I read in another thread here that Google mailed a warning to a person because something was not right on their site. Is this always the case? When you do something that might be wrong will they first contact you about it or will they just ban you straight away? If they do warn you do they warn you for all offences or just some? This question doesn’t count for invalid clicks.
Sometimes they do (in case the publisher is very much follower of guidlines and seems that he done it non intentionally) and some times dont.
I have heard that Google has occassionally sent messages if the site owner is part of Google's Sitemap program. There are some rudimentary methods built into that system to identify site problems if you are a member of the program. These are problems related to the spiderability of the site and are not tips intended to help you get higher rankings. I don't think there is any chance at all that Google will look up the site owner information and contact them about guidelines violations. That conflicts with Google logic (if there is such a thing). I have seen spam messages from scammer companies who pretend to be a "Google partner" and claim to have a special relationship with Google that can help to improve your web site rankings. These are just dishonest SEO companies that will take your money and provide little or nothing in return. Their messages sometimes look like they are coming from Google. An honest SEO company would never do this. The point is that there may be confusion about both of these types of messages. I don't believe that Google will contact a site owner to notify them of violations. If anyone can disprove this, I'd like to see it posted here. Until I see some proof, rather than random forum postings, it's just another urban legend.
If you are telling everyone to click your own ads, changes are good you will be suspended immediately instead of warned. Less serious infractions would result in being warned to correct the issue, instead of being suspended. However, if you fail to correct whatever you have been warned about, you could end up being suspended as a result.
Thanks for the answers. I was thinking in the lines of content. Maybe there is a picture that is considered adult. I have a car site, not a porn site but some pictures might fall in a bit of a grey area - if you know what I mean.
From my experience, they do in fact warn if you have questionable content (such as nudity on a page with Adsense), and doesn't ban outright. Since this isn't considered as serious as click fraud, they have more leniency.
They did not warn me . I was still a web newbie when I got my adsense codes so I didn't know much about third party tracking software, if they had sent me a warning letter I would have immediately removed the ads from my website until the problem was solved. Now, I can't ever be accepted to adsense again which makes everything so hard for me.
Doh! I didn't notice that this is the AdSense section when I made my previous post. I do know of several people that have been warned about TOS violations with AdSense.