Comments - You REALLY Have To Be Careful!

While allowing comments to your blog can help to make your blog more interactive and popular you really have to be careful about allowing people to comment on your blog.

I am seeing a trend where people are commenting on blogs not make a genuine comment but to advertise their own business or blogs!

There's nothing wrong with adding a comment as long as it relates to the subject matter of the blog that one is commenting on. But when the commentor just blatantly uses the comments option to advertise their own purposes it's not really beneficial to your blog. I continually see comments that mention mesothelioma and mesothelioma treatment options, domain names from Yahoo, viagra, and even online games and online gaming - none of which really have to do with the subject matter of this blog!

I have visited a lot of blogs that don't allow comments and I can now understand why they would opt for not allowing comments.

I have elected to allow comments BUT the comments are moderated by me before I will add them to my blog!

"What Can I Do About Sabotaged Invalid Clicks?"

Unfortunately it has been posted about people that have tried to sabotage another person's adsense account by constantly clicking on the ads that appear on a person's site.

When you log on to your adsense account and you see any suspicious activity like a very high click-through-rate then you should report it to adsense as soon as possible. Here is a link to the site that has the form that you should fill out:

Adsense Contact Form

Once you fill out the contact form as best and as detailed as you can send it in. Adsense says that they will get back to you within an average of 24 hours but if they are experiencing a high volume of emails then it may take them longer. But the sooner you send in the form - the sooner Adsense will know about it.

So send in the form as soon as possible!

Question - What Kinds Of Sites Are Accepted By Adsense?

You can click the link above to go to Adsense's very own help site. There you can read Adsense's official policy towards the kinds of sites that they will and will not accept for their adsense program.

I do know that adsense doesn't accept gambling, illegal and adult sites. Although some people have said that they have seen adsense ads on adult sites I wouldn't risk it! And neither should you!

$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!

Clicking Your Own Ads? Accidents Do Happen

Adsense made a very interesting and useful comment in their blog. The title of the post is Accidents Happen.

Adsense says that they can understand the occassion "accident" when someone clicks on their own ad. Some of the publishers even notify Adsense when they accidently click on their own ads. If you have done this Adsense wants you to know that you contacting them is very much appreciated and they can understand the occassional accidental click. These accidental clicks will not be counted towards your earnings. However anything more than the occassional click will definitely rouse Adsense's suspicions!

So you want to keep your accidental clicks down to a minimum!

Don't Try To Trick The Adsense People!

Adsense has rules as to how many adsense ads you can have per page. You can have 3 text link ad blocks, 3 links blocks and 2 refferals.

If you try to put more than this on your page you will only get the number of ad blocks allowed per page. I don't know what kind of software or coding Adsense uses but it is very astute and it will know if you place more ads than is allowed per page.

One very good example that has been brought up a lot is the fact that a lot of people would like to put their Adsense ads between the posts in their blog. Well since you are allowed only so many Adsense ad blocks no matter how many times you put the coding in you will still only get those number of ad blocks that are allowed.

I know that its very tempting once you start to get a taste of that Adsense money coming in to do things to increase your revenue but you don't want to run the risk of being banned from Adsense and being banned from using the Adsense program!

Adsense Cheaters..................

Of course it shouldn't be surprising that there are adsense "cheaters" around. Groups have been formed wherein members click on each other's adsense ads to generate more clicks thus creating more earnings.

Although I'm beginning to find more and more of these groups I can't condone participating in such groups. All Google's Adsense has to do is be notified of these groups, note the members (and this wouldn't be hard because the member list can be easily seen by almost everybody) and take the necessary action.

It's such a shame that there is a legitimate to make money using your blog or website and then something like this comes along and may possibly ruin it for those of us that adhere to the rules of Adsense.

Security Breach!

Adsense has to be very, very careful about their eagerness to help those people that are still trying to learn Adsense. There is an Adsense Blog, Adsense Question and Answer forums and even help information on Adsense's main page. Don't get me wrong though because Adsense provides a lot of resources to help people to better learn Adsense. But as I was surfing around and checking some related information I found a site of Adsense's that inadvertently let slip some information about one of the ways that they use to determine invalid Adsense clicks! Whoa! Do you know how valuable knowing this kind of information would be!

I don't think that Adsense is aware of it or they might not have given it another thought! But can you remember a time when you were just trying to be helpful and you let something "slip"?

Invalid clicks has been the most often cited reason why an Adsense account has been banned. Even though I have read the message forums where people have posted about their Adsense accounts being banned because of invalid clicks and them saying that they did nothing of the sort, I now know one of the ways that Adsense determines invalid clicks and I have to tell you that this method is a very good indicator that invalid clicks are being made.