By now many readers must be familiar with the Adsense by Google Program. I’ve been with the program for over 3 years. During those 3 years, I have only received 2 checks from them.

I enjoyed the ease with which it is possible to set up Adsense and actually use it. I particularly benefitted because it allowed me to pay for my hosting costs with a little left over. My websites aren’t particularly highly trafficked, but the traffic I do get tends to be highly focused, so I achieve decent click through rates on advertisements. But it took me a long time to build up the traffic, so it was nearly 13 months before I qualified for a minimum payment! The second payment came in less than a year. Currently things are getting better still, as I learn how to tweak the placement, generate traffic, and build content. In fact, I just qualified for another payment! Cool. Don’t know when the check will get here, but it should be within 2 months.

I’m quite concerned over bloggers losing their Adsense Accounts to click fraud. In fact over the last week, I’ve seen two bloggers (Kumiko’s Make Money Online Blog and LegalAndrew’s Blog) lose their Adsense accounts, and neither of the blogs seems particularly the kind of fraudulent website that seems to persist. For more information on regaining your account, Stason.org has a great article, called How to Bring Google Adsense Down.

And so I wonder, as they must, why Google seems to take action against these websites, but leaves the splog around. In fact, quite a few of the sploggers delight in joining forums and blogs like this to leave their trash. Naturally, they don’t last long enough to do much here. But still, how is it that Google seems to take these actions when thousands of splogs openly flout the rules? Or is that just an impression, since those who are splogs don’t openly complain? Does Google now need more legal oversight, or are Adsense lawsuits just around the corner, too? At the moment, I’m weighing my options on Adsense on whether I should include them on this blog or not. I’m still undecided.

Comments, stories or tips?

Commenting is usually a great way to attract visitors to your blog, but one blogger has gone out of the way to post 1000 comments in 30 days!

Why not read the blog and find out how successful the project was for yourself? Ever since I fixed my commenting problems, I have noticed an  uptick in comments being posted. But this project was quite ambitious!

Worth reading. Do you think you could post 33 comments a day? I might try something less ambitious myself!

Good luck, Sarakastic.

LegalAndrews website has a very useful plugin (for Firefox only) called PayperpostOpps that enables PPP bloggers to hide opps that they don’t want to see, such as opps that are not relevant to their blog, opps that they can’t take, or opps that they don’t want (content, pricing, etc…).

I actually support this plugin for several reasons, not least of which is that it wrests control back from Payperpost about what opps you want to see. Segmentation has helped bloggers in a number of ways, but for many it has been very frustrating, too, as they can no longer take certain opps. (I know, I’m one of them). (Read more on segmentation on this blog).

But typical opps that I hide include those listed below:

In fact, this is (for me) my own form of segmentation in fact.

1. I don’t do opps that don’t fit well, even though they are in my category and pay WELL.
2. I don’t do opps that require too much (unless it fits really well).
3. I don’t do opps that pay poorly (200 words for $5). I don’t chase the more popular opps (no more multiple clicking on opps for me).
4. I resubmit opps that have problems quickly, UNLESS the problems can’t be fixed. In that case, I remove the post.
5. I don’t do opps that have websites that don’t work, look sloppy, look like scams, (and these are the ones allowed by PPP!), sell snake oil like products (you know what I mean!), or opps that would likely have a negative effect on my blog or its PR ranking (this is very open!) (I have a finance blog).
6. I no longer do opps that repeat often, even if they are from different advertisers, I can only do SO many posts about credit cards and loans.

I hope others use this plugin to help boost their own blogging efforts.

Disclaimer: This is a Payperpost blog, but this post is not sponsored by anyone!