How does it feel when Google Adsense bans your account?

My second Google Adsense cheque

How does it feel when Google Adsense bans your account? For many, it might just turn out to be a shift to other AdSense-like options, and if that does not work shift to another one as there are numerous such options available on the internet.

For a layman who has just started to receive a few hundred dollars from your blog, it's as if someone has just removed the ground below your feet. You simply fall from nowhere, feel terribly sorry for the silliest mistake you have committed, and so on.

This is my personal experience, my way of blogging after my AdSense was banned and again after repeated requests I was able to regain my Google AdSense uplifted.

I had been blogging since 2007 and towards the early 2010s, I joined Google AdSense, despite my slow earning from my blog till 2013 I was able to receive around 400 dollars which to an extent was an amount I had never expected. It came at a time when I was urgently in need of money and I thank Google Adsense for it.

It was my excitement to earn more AdSense, despite knowing I should not do it, I clicked my own advertisement in my blog for two days. It was this silly mistake of two days I was taken off my feet when I was sent an email from Google Adsense that I violated the terms and my account had been banned. I was taken back, felt sorry for myself, yet I was helpless and I knew what I had done. I sent a request mail a few times but the reply was a negative one. I tried different ways, opened different accounts, and applied for Google Adsense but towards the end, I failed to get a new Google AdSense ID.

During that phase of time, my blog went to a lower viewership rate than it used to be, prominently I was not interested in posting any matters. I was losing interest in writing.

Despite that, I never stopped writing, that vacant space of being banned by Google was haunting me ever after. It was at that moment, my life got a new twist when my interest shifted to Sikkim biodiversity. I was interested in photography for a long time but now I have a theme for my photography, I began to click photographs of birds, butterflies, insects, floras, and anything that was associated with Sikkim Biodiversity. Finally, when I was able to get them identified I started a new blog on Sikkim Biodiversity (http://sikkimbiodiversity.blogspot.com/).

Slowly my attention shifted from Sikkim Heritage to Sikkim Biodiversity. To some extent, it was refreshing me and my mindset. So far in the last two years, I have collected more than 700 plus different species of Sikkim Biodiversity and the collection is getting larger day by day.

My third Google Adsense cheque

In-between I was still requesting Google for my upliftment of the ban. The happy moment arrived just a few days back. My request was finally approved and my ban was uplifted. It was something I had almost lost hope of. The upliftment of the ban has given me new hope and freshness to carry on with my blog and help share anecdotes and stories about my Sikkim to the world.

For my reader, I would like to request that you please, never ever try to experiment yourself by violating the terms and conditions of Google Adsense. I have accepted my stupidity and I am ever thankful towards Google Adsense for bringing me back to track !!

History on Easter Sunday and Padari Ganga Prasad Pradhan

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Shapi of Sikkim: Our legacy -iii

A Sikkimese with a Shapi The two previous articles I wrote in my earlier edition on Shapi were wonderful to read for people around, and appreciation had been received from different corners of the state. I am thankful and find pleasure in people finding joy in my findings and research work. It was a bit surprising that very few had heard about Shapi, our rare legacy. Nevertheless, I am happy to be part of history for re-introducing Shapi to those sections of my readers who had never heard about this old and sacred mountain mammal, a native of Sikkim. I dedicate my writing on Shapi to Ongden Daju (RO), who has been very supportive of me ever since I first published its first part a few months back. It was he who wanted me to continue with the third part of Shapi since more findings were evolving after my two writings. I shall always remain grateful to JR Subba, Jt Director from the Forest Department, for providing me with a valuable census report of Shapi done by the Department...

Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal, with his mother Queen Mother Denzong Lhayumkusho and Prince Wangchuk of Sikkim

The late Jungkyang Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal, seated with his mother Queen Mother Denzong Lhayumkusho, daughter of Rakasha family of Tibet, and Prince Wangchuk whose late mother hails from the Samdrup Phodrang family of Tibet. Standing next to Denzong Queen Mother is the senior Rakasha Lhachamkusho, daughter of Raja Tsodrak Namgyal Taring of Sikkim, the eldest son of Chogyal Thutop Namgyal, who gave up the Sikkimese throne to his younger brother Sir Chogyal Tashi Namgyal in favour of staying in Tibet. The Taring family of Tibet enabled into Tibetan high society by the great 13th Dalai Lama, is legitimately the unbroken elder line of the Royal Namgyal lineage of Sikkim, since Raja Tsodrak Namgyal was the Crown Prince of Sikkim, and his sons and grandsons today go by the Taring family name. Standing in the picture is also Princess Kukula, sister of the Chogyal married to the Phuenkhang family of Tibet. Rakasha Tsetop, Rakasha Tseten, Yap Dr. Paljor, Soden Wangdi, Chimi ...

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