it was not a phishing scam, i requested a new password and it let me change it and it still wouldn't let me log in. It is just in a disabled mode right now.
Yea I do not think it was a scam either like paypal I have seen. The links just went to the TOS and there was no asking for account information.
Not true, I was banded and did not click on any of my ads and told everyone I know not to. Also, I was a couple of dollars short of my next check. From what I have seen, the ban always comes when the next check is almost due to be sent. I thought Google was the bomb until I was banded. Now they are no better than all the other evil empires in my experience.
I trust your information. That is why I qualified my post with "From what I have seen". My information is based on my experience and what I have read in other posts.
I will add, this may have been coincidence. But however ya slice it, even if google is dumping publishers for inside reasons, I don't think they are out to steal revenue.
So does this mean that publisher's are not even allowed to look at their own pages if they have adsense ads displaying?
Nice!!!!!! So If You See Your Site Too Many Times It Will Auto Generate A Click!!!! Because Impressions Add Up To Fake Clicks Wow!!! May Be That's A Glitch In The System?
I agree with you here. I don't know this, but my theory on what is happening is the from of click fraud where a company clicks on a competitors ads to use up their spend. I noticed my CTR popped to 3% one day where as it was mostly around 1%. I was banded right after the pop in my CTR. Since I am a small fish, Google does not care much about me and just bans me instead of taking the time to investigate. Any other ideas on why so many people are reporting getting banned even though they did not click on their own ads?
Unfortunately you will never know why you were banned. Google will not divulge that information. And since there are so many possibilities you could only assume as to why you did get banned. As far as impressions Google said that viewing your own site would not cause a ban, but in regualr maitnance of my sit I know that I view anywhere from 20-50 pages a day. Those impressions would quickly add up. If the same IP like your competitor was coming over and over and causing a 2% impression increase that might look like an automated program. In fact your competitor could have used a program like this to make it easier.
Just aren't enough tools publishers can use to protect themselves. I always report high peaks in CTR as potential invalid activity to google, in hope that if it really is invalid activity they won't ban me. With small sites it's hard though, where you can have 0 clicks one day and 10 another. Lols
sorry you are out. let me know what happens. if you were making google a lot of money they might let you back in. also email them a really nice email like you think they are the nicest people in the world. dont say you are going to sue or it's over.
from what I know ads will take 24 - 48 to be completely removed. if you didn't do anything wrong, i think you have a big chance to get it back.
thats right. once you are banned you cannot see your account. Usually it takes couple of days for your sites to stop showing the ads. Keep contacting google and I would suggest you to put some other ads in the mean time.
That's not what I meant The email said: So if a publisher even looks at their own web page, they would be generating "invalid impressions", correct?
This happened to me too... I'm wondering if they keep them there while you're appealing it? Mine was reinstated within 36 hours, hopefully yours will be too.
have you logged into any networks to check your adsense? (I.E. from a lab class in school, a library, work, etc), I have seen it before, a few people have got banned because they checked their adsense accounts from a place besides their private computer, and someone else in that network eventually stumbles upon one of their websites and them clicking on the ads can get you banned.