{"id":106,"date":"2006-09-24T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/106\/how-not-to-get-banned-from-google-adsense\/"},"modified":"2006-09-24T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T12:28:11","slug":"how-not-to-get-banned-from-google-adsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/how-not-to-get-banned-from-google-adsense\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to get banned from Google Adsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surfing the <a title=\"Digital Point\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.digitalpoint.com\">Digital Point forums<\/a> earlier, and surfed on through to Harry&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>His post: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"How not to get banned from AdSense\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harry-inc.com\/how-not-to-get-banned-from-adsense\/trackback\/\">How not to get banned from AdSense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>is something relevant because I know scores of Internet Marketing newbies who get blacklisted and disappear off the face of Google&#8217;s SERPs.<\/p>\n<p>And the worst thing is that they have a <em>huh? who? what? <\/em>reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, guys, didn&#8217;t you read the Adsense terms of service?<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t think clicking on your own ads 100 times wouldn&#8217;t get you noticed?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#wide--><\/p>\n<p>But more than that is the fact that contextual advertising is viable only if you have massive traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming an average of a 1% clickthrough rate, you&#8217;d need traffic of at least 10,000 a day to generate something viable.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads us to the type of content you might be looking at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mass\/pop culture content<\/strong>: something with mass appeal like a popular program such as American Idol, Big Brother, Desperate Housewives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highly niche content with a large userbase<\/strong>: maybe targeting Work At Homers (WAH)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fast breaking world influencing events<\/strong>: floods, hurricanes, natural diasters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been getting enquiries asking if blogs along the lines of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>starting up a business<\/li>\n<li>personal development<\/li>\n<li>goal setting and motivation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Might be viable candidate for adsense.<\/p>\n<p>My feeling is that unless you&#8217;re like Steve Pavlina, coming out with several quality posts like: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepavlina.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/student-graduates-college-in-only-two-semesters\/\">Student Graduates College in Only Two Semesters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be an uphill battle monetizing Adsense.(His site is Google PR7 and Alexa 4,584)<\/p>\n<p>You might do better to go the affiliate marketing route. (My favourite).<\/p>\n<p>Go with the strengths and avoid your areas of weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Google Adsense is a good buzzword for would be Internet Marketers, but you have to look at your long term viability and competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Affiliate Marketing might be a stronger contender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surfing the Digital Point forums earlier, and surfed on through to Harry&#8217;s blog. His post: How not to get banned from AdSense is something relevant because I know scores of Internet Marketing newbies who get blacklisted and disappear off the face of Google&#8217;s SERPs. And the worst thing is that they have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,29,22],"tags":[1772,1769,1766],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}