Isn't this a violation of the terms of service? Also, did you have a privacy policy on your site? Doesn't look like it. /kick +ban
I did got a warning email but then it was all settled. They might have seen something. Well in my case I didn't even put a request but just replied to the warning email.
Hmm does anyone know if Google has a certain page CTR % set and if it goes over that percent the account gets banned, just out of curiosity?
Same happend to me... i had 45$ in adsense and I needed 5 more for my first payout and then... BANNED.
1 year and 4 months....! I used adsense just for a small blog... for other sites I used CPM programs... now I feel thank god I did that !
I got many alert from Google that they'll ban me if i don't stop click frauds, but i don't click me and they didn't ban me yet
So, technojuice, even if you did click fraud your own ads, you should have received a warning first before you actually got banned. I wonder why you didn't get any warning at all... omarabid, I would contact Google immediately to clarify this if you really did not click your own ads...
Similar story - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=912412 Even the mail is identical ... copy paste....! Wen I contacted to know the reason....they told its proprietary ! Its like sentencing someone for a crime he doesn't know he commited and when asked the reason its a secret so that we won't reveal the investigation technique...Kinda like dictatorship....
I laughed out loud on that irony you just said there, yes Google is the Sherlock Holmes of the webz lol
In the case of the other thread, it's probably due to the sudden traffic that the site received. Could it be the same with your case?
no traffic increase... sometimes even i was surprised at the consistent numbers day in day out.... no fluctuations at all....even my ad earnings were not that high.... I made $94 in 1.5 years .... you can imagine then... As I said earlier...the monetary loss is insignificant...I was a blog I rarely updated and choose adsense because it is easy to add in blogger platform...but the thing that shocked me is the faith I had in google and their fraud control !... I was planning to use adsense on a big project...thank god this happened before I did that.....! But I feel sorry for countless people who have lost much more....