Thank You Google! Thank You Ad-Non-sense!

Thank You Google! Thank You Ad-Non-sense!

After a up and down during the past weeks, I have to admit - Google and Google Pandas, Birds and Spiders are STUPID!

As Adsense Units are not just on one of our websites, but all of them, I am able to say just that!


Our MAIN - revenue is generated by websites, which have NOT being updated during the past 9 - 10 MONTHS! (Actually 2 of them, generate about 70% revenue, compared to the rest of our about 15 main websites)

This clearly shows, that the Google-Adsense talk of "Quality Content" is nothing else, just rubbish.

Google-Adsense is just messing it self up!

Some of our less "favored" websites, contain far more quality and unique content, than this 2 revenue bringers. One of thhe websites was even hidden penalized by Google, after being UPDATED with 4 additional pages, instead of just one! Adding the additional pages to this website, dumped the website to the Google bottom!
Now, after NOT updating this website again, for about 9 months... The "Cash-Bringer" is back! Not only generating income, but also sending traffic to our main website, again!

So again: Thank You Google! Thank You Ad-Non-sense!

Also, we have 4 additional websites (Well rather pages, as they are just SINGLE page websites!), with NO Adsense or any other advertisement, who bring now more traffic to our main websites, as traffic is generated by Google Search!

When adding advertisement: Google policy says: Don`t bring too much attention to Ad-Units...

As "Click Here" or "Support Us Here" and so on. Easy way to bring PERMITTED attention:
Use a Frame: Red, Green, Blue or Yellow and Light-Green on black backgrounds!
Name each Unit, as: Advertisement or Sponsor Ads - Use the same color as the frame or text within the advertisement unit. Make the ad-unit an "Eye-catcher", within the Adsense policies!
Don`t listen too much to Adsense, as there is a lot of nonsense written, about where and who to place Ad-Units!  Test for your-self!

If you think of MONEY - Think also of other Advertiser Networks:

 media.net  is not to bad, but you need to apply for each of your websites. Apply only if you have already a good running website!

You might have this daily income with Media-Net: 
Day,                      Impressions, RPM,    Earnings
Fri, Apr 4, 2014   512 $1.57 $0.80

For all other webmaster, even, if Adsense or Media.net does not want you:
Check chitika.com/  Their pay out rate is not really amazing, but you will earn some money, which helps to pay for the running cost of your website or domain name! Is a good start!
Very easy and advanced dashboard! You may use their adverts on any page, you like (Only according to their policies!)

You might have this daily income with Chitika: 
Day, Impressions, Valid Clicks, CTR,       CPM,    Earnings
Mar 27, 2014 2,015 15 0.74% $0.23 $0.47
Mar 15, 2014 596         5 0.84% $1.25       $0.74

Wiles Chitika is providing you with valid clicks, Media.net is giving you only the impressions.
Chitika payout minimum: $10 (also via PayPal)

Chitika statistics take at least 1-4 weeks, to show the right stats, but the same applies to media.net.
Media.net minimum payout: $100 (via bank account).

Due Google policy, I am not able to give here any detailed Adsense Statistics....

We started building websites, to provide information for the people - Back in 1999/2000. Google Adsense was not available at this early stages of internet.
We have build since then quiet some website, which where regarded by Google, but as it turns out, we have to start building websites for Google!
That means: Single websites or websites with just 2 or 3 pages. One link to each of the websites will do the registration work,...

Cheating Google - LEGAL

Never place any advertisement on this websites, as Google is not able to PENALIZE this websites! (As there is no Advertisement on them, you can`t possible be against Google "policies")
This websites have only one purpose: Bringing visitors to your main website(s)

My tip - If you need Text Content: Use Wikipedia (just change some of the text, don`t us all of the text!

My tip - If you need Image Content: Change the size  of images, if used from Wikipedia. Make sure, to name the picture differently. (Always observe copyrights!)

My tip - If you need a Search Engine: Use Bing! Bing is a healthy alternative to Google search, delivering often better results, than Google!
Additionally bringing the web-balance back to a health level, as Google is nearly "dictating", where your search goes, which websites are good or "bad".
Don`t let Google lead your life! Fight back, and show Google and Adsense, that they can NOT do, what they want!

Google claims, to check for "original Content" - This is a lie!  Just change some of the text, re-name and re-size the images. That is`it! But as ever; please ACCORDING to copyright law! Never use any pictures without owners permission!

There are also cheap picture-selling websites out there! Images - good for online use, from just $1 Dollar!

Adsense income and Adsense warnings

Adsense income and Adsense warnings.... in Performence reports. So, what is going on there?

Adsense: We`re sorry, some data in this report is delayed, please try again later..."

If your earnings are low and your website traffic, are “normal” (or has even increased), there could be issues with the reporting.  However, Google assures that everything is still being recorded...

The Google forums are a hot with complaints about low earnings in 2013.  There are publishers , reporting “stuck” impression reports and others are noticing lower eRPM (revenue per page earnings), a decrease in click-through rates, etc.

To name the last day, Feb 07th, only: We recorded about 45% less in earnings, as Adsense invalidated all the time clicks. Impressions where not recorded at all on some of our websites!

What about Google Analytics…

Since last summer publishers experiencing intermittent issues with delayed reporting.

Apparently..., we are not alone.

Some publishers say, that their accounts have stopped reporting data altogether.  

We deleted all "links" to Google Analytics, just in February 2014, using now other free means, for statistics.

Have you noticed anything "funny", with your Google accounts?

The Bige Adsense TAKE AWAY

Adsense and Google INVALIDATING clicks on mass!

How do you know this, you may ask now.

Quiet simple; Having some time, to check the Adsense account over a full day. Opening new windows, and counting each time the clicks, page views and so on. Have some "fun", and follow that just one day!

Happen: Just within 7 hours, Adsense-Google INVALIDATED at least HALF of the clicks!
Interestingly always the clicks with the most revenue!
How interesting is that! Create a campaign, with high PPC and just wait! Google Adsense is taking care of, that you will pay the money, but pushing that payment rather to big and favored websites!

As Google-Adsense has updated all the accounts to "Interest Based", it means actually, if a visitor clicks on an advert from XYZ, who is willing to pay $1 or more per click, Adsense will make sure, you as a small scale website owner is not earning that money! It might be, that the interested visitor is not long enough on that website, or what ever. After invalidating that click(s) in your account, they will pay a larger website that money later, when the same visitor or any other person using the same computer, clicks on that advert again!

The story, that Google-Adsense "CARES" about advertiser, is just pure nonsense!
They make sure, that you as advertiser pay`s anyway! However! Giving some money back into your account, does not mean, you won! So, or so, you`ll pay Google-Adsense!

Advertiser on multiple advertisement platforms, loose often more. They just don`t care about, as all what count`s is advertising. let say, an publisher has advertisement from REBTEL on his website, via Tradedoubler. A visitor clicks on`it. Automaticaly, a new "Interest Based" advert "campaign" is being created via Google... Showing the REBTEL adsense advert now over and over again, till the visitor clicks again.. this time Adsense-Ad.. REBTEL is being charged. Just for the click. Nothing else.

"Interest Based" advertising means often nothing else, as showing the same advert over,
and over, and over again!
As an example of that over again showing, just visit Play . com or Hostgator . com, and Adsense will bombard you with their advertisements, on each other website, you visit for the whole day!

Oh yes, you could opt out of that "Interest Based" adverts. but, it would not make much sense, as publisher, as that would reduce the overall ad"choices" on your website!
The right thing would be, in the interest of the majority of the publishers generally, to disable that "Interest Based" advertisements! But, this is something, only Google-Adsense could do!

Well, Google is trough that system earning even more cash, they will do a dam, to change back to the old system!
Advertisers are their COW, and small and medium publishers are their meanings to get the milk!

There is something wrong with Google & Adsense! 

By the way; the smaller a website, the more likely the website will be banned by Adsense and Google, for "Invalid Activity" ...when using Adsense! A webmaster without Adsense, has the very best chances, to grow without problems!

Next: Why the back link story is just a story!

You think, the more back links you have, the higher your ranking? Think again!

Adsense Observations

Adsense observations !

Adsense page views are wrong!  

How possible can Adsense count 560 page views for one website, wiles Media.net (Bing/Yahoo network) is counting 1181 impressions, with far less advertisement units on that very website!  

As the story of "Invalid Activity" is just what it is - a story, fitting Google Adsense! They don`t loose any income, as some smart people might tell you! The publisher is loosing! How, you may ask now! Simple; As actually every Adsense account switched automatically to "Interest Based" advertisements...  (Opting out would not be the solution.)

You do loose every day, and quiet some money, trough Adsense new "Invalid Activity" system! Most webmasters are not even aware of this! (Who has got the time, to observe the Adsense account, daily, for a Week!

They think ...ooh , that are just the adjustments at the end of the month... NO, there are EVERY hour adjustments made by Adsense, that is what Google-Adsense, is not telling us publishers!!!

The Scenario

Follow that scenario; A visitor goes online, visiting your website first. He see`s an advertisement, clicking on it, hitting then the back button. Scrolling your page, clicking on an other advertisement. Going back to your site or leaving even the advertiser website. Adsense will first count a click, you have your revenue. Now they take this off you (counting this as "Invalid Activity"...), as their system says, that was to short... BUT, as the visitor has visited that pages, Adsense will now show that advert xxx times on other websites! If he clicks then again. Google wins!

You may follow this every single day, ad your Adsense account! Just open 10 windows and refresh first window 2, then 1-2 hours later 3 and so on! You will see, that you have more page views, but clicks are invalidated by Adsense! Esp. clicks, with a higher revenue! That game goes on and on and on, every day, most of that affects smaller websites! The large website usually gain, as the "Interest based Advertisement" is often shown over and over again! (Example play.com) Google-Adsense wins - We, the smaller website owners loose! That is`it! Simple as that!

There are good, and free tools to analyze all our website states, included back links, visitors, countries, and so on. ( Example: www.majesticseo.com )
It is not that Adsense is "stealing" the money... they just pay that later to an other larger website. Maybe to Ebay (and Ebay use even Drop Down menus, over Adsense Advertisement :-)  ... Or "Sticky Adverts" on other large websites! I did report this...but there we are. You don`t kill the Gold Donkey, just because he is shitting too!

Fighting back

There is not much to do, except fighting back, with fair means. Use Bing search on your website(s), and forget about Google search! (Is anyway not the money worth, to build in!)

Media.net

Apply ADDITIONALLY with Media.net - They are not as good, with revenue yet, but they are just at the very beginning!
That would have an huge impact on Google, if 2000.000 Adsense users drop Google search!  Change your personal search to Bing! Compare a search in Bing and Google! You`ll be surprised!

My Conclusion: 

Google need to come back to their AdSENSES, as we webmasters are the hard workers, for Google`s success over the past 11 years!

See below the Bing Search code as JPG;

Feel free, and comment!

Are you with Google Adsense? Google Adsense is not more with you!

Are you with Google Adsense? 

Google Adsense is not more with you!

Many website owners complain since some time now, about revenue  losses. You might think, that is the up-and down of the World Wide Web.
Might be right, to some extent. Loosing visitors, seasons of the year. Months of the year.

As of today, a webmaster has many tools, to investigate about visitors. Adsense and Google webmaster tools are just a little part of that.

Now after wondering about the sudden drops in income, you might search help in Adsense forums, contacting even Google Adsense support, they are fast to tell you, that there is "Invalid Activity" going on at your website(s).
They even tell you to name the ad-units as "Advertisement".  Well, not even the advertisement on this blog is named "Advertisement" or "Sponsored As". Why? It`s Blogger guys! Blogger belongs to Google-Adsense!

There are 1000s of 1000s of websites out there, who don`t comply with this nonsense Adsense policy!
What about Ebay? They use drop down menus!

After Google-Adsense invited about 2 Million webmasters to join their advertisement program, they offered also a free search engine, for webmasters, making Google search to the most visited sears engine in the world. That dates just back to 2003. Many webmasters happy used that advanced tool at this time. Earning money with their websites, beside building the websites further up, to deliver a experience for visitors. All started with single uploads to the host. Large companies joined the market, offering the first full CMS web-based Content Management System.

People from all walks of live could build websites, without having a extend knowledge of HTML.

As early as 2006/07, Widows started with a CMS "Website for life" Free. They closed down in May 2012, kicking all the webmasters out of business. but offered as replacement Office 365, up till now. It is now called SharePoint.
Why website owners were kicked out, is quiet simple. Windows deleted all pages, against their promise six years earlier. If you had a domain name pointing to your website, as example www.yyz123,com, your follow pages where named www.yyz123.com/number.aspx.
With the new system the whole name changed to www.yyz123,com/PAGES/number.aspx ...
That means for any search engine a complete new website. Additionaly, your website was penalized by Google and Bing/Yahoo, as the old address showed as error message, if at all.

That was the end of millions of websites. The end of many hours of work, invested into the websites.

Yahoo Geo-Cities did offer some similar system even before that. Unfortunately closed down. Blogger started, WordPress and so on. Google promoted rather a money building behavior, as every small webmaster can join - up till now - and earn money for him self, and Google.

Back to Google-Adsense.

They promote large websites more and more, regardless if they are within the Adsense policy. As named before, Ebay is one of this money making golden donkeys for Google. Butt there are many high ranking websites to name CNET: http://www.cnet.co.uk/broadband-speedtest/
Drop down menu over Adsense Advertisement.
Online Newspapers: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/  Not a drop down menu, but advertisement is build in a way, that it is not easy to see, if it is part of the content, or ...advertisement.

The same story, no naming of the Ad-units, with that newspaper website; http://www.1stheadlines.com/united_kingdom.htm
Additionally there is, that they use on all pages even 5 Adsense-Units. (3 are permitted)

And here an other newspaper website. Just pictures and as usual a drop down menu, not naming the Adsense unites.

An other news website, displaying advertisemen; only one small unit is named. The other, in that case the top banner is placed so nice, that it is just inviting "Invalid Activity"
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/crime/artikel.php?ID=301862

Left left top, just above that unit:  Display options /  Mobile website, and right hand site the Adsense text link unit...
But Halt! This is not all; Have some fun, and give a comment to the news! What happens then, ist a not permitted "Sticky Advertisement", right hand.


You might ask now, what has that to do with MY De-Creasing income! That is simple to answer:
Common for the named websites; They all rank very, very well on Google. They are the Golden Donkey`s for Google-Adsense!

AdSense programme policies

They show clearly, that not all publishers are equal!

Read follow;....".... it's your responsibility to keep up to date with, and adhere to, the policies posted here. Exceptions to these policies are permitted only with authorisation from Google."

NOT: Exceptions to these policies are not permitted. 
BUT: Exceptions ... are permitted only with authorisation from Google.

Invalid clicks and impressions

Publishers may not click their own ads or use any means to inflate impressions and/or clicks artificially, including manual methods.

Encouraging clicks

Publishers may not ... or placing images next to individual ads.
Format site content so that it is difficult to distinguish it from ads.

There was a question to Google- Adsense:

Hi Adsense team,

I'd like to know if the adsense ad unit on http://www.wikia.com/Wikia is legal. If you scroll down, you will see that the ad catches and scrolls down after a certain point. Besides I'm seeing more sites displaying these type of ads.

Thanks!

No, these types of ads aren't allowed by Adsense. 

These ads are referred to as “sticky ads” and they are not permitted. We will take action when we come across this kind of implementation.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/adsense/3CCpFfTNmBk

Read here more about the Adsense policy;
See also: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/3394713?hl=en
as;
When you implement ads, please always think about your users and consider whether if you were a user coming to the site for the first time, would you be able to distinguish the ads from content..... And please always keep a proper distance between ads and content to avoid accruing accidental clicks.

Part 2: Ad implementation

Fixed Ads: These ads are referred to as “sticky ads” and they are not permitted. We will take action when we come across this kind of implementation.

So, why are all this websites are still on top and high ranking?

Is Google blind or is that just an accident? I don`t think so! This websites are just a few, generating a big part of the income for Google-Adsense! How else is to explain, that small webmasters are punished, with daily money cuts on ther Adsense accounts, to an extent of up to 40% of the daily revenue generated? Clicks are invalidated, as even impressions! How is it possible, that Impressions of Bing and Yahoo network Media.net advertisement ( www.media.net ) is up to 5 times more, as Google-Adsense advertisement? ( I will follow up with some screen shots soon!)

As all webmasters have to experience every month, Adsense is adjusting at the end of the month the revenue. often, 1%-2% is taken off the money earned. Well this is quiet OK. But, have you ever had the time to observe daily stats?

Take your time to watch, what is going on at your Adsense account! Open just 10 windows, with your Adsense account. Start at 12 Noon. Leave one window, as you open it. Refresh window 2 at 2pm, window 3 at 4pm and so on!

Leave every refreshed window as it is, at that time. Surprise, surprise! Late evening you will see, that Adsense has taken 20% - 40% off you! Open the next morning an other fresh window with your Adsense stats...
And as morning surprise, an other amount of income just vanished. Most of the webmasters will not see that, as who has time to check on the Adsense account, daily and for hours? 

But, now it becomes more and more difficult! Dropping revenue. Often the same visitor count, some times even more visitors, and still dropping! How possible is that? 
There is only one explanation!  Google is punishing smaller websites/publisher, for policy violations of larger websites, to make the public impression, that they care about, how advertisements are placed. 

There is one small way, to show Google-Adsense a form of protest! Use the Bing Search on your website!
Easy to find with Google or BING search "HTML CODE BING SEARCH" or + for websites.

Apply at media.net! It`s quiet new and the revenue generated is just a beginning, but it will pay for your domain fees, and maybe a bit more forward to the cost, of running your website! 
There is also a personal adviser to each account, with a personal welcome message!
You are permitted to have up to 3 units on each of your web pages. 
According to the Adsense policy, it is within the policy, to have other advertisers on your website!

The good thing: Since we use Media.net, there is also more revenue again from Adsense!

Why can`t you have BING and GOOGLE search on your website? Well, as you are signed up with Adsense, you had also to agree, to use Google - only - on your website. That means, you are not permitted, to have BING search on your website, when using Google! Out of some years experience, I can say - for my self: What is it good for? Nothing! Google search income generates peanuts, not more than that! 

We webmasters have some powers left!

If that 2000.000 webmasters would follow that step, and also change their own search habits, Google would come soon to a REAL AdSENSE!


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