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Yeah I’m talking about Google AdSense. Well I call it AdCents. You know why, right? You only a few cents (and dollars if you’re lucky) per day. Today I’ll just tell you a few things about it and hopefully you’ll stop using AdSense.

Now think about it. Is it worth it? Is it worth putting those (ugly) ads up for a few dollars. Do you care about your site more or the revenue from it? Plus do people even click on ads anymore? I don’t think so. CPM? That pays like nothing.

You have to stick the banner in your visitor’s face and just hope they click on it. Or you trick them into thinking its a link and make them click it. Either way, its annoying. You’re just shoving visitors out.

You can be a lot less annoying, but then you don’t get the clicks. I know there is a balance between them. I tried it and the most I ever made in a day was $3. 3 dollars? WTF? And that was just because I got lucky that day. Usually it was around $1.

Oh and remember the $100 goal? You need to make $100 before you can get your first check. Hmm lets do the math. Lets say you make $1 per day. So, it takes you 100 days to reach the $100 point. Holy shit! That’s like 24 weeks. I wait 24 weeks and I just make $100? And that’s even if I was lucky.

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!

And trust me, you’re not gonna make a few grand per day once your site goes big. Maybe you could. But, you would do a lot better with private sponsors. Do you see any popular sites using AdSense? I never saw one.

Oh and you might have seen those screenshots of people’s AdSense accounts showing that they made a few hundred dollars that day. Let me tell you something. Those are fake! People do it to get traffic and to get their name out.

Update: A few haters were saying that I’m just posting this because I don’t make money off AdSense. Well let me tell you something before you go into “bitch-mode”. Its not just me. A lot of popular bloggers are saying the same thing. The guy over at CenterNetworks was complaining about what they make from AdSense compared to their private sponsored ads.

I asked people on Plurk and if they use AdSense and if they like it. About 95% of them said they don’t like it. There are tons of people out there who are still worshiping AdSense. I call them “AdCents bitches”. When you talk shit about AdSense, they’ll eat up you up man. They would kill you. I guess its their only source of money and they consider it the “big bucks”. They’re just being loyal. These are the people over at DP.

And one more thing, I didn’t stop using AdSense on my blog because I wasn’t getting paid enough. I stopped because I thought it was degrading my blog a bit (and its ugly!). Like do you see any popular blogs using AdSense? Well there is a handful of greedy bloggers who put in both AdSense and private sponsor ads. But, that’s a different case. (/Update)

So, don’t hope to get rich by using AdSense. I say quit AdSense and start getting private sponsors. That way you would be making a lot more and the ads are probably going to be a lot less annoying.

Does Google AdSesne have double standard? What do you think? The answer would be yes. A bit surprised? I am.

I noticed this a few months ago and I forgot about this. Last night I was just surfing the web and I saw this. I saw AdSense ads on milw0rm (a site that shares exploits). Last time, I checked it was against AdSense’s policy to put ads on a hacking/cracking related site.

Accounts get closed (and sites even get banned) if they have a bit of hacking/cracking content. No exceptions. You can’t hide. They’ll find out sooner or later. But, why the fuck does milw0rm get to use AdSense (take a look at this screenshot)?

Now this is just crazy. Its a bit unfair, don’t you think? milw0rm has been using AdSense for years now. I’m just mad at AdSense. They treat low-traffic sites like shit and let the popular ones do whatever they want. Oh sorry, I forgot high-traffic sites make them money. So, its okay to bend the rules for them.

So, do they have double standards? Its a rhetorical question. What can we do about it? I don’t know. Contact them if you want.

I’m glad that I’m not using AdSense anymore. Plus its not like you even make a lot of money. Few dollars a day. Who cares. Do you?

Yeah we all do something wrong. We ask our friends to click on the ads or even click on it ourselves. Or have content against TOS. And then get banned. Sucks! Or maybe someone just click bombed you. Well don’t worry I’ll show you how to get your account back.

First read the email they sent about closing your account. See what the reason is. You, yourself should know the reason. Like the content or click fraud or whatever you did wrong. So this guide/tutorial is mainly for click fraud.

They let you appeal to them. Now click here to go to the appeal form. Make sure that you are nice and honest. Don’t bullshit them or threaten to take legal action. Just be nice. If you clicked the ads then tell them that you’re sorry and you won’t do it again.

And if you know that you didn’t ask anyone to click or clicked it yourself and think (or know) that someone click bombed you (repeatedly clicked the ads just to get you banned) then tell them that. If you have an IP then give it to them. Just tell it wasn’t your fault.

It will take some time for them to review your account (maybe a month). So just be patient. If you told the truth and didn’t do anything really, really big then the chances are they will re-enable it and put back the money you earned.

So good luck and let me know if you need further help.

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.