February 3rd, 2009 | 
Author: This challenge is about making $100 a day in three months from adsense from 1 blog which leaves me with a bit of a problem about how to report this and be in compliance with Googles TOS on revealing private information about our adsense accounts. Let us be clear about what we can and cannot reveal, we cannot reveal any information about CTR, CPM or number of clicks etc but we can reveal Gross earnings from our adsense account only.
This leaves me with the dilemma of how I can reveal what I am earning at the end of 3 months from this challenge and it means there will have to be a large element of trust on your behalf on what I am earning from the one blog.
What I will do is reveal my awstats screenshots as normal plus any other elevant traffic statistics and give you an overview of how the adsense is performing without going into any specifics or revealing actual figures. It is always difficult when trying to demonstrate anything related to Adsense to find the fine line between staying within Googles TOS and actually revealing information and this is no different.
What I do promise is that I will give you 100% honesty, if the challenge is not going well, you will know about it!
I assume its also against their tos to set up a seperate adsense account just for this one website. If not, I totally believe you. And the website traffic numbers can be revealed which you are already doing. Keep up the good work.
Why can’t you just say how much money you have earned with your PPC campaigns on this particular blog? Or why can’t you just say how much money your blog has made and not specify how it was made or that it came from adsense?
It is against their TOS for you to have more than one personal account. However, your wife, father, girlfriend, mother, brother e.t.c.. can always have an account and of course you could always be a director for a company that has an account.
I think it would be very obvious if I disclosed the total income from the blog. Their rules are very clear on this so I don’t want to rock the boat if I can help it.
You’re absolutely right to be hyper-cautious with Google.
Pearson