What is an AdSense Jail?

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1. Matt (64 comments.) says:

   2/12/2005 at 12:57 am

   Huh?
2. Michael Moncur (10 comments.) says:

   2/12/2005 at 11:19 am

   I’ve been in the opposite kind of ‘jail’ on one of my topical weblogs more than once–you happen to mention a term like ‘snowbird’ on your site, and you’re stuck with snowbird ads (unrelated to the site’s topic, uninteresting to the visitors) until AdSense updates again…
3. Judi Sohn (1 comments.) says:

   2/13/2005 at 10:31 pm

   Oh, I know exactly what he’s talking about. I once held an entry for 3 or 4 days simply because my ad combination was serving me well and I knew that the moment I posted something new it would change. I waited until the income started dropping off on its own to post. I never heard it referred to as “jail” before. When I started AdSense last September I promised myself that I wouldn’t change my writing style to cater to the ads and I haven’t, but I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth either.
4. love-guide (1 comments.) says:

   8/2/2007 at 8:04 pm

   It hasn’t happened for me yet but I live in hope.
5. Brad Hart @ A DoFollow Blog (1 comments.) says:

   11/1/2008 at 7:51 am

   I know exactly what you mean about being afraid to update for fear of driving off the traffic. My moment was the day I really started doing well in terms of traffic. I had lost my adsense account thanks to my son helping out the blog income by clicking on my banners. I was in between them and adbrite when all of a sudden my blog really started getting attention. I had no advertising at all on the blog but for 5 consecutive days Stumbleupon, digg, and reddit sent me nearly 500k visitors. I was paralyzed. I didn’t know if I should revamp and get the new ads up or if I should wait and by the time I made a decision it was over. In essence by not making a decision I did make a decision to do nothing until it was too late. I don’t let myself sit back and wait anymore or second guess and change mid stream. I learned in in the fickle world making money through blogging, you have to make a decision quickly and carry through. Some times you win, some times you fail, but it is better than doing nothing or being wishy washy which always leads to failure.
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     11/1/2008 at 7:53 am

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