Sponsored Tweets: How NOT to make money

Sometimes you keep on wondering how "intelligent" some members of these Sponsored Tweets companies must be, just to get a few cents for a click on their ads - not thinking about the consequences. In the end they might loose out not only the clicks they received on this particular sponsored offer but most likely be banned if they are repeated offenders of these programs.

Just watch out for this tweet (to clarify: It's about my campaign which i advertised in Sponsored Tweets two days ago!)

With these programs you can earn money on Twitter & your websites/blogs

• MyLikes (weekly payout from 2$ on, earn for each click),
• Sponsored Tweets (set your own price/tweet or earn for each click),
• Ad.ly (pays per tweet),
• Revtwt (earn for each click),
• Twittad (get an ad on your twitter profile background and get paid to show it for up to one month)
• Twivert (get money for each click)
• Paid-to-promote (get money for each valid visitor to your blog)

Another case are - if you select to approve ads before they are tweeted out - that you can already reject tweets which clearly ask for Tweets or which don't have anything to do with the product you want to advertise like these Tweets:

asking for clicks

Wrong or too short product description

No description at all, just the disclosure.

I saw these tweets in some profiles who only tweeted out tweets like this. It seems like the other advertisers just selected auto-approval which might result in a ZERO result for them.

Some even ask in their Sponsored Tweets for Retweets to gain more exposure and clicks for their Sponsored Tweet.

Banned from Adsense - Answer these questions!

As soon as you get banned from Google's Adsense Publisher Program, you want to try to reinstate your account. But it is not that easy like you will think. Google has prepared a very long list of questions, some of them are tricky and i guess if you answer something wrong it will end badly for you, your account and a future without Adsense is predictable.

Here are the questions which you have to answer when Google think your Adsense account was used / abused by invalid click activities:

1. Example URLs where you've placed your ads
2. Date your account was disabled
3. Have you appealed the disabling of this account in the past?
4. Do you have any other active Adsense accounts?
   
   
5. Who are the intended users of your site?
   
6. From what parts of the world do your user view your site?
7. How are your users accessing the web? (e.g. Internet cafes, home DSL lines, mobile devices, university / office intranets)
   
8. Does your site content include content copied from other sites of the web (not including RSS feeds)?
9. What is the source of your site's content?
10. How many people are involved with the administration of the site?
11. How often do you update your site?
12. Have you ever purchased traffic for your site(s)?
13. Have you ever signed up for services that give users incentives to visit your site/ads? (e.g. auto-surf, pay-to-read, pay-to-click)
14. How do users get to your site? How do you promote your site?
15. Why do you believe the traffic to your Google ads is valuable to advertisers?
16. Would visitors to your site have any reasons to increase your Adsense earnings? If so, why? (e.g. do they know you personally, are they part of an online community, or do they support a particular cause)
17. Have you or your site ever violated the Adsense program policies or Terms & Conditions? If so, how?
18. Any relevant information that you believe may explain the invalid click activity we detected
19. Any data in your site traffic logs or reports that indicate suspicious IP adresses, referrers or requests
    

Some of the questions are very strange like Nr. 6, 7, 14 and 15.

If Google thinks itself that my web site offers no values for the advertisers, why should Google accept my subscription to Adsense from the beginning on?
Why does Google not approve each website before you copy the code into it?
Can't Google watch itself in the Google Analytics account to check the referred websites?

How does Google detect the invalid click activity?
I guess they have a better Google Analytics account for their Adsense ads to track persons who click too often or who are always the same persons who click...