19 Year Old Blogger Sentenced To Jail!

This is really a hard-to-believe kind of story but outside of the United States, there is a 19 year-old blogger who has been arrested because of what she wrote in her blog.

I was really surprised because the article said that her blog consisted mostly of poetry but you can read more about this by clicking here.

WTF - Both Blogs Out Of Whack!

Well it looks like my 2nd blog is under reveiw from bloggoer. It has been tagged as a

spam blog

and is currently under review!

I have sent Blogger the contact form and now have to wait for 2 business days for them to contact me.

This had also happened to this blog. This blog was locked. I sent them the email and they got back to me the next day and my first blog was unlocked.

Now it seems like I have to go through this again with my 2nd blog.

I don't know what it is but I kind of look at this as a compliment. The "robots" think my blog is a "spam blog" when clearly it is not.

Hopefully my 2nd blog will be unlocked soon.

Now if you are wondering why I have 2 blogs that are called

The Adsense Consultant

it is because my first blog - for some reason that I don't know of - got its adsense ads taken away. Now while I wait for Adsense to get back to me as to why they took the ads off of this blog, I created a 2nd blog!

So now I'm awaiting word on the status of BOTH blogs!

Does this stop my from continuing to be an Adsense Consultant? I think not! What kind of Adsense Consultant would I be if I couldn't solve my own Adsense problems!

The Adsense Consultant Is Having A Problem With Adsense? - No Ads Appearing?

Imagine my surprise when I viewed my blog today and found that there were no adsense ads on it! Immediate panic! Well one of the first things that I did was to check my other site and my clients sites to see if the adsense ads were there - THEY WERE. Whew!

But now I'm back to the problem of finding out why the adsense ads aren't appearing here. It took me a while to find out how to get in contact with Adsense. Offhand I can't see a customer support phone number. I finally found where you can contact them via email so that you can describe the problem that you are having. I sent in the form and their site says that they will get back to me in 24 - 48 hours.

You can't imagine the panic I felt when I didn't see any ads on this blog!

I will let you know the results of this problem when Adsense emails me back.

It's Nice Being Called A "Pro" - But Don't Try To Take Advantage of Me!

I got an email from someone that wanted me to work on a commission basis - which is something that I do NOT do!. The emailer wanted their adsense earnings to increase to over 200%! They didn't mention a span of time that they wanted this to happen. However they did mention that I would be paid if and only if their adsense earnings had reached that amount.

What do you think of this kind of offer?

I told them that I was definitely not interested in such an offer!

The services that I offer include adsense consulting, blog reviews, content provider and search engine optimation. I think that it is unrealistic to expect a site to increase their earnings by over 200% in a short length of time. I think that it is realistic to expect a significant increase in one's adsense earnings if they do more to optimize their site and provide better and more relevent content. But the work does not stop there. You have to constantly look at your numbers to see what can be done to increase your adsense earnings. You have to bring in more traffic. You have to provide content that includes higher paying keywords so that will bring you higher/more earnings.

I was looking at the adsense numbers for The Computer Dude today and found out that one of the keywords crawled from Adsense's spider generated an advertiser with a rate of over $100! That is what I mean when I say that you should optimize your site for the higher paying keywords! And don't think that just because your site or blog is about something that you don't think will generate higher paying keywords - you would be wrong! You just have to know how to provide the right kind of content and how to incorporate that content into your site or blog.

So no I do not work on a commission basis!

$300?

I actually saw where someone was advertising for an

Adsense Consultant

and they were offering to pay them between $100 and $300 to set up a "few" websites. I think that this is an incredibly low-ball offer but there have been bids on that ad.

This reminds me of the talks and discussions from webpage designers who talked about how clients - or should I say potential clients - wanted to pay far less than what the webdesigners were willing to work for.

And just like some of webdesigners did I'm sure that there are a lot of people that would jump at the chance to take on that job for that amount of money. But you know what? I'm willing to bet that the job is going to be far more work than was thought for the one that takes it. There were no specifics mentioned about what the work involved - only that some websites were needed. Does that mean that an Adsense account had to be created? Whose name will it be in? Will both the freelancer and the client have access to the Adsense account? How much content will the client provide? How much content will the freelancer provide? What about the work involved in driving traffic to the website? What about search engine optimization?

All of that for just $300? I don't think so!

My Blog Was Locked!

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Your blog is locked

Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

We received your unlock request on July 17, 2007. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.

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The next day, later in the afternoon I got an email from them:

Hello,

Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that
it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and
sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your
patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

What a relief!