Micheal Savoie

I ate too much again. My mom’s cooking on Thanksgiving Day is amazing, even though she is pretty awesome on other occasions, it just seems that the combination of foods are so good that you have to over eat just to taste everything. So I was uncomfortably full as I watched the Dallas Cowboys give the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a good whooping after dinner.

I thought about the reason we Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. We set aside a day to thank God for giving us a nation where we can, with a little effort, become as successful as we want to be. Our country has seen millionaires rise out of poverty since its early beginnings.

Now add to that the unlimited potential of the Internet.

How thankful am I that I live in America, and I am an Internet Marketer.

But wait, I thought I just read that the Internet is dead.

I don’t believe that one bit… since I am earning money every week on the Internet. I am not a millionaire, yet. But that is not stopping me from shooting for my dreams. The only thing that could possibly prevent my achieving my dreams is myself.

I have to remember to thank the God who gave me my health, without which, I couldn’t go to work at my day jobs each day to bring in the money to fund my Internet ventures. Yet my health will never be an excuse for lack of success, because I see people with physical disabilities who are more successful than I.

I am thanking God for my friends, both online and offline. WIthout them, life would be a lonely place.

Thank you for my wife, children and family. They are the reason I continue to do what I do. If they didn’t need school clothes, meals, shelter, and a little spoiling now and then, I really wouldn’t need to work multiple jobs and run an online empire. They help me dream bigger.

I am thankful for you, my readers, who make me feel more like a member of a community than a lonely author who is writing to himself…

What are you thankful for? I really would like to read about it. So would the rest of my readers.

I am on the scene here in Orlando, where Joe e. Clayton, Jr. has spent a couple of hours telling us about the Softshops and Supersites that he sells. I am very impressed with these, and I can see how a savvy marketer can make these into some very big money.

Like Joe said, “the marketing crowd is telling you to buy what everyone else is buying, and then after you have one out of 100,000 websites selling the same product, you wonder why sales aren’t coming.”

With Softshops are not mass produced, so you don’t have to deal with having 1000 or more other marketers selling the same products. And you get opt-in forms on each page, free software to give each visitor who signs up to your email list. This is a complete business that has the potential to make you a lot of money if you don’t let it gather dust in your closet.

I can’t wait to see the speakers that are coming up in the next day or so. I am not allowed to tell you what we discuss, I can only give you general information. But Joe Clayton and his brother Doug are a class act, and they are some hard-working guys. I am so glad I decided to come to this workshop.

Oh, and if you ever get a chance to meet Thea Swafford, jump at the chance! She is one of the nicest business people I have ever met. I mean she knew who I was before I even introduced myself. Talk about putting me at ease, I was like butter in a skillet after that. She could have sold me the Eiffel Tower and I’d have written her a check for it. But she didn’t try to sell me anything, she was genuinely interested in me. That is what builds relationships that make an impact. If she were to ever ask me to do a JV with her, I wouldn’t have to think about it, I’d be asking her what she needed me to do.

This brings me to the attitudes that you bring with you. Your attitude is like a flag that you have over your head. You don’t notice it, but everyone can see it from far away. If you have an uplifting attitude, then you raise the spirits of everyone around you. But if your attitude is negative, it can be like a torpedo and cause everyone in a ten foot radius to sink to your level.

Sorry, I have to be teaching all of the time.

I met a couple that you should keep an eye on while here in Orlando. George and Yvonne Levy. George is currently putting together a foolproof method to get thousands of myspace friends in days instead of weeks. Talk about making acquaintances… I will have more information once George is ready to release his course.

Thanks for checking in with me, I will be reporting back about this workshop as things progress. You keep checking back here, and I’ll keep posting.

Take care,

Micheal Savoie

I received a lame email from Google telling me that my account was terminated for click fraud.

I have been earning an average of 3 cents per day, and I am committing click fraud?  I think if I were going to do some fraud, I would run up the clicks a little higher than 18 cents in one day, and then not touch it for a week…

The email states that the termination can be from any of the following reasons:

“A publisher’s site may not have invalid clicks or impressions on any
ad(s), including but not limited to clicks and/or impressions generated
by:

- a publisher on his own web pages
- a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads
- automated clicking programs or any other deceptive software
- a publisher altering any portion of the ad code or changing the
layout, behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads for any reason

These or any other such activities that violate Google AdSense Terms
and Conditions and program polices may have led us to disable your
account. The Terms and Conditions and program polices can be viewed at:

https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US

https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US “

Now I have over 90 websites hosted on my servers.  The 404 pages on many of these websites have my ads on them.   I also have ads running on a banner exchange.  A banner exchange is nothing more than a delivery method for the adsense ads.  It still does not mean that I am clicking on my own ads.  I don’t have time for it anyway!

I did remember hearing (or reading) that Google does not like Adsense ads on traffic exchanges.  That is something I do not agree with.  As long as nobody is told or encouraged to click on the Adsense ads, a traffic exchange should be allowed, because it shows an awful lot of ads.

I am confused by one thing in the above statement, which is probably the reason my account was terminated: the word impressions is included.

So that means that by looking at the Adsense ads on your website by refreshing the page you are violating their terms.

While most of the other advertising websites do not pay as much as Adsense, I suppose I will use this as a lesson.  Do not place too high a value on any income from any one source, especially one that is growing too fast for its own brain.  While I am in the process of appealing their decision, which will no doubt be like talking to a brick, since they could provide me with no specific information as to what I was doing wrong.  Come on, at least when the police take you to court, you are given the facts.  I get a generic letter that basically tells me that the $88 I had accumulated since I started the account in May of this year is going to be divided up among the advertisers that were supposedly “wronged” by my supposed “violations.”

Any comments are appreciated to help me sort this out.  I know that I will be using Bettertextads in the meantime.