Is Google Stealing Our Money?
Yeah so is Google stealing our money? I mean from AdWords and AdSense. I think they are. I have a reasonable explanation. Google doesn’t look like the kind of company that would do that, but its shocking that they are actually doing this.
AdSense has a very strict TOS and because of that thousands of sites get kicked and even banned from the program. But wait. Ask someone who used AdSense and got kicked. Google doesn’t kick you out right away. They do that when you’ve made a bit of money (around $15-70).
Yeah that’s weird, isn’t it? But wait a second. What happens to your money? The few dollars you made in the last couple of days. Oh they keep it unless the advertisers complain and then they investigate it. But they still don’t give a clear, detailed report about it.
I would say that about 2500 AdSense accounts get terminated around the world every day. And lets say that each account has an average of $20. Now do the math.
Of course my estimates are not accurate. There are probably more than 2500 accounts getting closed everyday. Plus why do we pay Google so much when we want to advertise and the publishers get about a few cents to few dollars per click? Do you know if Google is paying us 50/50 or 70/30?
Well its just people being greedy. Nothing new.
6 May 2008 at 4:26 pm
[...] Google is stealing our money! I’m not even joking. Yeah its a bit shocking. But I explained everything here: http://www.brainfeedlabs.com/money/i…ing-our-money/ [...]
6 May 2008 at 4:57 pm
Google doesn’t steal our money, but warez sites do from bigger companies.
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6 May 2008 at 7:56 pm
2500 Adsense accounts per day? haha that’s very off.. also google doesn’t randomly kick people. They kick them because people new to adsense don’t read the rules and therefore breaking them thus getting banned.
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6 May 2008 at 7:59 pm
Yeah I agree that I might be wrong with that estimate. But at least 1000 accounts around the whole world. Well I know Google doesn’t kick out random people. But they should kick them out right away.
That way publishers don’t waste their time.
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14 August 2008 at 5:01 pm
[...] A lot of people just quit. They don’t have the patience to wait for that $100. A good example would be me. I have like around $50 in my account. I’m done with AdSense. I don’t care about that $50. There’s tons of people like me. But, what happens to the money left in the accounts? Google takes it! [...]
20 November 2008 at 11:51 pm
On this note, I’ll have to disagree with you about the stealing money.
What would you do if you were in Google’s position, what would be ‘fair’?
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