This is one of my longest posts but please read it all.  Thanks.

A while ago I had a nice collection of niche video webpages installed on my main website. I liked them because they were Search Engine friendly and I earned a small amount of Adsense revenue from them. However, another webpage of mine violated Adsense TOS and my account was deleted. Without thinking, I took down my niche video webpages and moved on.

Lately, I’ve become interested in niche websites once more but my lack of an Adsense account is a problem. This leaves me with Amazon and Clickbank to work with if I am to earn any serious revenue.

First, I looked on Google for low-cost or free templates or software relating to Clickbank. One or two things interested me but I decided to check on my hard drive because I have so much clutter on there. I managed to find a piece of software called CB Niche Builder.

My first attempts to use the software weren’t very successful but I found a user guide online and soon created my first site. The result is:

http://andrewmcgovernonline.com/Affiliate2/

For a first attempt, I think it is OK.  The template is something I also found on my hard drive.  For future attempts I would like to add some ads, maybe banners.

Like I mentioned earlier, this has got me interested in niche websites again.  What I would like to do now is buy a domain name and possibly create a “gateway” to all the niche websites that I am going to create.  Hopefully, these will include some video websites if I can find a way of putting Amazon and Clickbank ads on them.  It’s just a darn shame that I don’t have my Adsense account any more

Oh, I almost forgot to give you the link to my first Amazon site.  Again, for a first attempt I think its quite good.

http://andrewmcgovernonline.com/amazongadgets/

I think that’s all for now.  Keep checking back because I have many more posts, links and offers planned.

Its been a while since my last post so I decided to mention a special offer which is currently running at my free adboard – exposedads.com.

Until the end of this month (August 08) you can upgrade your ad for just $1.95.  This represents excellent value because I should be charging $10.  I’ll be making a decision on whether to increase the price on 1st September so place your ad soon.

Changing subject, my main website – andrewmcgovernonline.com – seems to be doing better in the Google rankings.  I have no idea why this is happening, lol, but I’m not complaing (I’m clueless when it comes to SEO).  I’ll have to think about new ways to cash-in on my higher rankings since my Adsense account was disabled.

This morning I received an email from Google telling me that my Adsense account has been disabled.  I’ve had some time to think about things since then and I think this has happened because I placed ads on pages with very little content such as my PDF creation page.

I’m not too upset that my account has been disabled but I am upset and angry at the fact I now have to remove my niche video pages from my website.  Although these pages contained content which I thought was useful and informative, I was using them to earn revenue from Adsense.  I also had other pages with adsense ads on and I was hoping to upload a games site which was also going to be used to earn money from Adsense.

Now I’m going to take some time to decide what I want to do next with my website and to consider some Adsense alternatives.  I think there are quite a lot out there but they probably don’t pay as much as Adsense.