A 52 year old webmaster from the
Netherlands got banned from the Google Adsense program in just a few
clicks. He went looking around for alternatives and found a lot of very
creative brand new advertising solutions. That webmaster was me. Do as
I did and you will get a message like:
• Your account is disabled
because of invalid clicks.
What was all the fuzz about? The adsense account was set up for my
website www.wereldwijdbellen.nl ,
wich I started one year earlier as an affiliate for a German / American
Voip company (voice over IP, internettelephony). At that time Adsense
was new for me and I decided to give it a try. Doing some cutting,
copying and pasting with the codes and voila, I was advertising
competing Voip companies on my website.
Spyware was already a big nuisance on the internet at that time. In my
battle against it I experimented with anonymous surfing via so called
anonymizers and proxyservers with the purpose of hiding my IP address.
Simply just out of curiosity, whether or not the number of clicks on my
ads could be influenced, I produced them and guess what happened? They
were interpreted as invalid clicks. Adsense disabled my account and I
have to admit it : they had a good reason to do so (stupid me, what a
shame). However It was never my intention to harm the advertisers nor
anyone else.
• I realised that the
possibility to earn money with these ads
had gone forever.
For hardworking affiliate webmasters, generating 100%
of their multiple website income through Adsense, this must be a
nightmare. Google has no obligation to explain its decision in detail.
So I begged to Google: Here are my sincere apologies. I’ll never do it again please let me in again !!!
No way, don’t waste your time, forget about it, don’t
pull on a dead horse. Google won’t unlock your account again. Remember
we live in the internet age and everything is automated. Google’s
answers to my sincere and arguing emails
were no exception. They were completely robotized. So would this be the
end of a dream earning an income with my website? Answer: NO. As the
famous Dutch football player Johan Cruyff ones stated:
• Every disadvantage has
its advantage.
I decided that I had to forget about Adsense
forever being an internet advertising possibility for me and guess what
I found out ? I was not the only one and this nightmare of the
possibility of getting banned is discussed in forums all over the
internet now. You want proof? Just google (yes this is a new verb) with
“banned from adsense” and you will see. But what is more important is
that the alternatives are given in these forums and on individual sites
as well. Here I’am going to share with you what I discovered.
Clickbank-ad-sense-script, a new program that serves Clickbank based
affiliate products in your website. These ads resemble adsense ads but
a lot of webmasters are preferring them. Unlike pay per click this
program pays for every sale you make in over 11,000 Clickbank products.
The yield is higher than adsense because it pays you between 50 and 75%
of product cost, wich can mean $ 100 in your pocket from only one
click. Clickbank-ad-sense lets you make a selection of your favorite
products that you believe are not competing with your own product.
Similar programs are: AffiliateSensor and CBPlugin.
• You want more money making
advertising solutions? Just read on.
Another creative way of adding something new is done by
Chitika. Their eMiniMall is a CPC-based intelligent product
merchandising service. Alternative to static web banner ads it combines
product merchandising, a recommandation engine and comparative
shopping. Go to chitika.com and have a look for yourself. One picture
says more then a thousand words.
• There are pros and cons and
every rose has its thorn but
what do you think of
this one?
Adbrite sells ad space on thousands of websites. There
are two things you can do with Adbrite– buy and sell ad space. If you
are an advertiser they provide you with all sorts of websites. When you
find the site you want to advertise on, you write your ad and pay. If
approved by the webmaster your ad will appear on that site at the
scheduled time. If you are a publisher you can set your own rates and
approve or reject every ad that’s purchased for your site. The revenue
is split 75/25 in your favour. Adbrite provides publishers with more
revenue and better ads by selling the ads directly to your visitors –
this is something the other ad systems don’t do.
• The pay-per-click contextual
advertising has grown into a
$ 3 billion business.
Thanks to Google’s Adsense network contextual
advertising, with the short text based links that appear next to a
website’s content, is a very hot item on the internet now. Steve Balmer
recently introduced Microsoft’s version called Adcenter and Yahoo
unveiled a pay-per-click beta program called Yahoo Publisher Network
(YPN).
Let me give you my impressive “competitors” list that I have found in
my search to survive my ban from Adsense :
