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One of my coaching clients woke up yesterday to a message in her inbox that read:

“Adsense Account Disabled”

She has adsense on nearly a dozen websites, a few that get daily hits in the thousands. Needless to say, she is not pleased. Seriously pissed off, and ready to scream is a way of characterizing her response. We are going through the process of appealing the decision, but who knows how long that will take.

There are other options of course. One would be to open another Adsense account under her company name. The previous account was under her personal name.

But before she does that, we have decided to look for other alternatives. Even if she puts google ads back on her website, it would be a good idea to have some small percentage of advertising revenue from another source.

The first that we are trying is Adbrite:

Adbrite, like Google, strives to show ads relevant to a website’s content. Adbrite however is much more flexible and slightly more intrusive. In addition, to the google-like text ads, they have banner ads, full page ads, and ads that turn words in your website into text-link ads. They will do all four types of ads at once if you let them!

Adbrite Issues

There are two issues that I can see with Adbrite right now. One concerns the targetting of the ads. Adbrite has fewer advertisers so they cannot always get relevant ads to your website. On my client’s website, 3 of the 5 ads are relevant to her content. The other ones are lame ads that don’t make much sense. They are likely to have a low click-through rate and less revenue potential.

However, the main issue is how the revenue compares. Can you make as much money with Adbrite as you can with Google? I think the answer is “no.” But I will not know for another few weeks. However, if you do get banned by Google, Adbrite is certainly a legitimate company that offers another revenue stream.

I will let you know how it turns out. If you want to give it a trial run, click my affiliate link below. The system works just like Google. You simply apply and then cut and paste the code. Adbrite takes about 24-hours to fully index your website and match it with the appropriate advertisers:

I took a few minutes this morning to think about my many “failures” online.

One failure is an audio mp3 series, based on the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. It is designed to help eliminate back pain. I initially envisioned it as a $97 download that would sell dozens of times per month and create several thousand dollars per month in passive income.

It didn’t sell any copies at $97. In fact, it didn’t sell at $77 or $67. It didn’t sell in any appreciable volume until I had it a $27. Even then, it only sold 5-6 times per month, only making me about $150 per month. A failure, right?

I also used Snaps X Pro to create some video tutorials on how to use E-Junkie. My e-junkie video tutorials, at $19.95 only sell 4-5 times per month, for about $95 per month in sales. However, my e-junkie videos have the added benefit of bringing in a small amount of consulting income. People hire me to help set-up their e-junkie shopping carts and products. Currently, I make about $500 per month from this product and related sales. Another failure?

I put google adsense (advertising) on one of my websites last year. It started bringing in a few dollars here and there. I was intrigued by the idea, so I created 3 new websites specifically for the purposes of putting google adsense on them and gaining a new revenue stream. It took me 3 weeks of consistent work to get the websites up and running. My hope was that each website would produce $5 - $10 per day in advertising revenue and create a revenue stream of $500 - $600 per month. I figured that once it worked, I could start creating new websites, until I created the passive income stream that I wanted.

I overestimated the income. Each website only produced 50¢ to $1 per day in revenue. With the income from my other adsense sites, I get about $125 per month from google in adsense revenue. Failed yet again.

For now, I will skip the details of my other failures - the Amazon affiliate account that only brings in about $10 per month, the E-Junkie affiliate payments that are only $10 - $15 per month. There are others of course, the $7.00 Feldenkrais Breathing sessions that only make me $70 per month. The teleconference calls that I recorded and sell with Bill O’Hanlon…

Overall, my failures bring me aprox. $600 per month of passive income and an additional $2000 per month in consulting income. This does not include my individual coaching client’s and the money I make teaching at the University of Utah.

If I keep failing at my current rate, I will have $1500 per month in passive income by the end of this year. Unless, of course, I screw up my failures and one of them becomes a hit.

How about you? How much passive income are you making from your internet failures, so far?