Google Advertisements – Reminder and Warning

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This is very important --- ABSOUTELY do not click on any of your ads. And by this I mean NEVER. We know the temptation is strong and we understand how the human brain works, but I want to throw out this disclaimer to everyone ahead of time. If you do click on any of your ads (intentionally or accidentally) you will be banned / terminated from the AdSense program immediately and you will not be able to reapply. We are monitoring a few accounts in particular due to an increase in clicks over the past few days . . . so be forewarned.

Our goal and intention to make sure top experts earn a fair amount of money each day for their contributions. While the amount everyone is earning today is hardly noticeable, we have some very interesting developments in the works that will help all of you earn a decent amount of money each day and be rewarded for your efforts . . . stay tuned, exciting times ahead . . .

One thing that I have in place, is that if you know you had your AdSense account set up, but you never see your ads (or any ads) on Questions awarded to you, it is because I have code in place that hides your ads from you. To keep you from clicking on your own ads like what jreberry said above.

Can you click on other people's ads?
Also, has anyone actually made any $$$? I think I earned like 30 cents so far. lol.

The official Google endorsed response to that would be "we can tell you to click on any ads on the site, or do any trickery to trick you into clicking on ads, all ad clicks must be intentional by the person clicking them and not automated in any form"

with that being said

if it is a ad that you are sincerely interested in, or it sounds like a product you would be interested in, then you can click and let the advertiser show you whatever they just paid x cents to have you go to their site to see.

if you are clicking on an ad to either earn WebAnswers profit or to have the person's who ad that is earn money, then no, do not do that. that would be a no no in Google's eyes.

jreberry might chime in on this when he gets back and modify what I just said. he has been doing the AdSense thing more then I have.

This is all good to know. I think I've clicked on once just to see if it counts. However, now I don't see any ads on the ones awarded to me. Question, is this retroactive? Meaning, if a question is awarded say 7 days after being posted and there are 234 click-throughs during the 7 days does the Chosen One (I like being the Chosen One) get revenue from that 7 days? If not, who does get the click through revenue on those 7 days? My guess would be WebAnswers.

By the way MMAmom, I'm up to $1.50! Another three months of this and I'll be the big man down at Peaberry coffee getting my Quad Shot.

The little bit of money on the open questions before they are awarded goes to WebAnswers. Those ads aren't converting to well because the ad placement isn't the best.

once the question is awarded to you , your AdSense ID will start showing up on that page and for every page view on that page their after. so any impressions will then count at that point on that you can see in your AdSense account. so the impressions is only from the moment you had it awarded to you and on.

note: like i said above, in order to see those ads on your awarded questions, you would have to logout to see them (and don't click those ever).

note: Jreberry and I are working on ways to increase the number of impressions your ads will get and thus make more money then you have at this point. once we get some more page rank coming into webanswers, we should see more results in the search engines and thus, more people coming to the site, thus more users and thus more ad clicks by these new users. in tech lingo, you could call yourself the "early adopters" of WebAnanswers

@ Mtnrescue, you would be down at peaberry, except, you have to make $100 before you get any payouts from Google.

Wow - if you make 1.50/ month (thinking big) it will only take 66 months to get a check.

But the key is that you plan on making more then $1.50 a month to get there faster :)

So in about 20 years, you'll have made enough through WebAnswers to go buy a new TV LOL

This answer was edited by sidelko 632 days ago.

Reason: go buy stuff