What can you do to assure that your adsense account won't be banned?

From Google Adsense Help

 

And here is one about getting accounts reinstated:

Adsense Help on Being Reinstated

 

And then we have morons that say "why do you report them? It's none of your busines..."

lame...

 

And don't forget that according to some Google doesn't need/want our help. I'm sure when they wrote "If you believe a site showing ads is in violation of these policies, please let us know " they were just confused as to what they actually wanted

 

I see no problem in people reporting sites that they believe are in violation of the TOS. In fact it's the responsible thing to do.
But do they all really need to come here and post a thread about it.

 

All those things are pretty obvious if you just use common sense

 

Of course it's our business to report sites that violate TOS. When sites like that generate invalid or low-conversion clicks for advertisers, that brings their confidence in AdWords (and what they're willing to pay per click) down, impacting those of us that use AdSense legitimately. It is, in fact, very much our *business* to report these sites, as they indirectly hurt our earnings.

 

No one really needs to post anything in forums

I would bet that it's a very small % of sites that actually get a thread started about them. Also, I think some of threads could serve as an educational tool to potential advertisers - "here's what not to do if you value your account."

 

Become an adwords user

 

Are you implying that Adwords users get "the benefit of the doubt" and non- Adwords users do not?

 

Thats a lie, I know people on adWords + adSense that got booted.

 

They say don't change the adsense code but I recently changed the colour of my ad links (a liitle) site-wide with a seach and replace because I couldn't be bothered going and generating the code from adsense page.

Surely that can't be a problem?

 

If you changed any part of the code it is a BIG problem

 

As long as the code is the same as what you can produce with their formatting page, there is no problem. ie: if you want to change the background color etc.

 

I'm pretty sure that's what he was saying...just went in and changed the color code...didn't change the actual adsense code. That's fine.

 

Right, he asked if it was OK, and I said it was

 

yeah. after a major panic and going a regenerating the code which was exactly the same, I'm sure (know) they cant tell if "0000ff" was generated by them or me.

If I get any problems I'll be the first to eat my hat.

 

Sorry, I need work on my quoting. I was replying to you and Fryman at the same time. It's been a long day