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Getting The Best AdSense Help
A few years ago I was quite active on the Google AdSense Help Forum, an official help channel operated by Google.  

The nature and scope of complaints I saw there were enough to make you die laughing.  After a while, I assembled all of the behavior I'd seen into a list, riffing on a very old bit of net.lore called "How To Post To Usenet."  This was the result.

On Mar 31, 4:42 am, [redacted] wrote:
> They banded my Adsense account. Didn't do anything wrong ... and won't
> tell me why.
>
> Gonna' start a website ... Do_not_believe_google.com.

Always a great idea to

  • start off by making empty meaningless threats
  • assume that you have done nothing wrong
  • write like a fourth grader

That makes people take you seriously and genuinely care.  Also, using a URL that has illegal characters (underscores are allowed in filenames, but only dashes in URLs)...

This is as good a place as any to post the following list of SOOPR-SEKRIT TIPZ N TRICKZ to getting the most from the AdSense Help Forums.  These tips can be adapted to just about any product's message boards or help forums, and are GUARANTEED(*) to result in a prompt solution to your issue:

  • Address the forum as if it were one person, and that person is working for Google. 
  • u shud lrn 2 spk in txt msgs.  ppl <3 dat.
  • Use!!! Lots!!! Of!!! Punctuaton???? 
  • TYPE IN ALL CAPS
  • Don'tuseyourspacebar 
  • Rather than actually answering questions, toss out a sentence or two that may or may not have anything to do with the question being asked, then add fifteen URLs and tell the poster to visit your website and sign up for another ad service, or purchase your 'secret formula for getting rich on AdSense'
  • http://DOALLOFTHEABOVE!!!!.BIZ???? 
  • Ask questions that were answered on every single page of the signup process.
  • Ask questions that are answered on hundreds of knowledgebase articles which are readily accessible from the search box on your dashboard. 
  • Ask questions that can easily be found with a search
  • Ask if it's okay for YOU to put AdSense on your page full of profanity-laced descriptions of your sordid encounter with fifteen midget porn stars in a swimming pool full of chocolate pudding.  Be sure you include pictures that someone else took and published under copyright.  Trust me, the rules were meant for everyone ELSE. 
  • Assume that you are always right and have completely complied with the terms of service, even though you never actually read them.  Or the program policies.  Or the webmaster guidelines. 
  • Your first message should always accuse someone of RIPPING YOU OFF! 
  • Bonus points if you can manage to work accusations of fraud against Google in at least three times per paragraph
  • Five minutes after you sign up for your account, post here asking why it hasn't been approved yet.  When a forum member responds by politely pointing out that it often takes weeks to get approval, accuse them of working for Google and tell them that if they'd spend less time screwing around on the forums and more time approving your account, your children would not be starving now. 
  • Assume that everything everybody tells you is true, except Google.  Google ALWAYS lies.  They just want your money. Especially believe everybody you paid hundreds of dollars to sell you a craptastic content sinkhole full of other people's material with promises that you'll be rich in just a few days.
  • If you get caught being stupid, change your screen name and increase all numbers in your post by a factor of four.  For instance, if your first post claims that you have been an AdSense publisher for three months and had $200 in your account when you got banned, after you change your name, increase it to a year and $800. 
  • YOUR website is the MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF REAL ESTATE ON THE INTERNET.  Forget the New York Times, You, webmaster of www.the-three-hundred-block-of-willow-street-in-some-town-nobodys-ever-heard-of.com, are the most valuable net.entrepreneur on the planet.  Thousands of advertisers are falling all over themselves to pay twenty, fifty, even one hundred dollars just for the CHANCE that someone on YOUR SITE will click their ad.  If you see an advertiser paying less, contact them directly and tell them what cheap bastards they are.
  • You don't need a website, a blog, or even a basic understanding of computers to make millions from AdSense.  If those millions fail to materialize, it's obviously because Google is ripping you off. 
  • Your wife's third cousin's girlfriends' little brother's best friend's dog who's "good with computers" is an expert on all things AdSense, and you should believe everything he says.
  • Conversely, the AdSense Pros know nothing, and should be ignored.  Or, if you're feeling feisty, argued with. 
  • Rules are made to be tested.  Find anything you can in the ToS to work with, and then do all you can do to run right up as close as you can to violating it without 'crossing the line.'  When you get banned, come back here, change your screen name, and complain about how Google ripped you off.
  • If your earnings for the month exceed $10, start asking where your check is on the first of the following month.  Ask at least a dozen times a day, every day. 
  • Google is just like a government, and therefore they are required by law to give you every intricate detail of their search algorithms, decision-making processes, policy implementation procedures, and the home phone number of all employees in the AdSense group.  DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS.
  • Google is not an organization made up of human beings just like you and me with feelings, stress, a mortgage, a relationship going south, a kid with a broken arm, a flat tire, or an upset stomach.  Rather, Google is an amorphous blobular multi-personalitied unity making tens of billions of decisions per second, and every one of them involves you.  Make sure you get your fair share of attention by never forgetting that out of the millions of AdSense publishers, YOU are most important.  It is Google the Hut, and you are Han Solo. 
  • Of COURSE they want you to fail!  That's how they get so rich!
  • When your account is banned and you file an appeal, be sure to file it at least five or six times an hour until you get a response.  Google LOVES that. 
  • When your account is banned, it is never, ever your fault.
  • Crying helps. 
  • Also, profanity in large quantities.
  • When all else fails, create another account and claim your identity was stolen.  By Google.

(* Guarantee extends only to you being laughed out of the forum and never being allowed to own an AdSense account again.)

JH, Socially

 
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