... all the fuzz about? The adsense account was set up formy website www.wereldwijdbellen.nl , wich I started one yearearlier as an affiliate for a German / American Voip company(voice over IP, internettelephony). At that time Adsense was newfor me and I decided to give it a try. Doing some cutting,copying and pasting with the codes and voila, I was advertisingcompeting Voip companies on my website. Spyware was already a big nuisance on the internet at that time.In my battle aga...

...inst it I experimented with anonymous surfingvia so called anonymizers and proxyservers with the purpose ofhiding my IP address. Simply just out of curiosity, whether ornot the number of clicks on my ads could be influenced, Iproduced them and guess what happened? They were interpreted asinvalid clicks. Adsense disabled my account and I have to admitit : they had a good reason to do so (stupid me, what a shame).However It was never my intention to harm the advertisers noranyone else.* I realised that the possibility to earn money with these adshad gone forever.For hardworking affiliate webmasters, generating 100% of theirmultiple website income through Adsense, this must be anightmare. Google has no obligation to explain its decision indetail. So I begged to Google: Here are my sincere apologies. I'll neverdo it again pleas let me in again !!!No way, don't waste your time, forget about it, don't pull on adead horse. Google won't unlock your account again. Remember welive in the internet age and everything is automated. Google'sanswers to my sincere and arguing emails were no exception. Theywere completely robotized. So would this be the end of a dreamearning an income with my website? Answer: NO. As the famousDutch football player Johan Cruyff ones stated:* Every disadvantage has its advantage.I decided that I had to forget about Adsense forever being aninternet advertising possibility for me and guess what I foundout ? I was not the only one and this nightmare of thepossibility of getting banned is discussed in forums all overthe internet now. You want proof? Just google (yes this is a newverb) with "banned from adsense" and you will see. But what ismore important is that the alternatives are given in theseforums and on individual sites as well. Here I'am going to sharewith you what I discovered.Clickbank-ad-sense-script, a new program that serves Clickbankbased affiliate products in your website. These ads resembleadsense ads but a lot of webmasters are preferring them. Unlikepay per click this program pays for every sale you make in over11,000 Clickbank products. The yield is higher than adsensebecause it pays you between 50 and 75% of product cost, wich canmean $ 100 in your pocket from only one click.Clickbank-ad-sense lets you make a selection of your favoriteproducts that you believe are not competing with your ownproduct. Similar programs are: AffiliateSensor and CBPlugin.* You want more money making advertising solutions? Just read on.Another creative way of adding something new is done by Chitika.Their eMiniMall is a CPC-based intelligent product merchandisingservice. Alternative to static web banner ads it combinesproduct merchandising, a recommandation engine and comparativeshopping. Go to Chitika.com and have a look for yourself. Onepicture says more then a thousand words.* There are pros and cons and every rose has its thorn but whatdo you think of this one?Adbrite sells ad space on thousands of websites. There are twothings you can do with Adbrite - buy and sell ad space. If youare an advertiser they provide you with all sorts of websites.When you find the site you want to advertise on, you write yourad and pay. If approved by the webmaster your ad will appear onthat site at the scheduled time. If you are a publisher you canset your own rates and approve or reject every ad that'spurchased for your site. The revenue is split 75/25 in yourfavour. Adbrite provides publishers with more revenue and betterads by selling the ads directly to your visitors - this issomething the other ad systems don't do. * The pay-per-click contextual advertising has grown into a $ 3billion business.Thanks to Google's Adsense network contextual advertising, withthe short text based links that appear next to a website'scontent, is a very hot item on the internet now. Steve Balmerrecently introduced Microsoft's version called Adcenter andYahoo unveiled a pay-per-click beta program called YahooPublisher Network (YPN). Let me give you my impressive "competitors" list that I havefound in my search to survive my ban from Adsense :adbrite, adcenter (beta), adengage, adgenta, adhearus, adsclick,affiliatesensor, allfeeds, bannerboxes, bidclix, bidvertiser,cbadwords, cbplugin, chitika, clicksaddirect, clicksor,contextweb, expoactive, fastclick, infograbber, intellitxt,kanoodle, mirago , miva, nixxie, quigo, revenuepilot,targetpoint, yahoo ypn (coming soon...).