Most of spammers of adsense are from asian countries. This is the main reason as adsense is not scam, it want to stop scammers.
Google doesn't block people just because where they are from, they block tons of people in the United States for invalid clicks. Just because your from Indonesia and they ban you doesn't mean they are discriminating against you...
You two (both of you) are from the same country, by the way, as I could see (the privilege of premium member), but yeah I greatly totally incredibly agree with Newbie191
Google Adsense is working on an algorithm which catches nearly all frauds or invalid activities. Its true Google is now banning some countries from using adsense publisher accounts. But problem is, Google doesn't provide proper support for that department. Google penalized when I was on visit to an asian country, I did nothing wrong. I used to earn $4000-$5000 per month. Suddenly I got love letter from Google for doing invalid activity... I protested at that time, what I am doing wrong? but no one cared ... At the time of banning, my account carried $3900... I lost efforts of my whole month. I was speechless... I do agree with you that Google doesnt know who to block, why block that person and how to lift the ban... They are totally ruthless in doing so. One of my friend is in Google Adsense Department and he confirmed me that Google has made a strict criteria for certain countries like Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Africa and some more. Google Adsense is only good for people residing in UK, US, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France etc...
I think this is the issue that most asian countries face. I am sorry to hear that you have lost such earning.
If you are talking in the ambit of small publishers I would agree but not in the case for big websites that earn over $5000 per month from Google
most people dont admit their mistakes but instead blame others always.google adsense has wide tos which is very difficult to follow and make money for any one.I am having adsense account from 6-7 years ,left it long ago started making money from cpa,seo etc
Adsense is really tricky these days. It ain't what it used to be that is for sure. I don't really use it, my earnings are too puny. I earn more doing different marketing methods. I have noticed they are cracking down a lot more.
lol, As I run my own ad network I understand that click fraud is a danger, but I think that a blanket ban, very little responce back, no support, is very wrong. Always have another ad network you are working with.
nice to hear that, so how's that now? are you making bigger money using cpa? I bet, yes! yeah I think so. but I don't know what is for real, actually LoL, please do that Duckitology
Very upset to hear that. I am also from Indonesia but still safe till now. I try to follow their TOS and build genuine and quality contents yet never copy / paste from other websites. However, Google is Google. They own their rules and perhaps some time they will ban me in the future. So I dont rely that much on Adsense. Other than Adsense, I also monetize my website with other ad networks such as Chitika, ValueClick and Burst Media.
I have several Indonesia friends and as I am from a neighboring country I do pity them. You would most probably find the answer in your reply here. Earlier most of Indonesian adsense members was finding it difficult to earn or simply wanted to try to earn more money so they tested many BH techniques. Obviously Google caught on later and was banning a lot from Indonesia. It soon became a sensitive matter and creates a bad impression of Google to Indonesia users. Any slight wrong step they will directly ban without any further investigation. You need to realize that as a country with lots of members it will difficult for them to review per user one by one. This is the main reason that even the ones following the guide properly is even stepping on a thin line.
thanks for your support man. good luck for you too yeah that's the point of this thread. but what I concern here, why google does random banning (they think all publishers in my country do that kind of thing and execute random banning again and again) instead of checking every account, make sure they did violation and then tell them the reason why they got banned (obviously, not just saying "invalid activity"). I don't think we can generally look all the people same and they act the same.