According to Jennifer Slegg of Jenstar.com a number of publishers have received emails telling them that they have “an unsuitable business model” and that their account will be closed within two weeks. The money they have earned can be kept, but that’s it.
It seems that only websites which are “Made for Adsense” or websites doing arbitrage will suffer from this. Many of those publishers made more than $10,000 a month. Actually, this could be a good thing. At least, in the long run as a lot of Google advertisers were disabling the content network because of the poor performance of the traffic coming from there. Or they’ve reduced the CPC in the content network so many former high paying keywords became unprofitable.
Important: If you are doing arbitrage as well (like I did in the past, too…), you should immediately stop all your PPC campaigns which are sending traffic to your pages with Adsense! Maybe, you can slip through…
Detlev
==> What do you think of it – is Google right in doing so? <==
I’ve received a question from one of my Niche Content Websites member which I want to answer here as I guess that more people could have this question:
“Detlev;
I currently subscribe to receive adsense ads each month from your platinum service Will this have any effect on these ads that you sale?
I am in the process of setting up a domain site through Bizgoldhosting and don’t want to do anything wrong with Google.
Also, can I promote the adsense website through other online directories and links.
Thanks.”
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ANSWER:
Hi,
no, my members will not be affected, as there is enough
other stuff going on on the pages. There are still other links
people can click on (Amazon, Comments, RSS Feeds)
so it’s not just “made for Adsense”. It refers to sites which
have almost no content on their pages (e.g. just a bunch
of links and descriptions) and then just put Adsense at the
top.
Yes, you can still promote it in any regular way apart from
sending PAID traffic to the pages (Adwords/Yahoo/MSN
AdCenter PPC Traffic). I hope, this makes it a little clearer.
I’ll post your question (anonymously) along with my answer
to my blog so others can read my answer as well, I hope
you don’t mind…
All the best,
Detlev
Informed sources tell me that the press over-reacted to a fairly small batch of “house cleaning” bans on adsense sites which had little or no useful content.
My sources understand from Google contacts that Google is not anti-arbitrage as such – it’s the low quality of the adsites that was the problem.
Google is hyper sensitive to questions of site quality at present – partially in response to another poorly researched press report about click fraud. Turns out that the click fraud report was unsubstantiated but Google was alarmed by the strong public and press reaction to it.
So take internet press reports with a strong pinch of salt unless you really know and trust the source. There a tendency to overstate “disaster” stories to gain attention – before checking sources.