Hi, I received an email from Google this morning, telling me that my Adsense account has been disabled due to invalid click activity. Approximately a weeks ago, I reported suspicious activity on the clicks, as I went from about 2 every day, to over 20, in the hope that Google would sort it somehow. Also I had only just reached my first $100, so suddenly getting so many clicks was not good news to me at all. Its taken me since February to get $100! I have never broken any of the terms, or had any problems since I joined in February, so this has really angered me! There are people out there blatantly cheating, and I get disabled unfairly! I know I can appeal to get my account back, and I will do, but what bothers me most, is that I will now not receive my first $100, which took me so long to achieve in the first place, which, with half of it, I was going to use to register with AdWords, and put half away in my University fund! Plus, I went through so much bother with my mother about getting Google Ads on my site, as she just wouldn't accept that it isn't a scam, and now I'm disabled after I very fairy earned my first $100. So now, she thinks Google Ads is a scam, and I know its not. I really do hope this can get sorted. My parents are very angry with Google, and so am I. To be quite frank, I am disgusted with the way the situation was dealt with. I just need to vent on here, and ask if anyone had any advice what-so-ever on what I should do. I really was not prepared for this email. I really thought Google was a lot better than this! I think someone deliberately tried to get me banned. I just found in my junk email box a load of emails thanking me for registering on all these auto surfing sites! I DID NOT sign up for them. What sad person spends their time doing this to people? Jee.. Im so MAD right now. I cant believe im not going to get paid or anything now. I now officially hate google. I guess my mum was right! Does anyone know of any other good sites I can use as an alternative to google ads?
1st - it sucks I know been there. Don't bother appealing ... they don't care 2nd - Move content t a diffrent domain and register a new adsense account under parent/wife/gf name. This will require new site promotion but will get adsense back. 3rd - Most of the other pay-per-click are crud (maybe yahoo if you in the US) ... I would say then go for affiliate referrals. You don't get money often but you get larger amounts then per click.
I feel your pain. Google does not handle publisher support in good way at all. They simply toss you aside once they find something wrong, even if it something beyond your control. Now, giving you benefit of the doubt that you didn't cheat. You should appeal and you may be allowed back in the program, in the meanwhile try ReduxMedia.com, netklix.com, MorningFalls.com, adengage.com. These are pretty bad suggestions to be honest, none of them pay that well but at least reduxmedia from what I see is trying hard to improve. I am sorry for your loss man, I hope you get back in. F google.
It sucks, but it's the way Google chooses to do business. Finding ways to not pay Publishers is a big reason why they have 25% net profit margins.
Move to another domain and try to figure out what really happened. Google will always figure out if there is any suspicious activity. Even if you do not consented it you will pay for it.
dont bother contacting them..it's a waste of time, and it will only frustrate you more. get another domain, apply again and do some SEO to the site so you can make that $100 quicker. *who knows your site? did you post your url somewhere? did you tell friends?
I have had the exact same activity. The same thing happened to me as well, except after two days of attacks I found their IP and banned them from my site. I am hoping Google doesn't boot me. They can take back any of the invalid clicks. I do not want money that is not legitimate. What sucks is if you turn your head for a second you can be screwed. What I want to know is how do sites like Plentyoffish that are strictly Adsense stay in line when surely they must have click fraud attacks? Does Google turn their head to such activity. It is frustrating and disturbing that we are so vulnerable.
To me this is one of the dangers of relying on Google Adsense. They can take it away for almost any cause.
thats adsense is..unpredictable..google has lots of ways to detect fraud clicks..and its all up to them..
I got Adsense disabled on 3 separate sites in 2 weeks due to absolute BS, but they didn't ban my account. However it was the best thing that happened to me, i explored alternatives and started earning 10 times more. It really made me realize just how pathetic and a waste of time Adsense is, Google are vultures. All i can say is forget about Adsense and sending your visitors out for a few cents and start earning real money for your traffic instead. I really hope you get your $100 considering it took 9 months to earn.
Sometimes I wonder if these stories are just ploys to scare people away from Adsense so the cost of clicks goes up.
I feel your pain, I just logged in to adsense today and I didn't recieve a email my acct has been disabled I just checked my spam and email and nothing but the norm. I am not going to appeal. I was at payout and they did this so they go on my cheapskate merchant list.
I once got banned from adsense too. I even dedicated a little post on my blog about it lol. I got my account re-enabled I was honest and provided decent traffic which is also valuable to google. Make sure you promise them that you will not do your mistakes again and also read the TOS. Sorry for you getting banned, it's bad, yes :/.
Yup it sucks balls, I had a site with 10 000 visitors a day from Google and they banned my site from search results .... with no explanation .... I know very large sites breaking so many rules that it's not even funny .... Look at this : adsense on a API site - no content just Google images API and filled with ad's - http://pictures.smashits.com/jonestown-survivors.html It's bull shit that this site gets away with this .... and it's within the top 1000 sites in Alexa. http://comedy.smashits.com/ and that's a comedy video page .... no results found for comedy videos .... again Google/youtube api videos. that pisses me off, it's all auto generated content ....
Which are the good alternatives, I'm also out without even deactivation notice or any email. No idea what is the reason.