No Adsense - the end of the game for faucets? - Alternative Solutions?

[superiorus]

Hi

I will start by saying "bad morning" instead of regular "good morning"
I say this because is the 1-st morning without Adsense in the last 10 years ...

If you are a faucet/dice/game/etc owner you should check your email and if you get an email like the one below - it is the end ...

This email is to alert you that your AdSense account was found to be non-compliant with our AdSense program policies and as a result, your AdSense account has been disabled.

Current account status: Disabled

Action required: None


Violation explanation:

INCENTIVIZED TRAFFIC: As stated in our program policies, AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on sites with content related to programs offering incentives to click links or ads, read emails, or surf other websites. This would include, for instance, auto-surf sites, pay-to-read email networks, and sites comparing various pay-to-click programs. More information about this policy can be found in our help center ( http://www.google.com/adsense/support/as/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=105951 ).

Payment:
As your account has been permanently disabled, we will withhold payment of your account balance. As stated in the AdSense Terms and Conditions (https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms), Google reserves the right to withhold payments from publishers due to any breach of the program agreement. Please note that this step was taken in an effort to maintain the quality of the AdSense program and to protect the interests of our AdWords advertisers. The earnings on your account will be returned to the affected advertisers.

That mean your work, efforts,investments, all are gone!
Adsense disabled my account (with 875 eur balance)
The account was running ads on 14 websites (all are disabled/blocked from Adsense) and was over 6 years old.
Only 3 of them are faucets/game (bitcoinspace.net/freebitcoins, game.bitcoinspace.net, freebtc.click)
I always respect Adsense TOS (3 ads per page, fresh content, no iframes, etc)
In my opinion a faucet can not be included in these categories: "programs offering incentives to click links or ads, read emails, or surf other websites. This would include, for instance, auto-surf sites, pay-to-read email networks, and sites comparing various pay-to-click programs"

Maybe some of you will enjoy reading these lines.
My advice: do not enjoy before you check your email
It can happen to you anytime!

The big question is: can a faucet be sustained without Adsense?
What alternatives exist?

[LLec]

I think that a faucet is a low quality site. People visit only for a few seconds, and sometimes (in the vast majority of case) they try to visit more and more site they can in the same time. So I think that only faucet that could "keep" people for some minutes could remain profitable, faucet that give also a service and not a simple captcha to compile

[superiorus]

I think that a faucet is a low quality site. People visit only for a few seconds, and sometimes (in the vast majority of case) they try to visit more and more site they can in the same time. So I think that only faucet that could "keep" people for some minutes could remain profitable, faucet that give also a service and not a simple captcha to compile

What do you think about http://BitcoinSpace.net ?
This is a quality website?

[poptok1]

That is just sad how google handle this...
For good alternatives, no so lucrative, check this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1108616.0 I think its the best summary available here.
 

[BigBadBitBaron]

Bummer sir. 

Sincerely hope you can recover from this.

I'm only a newbie on here so I wont pretend to know a lot.

i'm experimenting with: Coinad, A-ads, bitvertiser & most recently Blockadz..

hopefully you'll get sorted

[Werko]

I wonder why freebitco.in is not affected.

[superiorus]

I wonder why freebitco.in is not affected.

I think will be (sooner or later) ...

[bassdude]

Perhaps i did somthing wrong but adsence never made me much on my faucet anyway. Im getting less than $1 a day with over 5k visits anyway

[superiorus]

Perhaps i did somthing wrong but adsence never made me much on my faucet anyway. Im getting less than $1 a day with over 5k visits anyway

Impossible to make 1$ if you really have 5000 unique visitors per day

[bassdude]

Perhaps i did somthing wrong but adsence never made me much on my faucet anyway. Im getting less than $1 a day with over 5k visits anyway

Impossible to make 1$ if you really have 5000 unique visitors per day

honest to god that's all I was making like I said I must have been doing something wrong.

[vodaljepa]

What a shame for adsense to be doing this but my guess is a lot advertisers complained about the poor traffic from faucet sites and they finally had to do something about it, advertisers are the ones who make them money after all

[bassdude]

I just removed all my adsence ads so I don't loose my account.

[NeuroticFish]

I had my adsense account disabled some years ago.
Although I tried, quite a number of years later, to ask them restore my account, they didn't.

Meanwhile I learned to live without them. I found in my country good enough options.
Although Google are the biggest, they are by far not the nicest one around, nor the ones best to work with.

The bad part is that you had quite an amount of money in there...
But you should think of finding a replacement. I hope you'll find a better one.

[hoop]

 I thought we would compile a comprehensive list Alternative of resources income for cryptocurrency community.

[superiorus]

I thought we would compile a comprehensive list Alternative of resources income for cryptocurrency community.

A good ideea.

Let's start!

[freedoge.co]

I thought we would compile a comprehensive list Alternative of resources income for cryptocurrency community.

A good ideea.

Let's start!

see this topic, i've started already, there is a poll too

[POLL] Bitcoin ad networks TOP List

[hoop]

 I not talking about ad networks only but other Alternative of resources income.

[alfaboy23]

I wonder why freebitco.in is not affected.

I think will be (sooner or later) ...

There are a lot of Google Adsense banning of faucets a few months ago until now, but still Freebitco.in is not affected, so I think it will stay that way for another banning season.
But I really wonder why Freebitco.in is not affected until this time. 

[maokoto]

If I were to run a faucet without adsense, I would rely in alternative advertisers, but also on making the users click 2 or 3 links in paid shorteners before claiming. Credhot, adfly, linkbucks... etc.

[socks435]

If I were to run a faucet without adsense, I would rely in alternative advertisers, but also on making the users click 2 or 3 links in paid shorteners before claiming. Credhot, adfly, linkbucks... etc.

Its annoying for visitors to do click those links and i think its the best to reduce the claim rewards and add other bitcoin related adnetwork..
Also use buy andsell ads..