Are
you tired of seeing so many online Advertisements...
This site had set up an agreement with Google's adsense division
to provide relevant content ads for viewers to click. You
see, Google charges advertisers and then offers webmasters
a small cut if they allow the advertisements to be displayed
on their sites. The set up pretends to be a way for the little
guy to make a few pennies in order to offset the costs associated
with providing websites like this one. But the whole scheme
is simply too good to be true, and after a couple of months
Google abruptly canceled this site's account seizing the $38
which had accrued. Meanwhile Google reported excellent financials
for the first quarter of 2008 with its stock price soaring
on the news (BTW, Google's two founders celebrated a one hour
increase in their wealth to the tune of $2.2 billion
each as a result). Hmm. So Google gets little guys to display
ads, cancels them, takes the money, and then posts a big profit.
How long before somebody catches on--I wonder? Below is a
copy of the short email Google sent: |
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While
going through our records recently, we found that your
AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our
AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our
publisher network may financially damage our advertisers
in the future, we've decided to disable your account.
Please
understand that we consider this a necessary step to
protect the interests of both our advertisers and our
other AdSense publishers. We realize the inconvenience
this may cause you, and we thank you in advance for
your understanding and cooperation.
Sincerely,
The
Google AdSense Team |
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You
can Cancel Google... Well not really, but
there are a couple of things that you can do. First change
to another search engine like Yahoo! or MSN. Second and better,
switch to Firefox
and BLOCK Google's ads with AdBlock
Plus or
some other add-on
that might be available. This site was NEVER any kind of risk
or threat to Google or its advertisers and made every effort
to follow Google's rules. Nonetheless, even without the small
amount of revenue that was anticipated from Google to financially
support this site, it will remain online in one form or another.
Thanks for everyone's comments and encouragement! Rich
Firefox
AdBlock
Plus |
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