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LMAO at last - took them quite some to figure out I gotta be banned!

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Our specialists were concerned with your sites showing Google ads. Ads
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I must say I haven’t been doing anything with that account for a good while already - I have mentioned many times before that I have now switched to affiliate business model. There were some sites still receiving some residual traffic so I was getting a check once every couple months - but nothing massive. They now owe me like $30 or so - since the payout limit is normally $100 I wonder how they will go about it? Funny how once the account is disabled you cannot even log to check how much there’s left in there - what you see when you try to log in is just

Account Not Active
An AdSense account does not exist for this login, as it is associated with an unapproved application. For more information about your application, please review the message we sent to the email address you provided with your application.

Not even a custom message for this case! LMAo considering that they started disabling accounts a couple months ago already - they could have come up with something. Say let you log in but disable the code generation or at least display a message according to the case. But no, Google isn’t bothered about being user-friendly towards spammers whose accounts it bans LMAO.

Another funny thing is not long before the ban they have upgraded my account to use Pay-Per-Action wihtout me even ever applying for it. OK, maybe they just upgrade everybody now and without looking. Needless to say I haven’t even bothered to use it, just had a quick look - I’m too busy with other things.

So, what have we - I now have a few hundred sites freed up from that account. I have a few affiliate programs in mind to use on them and will get to work a.s.a.p. Sure pay per click was good while it lasted - but with pay per action, the margin for profit is so much higher potentially. Thanks for increasing my income Google

This blog ranks #4 for keyword tool external here. In case somebody doesn’t know, Google’s external keyword tool is the tool that was initially provided for AdWords advertisers to use for selecting keywords to bid on in their AdWords ad campaigns. Here is the actual location of that tool. It ranks #1, luckily for Google. I never bother to remember the exact URL and normally just type “keyword tool external” into my browser’s address bar - which takes me there, due to the fact that many browsers’ address bar works as a searc box and they just take you to #1 result for whatever you type in there. I can imagine a ton of other people do exactly the same thing as me. Now, I do not think I could outrank Google for its own tool name, but just for the sake of a speculation: what if I did and it was this blog that people would have been taken to when typing “keyword tool external” in their browsers address bar? How could I possibly use it? I do have a couple uses in mind - even applicable for my current #4 spot - but I’d like to know what my readers could suggest? Go ahead submit your ideas in the comments here.