Life After Google Banishment?

Umm I know for a fact the rich jerk (i think thats the name) makes tons without google. You can talk to him for some more information or visit his blog (sorry i don't have a link)

If you hang with many of the superaffiliates out there, the ones who really work CPA networks and affiliate programs, you'll discover many don't run with Google anymore due to cost, ad restrictions, or because they have been banned.

Most high traffic advertisers have turned to paid media like banners, text ads, Tier 2 search engines, CPV/PPV, Facebook ads, and other sources since they are scalable and the visitors are pretty much on demand.

And lets get real about free traffic. It's out there, and may be good for the newbie getting their feet wet, but if you expect to make any real money online, especially if you want to get wealthy, you need a more reliable plan that submitting articles to directories and blogging.

Look at paid media when you are ready to rock your business, no Google necessary

Jonathan

Frank Kern said in his list building videos that he doesn't depend on Google for his traffic. He pays for it.

He's making some money. :p

Sumit.

Never been banished - but one of my most successful sites gets 90% of its traffic (and the vast majority of conversions) from Stumbleupon.

I was banished from adwords 6 years ago - it was painful at first but in reality it proved to be a lifesaver as it opened up so many other opportunities for me and I became less reliant on Google and more on my own talents to aquire traffic.

There are lots of marketers that do quite well without Google you just don't hear about them because they prefer to stay quiet and in the shadows.

Tim

sounds like google makes or breaks your business, might want to diversify

Those videos were funny.

I'm new here so this may sound a bit odd.
I'm a web designer and was creating a site for a very picky client. He wanted to rank higher on the search pages for his business.
I told him a 4 page site with three external links was isolated. It was only because I did my job that he had others linking to him at all. He didn't want any links - didn't want to advertise on his site. I told him he needed relevant links to rank better.
Finally he agreed to have adsense on a few pages. BUT - he didn't want any ads from competitors in his field of service.
I know - a nightmare!
So I was trying to tweak the ads coming in by checking the links to make sure that they didn't offer his very specific service. Unfortunately, I'd never done this before and I was still new in working with Google. You may figure out what happened.
Because I got an email saying I was banned - they told me that I did something wrong and that my acct was closed to me. They didn't even listen to me when I tried to explain what I was doing and ask them what was wrong so I could learn.
It wasn't till later when my son got into using it for his own site, that I found out they added some extra tools. Seems that they have an option now that will disable your own clicks to links. Yet I don't see how that works.
But I no longer can use adsense - so what other option do I have for adding adsense "like" ads to my websites?

Someone said to me that Facebook is bigger than Google - but do they offer an Adsense like option? A way to add ads to a site's pages like adsense does...if it does that would be great.

Thanks for any help - the learning curve for a lot of this stuff is fairly steep at times.