I would guess that Google AdSense is one of the biggest discouragement for bloggers. If you are a blogger or an owner of any other types of sites, and if you have AdSense, how many times do you check your earnings? Some people check it 10 times a day, others check it 40 times a day, and few check it twice a day.

The people who check their stats as little as possible are the ones who are better at improving their blogs. Instead of worrying about how much money is earned, using that time to create quality content is better.

When I first started out with AdSense, it was one of the biggest degrader of my motivation. I would check the stats often, like every single hour, to see how many more cents, if not dollars, I’ve earned. Unfortunately, it wasn’t much. I would constantly check till I realized that this is not the way to make a good online income. I based everything in one basket and AdSense was my only stream of income. But when the earnings went down I got very upset for the day.

Google AdSense Can Kick you Out
Google has banned devoted online money makers such as Kumiko, from cashquests.com, for invalid clicks or something related to that. Whether the invalid clicks were authentic or not really doesn’t matter to Google, and Google will not distribute the money to the publisher after he or she is banned. I’ve seen other bloggers, usually small time bloggers getting banned weeks after they were approved by Google. They may or may not have fraudulent activities, but without any explanation to the publisher Google can and will ban them without notice as they wish.

Don’t be Dependent on Google
I’m not much of a fan of getting in the top position of Google search like I used to be. Yes, it may help me in boosting my traffic but with a single algorithm change by Google, all that traffic can go down. Getting traffic from Google is a positive thing and you should allow that to happen, as in working on search engine optimization, but do your best to get traffic in other ways. Even though if you get a good amount of traffic, concentrate on getting more and more in different ways.

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