I guess pll can slip through the gaps for a year. It probably a good idea to be allways vigilant when it comes to the TOS
Well just because you have been using adsense for a year doesn't mean your immune to being banned.. you get banned when you violate the TOS - doesn't matter when it happened a week after you started or 3 years after you started.
yup, if you break the TOS, i'm pretty sure you would be banned, but I think you get more seniority and maybe a better way to explain yourself. Maybe google will give you a warning or something.
Heck yeah you can be banned after a year. I'd been with adsense for over two years and I got banned yesterday. Now I am trying to figure out is if affiliate marketing is a good way to go. Good luck
Yes would be helpful if people could say why they got banned. Would help others avoid possible problems. If its clicking your own ads, well thats understandable. However i think after 2 years thats unlikely
It looks like I got in trouble for bad clicks. It took like 3 or 4 months for me to get enough money to get a check and then yesterday at 5:30 I got an email that said something like Google is banning me for bad clicks. I was with them for over two years and I got an email that I construed as calling me a thief and severed the relationship. I've been going through all of the phases of mourning since yesterday afternoon. I think I am to the angry phase now. I mean what a way to do business if our family business had a relationship with someone for over two years we would surely at least give them a chance to defend themselves. But I guess when you're a billion dollar corporation it doesn't pay to be polite. Do no evil... my butt... I never thought I'd say this but I hope MicroSoft crushes Google. But I am a little angry right now...
It seems a bit unfair they dont discuss anything with the account holder when there are problems. I have mentioned in other threads that the publishers are getting a bad deal from google in many ways.
Someone is saying that you should not get banned just because you have been with adsense for any length of time? You cheat google, whether you just joined adsense, or been with them from the first day, you will and should get banned. Publishers are NOT getting the wrong end of the stick! Only the BAD publlishers are getting booted as it well should be. BUt the original OP was not that he was banned, but that he has been with adsense for one year. That is a milestone that he can be proud of!
Helpful? Have you ever seen a post from someone here telling what he did to get banned? Everyone is just a poor innocent webmaster that did nothing wrong and got kicked out for no reason at all, just a random ban from big bad google
With the recent $90 million lawsuit Google incurred for click fraud, im sure they want to remove every bad apple they can. Anyone who abuses their system should be banned, it shouldent matter how old their account is - everyone else will lose out if click fraud continues.
Anyone who does it gets banned... just look at all the crooks crying out in the Adsense board after they get kicked out
The banned ones come in here crying and wailing, gnashing their teeth. Saying nothing but bad things about google and how they are such bad people to ban them. But when asked why the ban, not one has truthfully answered. Usually they go away to another forum to start all over again, never to be seen here again.
Marty has one thing that's not in my summary of those who get kicked out (been with Adsense over three months) but it has the classic 3 months to get to a check and young guy demographics (uses the Napolean Dynamite term "heck yeah" and has links to Ligers (not to be confused with Tigons)). Just call Google idiots, break the wrist and walk away.
Hello tbar60, The liger page is just a tiny (1 page in about 2100 pages) part of my site and it was just a contest my friend Matt and I were having to learn how to promote web pages. We noticed that there are about 5000 searches a day on Ligers and thought it would be interesting to see what we could learn from trying to put up and promote a page about that subject. That stinks if that page is the reason I got kicked off of adsense. Actually the only thing I have in common with your summary is that I was getting less than $150. I never clicked on my ads and I wasn't actually accused of that. The letter never actually accused me of anything it just gave a list of things that I might have been kicked off for. I am very sorry about being so angry yesterday. I have a couple of comments. First, I've noticed that there a lot of posts that use the argument that since everyone complains they were unfairly kicked of then we all must be liars and we all deserved to be kicked off. I don't think that argument holds water because there is no way to know how many people get kicked off and how many of those people complain. I would guess that the vast majority of people that get kicked off never complain at all, especially if they think they deserved to be kicked off. I suspect that you are reading the thoughts of a vocal minority of people who feel they've been wronged and care enough to voice their opinion. Second, you all have got to understand that I got so angry about this because my entire view on the world what shaken to its very foundation yesterday. I know that this makes me the biggest loser in the world but until yesterday google was a major portion of my life. When I would meet new people I would steer every conversation to google and adsense. Every one of my friends knew I was really into adsense. Heck, last week I was at a corporate leadership conference at an offsite resort and we all had to stand up for three minutes and do a speech about something we thought everyone in the room would find interesting. I did mine on google adsense in front of 80+ people. My passion on the subject was so intense that at least 30 people asked me how they could join and learn about adsense during the Margarettaville party that night... OK so we're all losers, but it's my fault they wasted valuable fun time for listen to be drone on about adsense. I actually poured my heart and soul into this concept (especially over the last three months), I thought it was the wave of the future and that google was this amazingly benevolent steward of the concept. I thought google was ready to lead all of us into a brave new and amazingly efficient world where everyone worked from home. Yesterday in my mind google became just like any other big company. Google = AT&T = Walmart = TMobile they’re all the same to me. Yesterday I realized that I am fool and I believed the PR and here I am again. I helped build Walmart by being a loyal customer and now look at what Walmart is and does. Remember Walmart’s slogan “Made in America, only!â€, yeah I fell for that one too. And I am such a moron that I actually believed google’s “Do no evil†slogan. So it’s good that I have been associated with Napolean in this thread because I am “SUCH A FRIGGIN IDIOTâ€. Sincerely, Marty