Well the thing on that, is most of the big money earners were relying on google search or adwords to make their living. Sure there is a content network and other search engines, but google search was the king. The killing off so many accounts recently, left so many without a replacement and they knew that. Pay per click formula says to diversify and not to have any one traffic source more than 10%. Hard to do. This recent crack down and timing is with the FTC creack down as well.
I too have seemed to be banned (or at least my account is under investigation... I can still login) Quite a bummer b.c Google is the largest PPC network. I may try Yahoo/Bing, but as others have mentioned traffic exists outside Google, and I guess we just have to adapt.
Bing's been growing the last year or so. I really hope bing gets bigger so their platforms can rival adwords.
Would someone like to comment on media buys? Amish Shah says media buys are very risky and not to start there, but when more experiened to try it............
The world hasn't ended since Google has been on a banning spree. MSN and Yahoo are still there and people are still making money from them.