Comments on: Adsense and Noobs Bad Combination

By: Nevada DUI Attorney

Nevada DUI Attorney — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:14:50 +0000

Vic I wanted to say thank you. I watched all your videos 4 months ago on revver. I was clueless about online marketing, but I listened over and over and over. This very topic came up about monetization and niche targeting. I think you went over it in two or three videos. Once you said, go local and you'll make more, that's all that I had to hear. I am an ex law school student so this niche was a no brainer for me, and it's targeted. I haven't put adsense on my pages, because I wanted to build rep. I have shot up in ranking and page position.

Again thanks, I feel pretty knowledgable now after about 4 months. Or, i feel i'm not a noob LOL.

By: Stefson

Stefson — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:09:00 +0000

For a minute there I thought, hey what's Eddy Murphy doing here. All those fuck this and fuck thats … (ever seen Eddy Murphy Raw??)

Great blog btw :p

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How To Get Worthless Adsense Clicks — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:54:37 +0000

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By: RT Cunningham

RT Cunningham — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:23:05 +0000

"How a Noob Uses Adsense on the Wrong Niche and Makes No Money"

Damn, I want to use that for a post title.

Except… I want to change it to "I'm a Noob and I make no Money with AdSense" (but I do). LOL

By: Nnamdi

Nnamdi — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:53:32 +0000

Wow that was a really long conversation. Can't believe I even read it all. Seems like you guys made up which is nice… but I think everyone here realizes Vic was right the whole time. Not that Tay was horribly wrong, just that Vic was horribly correct

By: costa

costa — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:50:30 +0000

Vic,

That was a classic. The "converstion" betwen you and Tay, I mean Classic in a sense on how everytime you manage to fuck people until they wake up to their senses. LOL! I remember I was one of those.

Nice going.

By: Vic

Vic — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:28:00 +0000

I guess that is really a personal choice. If you get a trackback it should offset the lost of PR. In my case I only link to a page for a specific reason not just to show a list of post.

By: YC

YC — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:24:52 +0000

Hey Grizz thanks for the advice. The PS ad was only on ONE of the ad blocks on the same post. The other ad blocks on that particular post page and everywhere else sitewide were fine (I normally use 2 blocks per post page) that's why I was curious. I've since removed it and everything else looks fine. I'm not exactly sure what happened except to suspect everything's just new. I'll wait it out a few days and try and see if I get the same problem, otherwise just stick with one ad block.

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:15:40 +0000

YC.. The public service ad only appears if there aren't any relevant ads or Google thinks the post is spam (were you keyword stuffing?). If all the ad blocks turn public service then you have just become blacklisted. Was the PS ad only on one post or site wide? Either way you should pull the adsense off, post new quality articles, wait at least a week and then put adsense back on. You should get normal ads again – if not I hate to tell you but you have been flagged as a spam site and you are done with adsense on that site. (you can try asking for a manual review but this is a long shot).

There are instances where the adsense bot can not figure out your content because of poorly defined keywords which is usual with new sites when the owner is unaware of SEO but if the other ad blocks showed relevant ads to your content then this is likely not the case.