My AdSense Experience

I am so excited about my new hobby: blogging--telling the world with something that matters! Not only that. I learned we could earn money as we do a blog. A few hours ago I received an email from Google AdSense informing me that my application for an Adsense Account was denied.

I couldn't believe it. I was charged for "invalid clicks" or cybersquatting, as I went deep into the issue. Here's AdSense Team's email to me:

"Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after
reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google
AdSense at this time.

"We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.

"Issues:

"- Page type

" ---------------------

"Further detail:

"Page type: Your website is a type of website that we do not currently accept into our program. Such websites include, but are not limited to, chat sites, sites that drive traffic through cybersquatting, and sites that use excessive keywords in the content or code of their pages."

I made an appeal, but I don't know if it will be reconsidered.

I wrote somewhere in this blog that life is full of surprises. Why? What really happened, since I am just a 4-day-old blogger? I tried to refresh my memory for the past few hours: I was so excited about the possibility of my putting a "gadget" for related topics on my blog. I want my blog to be full of references; to have more similar articles. The Web is indeed full of "here's the answer" blogs. So, like a child learning to walk, I surfed the Web and added HTML commands, which I gathered, into my blog's layout. The result was Google AdSense rejection of my account.

The worse thing that will always happen to a new blogger is when one starts to tinker things one doesn't understand well. I don't know, for example, HTML and PHP languages, the ones used in the layout; yet I started to toy them as if I was a Web savvy.

I went to ProBlogger for advice, and I could feel the sincerity of Mr. Darren Rowse. And I know there are thousands of bloggers out there, who are just as honest as Mr. Rowse.

I think My AdSense experience is a good lesson to those who are aspiring to be a blogger and earn a living out of writing, out of doing what you've always loved to do all your life---which is writing, yes, writing! I wish to see newbies like me to be extra careful not to offend those institutions that are giving bloggers money. I know it is a win-win scenario for these establishments are also benefiting from the talents of bloggers. The bottom line, however, is that bloggers do not have the ability to cancel a particular AdSense Account. Thus, bloggers have to humble themselves before institutions that have the power to monetize a blog; just like when the proverbial giraffe bent down its neck and feet only to be able to enter Noah's ark.

I know that most Web-master bloggers will not bite my admonition to cooperate with institutions that are giving bloggers money. There are Web experts out there who have hacking abilities. That is why Google AdSense is quite firm and very imposing in its policies. I tried their tricks in my four-day-old blogging by blindly pasting into my layout their "commands, " and the result was cancellation of my account. I'm no Web savvy. I won't swallow hook, line, and sinker their tips again.

Yaro Starak has a coaching program to new bloggers. I think it is wise to walk with blog gurus like him---of course, at a certain amount of money. It is not wisdom for Mr. Starak to give away his hard-earned blog knowledge for free. He is now earning a monthly income of from $10,000 to $35,000; that's something. He is a very successful blogger worthy of following.

I am learning a lot also from Darren Rowse, his story about how he became a very successful blogger.

Blogging is life. And doing it the right way is always the best way if we want a long-lasting success in this career. Both Rowse and Starak told the world their experience being at square one in blogging. I want to tell the world I followed the shortcut method blindly, and for it, I lost my Google AdSense Account.