Adsense Blogger

My cousin came over from the UK and had dinner with me tonight. Afterwards we went to a bar and caught up with each other on the latest. My cousin is trying to make money on the internet. He’s been working at it for 2 years. So we shared our thoughts.

Let me give you a bit of my cousin’s background. He had very good success with a blog directory which earned him several thousand dollars income in Adsense. He also had other websites which earned him a couple of hundred.

Something happened to his blog directory a year ago. Google banned him from the search engine results. Gave him a page rank of 0 instead of 7 and Adsense income is non-existant. It was such a blow to him, my cousin never recovered.

We were talking about making money with Adsense and he is now very negative about it. No matter what I say to him, he insists that Adsense has another 2 years to go before it ends just like the banner days.

I can’t disagree with him as I can’t predit things in 2 years time. But the fact is…yes. Adsense clicks could no longer exist and become a thing of the past. However, that is only a possiblity and what matters is at the moment, Adsense is bringing income to a lot of people.

Let’s learn a lesson here. My cousin totally changed his mindset because he had too high hopes with his blog directory. He thought it was going to make him well off. The phrase “putting all your eggs in one basket” comes to mind.

I don’t know what the reason is for Google’s ban on his website, but the fact is, these sort of things can happen to anyone. We need to create several websites instead of relying on just one incase the unfortunate happens.

Finally, the most important lesson we should learn in our life is that when the going gets tough, don’t give up. Persist. It’s quite sad to see my cousin, who I’ve known for many years, have changed. He is so pessimistic with Adsense income that he has totally given up hope on starting anything similar.

Just know the fact that this could happen to you so be prepared when it does occur. Have several websites each making Adsense income, have 2 Adsense accounts incase 1 Adsense account is banned and also have other sources of marketing incase Google kicks you off their search engine.

Have different income sources and when disaster happens, you’ll still be able to stand.