Mostly, just pingbacks on Wordpress sites made it pretty easy to find ‘em.

I was under the impression that the list of blogs was kept secret, so I am confuse3d as to how you “went to every blog, researched it”

Am I wrong about the list being secret?

Thanks again
Pat

I went to every blog, researched it, usually determined that “it could be better”, but the links and rankings kept adding up.

I have several websites that promote Physical products of various sorts and am concerned that it would be unlikely that any of the blogs would compliment any of my niches and therefore the links would not be of much quality.

Does LV have a vast array of niches or are the more inline with the “Make Money” Niche

Your thoughts are appreciated

Thanks,
Pat

Your sites may not be dropped out of the previous ranking positions just because they are Adsense sites. It’s likely to be other factors. Are they all or mostly getting links from the same or similar sources? If those links get dropped or devalued by Google, then it’s no wonder all your sites are affected at the same time.

My advise these days is already to play clean and safe with sites that monetize with Adsense. Too many people had been able to get away with it for far too long, but got caught by Google eventually. And they end up crying foul when their adsense income got wiped out completely when they should know better not to play with fire in the first place (I’m not implying you do).

I have even seen sites that comply with their rules closely got dropped from top rankings overnight. That’s why I would not depend on Adsense for my livelihood. It’s a good supplement of income but too risky to rely on it fully.

Thank you for your feedback. Currently, I’m not using Google Webmaster Tools (I know I should be).

Some of the sites have a blog that gets updated regularly, and some of the sites haven’t been updated in quite some time. Some sites have spinned content in the backend, while others don’t.

What’s strange is that all the sites in my adsense account have been penalized even though they are so diverse. The only thing in common is the 3-4 adsense blocks per page…

Moreover, my sites haven’t been completely penalized, some have fallen to the 5th or 6th page of Google so I don’t see it exactly as a TOS violation. Other sites, however, can’t be found.

I didn’t receive an email from Google or any other indication of what could be wrong.

Its just hard for me to accept that Google would indiscriminately “penalize” each and every site in my account without distinguishing one from another. Its just all very strange.

One thought about site association would be through your google account. If one site is banned for something Google considers a violation of TOS, they may have associated the other domains through adsense, analytics or webmaster tools.

However, there’s talk of others that have seen drops in Adsense sites ranking too, as they try to improve the quality of the network.

Perhaps there’s something in Google Webmaster tools that would point to a clue? Are your stats showing crawls? New content added regularly? Have you tried the Adsense Google group?

Thanks for the excellent post. I really need your advice on something. I have about 30 sites and a very healthy adsense account. I was making a very good monthly income, until about April 3rd, all of my sites suffered a huge Google penalty and dropped out of the 1st 10 pages of Google…

The weird thing is, each and every site within my adsense account has been penalized, even though they are NOT inter-linked, target completely different niches, and even reside on two separate hosts! Most of the domains are owned privately.

I will admit, some of the sites have spinned content but some of the sites don’t. Regardless, each and every site has suffered and I cannot understand why?

Any advice?