Am I going to be banned?? Email from them...

Ok, I just got this email...well more like a warning:

I emailed them this morning when I first caught wind of it. I noticed I had about 45 impressions to my url and about 20 clicks. I automatically knew something was wrong and told them something was wrong with my stats. About an hour and a half later(time in email says 10:30am) I got that letter and no response from them to the email I first sent them....unless that was their response. I did not read their letter until 4:30pm.

I am not using any incentives to get people to my site. I think someone is just messing with my site. The only advertising I use is adwords and some manual traffic exchanges. I do not use pay to surfers and readers and the like. i pulled my site from the couple traffic exchanges and I don't know what else I can do. I pulled the adsense ads off the pages that were getting those clicks too.

So, does this pretty much mean I am going to be banned? It is not fair if someone is doing this stuff to my site.

Seems like this started when I joined seo forums and discussed my site. Some people are just plain mean!

 

That's just a canned email from them, they'll respond to your email with a real response usually within a couple of days.

 

What do you mean by a canned email?

Thanx.

 

It's a pre-written email they send out when they see some abnormal activity. You will get a personal response in the next couple of days to the email you sent them.

 

Dont publish urls with urls that identificate you on forums? Thats just plain stupid. The PR/traffic gain is neglicable.

 

I'm new to all this. Sorry I'm not so experienced like you. I did not know people were so mean and would do such bad stuff, but I know now.

 

sandyfeet, did you get a payment from google atleastonce ?
if so then there's nothing wrong with this letter...if you were not paid atleast once, the'd have cancelled your account straign way...not given any warnings.

they are more tolerant toward publishers who have got atleast one check...

 

I dont think the email was in response to the mail you sent them. I takes 1-2 days atleast for Google to respond to mails.

I would suggest that you dont use a traffic exchange or any other traffic scheme to generate pageviews in the future.

 

Sorry but what exactly do you mean by that ??


tayiper

 

Simple. I meant that you shouldnt post your url on forums like these.

Edit: just look at the problems for instance Shawn has with people stealing his identity Why? They're jealous, he's publicly telling people how much he earns and how much money he has. See http://www.winn-and-sims.com/. It's just begging for trouble. It's basically the same.

 

What's the safe impression/click ratio?

 

I'd be more worried about the American/European traffic to Third world country traffic

 

Well, I've sent this question to AdSense support and they say not.


Here's the e-mail in question (the one that I've sent to them):

tayiper

 

Urghh, and I totally forgot to also post this; which is in fact the most important part ...


So here's the answer that I got from them (from AdSense support):

tayiper

 

thanks much ... and btw. who the hell is Shawn ??


tayiper

 

That's exactly what happened to me...some loser clicked on my site in sig (he came from DP, I traced him through statcounter.com)..I had 1 unique user and 8 clicks...mailed google right away, and they send me exact emails as you have...not banned yet..I switched to clicksor for now...watch out for that asshole who purposely mass clicks on ads. Im in process of identifying his IP.

 

Sandyfeet,

Any update on the current status of your problem?

 

Shawn owns this forum and likes to fight with people that mess with him. Good for us all I guess.

See
http://www.digitalpoint.com/~shawn/2006/05/tanya-andersen-vs-riaa.html
and
http://www.winn-and-sims.com/

 

tayiper,

Like most publishers I too rechecked my sites online to see whether things were in order like fonts, colors, ads placements, etc.

Your email to Google and their reply are most helpful to me (and the others too) but I'm still wondering whether the figure for page impression would be inflated by my action.

Thanks a lot to you and the others who had made this forum very useful.