thanks so much for your supports guys, its great. i find it strange that i filled out the google adsense survey and 24 hours later my account was gone. my ads were placed in the side column of my forum and the header and post bit. i was earning around $5.00 a day sometimes $10.00 on a good day. we do not have adult content of any sort and the forum is maintained very good. of course no warez. the swearing is filtered un-like most other top teen forums, were they have swearing, s3x talk down to fine detail which we would class as maybe +15 to +18. ----------- ok so we all know google adsense is great. what i was thinking was applying again at my sisters house on her computer and adding another forum i own, i'll only do this if google havent got back to me since filling out that form to try and get my account back. i filled that out before i made this thread, but still no reply. if applying again is wrong, i need a really good paying network as good as google adsense. i have been through: RudexMedia - not to bad but people never really clicked on ther ads much. AdBrite - crap. Smowtion - good, but the ads slow down your forum SO much. Harrenmedianetwork - ads load fast, but again no one clicks them. 1 month with them = $5.00 to adsense $68.00. Clicksor - slows down the forum also, not to bad, but still no where near as good as adsense. or you can prove me wrong? i'll use them. google adsense was my form of income to help pay my dedicated server per month. now i have lost it, im going to struggle now. my heart just dropped when i got the email saying my account was taken from me. and yes stated in this thread, it would be nice for google to give the reason why, like what did i do wrong, not even a warning. i added the new adsense privacy statement, no p0rn, no warez, never clicked my ads - well a few times last year when i see something interesting. still i wonder about the google adsense survey i filled in. maybe someone clicked my ads and got me banned im not sure. all tho google did write: keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future. the future is not here but maybe if google could actually say change this or that for your site not to financially damage our advertisers in the future. anyway thanks again all. maybe if anyone knows a good ad net work for forums ads good as google would be great thanks.
That sucks that they give such a vague reason. Which seems like it is all automated somehow. On a slightly different scale, but sort of like an employer firing you but not telling you why or giving you any reason other than a very vague, policy/terms statement. Kind of strange that for 3 years everything was ok with them. Anyway good luck with it.
Very sorry to hear that you got banned by Google. But you are not the only one, I have friends who have got banned from Google AdSense as well for very vague reasons, i.e. "significant risk to our advertisers" excuse. Either reapply using someone else's details, or move on to another PPC network.
yeah, for some reason i should not have filled it out. i didnt give them positive feed back with the payment system either. well as in i used to like the bit where you can see what you earn't from last payment. thats just it, just let me know what i did and i can fix it. good thinking thx na mate no news, its been days now thanks again guys.
so if you reapply using someone elses information, how are your going to get your money if it goes to their account/address?
Same old same old with Adsense. When they disabled my account a few years ago I found out that it was due to clickbombing. And even if they could see that it was done just to ruin my account - all was suspended and that was it! Can you imagine, these folks know exactly who did it, and what was done, but still - the Adsense account was closed and I lost a few thousand in cash after 2 years of having had the Adsense account, and them being perfectly OK that all of my account consisted of proxy sites. Morrons! You have a sister, so have her open an account for you if you don't share the same address. Why am I mentioning the address? After having suspended my Adsense account - they did the same with my wifes account and teh only reason given was that the address of her was the same as the one of the earlier suspended account! But so what? My wife had her own business and her own sites, and these were not clickbombed as my proxy was! Can you see what I am getting at? Good luck, and hope you'll be able to solve your server payments in another way
google can send a check to my sisters house and not mine, i guess she can cash the check for me. but i just remembered the following: i moved out of my sisters house a few months ago and my google account is still under her address on it. she just let me know when a check came and as it was still in my name i was cashing them. and also i didnt have my full name on the adsense account. all i would need is a different IP, eg: using someone elses computer to sign up. but whos to say i wont lose it again as i still didnt know what i did wrong by google yeah that sucks mate, my brother couldnt sign up either, google said it was the same IP. he had his sites and i had mine. it really does suck as eg: if my brother signs up, the checks would come in his name, he can only cash them not anyone else. as for me, i put my name in short for my full name and could still cash my check. i'll try with my full name and new address. i was $8.00 off to receive my payment of $150.00 to go strait on my dedicated server. i relied on these damn checks to keep my forum server going. i can afford a small server but not a dedicated without adsense. i honestly cant find any better ad networks. i try yahoo but they never reply lol. i applied 3 times.