i am seeing more and more stories of google banning good people for no reason and never unblocking there accounts, this is getting crazzy, share your google story with us! i want to hear em! and you educate us what not to do.
How can "I broke the rules" or even "I broke the rules, but I didn't know I was doing so" be no good reason? Of the many threads I have read in my short time on this forum, at least one good reason is usually given why a ban might have been issued - but yet that person still feels agrieved!
ya, but some times i read of invalid clicks-this is left up to adsense to determine, so what it is say is i can get any site using adsense banned all i have to do is click there adds over and over again and that will ge them banned? this is not fair....not in my opinion....but i am not google.
ya thats my point is this not unfair? i can see this being a tool(a dirty one) to use on competitors?? thats not cool?
You could always check your server logs for strange activity, and ban IP's that you believe are happy clicking. Also, submitting your logs to google to go over will also help your cause no end
true.....i hope i don't, but i have prepared just because i know someday they may come up with something or make a new rule(ex: adds not allowed on .com domains...lol)
...and to add fuel to the flame, have you read about this (below)? Ads and images cannot even look like they are associated. Another reason to ban you for life. http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/ad-and-image-placement-policy.html
You will find that there is a valid reson for most people getting banned. Perhaps they are being more strict.
I'm all for it. The more garbage they clean out of their system, the more the honest publishers make, in the end. Hope they knock out all the MFA's while they are at it.
itismejoshy, I was banned by Google last month and reinstated after 2 weeks. My story here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=191148
I agree about banning all MFA sites, but I think that in most cases setting these strict rules is not the solution. MFA publishers will always find a way around them. G should look better at independent sites to see what the goal of the publisher is.
WOW some one who got thier account back!! WOOHOO! thanks for posting your story AdsenseChic. that might give some people hope.
Advertisers are pulling their ads off the content network in record numbers. Google has no choice but to try to clean up the network or the whole thing could collapse.
That image placement blog clarifies things nicely -- they'll be a lot of sweating DP members off the back of that one....
Yup I was banned by Google about a year ago, both sites were kicked out with little explanation why. Since then I've switched the content of theroundup site completely and removed all ads from the local it site. TheRoundUp.co.uk has now gone back to it's original state as a movie / DVD review site, populated with amazon links and an amazon aShop. It's only been up and running for a few weeks but it's making sales and slowly climbing up the rankings. If you want to know a bit more about the Google Adsense side of things, I've written an article about it here: http://ezinearticles.com/?Banned-by-Google-Adsense&id=366238 Plus I've had two follow up emails from Google, (after sending them what can only be discribed as begging letters) both of them telling me to beat it. There's other contextual programs out there but to be honest Adsense is probably the best and certainly easiest to use, so it's worth hanging onto if you can.