Well.. My account just got banned, as 100's of topics talking about same issue (how to get it back, is it fair?, what i did? etc..) I opened this thread to tell you that i Don't Care! actually i want to thank them for closing it out, i will not even bother to send them telling its unfair or so NOTE that i was watching the account very closely and i can tell there is nothing can convince me that i violated their TOS. Anyway, i am here to encourage you to cut that man in the middle, why are you using it? to be rank because we are lazy! we can triple the income if we use other methods like selling a product directly or via affiliate marketing, that man in the middle (Adsense) will cut your earnings way too much. Just try it out, for those who get good revenue out of adsense, just try selling a product worth "Selling" with your great traffic you definitely will triple your earnings. I have tried it, so i am not only talking here as i used to own a website selling a good product actually it was an "ebook" as the revenue was really good averaging 3k/month from sales, which i don't think you can get with adsense using site/traffic/niche! it is just a suggestion to try out different methods instead of losing your potential to some other third party.
Adsense should always be considered the short term answer. The real money is on dealing with the advertisers directly.
This sounds a bit like sour grapes to me. It's ludicrous to ask everyone else to stop using Adsense just because you were banned. Do you honestly believe a single person will stop using it just because of this post?
good advice but not all the sites are good fit for affiliate marketing. while affiliate marketing is my fav, i do have some sites where i run adsense also due to the site topic and visitor trend which makes adsense a good fit
I've been telling people forever that they shouldn't rely on Adsense as a primary source of income. Google has an itchy trigger finger and it's already been proven that numerous publishers who never violated the TOS have been unfairly banned. I'm suprised the FTC or some other government agency hasn't stepped in yet and levied significant fines on Adsense for cearly violating the Truth-in-advertising standards, not to mention the way they handle a banned account. IMHO, it's utterly ridiculous that a company who claims a publisher violated their TOS can get away with indiscriminitely banning somebody without showing any proof of what the publisher did that violated the TOS. It's just retarded that a tech company like Google thinks that they're not going to eventually get slammed for this. Even stupider is the fact that Google can't simply *audit* clicks - doh - Chitika does it, Adbrite does it but Google can't do it?? Seems Google would rather throw the baby out with the bathwater than have happy publishers.
Adsense is a good option for blogs that are just starting up. If your account got banned, you could ask Adsense for an explanation
I semi agree. Dont put all your eggs in one basket. I think there is more potential to make money from other sources than adsense. Try to use a mixture of things. If you need a list check out my sig link.