soon turn up an article on flipping traffic. I guess I didn't have the nerve - the "risk tolerance" as someone on this thread put it.

[Marcia]

well, I feel a bit stupid actually. Here was I, diligently plugging away at building a handful of sites for pennies, when all the while I could have been riding the wave. It's not like I didn't know how to do it either. Any research on SEO will pretty soon turn up an article on flipping traffic. I guess I didn't have the nerve - the "risk tolerance" as someone on this thread put it.

I couldn't for the same reason I couldn't do up and promote a "pharm" site when people were riding the wave and making bundles, even though I had a dynamite, clean keyworded domain name.

I just couldn't, still wouldn't and never will.

[sailorjwd]

There's got to be 100,000s of the MFA sites.. I don't know how many are doing arbitrage.

So there is a lot of room for a large amount of bitching and moaning over the next couple of weeks.

I was just searching for sites that have snippets from my opening paragraph (fairly unique) on my home page and found many many MFAs just from that.

I'd be surprised if I get an adsense cancellation letter since I was using Adwords long before Adsense came along and only offset my business advertising expenses with adsense (now). (I used to be a six-figure adsense arbritrager until last July)