52 year old webmaster from the Netherlands got banned from the Google Adsense program in just a few clicks. He went looking around for alternatives and found
a lot of very creative brand new advertising solutions. That webmaster was me.
Do as I did and you will get a message like: Your account is disabled because of
invalid clicks. What was all the fuzz about I started one year earlier as an
affiliate for a German American Voip company (voice over IP
Radja Nainggolan Belgium Jersey , internettelephony). At that time Adsense was new for me and I decided to give it a try. Doing some cutting,
copying and pasting with the codes and voila, I was advertising competing Voip
companies on my website. Spyware was already a big nuisance on the internet at
that time. In my battle against it I experimented with anonymous surfing via so
called anonymizers and proxyservers with the purpose of hiding my IP address.
Simply just out of curiosity, whether or not the number of clicks on my ads
could be influenced, I produced them and guess what happened? They were
interpreted as invalid clicks. Adsense disabled my account and I have to admit
it : they had a good reason to do so (stupid me, what a shame). However It was
never my intention to harm the advertisers nor anyone else. I realised that the
possibility to earn money with these ads had gone forever. For hardworking
affiliate webmasters, generating 100% of their multiple website income through
Adsense, this must be a nightmare. Google has no obligation to explain its
decision in detail. So I begged to Google: Here are my sincere apologies. Ill
never do it again pleas let me in again !!! No way, dont waste your time, forget
about it, dont pull on a dead horse. Google wont unlock your account again.
Remember we live in the internet age and everything is automated. Googles
answers to my sincere and arguing emails were no exception. They were completely
robotized. So would this be the end of a dream earning an income with my
website? Answer: NO. As the famous Dutch football player Johan Cruyff ones
stated: Every disadvantage has its advantage. I decided that I had to forget
about Adsense forever being an internet advertising possibility for me and guess
what I found out ? I was not the only one and this nightmare of the possibility
of getting banned is discussed in forums all over the internet now. You want
proof? Just google (yes this is a new verb) with banned from adsense and you
will see. But what is more important is that the alternatives are given in these
forums and on individual sites as well. Here Iam going to share with you what I
discovered. Clickbank-ad-sense-script, a new program that serves Clickbank based
affiliate products in your website. These ads resemble adsense ads but a lot of
webmasters are preferring them. Unlike pay per click this program pays for every
sale you make in over 11,000 Clickbank products. The yield is higher than
adsense because it pays you between 50 and 75% of product cost, wich can mean $
100 in your pocket from only one click. Clickbank-ad-sense lets you make a
selection of your favorite products that you believe are not competing with your
own product. Similar programs are: AffiliateSensor and CBPlugin. You want more
money making advertising solutions? Just read on. Another creative way of adding
something new is done by Chitika. Their eMiniMall is a CPC-based intelligent
product merchandising service. Alternative to static web banner ads it combines
product merchandising, a recommandation engine and comparative shopping. Go to
Chitika and have a look for yourself. One picture says more then a thousand
words. There are pros and cons and every rose has its thorn but what do you
think of this one? Adbrite sells ad space on thousands of websites. There are
two things you can do with Adbrite buy and sell ad space. If you are an
advertiser they provide you with all sorts of websites. When you find the site
you want to advertise on, you write your ad and pay. If approved by the
webmaster your ad will appear on that site at the scheduled time. If you are a
publisher you can set your own rates and approve or reject every ad thats
purchased for your site. The revenue is split 7525 in your favour. Adbrite
provides publishers with more revenue and better ads by selling the ads directly
to your visitors this is something the other ad systems dont do. The
pay-per-click contextual advertising has grown into a $ 3 billion business.
Thanks to Googles Adsense network contextual advertising, with the short text
based links that appear next to a websites content, is a very hot item on the
internet now. Steve Balmer recently introduced Microsofts version called
Adcenter and Yahoo unveiled a pay-per-click beta program called Yahoo Publisher
Network (YPN). Let me give you my impressive competitors list that I have found
in my search to survive my ban from Adsense : adbrite, adcenter (beta),
adengage, adgenta, adhearus, adsclick, affiliatesensor, allfeeds, bannerboxes,
bidclix, bidvertiser, cbadwords, cbplugin, chitika, clicksaddirect, clicksor,
contextweb, expoactive, fastclick, infograbber, intellitxt, kanoodle, mirago ,
miva, nixxie, quigo, revenuepilot, targetpoint
