How many sites is too many for an Adsense Account??
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Hey folks,
So I have been reading murmurations lately that Adsense is now frowning on accounts with "too many web sites". This is obviously a move to attempt to stop people building a high number of "micro niche" sites and they are explicit in their statement (buried somewhere in their user guidelines) that they prefer a smaller number of 'authority' sites to a large number of small sites.
The only problem is, Adsense being Adsense, there is no specific detail given about how many sites is too many. I don't understand why they can't just set a cap and be done with it.
The frustrating thing about all this is that Google always takes the moral "high road" and expects people to just spend their lives creating web sites as if they don't have a business to run. But anyway.....
There's a well known thread on this subject, seems someone called spenser from nichepursuits.com got banned - they had 100 sites and concluded it was the number of sites - however I think their conclusions were erroneous - as it turns out he had 7 adsense accounts and they all got deactivated at once... !
I have lots of sites - and quite a few that I sort of stuck Adsense on to see what would happen. I've now been through my empire and 'culled' adsense from all the ones that weren't doing very much. But I'm sick of this nagging nervousness that the rug could get pulled at any time. If there was another way to make the same amount of money from my sites, I would give adsense the boot in a nanosecond. Too many vague rules!
Thoughts anyone?
So I have been reading murmurations lately that Adsense is now frowning on accounts with "too many web sites". This is obviously a move to attempt to stop people building a high number of "micro niche" sites and they are explicit in their statement (buried somewhere in their user guidelines) that they prefer a smaller number of 'authority' sites to a large number of small sites.
The only problem is, Adsense being Adsense, there is no specific detail given about how many sites is too many. I don't understand why they can't just set a cap and be done with it.
The frustrating thing about all this is that Google always takes the moral "high road" and expects people to just spend their lives creating web sites as if they don't have a business to run. But anyway.....
There's a well known thread on this subject, seems someone called spenser from nichepursuits.com got banned - they had 100 sites and concluded it was the number of sites - however I think their conclusions were erroneous - as it turns out he had 7 adsense accounts and they all got deactivated at once... !
I have lots of sites - and quite a few that I sort of stuck Adsense on to see what would happen. I've now been through my empire and 'culled' adsense from all the ones that weren't doing very much. But I'm sick of this nagging nervousness that the rug could get pulled at any time. If there was another way to make the same amount of money from my sites, I would give adsense the boot in a nanosecond. Too many vague rules!
Thoughts anyone?
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