I recently documented the painful experience I had with getting banned from Google Adsense just a couple of short weeks ago. The response I received from that post was huge with over 400 comments to date…but more importantly I truly felt as though many of you cared about my situation with the loss of income [...]

As I wrote a couple of days ago, my Google Adsense account was banned.  This was the primary source of income for my niche sites.  Ouch! I received by far the most traffic and comments for that post than I have ever received on this blog.  For the most part, the comments were all very [...]

I got a really depressing email last week that my Google Adsense account has been shut down! I received the same message for all of my business accounts as well; I no longer have any access to Google Adsense.  The news fell on me like a ton of bricks, and I’m still a bit dazed [...]

The past month or so has been a tumultuous one in the Google world.  In March, Google deindexed much of Build My Rank, and other blog networks as well.  In addition, lots of webmasters had their Google Adsense accounts closed including Zac Johnson and Gauher Chaudhry. (I also received a couple of emails from others [...]

Today, I’m going to write about a subject that was brought to my attention in an interesting way.  As you are well aware, I have created the Niche Websites Hub where I openly asked all readers to suggest topics that I should write about.  This page has been up for over 9 months and has [...]

Today, I am going to focus specifically on how to optimize and test your Google Adsense ads on your websites; however, these general principles could be applied to any other type of advertising.  Monetizing your site with Google Adsense can definitely lead to some great earnings; however, the earnings can be ever greater if you [...]

I can hardly believe that is was six months ago that I created a batch of 20 niche sites in August 2011.  I have been disclosing the earnings, rankings, and much more on these sites for the past few months.  You can see the earnings after 90 days here and 120 days here.  In addition, [...]

Today I wanted to cover a subject that I have not discussed at all in the past: Smart Pricing for Google Adsense.  So, what is “smart pricing”?  Essentially, you know when this has occurred if the amount you are paid per click is suddenly and drastically reduced in your Google Adsense account.  So, if you [...]

A few days ago the “Distinguished Engineer” Matt Cutts wrote about Google’s new page layout algorithm improvement on the Official Google Webmaster Blog.  In a nutshell, if you are overloading ads above the fold on your niche websites, you could be in trouble.  But don’t worry – you can change your ad layout and be [...]

Today, I wanted to do something a little bit different.  Over the past couple of weeks, I have been thinking about some of the major accomplishments that I have made in 2011.  When I look back, it really has been a STELLAR year!  After all, I began 2011 working for someone else, NichePursuits.com did not [...]