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Adsense: Rules Surrounding Invalid Clicks and Being in Control

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Adsense: Rules Surrounding Invalid Clicks and Being in Control

What Is So Important About An Invalid Click and How Will It Affect Me?

More than anything, an invalid click is a big no-no and it will get your account terminated faster than anything else. Having said that, an invalid click is when a publisher clicks on their own ads to add to their earning potential . It’s also when a publisher asks others to click on their ads just to raise their revenue. It also raises the advertiser’s costs and won’t tolerate this. Adsense has state of the art technology and they know what’s going on.

Invalid clicks also happen when someone uses robots to click on ads or automated software. It is any deceptive practice used to click on ads.

Invalid clicks are also unnecessary as there are plenty of money -making opportunities with valid clicks. With an optimized website, useful content, and attractive ads, there’s no reason for anybody to even entertain the idea of using invalid clicks.

Having Control Over Your Adsense Account

You the publisher, have complete control over the advertisement that runs on your site. You can choose to run only image ads, only text ads, or a combination of both. recommends that you choose a combination of both to maximize your earning potential, but the decision is yours.

When making your ad decision, you also have the freedom to choose which type of ads run across your entire account (image or text) or you can narrow that decision to what type of ad might run on a particular page.

As of right now, you are not able to differentiate your image ad click rate from your text ad click rate. You can of course, differentiate your click rate from one site as opposed to site. Say, for example, you run only image ads on one site and only text ads on site. By setting up channels to track both sites, you can see which site has the better click rate. Of course, you have to take into consideration there would be more factors than whether you were running text or image ads. The content, the placement of the ads in general, even the color could a difference.

Refer to the Adsense Support Site for specific instructions on how to enable or disable image ads. Remember, it’s all up to you!

I’m happy to share my adsense revenues with you!! :)

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Adsense: Why it is Important to Get Approved for the Program and the Advantages of Not Getting Your Own Blog Site

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Adsense: Why it is Important to Get Approved for the Program and the Advantages of Not Getting Your Own Blog Site

Why Do I Have to Get Approved for the Adsense Advertising

It’s not really about you. has standards to which they adhere and there are certain sites that they don’t want their advertiser’s ads on. Check the Program Policies for an exhaustive list of what kind of content sites are not acceptable. For the most part, they do not allow ads to be placed on any site that has excessive profanity. This is probably the hardest one to decipher as the word “excessive” could mean one thing to a publisher and thing altogether to the Adsense Advertising. To be on the safe side, if you notice more than a couple instances of profanity on a site you are considering using for the Adsense Advertising , you might want to consider site.

Sites that contain ads for beer, liquor or tobacco products are not allowed to participate in the Adsense Advertising .

Sites that promote hate or racist attitudes are not allowed to participate in the Adsense Advertising .

If the site you are considering promotes gambling, drugs, even prescription drugs then it is not suitable for the Adsense Advertising.

A good guideline to go by might be if a site is family oriented. That may not cover everything but it’s a starting place. Again, check the Program Policies for more information.

Why Your Should Not Pay for Your Own Site

If you already have a website that showcases your wares or you’ve been thinking about getting one, that’s great. Since you’re working on building a business anyway, you can only profit more by implementing Adsense on your site. As long as it conforms to Adsense Advertising Policies of course.

If, however, blogging is your interest, I say stick with the most popular blogging site you know. Or even two or three of them. Why? Traffic. Lots of it. Blogging on an already populated site versus dreaming up your own site is like the difference between 5:00 traffic in New York City and an old dusty country road. Not only do the owners of writingup.com, bloggerparty.com and others like it bring in the traffic, they even help you money when you bring in more traffic.

Remember what they say in real estate: location, location, location.

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