I have little hope for Google PR updates anyway since I figured long ago big G doesn’t love me. I removed their Adsense from Nowg.Net, and they removed my PageRank. I can keep fighting against them but instead I just don’t care. Seems like this update passed without any casualties to my blogs, nor it doesn’t look like link sellers are getting any more punishments. If you want to check your ranking and make sure you did not lose anything, use wither digpagerank.com or livepr.ezer.com. BOTH links seems to be not working today, because all the webmasters from all over the world are checking… Time for a new wave of PageRank personality disorder.

Some time ago I took the ImpulseBlogger.com blog into my hands and decided to invest some time into it and write some more valued content into it. So, my most recent post deals with WordPress plug ins for Adsense, that make the whole monetizing process easier.

Why should you use Plug ins?

For instance, WordPress formats the code pasted into your post, which means you can’t possible insert Adsense code into the body of your post. With some plug-ins, such as Adsense de Lux (click on the image above to see the full list of the plug ins) you can easily manage adsense code inside the post and integrate monetizing your blog via PPC system easily.

As the Inside Adsense blog, run by the team members of Adsense announced some time ago:

Our recent findings indicate that the Onsite Advertiser Sign-up feature, which allowed advertisers to sign up for AdWords campaigns on your site, hasn’t been performing as well as we had hoped. We’ve elected to gracefully retire this feature and focus our efforts on developing and supporting features that drive better monetization results for you. Call it time management, call it ROI, call it our unwavering commitment to our publishers. We want you to earn more revenue, and sometimes that means “sunsetting” certain features we created.

So what does it mean? In my opinion, just less sign ups from Advertisers directly, meaning less referrals and less commissions for you. While I personally never managed to refer ANYONE to Adsense though my adsense ads on the site and off millions of clicks over the past 2,5 years no one actually clicked on “advertise on this site” I wonder why Google decided to remove this feature, it’s not like it was taking some extra space or bothered anyone.

After all, their recent addition of “show more ads” seems much more… “useless” to me. Who will ask to show them more blatant commercials?

It seems like Google’s war against PPP and TLA is reaching far as more and more blogers are having their Rank zeroed and it turns to a real hysteria, but then again, what can they do and more over — you can still earn with sponsored reviews more, than with your PageRank.

Want example?

PR0 (zero) can still earn up to 5 USD per day with sponsored reviews (assuming you get one 5$ task), if it has some traffic or Alexa rank. I.e.,  150 USD profit off PR0. Will you earn this much selling links on a PR3 site? NO. So don’t worry, even if PR will stick around for some longer time, I know I have been making huge money off my blogs and it was because of traffic, not PR.

Some time ago, Google wages war against Text Link Ads, accusing them of selling links based on PR (never mind that there are also other criterias for price per links, such as Alexa, Technorati rank, Bloglines links etc). As a result many publishers lost their ranking and TLA’s marketplace slowed down.

Now, PayPerPost is appearanly next in Google blacklist. The founder of PayPerPost noticed that many bloggers who work for the biggest sponsored reviews company are losing their PageRank, only because they are offering sponsored reviews on their blog.  RealRank is comming soon to solve the lost PR’s problem, but this is still in development.

What now?

Well, nothing. Just life without PageRank (which means significantly lesser revenue) and hope that some day, someone will break Google’s monopoly and give us our PageRanks back…

Yes, as you can see, no more Adsense here and you probably want to ask why. No, thank God, we were not banned, nor this site got blacklisted, it was my own decision based on simple calculation.

I run Adsense on about 20 websites (maybe more, did not count). Total monthly earnings are making high four figures income, out of which, NowG.net’s share is only 1.5%. At best.

Since April, NowG.net gathered around 35$. During that period I refused at least 3-4 sponsored reviews, related to the casino theme (which means content non-acceptable with Google Adsense). Each review here is normally around 15$, so I lost at least 45$ in reviews, with 35$ from Adsense, means I am still at a loss of 10$, and that is, again, by the minimum calculation.

Bearing in mind that during October, which was a very good month for income for all my websites, Nowg.net earnt $5,78, and I could have taken a $ 15 casino related review (which I did not), common sense said - Adsense on nowg.net works at loss, not at profit. The picture with Adsense is totally different on other blogs, and I honestly don’t know why it fails to work in here, but this is the picture, and I decided to clean up Google’s code and offer a cleaner website to my readers.

Perhaps it’s not the world’s biggest achievement in ranking, however, I worked hard towards improving my results here, I got backlinks from loads of websites and even though this blog was predicted to be PR6, I am still happy with PR4 — considering all internal pages gained some rank and the site is very well indexed.

Anyway, thanks Google for this update, even though my other blog — www.toptut.com got nuked -1, still and all, most sites got a raise.

For a few days now, it seems that many webmasters have been complaining about their Adsense reports. Some, me included don’t see channels report, only aggregate date, while others complain about the reports not refreshing for a few hours. After the last time Adsense posted on their blog that they are going to do their regular website maintaince, it seems that things went wrong and reports do not function like before. What happened? We still don’t know, maybe the Google’s server has overload because of the PR dropping. Either way — right now, reports are nor very accurate and refresh once in every few hours. Very annoying.