What happens when Adsense TM doesn’t love you?

My Sad Valentine

Just when you think Linky Love is doing everything right in order to show you by example how to make money online, Adsense ^TM kicks me out of their advertising service on Valentine’s day.

Sob, sob: we are called Linky Love dot NET and what do we get on Valentine? Kicked out…

Why?

So you wonder why we are kicked out of Adsense ^TM… Beats me.

Anyway, their email stated:

1. you cannot tell people to click on links… OR
2. you confuse people that Advertisement is actual website content…

Now it would have helped a lot when they would have told me what the real problem was, so I could have fixed it on the spot. Now I have to guess and since I never win at the lottery, most likely I won’t guess what’s wrong either.

So I asked them: please be more clear… That was 2 days ago and no answer… for a firm that has lots and lots of eager workers, one would have expected a swift reply.

Why again?

1. I don’t tell people to click on their ads. I am not crazy to kick myself out of a program that is almost my solely source of income. And my click through rate is so low… Come on: this can’t be the problem.
2. Ok, I do admit that the advertisements blend in at my blog. That’s what Adsense ^TM advises you to do, so that’s what I do.

Why really?

I make sure that I don’t show any private parts, no guns, no hatred (hint, hint Linky LOVE is the name…) so all I can think of is that somebody does hate me, tells Adsense ^TM to ban me, and that’s what happened…

What to do when you are banned?

1. Ask why.
2. Don’t put all your eggs in 1 basket. I could easily switch to Clicksor or Bidvertiser or…, yet I am really curious why I am banned. The most important road in life is to learn and improve, so I am going to sit this one out.
3. Know that the Internet is a very volatile environment. Like they say on America’s next top model : one day you are in, the next day you are out. Oops, wrong show… this is a Heidi Klum quote…
4. Always be on the lookout for new opportunities
5. Never ever make enemies on the Internet

What is the future of Linky Love?

First we will use this as a case study: if you read the TOS of Adsense ^TM , they can ban you without any reason given so… Are we such a case? We need to think advertisers: are we bad enough to not give advertisers a good ROI?

Quite simple: we show by example how to make money on the Internet. Of course you would have hoped that you could make 1000$ a month after 10 weeks, but the reality is quite different: probloggers mostly are veterans on the Internet.

We will wait a few days for an answer of Adsense ^TM. Once we know what we need to change, we will change it.

Adsense ^TM is a TradeMark. We are not related to them in any way. Our ideas and opinions are purely and solely our own ideas and opinions.