Got an Email from Adsense

Yes, it sucks.

The reason its sucks is the only thing I was doing was changing the dates on really old evergreen blog post for my file download sites (2,500+ pages).

All I had to do is login every couple of days & change blog post dates to bump the old blog post to the top of the Feedburner Feed which would automatically send out a new email to my email list. Inside the email was my Adsense Ad, which could only be done with a Feedburner Feed.

If they would have never stopped Feedburner/Adsense I could have cashed in on this forever (2,500+ pages of evergreen content). By the time I finished sending out 2,500 emails (2-3 per week) my email list would have forgotten about the first email/content. Repeat...

They're likely just moving to shutdown the whole Feedburner service. Bloggers are making noise about it so hopefully they won't do that.

I'm not pissed or anything. Sure it blows & it's a hassle, but getting pissed off doesn't put money in my pocket.

I've got a few options, my only concern right now is my Feedburner email list, I'm not sure about the fate of Feedburner. If G is pulling the plug on Adsense inside Feedburner Feeds, I wonder what they'll do with Feedburner. Adsense was G's money maker for Feedburner.

I'm thinking I need to create a killer piece of content & persuade my list to signup on a self hosted email list (Aweber), before I lose my list.

They didn't mention anything about killing off Feedburner, but If their not earning money to support Feedburner I have a feeling they'll drop Feedburner next. IDK, I just don't want to lose my list.

One thing that would piss me off is If G keeps showing Adsense Ads inside the Feedburner emails after December 3, 2012. If I find out that's their plan (cutting out affiliates for something we built (email list), I'll completely drop Adsense just as fast as I signed up 6 years ago.

I'll leave one of my Feedburner email list intact (smaller list) just to see what the Feedburner emails look like after December 3, 2012.

Sounds like there is still hope yukon!

Yukon is not one to jump on the bandwagon of dissing google.
Like others, me included, we adapt. Some people can't
or won't, so they just go cry in a corner.

This has nothing to with google being mean, nasty, or other
such rot.

I knew soon after yukon posted this, that's what this thread
would morph into.

I also got the same email, just when I had feeds figured out.
They allow more than 3 ad blocks, and it was just beginning to
gel.

Oh well, that's life. You adapt.

I guarantee Yukon already has tricks up his sleeves, or some
in his mind.

Feeds was probably abused way too much. And the fact that
your ads appear on others site's, maybe, could lead to more
invalid clicks and click fraud.

People need to realize this: (I know Yukon does) Google
makes decisions for the better of the program, or at
least that's one reason. Anyone involved with adsense needs
to realize the more google weeds out certain things, the
better the overall program will be.

I remember when they got rid of video ads as well. They used
to pay for picasa downloads, among other things.

In fact, I can't even remember half the stuff in the
past 4 years that google has canned from adsense.
And unlike the replies here, the earth did not swallow
people up.

The problem is, the more people try and shmooze adsense,
the more google cracks down. So the next time you
see someone breaking the rules or shmoozing, slap them
down. They are really hurting your bottom line.

I made a recent thread about how I was able to see my ads
on squidoo. Two days later, boom, feeds are gone from adsense.
If I was into conspiracies, I'd say "G" reads this forum....

Paul

I'm ok with change as long as it's something better for everyone involved. If G keeps running Adsense Ads inside my Feedburner emails after Dec. 3, that wouldn't benefit me.

I'm ok with pulling the plug on the entire Feedburner/Adsense, but If they're removing me from the business to boost their earnings on the same Adsense inside emails/feeds without those Ads being affiliate Ads, I'm not ok with that. Might not ever happen, we'll see.

I generate niche traffic outside of Google SERPs, so I'm putting Adsense Ads in front of laser targeted traffic that Google wouldn't have for it's Adwords bidders, I don't generate traffic for free. Granted the amount of traffic I generate probably isn't even a blip on their radar, but it's about business, If I don't profit then it would be time to move on.

This has nothing to do with Adsense or Google, I've been working on moving into creating my own niche products. I've sold a few of my own products on my old download sites. Right now I'm at the start of entering a new niche that is extremely profitable, more importantly it's a niche I enjoy. I enjoy my old Adsense sites niche, years go by & I'm interested in new things. The old download sites are evergreen so letting them sit isn't a big deal, they'll still earn money.

You missed the gravy train.

Seriously anyone that could retain traffic with an email list could have profited from the Feedburner/Adsense emails. Set the email to only show a single snippet of text & 1 Adsense Ad, nothing else on the email page. Couldn't have been any easier.