If one should engage in some grey/black hat behavior, or anything else that Google really, really doesn't like...will G ban a person or just their account, be it Adsense or Adwords?
They ban people for life. The only way around afaik it is to change your address / company / email / ip.
From what I've heard, they ban the account, the person, the person's household, and all sites associated with the aforementioned. It's like they drop a nuke on you, and everything within 100 miles gets irradiated. Your family members lose their accounts, all your sites get fried, and they come and kick your dog. Tis bad news.
I got my adwords account suspended and can't use adwords anymore. I tried ever thing they ban you for life. sorry to hear your bad news
I think it is more people than account because they ban the details of the people in the banned account, so if you try to sign up for another, you cannot.
Wow. That's scary. It would almost seem too easy to get someone banned for life by click-bombing your competitor. Or does Google have ways of preventing this from happening?
Yeah, that's something I can't understand from google. Let's say they won't count more than x clicks from the same IP but banning someone is plain stupid. Anyone can get a competitor banned that way, it's unlogic
They ban people and their sites too. So if you sell those sites to other people then they have to request google to remove bans from it as they are new owner and follow their terms. DON.
Well that is certainly something new to me, how would we be able to find out which site aren't ban by Google before we purchased them?
It can go both ways If you are being banned for wrong ad placement and things like that, then your site gets banned If you are being banned for invalid clicks, then the publisher gets banned Just my logical conclusion
They are smart and can figure out when others try to sabotage you. Simply put, just follow the rules or don't sign up. Smarter people have tried and smarter people have failed to fool Google. They have such protection in place to protect the advertisers which are many of us on here. Not many of us really care for people who try to screw the system. You can make long term money being honest. Yes, you can get quick money by cheating but it will bite you in the ass and than you have nothing left to steal from.
I was banned from google after a 'helpful' family member discovered my site and tried to help me by clicking on expensive looking things a few times each day, mothers ey.
But I wonder why some websites can still go about with things and stuffs that are in violation with Google Adsense Policies. I have seen websites promoting PTC programs and with Google Ads.