The greatest challenge for Xfactor project?

My apologies if I assumed something I should not have. Seriously.

I do that sometimes and kick myself for doing so every time.

In the final analysis you may have done absolutely nothing wrong by Google. Google is by no means perfect. Sometimes they are as downright nasty as the next company their motto of "do no evil" notwithstanding.

The best we may be able to hope for is that Google will not slap us down before we start the money rolling with Adsense such that we can then diversify and not become so dependent on Google.

I mean they are not entirely capricious either.

But as you seem to have experienced...Google can end up closing down anyone for no discernable reason at all sometimes.

It happens. It's unfortunate. It's sad. It's grossly unfair. But there is little that we can sometimes do about it.

Though I have heard that if we are patient and go over with our sites with a fine tooth comb and ask for a reconsideration that banned accounts have indeed been reinstated.

I guess it depends on how much we are willing to wait and work to get back into their good graces.

I know that just as soon as I start making some decent income from Adsense I will begin to diversify so that I am not so entirely dependent on Google.

Again my sincerest condolescences on the death of your Google account. Hopefully they will listen to your continued pleas for fairness (if indeed you are pursuing the reinstatement of your account).

What I said I said from the perspective that in my extensive reading about Adsense in the last few months...the majority of people who get banned by Google are banned because they got too internet markety on Google.

At least that appears to be the case.

Like you said...you may not fall into that category at all and I am again sorry if I assumed things about your ban that may not have been true of you in particular.

Carlos

Thanks, Carlos! I see so many people saying they can get indexed in a couple of hours with Wordpress, and how easy it is, that I thought I might be overlooking something!

You got that right!

People sometimes seem to want to make money so fast that anything less than instant money from Adsense is seen as...well...a failure.

Adsense is a long term, viable, business endeavour. It is NOT a way to pay pressing bills coming up on the 1st of the month or feed your family this next week.

If you need money that fast you need to find another line of work for a while or in addition to Adsense until your income stabilizes and/or you can find some way to throw more effort into making money from Adsense.

Seriously.

If you are not into Adsense for the long term and if you are not willing to work at it and work at it and work at it and then work at it some more without seeing a penny of return for your initial efforts you are in the wrong business.

It takes a lot of work no matter what anyone on this forum may say otherwise. For many people Adsense success involved an impossible, unreasonable (or seemingly so) amount of work without pay. While others are out there making a killing at this or that job and making thousands per month the Adsense person (initially) is making zippo. Nada. Nothing.

It's in the long run that the Adsense turtles will surpass the hare. That's the perspective we need to have. We are Adsense turtles plodding along in the race to make internet money. Our aim is tried and true and will allow us to finish the race if we just keep plodding along. Consistentely doing what other Adsense turtles have done before us to finish their races.

But it will take time. It will take work. Lots and lots of work. It will not be easy. And many will quit along the way (all the better for the rest of us who keep at it though I would not purposely wish such a failure in this business to anyone).

An Adsense business is not for everyone. It is a bit on the geeky side incidentally and takes some measure of internet or technical prowess and understanding too. Or it takes a system (like the one XFactor makes available here) that is more or less set up for automatic success if one follows it religiously. But even such a system is a long term thing!

I am not refering to anyone in particular in what I say (unless I explicitly indicate so). Just sharing my thoughts on the matter in general for what they are worth.

Carlos

It really is not that hard. Obviously sites don't always get indexed fast, but I can certainly get >75% of my new wordpress sites indexed (at least the main page) within 24 hours. It isn't rocket science, just a combination of pinging, digg, clipmarks, and RSS feed distribution.

I really don't care if people believe it or not, but that has been true for my last 50 sites.