Google's AdSense Keeps Googling With Me Senselessly

Way back earlier this century, I think the year may have been 2006 or 2007, I went through the process, with Google, to get Google AdSense approved.

Such required a lot of steps.

Eventually I got approved. And then began putting the AdSense code on all my Eyes on Texas website pages. There were 100s of Eyes on Texas website pages.

AdSense had to add up to over $100 in any given month to have the generated AdSense revenue direct deposited to my bank account.

When I started this I did not really think it would amount to anything. So, I was just a bit surprised that the revenue went over 100 bucks the first month, with that revenue then showing up in my bank account.

Soon it was many 100 bucks a month. Thus it became sort of a game, trying to cause pages to get a lot of page views and ad clicks. Way back then I recollect it was my Turner Falls Park pages, and Scarborough Faire pages which were the biggest click generators.

By 2008 I started up my first blog, which is the one you are reading right now. And I put the AdSense code on the blog, which was easy to do, did not require adding the code via the HTML method, as was the case for the Eyes on Texas website.

So, for years the Durango Texas blog sported AdSense ads, got clicks, and added to what showed up in my bank account each month.

And then, a couple years ago, I do not remember when I first noticed, but the AdSense ads ceased showing up on the Durango Texas, durangotexas.blogspot.com, blog.

This did not concern me much, at the time, figuring it was some temporary thing. That and my Eyes on Texas website was the main place AdSense saw action.

And then it became annoying. Every few weeks, when checking the AdSense account, I would get a message telling me ads.txt issues need fixing. That the ads.txt file was not found. Even though it was always there. I'd click on check for update, and every time I'd get told the file had now been found. And all was hunky dory for a couple weeks, til it happened again.

Eventually I decided to see if I could find some sort of Google AdSense contact help source. I found a couple, messaged both, multiple times, to no avail, no answer, no reply.

For example, below is one of the many similar feedbacks I fed back to the AdSense Feedback contact option....

Repeating this futile Feedback once again, because once again I got the ads.txt issues needing fixing message which I then fix, am told the file has been found and updated, only to have it happen again and again and again, with no explanation, or Feedback. AdSense ceased showing ads on durangotexas.blogspot.com and durango-world.blogspot.com quite some time ago. With no notice explaining why. And along with the ads.txt message today's message included "1 or more of your sites haven't shown any ads for at least 4 months. If these sites remain inactive they'll need to be reviewed again. Only applies to AdSense for content." I've gone down that path previously, the sites pass being reviewed, and still no ads show up. I have several other Blogspot blogs, with no problems with the ads. This is frustrating. The durangotexas.blogspot.com blog has been active since 2008, and has had millions of page views, and thousands of blog posts. I never got any sort of message way back when, a couple years ago, when the ads ceased appearing.

So, there you go, my current annoying frustration with the bizarre tech world we now all live in...

Today I Celebrate My 8 Year Happy Google Anniversary

Google has a policy regarding its AdSense product similar to the first rule of Fight Club, as in the first rule of Google AdSense is not to talk about Google AdSense.

I think the talking prohibition has more to do with sharing details of how many AdSense cents one makes, revenue generating-wise, than simply mentioning some non-consequential AdSense aspect.

Such as, this morning when I checked in on the Google account Google informed me of that which you see above, that being today is my 8 year Happy Anniversary with AdSense. So far I have not been notified about any Google party celebrating this momentous occasion.

It is a little hard to believe that it has been 8 years since the Google AdSense account went active. I remember having to jump through hoop after hoop and then getting to the point where I was told  I could add AdSense code to my webpages. That day I added the code to about a quarter of my Eyes on Texas webpages, which at that point in time only numbered around 300.

The next day I logged into the Google account to find the AdSense account providing a strong motivation to add the AdSense code to all my Eyes on Texas webpages. And so I did.

And now, 8 years have gone by. If I remember right the blog you are looking at right now came along about a year later, followed by multiple other blogs, all with AdSense ads.

Doing the Google AdSense thing has become sort of an addiction, like pulling the arm of a slot machine and being pleased by the number that rolls up, or being perplexed by the number that rolls up, while once a month seeing the slot machine tray fill up with coins.

I'd like to break free of this addiction, but I fear it would involve getting some sort of addiction therapy, which seems like way too much bother, all things considered....