Another example of why you don't put all of your eggs in one basket

Adsense in the beginning is only pennies per click until you are more established with your site.

I don't blame you for not going for Adsense earnings - in the beginning there are none!

I earn a fair amount from Adsense, but it's not my only thing. So like you said not putting all your eggs in one basket is the best idea.

But there's no reason to be scared of Adsense unless you just can't follow rules. But if you can't follow rules, then honestly you're going to have a hard time with a lot of stuff.

I build sites and do put Adsense on some of them along with other ads (affiliate ads and CPA ads). I like to earn money from a variety of sources from one site.

I've never understood why so many people think they're just going to build an 'Adsense site'. There's plenty of room on one site to put all kinds of good content as well as lots of different ads.

Content publishing is a great thing if you do it right.

I didn't read the whole article, but this guy should put all his videos on his own site (youtube could have pulled the plug on him just as easily as Adsense, so he was on real shakey ground to begin with).

Then replace all the videos on youtube with shortened versions, like 30 seconds long, and a big "visit this URL" at the end and at the bottom of the whole thing. Then put some generic CPA ads on his site; like 'win a free ipad' or netflix, just something that would appeal to his demographic.

He could probably salvage most if not all his earnings. Later on if he was willing to learn even a little SEO he'd probably make more than what he was earning from youtube Adsense revenue sharing.

Lisa

Too bad the gentle man lost his earnings but I really dont think adsense is the problem, I think the problem with most of us is that we cant follow simple instructions and more so, we dont read the fine lines of the agreements that binds us. This is very important. It will save us time which is the most valuable thing and hard earned dollar which is the result of hard work.

Well the guy would have been fine with putting his eggs in the Adsense basket if he didn't break the rules. For example can a drug dealer be upset that his stash of weed was found by the police because he was speeding and drawing attention to himself? Would you tell him he shouldn't have put all of his eggs in one basket too?

The most scary part was having the check in hand (in process) canceled

Don't forget to promptly deposit those checks, regardless of who they are from.

I've been an Adsense publisher literally since the 1st day they made it available to us, and I've never worried at all about losing my account. Hundreds of sites later, I've had exactly one run-in with Adsense and it was over something they changed on their end that pertained to one of my sites and was in no way a TOS issue. The lesson is, read the TOS when your income is in any way dependent on a third party. If you don't, cry to the mirror.

John

Don't see the point of adsense. It's such a tiny return. Would rather give the space to my own product ads or an affiliate ad via Clickbank or PayDotCom any day.
Did see one tip recently... if you find that your own promotional banners aren't working (no clicks) then use the adsense format (make it look like an adsense ad) because people are used to clicking on them! Anyone already tried this?

Losing your Adsense account isn't a big deal.

Honestly...this guy will make more marketing his own info or affiliate products. As long as he has the traffic, he can test and tweak and find a winning combo.

Internet Marketing is no different than investing.

Diversify Diversify Diversify. Not only will you learn more, but when one source of income dries up, there's another waiting to take its place.

The main advantage to AdSense is it's easy - you don't have to drive sales, only have to spend a couple minutes posting the code on your site and if you have enough traffic it will make you a decent amount of money. Google is fairly strict with their terms, though, and if you don't follow them you're out.

That said, this guy seems to be using Amazon as well, plus he's selling his own products - and the AdSense ads are still there to boot... I can't see how he's only relying on one income stream, but I understand your point nonetheless!

He had wasted his money. I feel sorry for him, he is not contented on his earnings and want to more. If i was him, even if 1000 per / months is enough to me, now he will be a newbie again like us. Hope he find another job that will give him an earning of 2600/month. OMG

I agree with everyone above, if he had read the rules, he probably wouldn't have gotten banned.

I don't think adsense is a waste of time. It is not pennies if you choose the right keywords and backlink the heck out of your site.

I like how he's playing dumb about the whole thing. Everyone knows that you can't beg for clicks and I don't believe for a second that he knew otherwise, especially considering that he was quite experienced with AdSense. If there is one rule Google makes extremely clear it is that you cannot ask people to click your ads, ever.

Playing dumb during his appeal probably didn't help matters and in fact if he had been truthful he might have had his account reinstated.