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Today I successfully received my first Google Adsense earnings sent via the Western Union Quick Cash option.

Here’s a guide on How to receive Adsense payments via Western Union, but read on to find out my own experience with this new withdrawal method.

First, what I did was search for a Western Union (WU) agent closest to my place using the Global Payment Solutions website. After making a search, I decided to pick up my Adsense payment from Sanry’s Foreign Exchange at the Glorietta Mall in Makati.

I went to Sanry’s and told the staff manning the counter that I am picking up a Quick Cash payment from Google.

He gave me a Western Union “To Receive Money” form and asked me to completely fill it out. This is where the Payment Details from Google becomes necessary. The form asked for the Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN), exact Payment Amount, Name and Address of the Sender, and a few personal details, among others.

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Pinoy Money Talk member CookieMonzter dropped by the Google Adsense Earnings Survey discussion thread and made a lot of people drool when he shared that he earned $4,552.64 from Adsense in just one day.

The screenshot he posted also showed that, on the day after that, he has already earned $2,583.70 — and the day’s not finished yet!

Here’s the screenshot of his Adsense earnings:

Fake or not?

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Is it the end of the road for you if you received this dreaded email from Google Adsense?

It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account.

Please understand that this step was taken in an effort to protect the interest of the AdWords advertisers.

A publisher’s site may not have invalid clicks on any ad(s), including but not limited to clicks 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

Practices such as these are in violation of the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions and program polices, which can be viewed at:

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

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

Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected advertisers.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

If you feel you were “unfairly” banned by Google Adsense because of “invalid clicks” you did not commit, don’t fret. Account reinstatement, although rare, is possible.

YFS1 and SEOPedia both talked about the proper steps to approaching this situation. I’m consolidating and summarizing their suggestions here.

Do note, however, that this only applies to cases where you were not at fault. This means you did not click on your own ads, did not encourage visitors to click on your ads, and did not violate any Google Adsense’s Program Policies. If you did, stop reading right now. This article can help you no more.

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More Filipinos look for “sex” than “money” — in Google search, that is.

Google Trends (www.google.com/trends), a tool from Google Labs that charts how often a particular term is entered relative to the total number of searches done, has proven that Filipino internet users search for the keyword “sex” more often than the keyword “money.”

Google’s data for Philippine searches from 2004 up to 2006 shows that the number of searches for the term “sex” easily eclipsed the number of searches for the keyword “money,” which remained stagnant since 2004.

Searches for “sex” even experienced several spikes during the two-year horizon. (See Fig. 1)

Fig 1. Google searches from the Philippines: sex vs. money

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