Hey guys, I have two questions to ask you. The first one relates to AD styling. I know you are not allowed to change the appearance of an advert but on my website (shadowhacker.net) you will notice the sidebar has a border around it with the title Advertisements and this is because of CSS I have applied to the sidebar. Is this a violation of the TOS. I asked on Google forums and a user (not a highly ranked one though) told me I can't use that. Does that mean it can't fit in and has to be white? My second question related to CTR. The website mentioned before is my blogging site I opened last year, it only has such a small amount of content because I have put nearly no effort into it but it has managed to generate $80 in adsense revenue. I plan to produce much more content but I am currently waiting for something before I do. Anyways, as I can almost cash out I am afraid Google will ban me becuase of a high CTR on another website. My revenue for content is: 94%, feeds has 4%, and domains is on 1% and search is on 1%. Now the problem is, content has a CTR of 0.92, feeds on 0.68, domains on , 0.06, but search is on 7.86! Search was put on a totally different domain which is now expired and I was testing custom google styling and I remember accidentally clicking on my own ads 3 seperate times. Now this generated revenue. A total of $1. The three times were on three different days. The search has 38 page views and 3 clicks. All views and clicks from me. The search feature was then removed from that site about 3 days after it was added. Do you think that when I reach the cashout minimum that Google will ban me for faulty clicking? I know its my fault but I was playing with styling when I misclicked. Thanks so much in Advance and sorry for the long questions.
Search was put on a totally different domain which is now expired and I was testing custom google styling and I remember accidentally clicking on my own ads 3 seperate times. Now this generated revenue. A total of $1. The three times were on three different days. The search has 38 page views and 3 clicks. All views and clicks from me. The search feature was then removed from that site about 3 days after it was added.
Why did you copy and paste the exact same thing that the user posted? =========== There is always the possibility that you could get banned for it but that all depends on if they really check into it chances are it might happen or it might not but clicking on your own ads can get you banned
I understand the self clicking but for my particular case I don't think I will be banned. Google detects webmaster ad clicks and filters them out and its only 3 clicks generating $1. At the time I also sent them multiple email which they were kind enough to ignore completely. So I believe I am safe. Besides this was over a year ago.
oh well if it was over a year ago then your probably in the clear by now, but just be careful to not let the accident happen anymore you dont wanna risk losing your adsense.
Yeah I am. However my only concern is, even though it was a year ago, Google only ban after checking an account before payment. As I have never been payed before I am still a little worried they might ban me on the grounds of the stupid search. :/ Hopefully though it should be fine.
I would hope that it would be fine, but i suppose its possible that you could get banned but I don't think it will happen for some reason I feel google can tell the difference between actual clicking on purpose or accident they have some amazing advanced technologies.
oh well if it was over a year ago then your probably in the clear by now, but just be careful to not let the accident happen anymore you dont wanna risk losing your adsense.
My experience with AdSense ban, if your earning through self clicking exceeds 5% of your Income. There is no way you wont get banned. Even if that was done 5 years back. you are safe if earnings are bellow that 5%-10% threshold.