There are lots of stories on their blog and obviously they publish them when someone sends one in. Go ahead and send yours, particularly if yours is an interesting one. It might bring a lot of exposure for your websites.

It may also bring increased competition and MFA scrapers, not to mention envy. That's why I don't send in stories for either AdWords or AdSense. I'm happy enough for people to think I'm making milk money.

It may also bring increased competition and MFA scrapers...

Yet again, I agree with netmeg.

FarmBoy

Ditto. Last year I thought of sending in my story because I quit my day job. I have a true authority site in my widget niche and it's the most profitable site I have. If I tell everyone about it others will take "my" money LOL.

Hmmm... I was thinking, could it possibly help your adsense account by bringing Google's attention to it -- IE, give you better customer service and ensure it won't be banned for some stupid reason (we've had some people on here loose their accounts then reinstate them). Those might be upsides.

So do they contact you before publishing anything? does it go on their blog and not [google.com...]

+1 to netmeg. Don't provide an open invitation to thieves / MFAs / additional competition.

Well, I did send one in... so guess it's too late :/

But on the other hand, isn't free publicity a good thing? I've already been featured in magazines and nothing bad has come out of it-- only good (new advertisers etc.)

I hope it works for you.

Me, I hate the publicity. Every year I get newspapers and TV stations wanting interviews - I tell them they can write whatever they want about the site, but not about me. I let the Detroit Free Press write me up three years ago, and I still haven't recovered from the trauma.

It is free publiclity, but it's free publicity to fellow AdSense users who would never click on a Google ad.

Kudos if the story is inspirational to others, but don't expect to make money from the submission.

> I'm happy enough for people to think I'm making milk money.

I'm with you netmeg - I tell them it helps pay for catfood ;-)

(unfortunately, given the monthly decline in my AdSense earnings, that's not too far from the truth these days :-(

[edited by: Play_Bach at 1:37 am (utc) on June 17, 2008]

I tell them it helps pay for catfood

That must be one big tiger you got there ;)

They contacted me once and did a short 15 minute interview. I guess I was not interesting enough as it never got published.

Good points netmeg and Paris.

If it's all about the users then having your underwear discussed on the AdSense blog doesn't make much sense. Far better to be the site of the day on Martha Stewart's newsletter, the website of NASA or getting a mention from the NYTimes, where your demographic/consumers are more apt to be.

Just to clarify that we do contact you before publishing your success story.

ASA