Start the youtube video then read the text below... I was teaching a class about AdSense and showed them a site where I was using it. I was to dumb not to tell them not to click the ads, but they all did and I lost my account forever. Haven't been able to use AdSense since. I tried to explain to Google, but all I got was a cold shoulder. I always dreamed of running many websites filled with delightful content calmly embracing lovingly place AdSense ads. But no more, no more, no more.... my dream.... has left me.........
Those that pay for the Adwords that could have been defrauded by this will not be sad. That is fraud.
Do not get so frustrated and sad, just move on. If you had success with the fuckin' adsense means your sites should have good traffic. Try some affiliates - this will very likely bring better results in regard of profit!
Dam, that sucks bro and the video music made me cry real tears, I hope you find a solution, Maybe email them and explain> How many clicks or students did that ?
Years ago adsense acct were easy to get, many people got them and figured out they are not very profitable after 30days or so then moved on. Today they are harder to get so many people look at the window and think that would be great. Running adsense ads is the equivalent to putting a cup on the sidewalk and hoping people will toss some change into it.
The advertisers paid for valid clicks. They didn't get them. From Google's perspective you were trying to earn from those invalid clicks. I don't buy it. Google's click fraud guys would be able to see that your behaviour was otherwise sensible and then there was a flurry of clicks from the same IP and probably even the same useragent. They would see it as either a click bomb attempt or some sort of bot activity. The clicks would be marked as invalid, you wouldn't get paid, the advertisers wouldn't get billed and life would go on. For them to ban you implies that the behaviour continued in a problematic way... says the guy who thinks smoking is cool
Well I guess your never too old to learn something new. Lesson learned. I bet some of those students did it on purpose.
Hey thanks for the comments guys. I'm the kind of person who doesn't give up. I have dreams that need me to be successful to happen. The more mistakes I make the more I learn. A sad song can always be the death of one thing, but a beautiful beginning of another! A day may come when the courage of men fails, but it is not this day! (LOTR quote)