This Google AdSense preview tool looks like a good thing to use, but I am suprised it is created for Internet Explorer. We all know that Google supports Firefox in a way, and we would expect from Google that they created a Firefox extension, too. This can be considered forcing AdSense users to use Internet Explorer - maybe Microsoft paid Google for this? Sure, there are Firefox extensions for this, but they are not mentioned on google.com.

i gotcha...yeah my website is not that big, only like 10 pages, but it's supposed to be a business website...so i hope i get accepted once i publish it..i had published it for a year, but under a subdomain, and now that i bought the domain im loking forward to publishing as soon as possible.

One of these days, I got another mail from Google that some traffic was coming from places that gave incentives for <- snipped -> I was surprised as to where this has come from, because I have not even a penny to give or anything else to anyone who would click on my ads on my site.

Then, I thought back, and thought hard putting pressure on my brain (that is pretty bad at remembering things), and I finally realized that I had put up my site at a link exchange site (Link Referral or something like that). I went straight away and removed it from that place. Incidentally, my already measly earnings dropped to nil.

The only reason I think the Google did not out right ban me because I think I had brought to their notice about the earlier fraudulent clicks that got generated at my site. I think, that way, if the Google people know that you really make an effort not to fraud, and then they are considerate. Else, I think they just ask them to take a hike.

Anyway, I now have one concern. Can I not even place my sites at relevant directories? How am I supposed to get people see my site? Now, the only traffic I get is through people searching for something and my site popping up in the results.

But I think, I should also be considerate on the amount of content one has on the site. I have real less content at the moment. As I said in my Google Pages (the 3rd August entry), Harold Davis has something to say about it.
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I guess you could still submit your site to some more popular directories, and skip the suspicious ones. But I don't think directories are that important or useful. Sure, links are always useful, but it's better to have a link on a web site with a similar topic. And remember, Google AdWords is your friend



Now this is a good news! I've just installed a component on my new site (the one mentioned here: http://www.astahost.com/opinion-edited-joo...ate-t12957.html) that generates Google Sitemap. Amongst other functions, there is one that shows you how many links were generated - and that is how many pages there approx. are. Currently I'm at 404 pages, but I think 150 more will be added until the completion. But there is still the problem of visitors..

You got 404 pages of moderate quality (300 words)! And you have not even started your site yet? That is really amazing. You must have worked real hard to get that much of content.

Now that I think about it, I think that once you have enough content, I need not worry about directories and such things. Because even with a mere handful of content rich pages, I am getting hits from search engines that are quite relevant.

So, I think if you have that 400 pages with quality content, you should be getting pretty decent traffic a couple of days since you lauch your website.

Unfortunately, not all pages have 300 words, but we can say that the content is quite good. In my opinion, the average number of words per page is about 200. I have 4 pages with over 1000 words, and the rest is between 100 and 400 words. I guess that word number can be ignored if there are many pages

Ofcourse they can be. My mistake that I did not specify it to be 'average number of words' per page instead of 'number of words' per page. That is a real content heavy site you have and I think it will drive traffic to your site by itself once it gets indexed by search engines. Moreover you use Google Sitemap, and I think that surely will get your pages indexed.

Good going.

Hmm it's not exactly a good tactic for a site that doesn't require even half of that..... but ok lol.

I mean for example, I put up a site purely for a peice of software I have developed..... it must be one huge and confusing piece of software to require a site with minimum 100 pages with atleast 300 words on each.....

You guys are all getting these e-mails saying that there was fraudulent behaviour detected in your account, I don't even think that Google cares in my case… I'd like to know whether those of you who got e-mails were already past the 100€ mark?

Another thing: When I first tried out for AdSense I tried with my vocabulary trainer (see link below), but I wasn't accepted. They never told me why (since it complies to the rules as far as I know, but look for yourself), so I figured, the reason was technical insufficiency at the time. I then tried out with my (German) content web-site and got accepted. But I still placed ads on my (by then working well) vocabulary trainer, because it specifically says, that this is allowed in the Google-Help. But mine is a special case I guess. They didn't say a word yet, but I'd rather be faster than they are ^^ What do you guys think, am I violating any rules or not?

Thanks for your help,
Ruben

Woops wrong topic.

This post has been edited by Chesso: Aug 21 2006, 04:09 PM