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 !!

Sikkim Mahinda Thero: A national hero of Sri Lanka

Sikkim Mahinda Thero BY SHITAL PRADHAN I first heard about S Mahinda Thero in 2005 while in Kolkata when I was asked by one of the stamp dealers whether I was interested in a 20 paisa stamp of S Mahinda Thero issued by the Sri Lankan Postal Department in the early 1970s. I collected philatelic items on Buddhism, but I never understood who he was talking about. He told me, as I was from Sikkim, I might be interested to know more about the person, and he went on to add it was Sikkim Mahinda Thero, a Buddhist monk who is regarded as a national hero, a famous poet in the Sinhalese language whose poetry promoted patriotism and the revival of Buddhism to this part of the Island. He promised to send me the stamp of S Mahinda Thero from Colombo through the mail, but I have never heard from him since then. However, regarding my limited concern, it was enough to know that such a person keeps the name Sikkim with honor and pride in Sri Lanka. I had the name...

JANHA BAGCHA TEESTA RANGIT

This was a national song of Sikkim sung in the Nepali language during the monarchy system. During the merger with India, the song got banned and later re-released. Two words on the 8th para, which earlier said 'Rajah rah Rani,' were replaced with "Janmah bhumi." This song was dedicated to the King and Queen of Sikkim. The song lyrics were penned by Sanu Lama, and the music was composed by Dushyant Lama. The song was first sung on the birth anniversary of Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal on April 4, 1970, at Gangtok by Aruna Lama, Dawa Lama, and Manikamal Chettri. JANHA BAGCHA TEESTA RANGIT, JAHAN KANCHENDZONGA SEER YEHI HO HAMRO DHANA KO DESH, TAPAWAN HO PYARO SIKKIM INTERLUDE PHULCHAN YEHA AANGANAI MAA, CHAAP , GURAS, SUNAKHARI SWARGASARI SUNDAR DESH KO HAMRO PYARO PYARO JANMAHBHUMI JANHA BAGCHA…… BATASHLE BOKCHAA YAHA, TATHAGAT KO AAMAR WAANI ...

Pandam Garhi and its surmise

--> RUINS OF PANDAM GARHI BY SHITAL PRADHAN The stories of the legendary ruined walls at Pandam, a 16 km uphill climb from Rangpo, as I had heard from old folks a few seasons back, had ever since excited me to visit this place. Never in the pages of a history book do we come across its talk about when it was built or how it was constructed at the top of the hill? Over the years, many theories have evolved regarding its origin. Some theorists associate the fort with some Lepcha legends, while few disagree with it and have their own adage. They make us believe one of the Chogyals constructed it to stop the approaching Bhutanese army from entering Sikkim. The last theory to add up, already baffling and controversial, says it was one of the Gurkha Generals from Nepal who constructed the fort along with the Kalika Mandir, also called Nishani Mandir, just below it. With each theory making questions over my mind, I decided to have my second trek to the Pandam Garhi. I had ...

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