Making Money Online – Not!

Just a couple of days ago I told you that I was adding Bidvertiser to a few of my blogs. I was curious how my search rankings would be affected if I added them. I mentioned this in the post Make Money Online with Bidvertiser. Well it appears as if Bidvertiser was the kiss of death.

Now I am not trying to pretend that I have a great readership to any of my blogs. I do not but on a couple of them I had start to pick up some organic search traffic from both Google and Yahoo. Yahoo owns Bidvertiser by the way.

I knew that Google often penalizes blogs or websites whenever Adsense is added as a way of making money online. I find this somewhat ridiculous but that is a rant for yet another day. But I wasn’t sure what they would do if I added Bidvertiser. Well apparently someone didn’t like it.

I added Bidvertiser on December 28th on four blogs including this one. (That means there is probably no one reading this now.) Below you will see two different graphs from my Google Analytics account that measures daily traffic flow. The flat lines after the trending lines are December 29th and December 30th. In other words Bidvertiser dealt a death blow to both of my blogs. So much for making money online.

Now as you can tell there was not a large readership. However, in just about a month I had built up to 31 unique visits per day on the Body Weight Exercise blog and between 10 and 15 on the Burn Calories Lose Weight blog. Now that count sets at zero. Thank you Bidvertiser and Yahoo for nothing.

At this point I am not sure what I am going to do. I can remove Bidvertiser to see if that makes a difference or I can leave it alone and see if the visitors return.

The odd thing is that I still rank on the second page of Google (for now) for the phrase “bodyweight exercise.” It hasn’t changed. I think I rank on page 4 for the same phrase in Yahoo. That fell from page two.

In the past I ranked on the first page in Yahoo for the term “burn calories lose weight” (as of just a couple days ago). Now I am nowhere to be found in their search rankings. It seems Yahoo slapped me pretty hard. I find this ironic since they send me emails all the time (through Bidvertiser) on how to place the ads on my blog to get better visibility. Talk about a double standard.

Just thought I would give you a heads up. Don’t make the same mistake. I am not sure when it is safe to monetize your blog with either Adsense of Bidvertiser. Just don’t do what I did (at least not if you ever care about making money online).

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