$100 per day in Adsense.. slapped

Yea, i'm so utterly confused. First, its lost ranking, then deindexed, then ??? It's hard to understand what's going on with the wrong terminology.

I believe this is truly the case.

They could, and some have. That is why it is imperative that people do their research (although, I know I can't expect people to actually do that....)

...I, personally, won't write for a site unless I have spoken to the owners, at least on several occasions. There are many things a wise and prudent IM'er should do to limit their risk in ANYTHING they do. But, isn't releasing a product, itself, a bit of a risk that must be assumed. My research, regarding revenue sharing sites, is akin to that. No matter how much market research you do, a product may not do as well as you intended, or it may flat out flop....it is a risk you assume.

The benefits of Web 2.0 properties FAR outweigh the downside. Implement your own controls....save all your writing to external word documents....consider everything you do an investment, and protect it.

The one site that I write for the most, I have flat out asked the owner(s) the bold questions such as:

Where do you envision your site in 1 year/3 years/5 years?
Do you have any intent to change revenue share?

etc....

Bottom line: Treat everything as an investment.

I haven't....and, I've spent alot of time here. I wouldn't be surprised if there are occasional issues. Wait....there accounts were closed why exactly? Were they actually breaking the site's TOS? I've been a member of Squidoo for over 2 years (even though I rarely write there, except to build backlinks to other articles) and have never ever had a problem with my account just being closed down.

"At least with a site that you own, you have all the power to control it."

If you have not begun to integrate Web 2.0 properties into you online business plan, then you are truly neglecting some seriously powerful stuff. If you also take a macro look at all the trending online, you'll see that these Web 2.0 properties are among some of the highest ranked websites in the world. Not only that, but, these authority revenue share sites are emerging (and succeeding) greatly lately.....that means that they are all collectively sucking in traffic and making it gradually even more difficult to rank your own personal website.

A more favorable and optimal approach, IMHO, is to use these sites in conjunction with your own site. Catapult your own site off their inherent search engine authority....suck in that organic traffic, and monetize the heck out of every aspect of it.

You can certainly own your own website, and take 100% of the revenue generated, but, I truly believe that making any kind of decent money from your own site will become increasingly difficult, with time, and as these Authority Web 2.0 sites establish themselves in new and innovative ways. To neglect their power, IMHO, is very unwise, especially with how much the internet is evolving as of late. Why would Google ever want to direct traffic to your own personal site, when these authority sites have proven to offer very high value and quality information....Google wants to make their users happy, too, by displaying high quality and relevant results for searchers....not only that, but they want to direct that traffic to established sites that have search engine authority developed by the utilization of the collective.

So all the mini sites have suffered in the ranking, the exception is the big authority site and the Adsense account is still preserved.

How many pages did the mini sites consist of?

No offense but suck it up and get over it. Why is it that I have never had an article rejected and I've added over 100 articles to EZA.

The fact is if you are spending your time doing article marketing and NOT submitting to EZA well thats really foolish.

Unfortunately, they are. They've hired contractors, mostly in India, to do manual 'quality reviews' of sites. Generally this is a 30 second or less check and if you look MFA according to their formula, you get deindexed.

Good reply. i agree to keep your rankings you need to keep working, and keep building links

I know I am in danger of sounding a bit like a scratched record and I am truly sorry that you have had such a large slap of your sites with Adsense on.

The important thing that most people seem to overlook or just plain don't realise is that you should NOT be making sites to make money with Adsense. I will say it again (for effect) "DON'T BUILD SITES TO MAKE MONEY FROM ADSENSE!" I know that sounds strange and perverse to many of you and might seem very contradictory to my signature here.. but it the as true a statement as anyone has made here at Warrior since time began it just takes a change in the way you think.

So, am I saying that you shouldn't try to make an income from Adsense? NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! What I am saying is that you need to twist the way you think about the site building side of things 180 degrees.

Rather than start with looking for great keywords, low competition and all the usual stuff you need to start a new site by asking the big question.. "What can I build a site about that will be of great benefit to my visitors?"

Once you have found the answer to that question you should go hell for leather into creating the best, most informative, interesting content you can. It might in the form of videos, tutorials, software, forum, blog posts, audio files, news, images, diagrams, flowcharts.. Whatever medium conveys the information your niche craves..

Once you understand that and start building sites like that, not only will you be creating great authority sites loved by both Google and the people you will be able to monetise quite safely with Adsense or whatever other method you want and be safe in the knowledge that your sites wont disappear into the Google Abyss.

You might be thinking.. "this is too hard to do".. Trust me, it is no harder than the usual way of firing up a keyword tool and looking for lucrative keywords. It just takes you to change the way you think and do things.

As they say: Content is the king. Still it is sometimes that links are more important. Anyway, $100 a day is goood however you reach it

"Its funny how you mention the whole Ehow debacle (in some other threads) and yet support the whole notion of writing solely for another company's website on a revenue sharing basis."

Are you aware of eHow shutting down their WCP program, as of a few weeks ago? And...I haven't supported the notion of writing "SOLELY" for another company's website. A wise and prudent IMer would use these sites in conjunction with their own website.

"Who's to say Infobarrel won't be bought over? Aren't the owners human?"

They won't be bought out, nor will the owners relinguish any control over it, ever

"When you start discouraging people from stepping up to the plate and building their own web businesses .. you're killing of people's entreprenual spirits"

I've said, many times, to use these sites in conjunction with your own website. The fact of the matter is that they gain tremendous traffic off of their search engine authority. If you aren't monetizing every end of this continuum, from the revenue share aspect of the site, to affiliate links, and linking directly to your own monetized site, then you are leaving alot of money on the table.

Discouraging?