A little follow up.
I apologize for starting this thread. It is pure BS, and misses the point.
I feel like I was barking at the moon, or
complaining of the color of the paint on a demolished building.
AdSense is DEAD. PERIOD.
From $180K in 2013, I have struggled to make $3/ day for the last 5 years.
I jumped through all the hoops -
HTTPS, all pages responsive, EAT, rigid rule compliance - the whole kebab.
To all of my GREAT LinkedIn SEO connections from WebmasterWorld, you know who I am.
It’s all over now. I'm done.
From 2005 to 2015, G paid me close to $680,000 - I made them $1,000,000.
Much more, if you include the income of the scrapers of my content.
Google started out as a search engine. They are now an advertising behemoth,
which will do anything conceivable to increase short-term profits,
including destroying the program that was instrumental in getting them to the top.
Last year, Innovation wisely resigned from the company - Brin and Page.
They saw what was coming, and decided to let the new guy take all the heat,
for what was coming down the pike, resulting from the
monopolistic, predatory actions of the greed-driven corporate bean counters.
And then, this morning, I get the email.
“Your ad settings will be optimized automatically”.
Like BLOATED ad sizes? NO, THEY WILL NOT. Been there, done that.
ANY and ALL “improvements” are for Google’s benefit, NOT the publisher’s.
They wanted me to fill out the survey. I did. After I let them know EXACTLY
how I felt, there is NO WAY they will allow me to continue to be a "partner".
Partner, my @ss. Chump is the word. Idiot is another.
Providing free real estate for low-paying, un-targeted, embarrassingly poor ads.
I turn 76 this month. I’ve seen all the G bungling I want to see.
Their SERPs are now filled with garbage. Stuff that is JUST PLAIN WRONG.
Just drop the word intelligence from “artificial intelligence”.
AdSense is NEVER coming back. I was stupid to hang on for so long.
Maybe your situation is different. Maybe you crave fractions of a farthing.
Maybe you switched over to the “slide-show” niche.
Maybe you avoided the knife-twist de-ranking factor in the algo. I did not.
Watch what you say, or you will get the invisible hook,
and spend all your time wondering WTH happened. G will never tell you.
It is time for me to stop chasing the dragon, and just have fun being poor,
and learn to live solely on SSI payments. Looking for a place to live.
The rents in the Santa Cruz area are insane. Stuck in California.
Anyone know a single, lonely, well-to-do, elderly lady in the area?
I give good humor. … guess not.
Hope your luck was better than mine.
Cheers to All and Good-bye.
