AdSense Account Suspended

We've all seen the get rich schemes and advertizements. You see these in your email and on cable and all over the web. After dealing with AdSense on my blog I can say that you won't get rich if you are a small publisher.

I have a blog and spend some time writing articles for it. I had seen the advertizements for ads and seen ads on other websites so I decided to put some advertizements on my blog. Mainly I did this as a rationalization so that when I spent time on my blog I could always rationalize that I was making a little bit of money off of it. I didn't have any expectations of getting rich, just making a little like, maybe 50 cents a day.

I went to all the trouble of setting up an AdSense account and running through the tutorials to put the code in my blog template. Then with the ads running I would check on my AdSense account and see the money adding up. I have to mention that one of the unusual things that AdSense does is that they have a $100 limit. In other words, until you get $100 in your AdSense account you don't get paid. I had wondered at the time why the ceiling was so high. Afterall, AdSense is supposedly paid through PayPal which requires very little effort on their part as opposed to sending a paper check in the mail. A more reasonable schedule would seem to be payment once a month for any month that you have at least $10. It now appears that this $100 limit is by design and probably to put off paying as long as possible. As long as you see your account increasing you think you are making money but until they actually pay you, the money is just an illusion and has cost them nothing.