Today, however, after more than 3 years, I was informed by a friend who joined the campaign that his Google Adsense account was disabled (not banned). Google contacted him and told him that the reason is his p!nay $candal post. This happened 2 weeks ago, he already deleted the post and made an appeal, but up to now, Google has not replied to him yet, and his Adsense is still disabled on his particular site, but it still works on his other sites.

It seems like Google Adsense is becoming stricter with their policy. Although we don’t promote adult-content, getting flagged, having your Adsense disabled and appealing is not a good experience. According to some forums, an appeal can take days, weeks or even months before Google respond.

So, although I started it, I’m recommending everyone who joined the campaign who has an Adsense ad on it to delete the post so as to avoid getting your ads disabled and go thru all the hassles of appealing.

I guess, this is the end of this campaign. Thanks for all the support and I’m sorry to anyone who joined the campaign for any trouble that it might have caused you.

Please spread the word and inform those people who joined the campaign. Thanks.

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On their latest blog post, they said that Adsense for content gives 68% share to the publishers while Adsense for search gives 51%. That means that for every $100 worth of clicks on your Adsense ads paid by the advertisers, you get $68 and Google gets the $32. If readers used the Google search box in your site, you’ll get 51% of the money for the clicks. Not bad, I think.

That’s all for now.

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According to Google, here are the information that must be added in your privacy policy:

• Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
• Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Here are some suggestions of the lines you could add to comply with this requirement.

Suggested by Pinoymoneytalk:

Sample 1

Our site and third parties such as advertisers may add a cookie to help analyze web traffic or to determine targeted advertisements based on your preferences and your visit to our site and other sites on the internet.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. To opt out of Google’s use of cookies, please visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Sample 2

Third parties such as our advertisers may also use cookies to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and other sites on the internet. If you want to opt out of our third-party advertiser (Google Adsense)’s use of cookies, please visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Sample 3

Third parties such as our advertisers may also place cookies on your browser in the course of serving ads to you based on your visit to our site and other sites on the internet. If you want to opt out of our third-party advertiser (Google Adsense)’s use of cookies, please visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Suggested by MikeYoungLaw:

When you visit this website, you may view advertisements posted on the site by Google or other companies. These advertising companies may collect information about you while you are visiting this website and other websites. They may use this data to show you advertisements on this website and elsewhere on the Internet about products and services you might like. This website does not collect the information or control the content of the advertisements that you will see. You may be able to opt out of such advertising. To find out more about Google and its DoubleClick DART cookie used to generate interest-based advertising, click this link. Your use of this website without opting out means that you understand and agree to data collection to provide you with interest-based advertising.

Suggested by IT4Money

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. We also use third party advertisements on it4money.com to support our site. Some of these companies (such as Google through Google Adsense Program) may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by Google, click here.

I copied mine from PinoyMoneyTalk’s privacy policy which states that:

Google, one of our third-party advertisers, may add a cookie to determine targeted advertisements based on your preferences and your visit to our site and other sites on the internet. You can choose to opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

If you have other suggestions, just put it on the comment box. Thanks!

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However, due to his health conditions, my father lost his job and went home. I was then faced with a problem of how I could continue paying the car because all I could afford was Php 10000 monthly. Where should I get that extra Php 5000?

On the first few months, I was able to get P5000 from my savings. But it was not enough. It could only help me pay for the next 6 months, after that, I would be in real trouble.

I had the Adsense code for 1 year on my first blog on which I didn’t mind whether I earned or not. This situation changed that. I should make money online, or my car will be gone in 6 months. My main goal back then was to earn at least $100/month after six months on Google Adsense, (Forex back then was $1=Php 55) to solve my problem.

To make the long story short, I was able to achieve my goal, getting my first Google check after 4 months of optimization. You can check my Google Adsense story here. Fast forward today, I don’t even have to touch my salary to pay for my car loan. Yesterday, I deposited my last monthly payment for it. All is paid up now. This car is officially, 100% mine now.

Yeah, I did not try making money online just for the heck of it. I was trying to save my car. I could have just give up back then, let the bank take the car and continue my life. But I just don’t give up without a fight.

Just a thought. If I have not been into that situation, where am I right now? I might still be blogging today on my blogspot blog. The Adsense code will still be there with occasional clicks. Still waiting for my first $100 check to come.

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How do you deal with this? Simple. Accept it. Everyone starting from scratch undergoes that phase. Don’t quit. Just continue what you are doing. You are on a trial stage. You are being tested. If you quit, then you lose. If you continue, you’ll see the fruits of your labor in the years to come.

Continue SEOing. Continue writing quality content. Continue the link baiting. Continue the keyword hijacking, especially of those HITLOD keywords. As months pass by, you will see them hitting the first page of the SERPs. One by one. Slowly but surely. Clicks will start coming. That 3-digit zeroes will become cents. Cents will turn into dollars. Dollars into a hundred dollars. And then a thousand dollars. And more if you don’t quit.

Yes. visitors will come. And you will make money. That’s what happened to me. And it will happen to you too! Coz I am nothing more special than you.

This post is for every beginner out there who were inspired by this blog, started their own blog, and are now undergoing the hardship of the initial stages, seeing the three-digit zeroes despite all the things they are doing. Don’t ever quit people! Coz quitters don’t succeed. Keep on blogging!

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You can access this on your Manage Ads link on your Adsense account. I am now experimenting on these new fonts. I used Arial on the banner above and Verdana on the square ad above my post title.

If CTR increases, then, I’ll not change the font back to original. If CTR decreases, I’ll revert back to the original font.

I just hope they include more fonts in the future .

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Silkenhut listed the languages that are supported by Google Adsense on his post. To make your life easier, I will do the opposite. I am listing here now the languages NOT supported by Google Adsense that you have to disable on the Global Translator Plugin to make your Google Adsense in full compliance with their TOS. Just uncheck them on the list.

Here they are:

• Hindi
• Romanian
• Catalan
• Filipino
• Indonesian
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Slovenian
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese

After disabling these languages, the translated pages will now show a 404 page. Google bot will notice that and will remove them on the Google cache. However, to make sure that Google bot doesn’t visit them anymore and reindex them, I’ve added the following lines on my robots.txt file:


User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /hi/
Disallow: /ro/
Disallow: /ca/
Disallow: /tl/
Disallow: /id/
Disallow: /lv/
Disallow: /lt/
Disallow: /sl/
Disallow: /uk/
Disallow: /vi/


If you installed the Global Translator Plugin and you have Google Adsense at the same time, I highly recommend that you do the same.

That’s all folks!

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Last Friday, Mike Lopez interviewed me about making money on Adsense. We basically talked about how I make money from it, how do I optimize my post, how do I get those visitors and how do I get a high CTR.

Just a note that I had two blogs before making money for me, but now, only macuha.com makes money for me. My text messages blog is now being managed by my wife, and so all the Google Adsense codes there are not mine anymore. Don’t be surprised when you read from that interview that I’m making money from just one blog, because that’s the truth. Read the interview here.

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Here’s a demo of Adsense reporting in Analytics they provided in Youtube:

Based on the video, we can now see which page is giving us the dollars, from which country the click came from, the referrer site that gives you clicks, and hourly graph of Adsense revenues.

This could really help us a lot. These data could give us a hint on which pages are giving us more money so that we can focus more on those topics.

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However, when we saw this cute puppy, we wanted to buy it immediately. Instead of waiting for my Adsense payment, we ended up buying the puppy. Anyway, my July Adsense payment is still intact. Of course, this dog is not that expensive, it just costed us around 5% of my July Adsense earnings.

So, now I introduce to you our puppy. Meet Doogle! The dog that Google Adsense bought! (Click the image for a cuter view )

Doogle: The Dog That Google Adsense Bought

He is just 1 month old and of St. Bernard breed. I might create a Dogster account of him someday. Maybe, when he’s big enough to blog. LOL! Here is his Dogster account with more photos!

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