It was not too long ago that I have earned my first 5 cents online using Google Adsense, and I had high praises for it. Naturally, I was very excited at the prospect of making an earning from my blog! However greed sets in, and despite the warning against clicking on the ads in your own site, I paid each one of the advertisers on my site a visit…… okay, it was a little bit more than one visit per site. Guilty as charged! =P
I’m not going to complain about how Google banned me from Adsense. In fact, to be honest I deserve it! Hey, a boy’s gotta save some money to buy himself an L lens you know, give me a break will ‘ya? =P But I’m gonna rant about those who are banned despite obtaining legit clicks. There was this poor disabled person who earned USD 16 in 7 months, only to be banned when Google decided that they are illegal! Come on! I got USD 20 (illegally) in a week, 7 months to get USD 16 is obviously a fair game! Now we know why Google’s stock kept on rising. What a rip off!
I am also going to rant about how un-sense-able Google’s Adsense is. Consider this, I made a post denouncing the existance of the miracle water a few months back, but Adsense was stupid enough it seems to advertise about water ionizers and its healthy alkaline water products! How stupid can that be?
Will I still be looking for advertisements on my pages? Hell yeah! But I was looking for maybe a localized ads. More relevant. Goldfries has one called the Advertlets. Seems nice. Hope my readers don’t complain about the bombardment of ads in their faces though! =D