Interesting Idea? Seems Google is making huge amounts of money from MFA sites advertising on Adwords, yet these same publishers accounts are sometimes banned without warning. Traffic may come from Adbrite, but it's invalid. Because we say so! is that the Google thinking? or is the Google thinking? A visitor to your site can only click on one ad, anymore than that you will be banned! Is the publisher now supposed to curtail his/her site visitors behavior? Perhaps post a tag that reads "ONLY CLICK ON ONE AD PLEASE" yeah, try that on a games/myspace related site. - Maybe, Google needs a lesson on manners. All adsense pubs. denounce their adsense programs for 2-3 days or maybe even a week, to see how they like, writting codes, SEOing pages, proper text-link exchanges, worrying about their damn PR system, advertising your site, DIGG, Del.Icio.Us, proper hosting, reading as much as you can on DP. and in some cases spending $20K to advertise your site just to be banned. with no proof of invalid clicks. We (adsense publishers) are supposed to curtail the thousands of visitors to our sites? here is a kid that just decided to click on whatever adsense ads showed up on the NEXT site,just clicking away, so to speak. His internet connection seems to die at the end of the tape, but he gets a few clicks in. VIDEO OF KID Hes got no intent on buying, no intent on reading the pages content, just keeps on clicking. and so according to Google TOS those could be considered Invalid Clicks and can get you banned!! Maybe an online adsense publishers union can ask for a more specific TOS, not that ambiguous TOS Google has, show pubs. ip add. show why the acct. was terminated if it was based on self clicking. show why the the clicks were invalid, and why didn't we (the publishers) make a concerted effort to find kids like the one in that video and blow up his PC cause he can possibly get us banned. established %, probation periods, mediators, google seal of approval- maybe DP can start this off and be the site that starts it ALL, by exhorting all its members for a national adsense absentia day my account is in good standing, by the way..lol
Two weeks of boycotting will make me loss about $40. There are many people here who will lose that much money per day, if something like that happens. Do you anyone will be ready to waste that much money? I don't think so. And I don't think even the 60K members of DP boycotting adsense for a month is going to affect google anyways. Whereas we will loose much.
I think an Adsense publisher union is good idea but one could say forums are in effect an union because google representatives look at them and take note.
No one forces you to sign up with AdSense. If you disagree with their conditions you may not sign up with them. If you find their ways of doing business unfair come up with a real alternative (found your own ad network) instead of writing dramatizing posts telling how you fear your one out of thousands site to be banned.
You should be posting this in the adsense support forum (the official one) it would draw ALOT more attention. I agree with you 100% but in no way am I ready to pull ads from my sites making me my cash.