Five days ago, DigitalPoint Forums, one of the largest webmasters’ community on the Internet stopped placing Google AdSense advertising on their pages. People started to talk about this so the owner of this website, Shawn Hogan, wrote a blog post about what actually happened with AdSense ads.

Although DigitalPoint forums runs the largest support site for AdSense publishers with over 760,000 thread and still counting, it seems nothing could stop Google from banning his account for, what they claim «ads on gambling-related websites». Shawn actually says there is no reasons why his account was banned while his game was fair, no cheating and not against AdSense TOS.

All was working fine until the last month he received 30 warnings from AdSense team saying he is running ads on non-compliant websites which he claims he is not affiliated with in any way nor does he own its. It seems than others (maybe competition ?) used his AdSense publisher ID, or at least that is what Shawn is saying on his blog. The natural move was to respond to those warning, and that is exactly what DigitalPoint Forums owner did, replying that he does not own any of the above sites ; moreover, it seems that those sites were not even of the AdSense whitelist. Although a Google representative answered back with a « your account will not be affected », several days later he received an email stating that his account is disabled due to program policies violation.

He still claims none of those websites belong to him and someone else used his publisher ID for God knows what reason.

The problem that arises from this happening is as following : if a 3rd party person/website can get an AdSense account suspended, doesn’t this mean that this might also apply in link building ? Like some competitor building links from spam websites to yours, this leading to your website getting de-indexed and banned from Google ? It makes sense while even if you cannot control the links that point to your website, you also cannot control who is using your publisher ID, but still get a ban from Google…

Bin Layer Advertising

Apart from the unusual name of the company ‘Bin Layer’ which sounds more like something you use in the household or garden to control layers of stuff you are adding to the bin, the German advertising company Bin Layer probably have one of the most attractive payout for webmaster in the industry today. They offer a mouthwatering  3 Euros per 1000 impression for that it calls LayerAd presumably for EU traffic and  0.50 Euro for US traffic.  The payout gets even better when you choose a combination of LayerAd and PopAd which Bin Layer calls HybridAD, payout for HybridAd starts from 3.50 Euro, rising to up to 6 Euro.

Bin Layer, no nonsense network

One of the promises that is bound to make the eyes of website owners and advertiser prick up is Bin Layers approach to paying their publishers, they argue that they are one of the best and quickest payers in the industry, the chart below gives a rough table of their payment structure but more interesting than the structure is the fact that you can request that payment is transferred to you account once you have at least 15 Euros in your account, Bin Layer allows you to transfer payment from you account with them to your bank account up to 4 times in a month, they pay by either direct bank transfer or by Paypal.

Bin Layer the company

Bin Layer seem to have been in the online advertising company for a few years, the core of their business seem to come from the telecommunication industry, they boast of clients such as Vodafone, Tele2, Freenet and others. They probably do fantastic deal for their advertisers but this site being a webmaster blog, a webmaster’s money making potential from Bin Layer is what this post focuses on, to add a new dimension to generating revenue for you website you want to register as a publish at Bin Layer today.

Team Player, an experienced webmaster at Webmaster Serve who has been generating revenue via Amazon affiliates for year wrote a brilliant post about this in the Site Monetization section of Webmaster Serve, excerpt from his post follows:

I doubt there are many people who haven`t heard of the online retail giant, Amazon. And as far as affiliate programs go, it has to be one of the most successful companies of all time.

To get commissions from them, you need to sign up to the relevant Associates program for the country you are aiming their products at. That means that if your site is predominantly visited by people from the UK, for example, you need to be an Associate with the UK Amazon program. You can be registered as an Associate with ALL the countries, there`s no limit. If someone from, say, the US, clicks on one of your links, and they end up at the US Amazon site and make a purchase, you won`t receive any commission from that sale, unless you are also registered with the US Amazon, with your appropriate Associates code, or tag, in the link.

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