Banned by Google Adsense, for ever!

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Updated 5 years ago

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A sad story

Once upon a time there was a poor guy, living in a 3rd world country, trying to figure out how to make ends meet... thinking outside of the box.

Big G looked at him from above and thought 'interesting fella, let him be my herald!'

So G created Adsense. And the promise of making you rich, just adding a couple of lines of code to your website, and waiting for visitors to click on them...

Imagine our hero startled by the promise of $99 a click, provided he ranked on first page, get somebody to click on the Adsense block, and all these for creating a shitty article stuffed with hidden keywords to trick G's robots...

But I guess you don't want to know how it ends...

Guilty of sin

OK, it was me. So, what? I had one question about something unclear. How much would I really put in pocket if I invested my time and money creating my blog on a disgusting subject to, eventually, get lucky when someone clicked the ad. Was it worth my effort?

Now there's lot of information and statistics about keywords, ranking, Adsense and every aspect of this business.

At that time, the term SEO was meaningless. So, to make this long story shorter, I decided to click my own ad. I had no intention of getting paid, honestly, I just wanted to check by myself if the promise was real. In my naive perspective, all I had to do was to click, check how much I got, and tell G that it was OK, I don't want that money, I was just testing...

Hard to believe, right? But it's true. I've always been innocent, stupid may be, but with good intentions. Many years after, I'm still convinced that I had no intention to commit fraud.

The lesson I learned is this: “The moment you think you got it figured, you're wrong.”

OK, now what?

I have been in goog terms with Big G, paying my Adwords ads, my Drive extra storage, my GCP servers, and other stuff, an average $200/month. Good value. I'm happy.

But they will never let me go back to Adsense. Period.

This may happen to you if you don't play by the rules, no matter what your intentions might be.

So, as you can see, I'm spreading Big G's warning, and teaching people how G wants them to behave, even though I know I will never be forgiven.

Why am I confessing my sin to WA?

It's my real story. I've been punished and I'm marked forever. But this is who I am. We all make mistakes, good if we learn something from them, bad if you blame G for the consequences...

600 words already. (to be continued...)

LAST MINUTE UPDATE

Form one of the comments below, I found this magnificent post. You have to read it!

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Online

It's good too learn from your own mistakes, but to learn from others is so much cheaper!