If Adsense Disappeared, What Would You Do?
For some reason I get a kick out of taking my Google checks to the bank. I always like to see the face of the bank teller when they see my little old name on a check from a very well known company. I guess I feel proud that I’ve “cracked the online code” and am displaying the fact that I work from home successfully.
If you haven’t guessed by now, Adsense is one of my main streams of income. I do have several streams like any good internet marketer, but it’s one of the checks I always count on at a certain time every month. Everything else comes “whenever”.
The other day I got to thinking, what would I do if Adsense disappeared tomorrow? What if Google just decided on day to pull the Adsense program? Now the chances of that are slim to none, since they would lose a LOT of revenue. I mean seriously, my check is rather small compared to others online marketers. And that’s only a PERCENTAGE of what they got for all those clicks. Don’t doubt for a second they aren’t getting the majority of the share just for the content side. That’s got to be a good chunk of THEIR income, so I don’t see it going away any time soon. Maybe redesigned, but not completely pulled.
Regardless, it’s always good to take a second look at your streams of income. If one disappeared, would you lose the majority of your income? Direct sales reps suffer from this quite often when a company decides to “switch gears” and delete their program. Which is why I’m such an advocate of personal websites - if your company goes belly up, you’ve still got your site and all the hard work you’ve put into it. YOUR site doesn’t go away, and you can always redesign it for a similar company (or affiliate programs).
So take a minute today and look at your different streams of income. Can they be replaced? Is there something that can make MORE money? What else could you put WITH it? Important questions and worth looking into!
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Ironically enough, I haven’t been able to get into my Adsense account since I posted this. It’s been well over a day now. Although this isn’t the first time they’ve had problems and locked us all out.
Posted by: Kara | April 15th, 2008 15:16
Have you been able to log in yet? Out of curiousity I checked mine this morning. I wanted to see if I was able to log in plus you reminded me to how much I’m getting this month, lol!
Anyway, I was able to get into my account this morning. Maybe they were just doing some updates/technical management yesterday?
Posted by: Anita | April 16th, 2008 07:26
Must have been on my end, I got in last night after just refreshing the page. Go figure right? LOL.
Posted by: Kara | April 16th, 2008 10:05