We all know there is a recession on, none more so than the Scam websites that have been set up offering websites and Adsense to go with them for a very small joining fee.You part with your $1.99, give your credit card details and suddenly wonder why you get a monthly debit from your account for $70.
Telephone calls to the company do not seem to do any good.
I am told that in India these scams are openly advertised in the newspapers offering any one an opportunity to get rich on the Internet.
This sort of scam has been going on for a long time now and there is a greater awareness of the situation but many people still fall for it, often getting bank charges as well because they have not got that sort of money in their account.
Adsense is free, work hard on making a blog or website with original content that people will want to read and then apply for an account.
A question posted on the Blogger help forum and messages posted on Digital point has made me realise that the official Adsense help forum is the place to ask questions. I know that I criticise that forum because of lack of support from Google staff but they do have some very well informed members who can answer your questions a lot better than some who think that to use Adsense is a no brainer. It is also a very good idea to read the terms of service and any updates.
I write this little article because someone had asked on the Blogger help forum if it was OK to click on his own ads if he found them interesting.
A top contributor had replied that in moderation, say one click in a hundred it would not matter. This particular TC has a brilliant blog on advice for the blogger and I have used it often but this answer, as far as I am concerned, was wrong, and it would have been simpler to have posted a link to the Adsense forum.
Its nice to know that even the best make mistakes, and I am far from that because some of answers I gave when a TC were just plain awful.
Incidentally the advice that a TC on the Adsense forum would give, is NEVER click on your own ads, they have seen too many publishers lose accounts because they have. An easy way to look at your ads is to download the Adsense preview tool if you are using Internet Explorer.
Now is the time to step back from advising about Adsense and have a little think.
The Adsense forum is not a happy place at the moment, why?
Many forum members who have given many hours of good solid advice have not been offered the position of Top Contributor, bless them, they would find out it is thankless job anyway.
There is no way to contact Google Customer support, many members will argue we are not customers but Publishers, so I will say there is no Publisher support.
You get the feeling that the Adsense Pro’s that do occasionally show up are just the office juniors and cannot commit themselves other than pasting links to the help pages and adding a few words like “Awesome” (How I hate that word) and “thank you for your patience”
Now I will repeat myself once again, but just look at the amount of “Why has my account been disabled” once the $100 mark has been reached. We check the blog or website over and hey presto, another bloody blog with copied content or whatever that should never have got an account in the first place.
We are told that the money is returned to the advertiser, and it is true that advertisers do get money returned, but do they get it all?
Earnings are still declining and we do not know what percentage of what the advertiser pays we actually get, not very good is it. I can already hear the chorus “You signed up and agreed to these terms and if you do not like it bugger off” (Typical sort of help comment on the Adsense forum)
So I stick Adsense on my site, its easy, and I earn a few bob for doing nothing but it is getting close to the stage now where what I am earning is not worth disfiguring my web pages with ugly Adsense ads that most people ignore anyway.
I still cannot get into the New Adsense Interface; maybe they should have just left it as it was.
If it aint broke don’t fix it
Can you imagine my excitement when I got the email to test the new Interface :0)Logged in and then was told it had broken :0(That was last night, I am at work now so cannot log in to have another go.A good friend who has tried it is not impressed.I WILL BE BACK.
Adsense have announced that a new interface is in Beta.You will be able to manage your account more efficiently according to the Adsense blogI am not one of the lucky ones to test this new interface but over the next few weeks invitations will go out to selected publishers to test this new feature.I have noticed thet the Adsense engineers are constantly modify all aspects of Adsense including features on the Adsense forum. I am a great believer in "If it aint broke don't fix it" and wonder if any of these modifications will help us to earn more. I very much doubt it, maybe all the back office work just helps to diminish our earnings. One thing for sure, Adsense earnings are getting less and less all the time even if we seem to be coming out of the recession.
Although this blog gives advice on Adsense I have added many free animations to the pages.These free animations are made by myself and you can use, modifyand do what you want with them. There is no copyright.
