Excellent story. I guess you learned the hard way how people get on the black list and get stuck on there. That's one heck of a fight for adsense. I would've long moved to something like adengage before actually putting the effort you did.
hell of a story .. thanks alot for sharing ... google rocks !! ( not so much for the click price though )
when i saw the length of this post, i told myself that i was not gonna spend time reading thru the whole thing but read couple of lines out of curiosity then just kept reading. i know how tempting it is to click on your own ads and seen few people myself getting their account banned. never seen anyone taking this approach and getting reinstated. that reminds us once again that honesty is the best policy. congrats on getting your accont back
Wow...... congrats on that..... I never thought that adsense account banned for invalid clicks will be reinstated.....
First of all, Great story... I'm not a big fan of long articles but saw the next 2 or 3 posts saying great writing, so I did. Very rarely do they reinstate account from invalid clicks and especially multiple acocunts, thats 2 strikes, and 1 seems to be almost always enough. I have never gotten a real person response from them and you were lucky as well as awsome for being so honest.
They might have let you back in because you showed them your traffic stats and they saw you were bringing in a lot of visitors = more money for Google.
It sure as hell does Thanks for your comments! and yeah of course I've learnt my lesson now The key is proving yourself worthy of them. Thanks! Honesty is the best policy! Happens, you're right. Good advice Leandar! But be very careful not to use adsense on websites you used them on before. Yeah, the REAL hard way. I am one person who never got banned from anywhere, that was something I was proud of, but this ban was a first, and was of course well deserved, but I thank Google for reinstating me. Thanks and yeah thats what this thread is meant to do. They do still rock though, I'm not making much off Adsense (Better than other programs though) but still Google rocks all the more now. Thanks for the rep! Thanks a lot for calling my story good Thats what I thought too, but apparently there is still hope. Thanks for your comments, and yeah being Honest and Hardworking works really good I guess. Thats one of the reasons why I say "Prove yourself worthy of Google Adsense"
Congratulations on getting your account reinstated. I am really surprised that you were able to do that. You must have impressed them with the openness and truthfulness of your confession. Well done, you should really be proud of yourself.
I'll say this. Good story. You should of been banned and were. Surprised they let you back in. Don't blow it this time.
Yea better to wait a while than to lose the whole thing.. i got a warning for using fraudent clicks a couple of days back..