I hear you. This is my first post at this board. I'd been using adsense for 2-3 years and earning 3-5K each month. All the suddent, google shut my account because they suspect of click fraud. I wrote them the email to explain, but didn't get any reply. I read from some forums, they said that they got terminated for the same reason, so they go around and repeatedly click on people's ads just to get those sites terminated. Sooner or later, google adsense will go down hill.
For fair, I think, why they don't take out only the portion that they understnad it is click fraud. And the remain still available for payment.
i think thats the reason why got banned. google may have seen your traffic stats which mostly come from one site or referrer. you can easily track these traffic just like those that come from digg.com, stumbleupon.com, or delicious. Those traffic are i think very prone to suspicions.
One thing is for sure: Nobody is safe. Even you, you and you, may be banned tomorrow, no questions asked. With or without illegal clicks, you may be the nicest guy online and honest to the bones. If a site is online, it's in danger and can be banned anytime...don't put all your eggs in the same basket... A guy can clicks like hell on your adsense and then send an email to G saying you ask him to click for more revenue. At that point, you can sing or dance, you're done...forever...and you didn't even see it coming...
im so effin pissed at gooooogle i swearrr dont even care to appeal thts just a formality either u get no reply or ur appeal is turned down
You will be foolish enough to let that happen... Why not just tracking your channels, and Informing google as soon as you detect unusual jump in CTR.. People are just lazy to do that...
I was banned a while back after being on adsense for years. I remember when I couldn't log into my account I was confused. I came onto this forum and asked why I couldn't log into my account. I learned here at this forum that I was locked out because I had been banned and that I had probably been sent an email. I remember being furious because I had been an adsense evangilist and they wouldn't even tell me why I was banned. I was so mad that I made some posts that honestly I am not very proud of on this forum. Ever since then I have been a google hater. I rarely use google search and I absolutely refuse to use any google products (I don't care if they are free). What I have noticed though is that Google is everywhere on the web and they are constantly trying to get people to install "helpful" products on their computers. They even seem to have infested the Firefox browser. In the effort to sever myself from Google it has become very clear that Google has a spyware campaign in place that makes double click looks like beginners. The biggest reason I got so insanely angry at google was because they would not tell me why I was banned. I believe that the reason google bans people may be because they have may more information about you and your users than the average net citizen would be happy sharing with google. I believe that they know a tremendous amount about exactly who you are. They probably know more about you than you know about yourself. By applying what they know about everyone they can probably make a pretty good analysis of the people visiting your site. They may very well have banned you because they have found that albinos are visiting your site (that was a joke). Seriously though, they may have banned you because they found that the average credit score of your visitors is below a certain number. My guess is that they can analyze the traffic of a website and within a week or two figure out what the income, the sexual preference, level of education, age, political stance... of your average visitor is. I know that all sounds very paranoid, but the point is that google knows why they banned you and they don't want you to know why they banned you. It would be very easy for them to say you were banned because in February your site had 5000 visits from Kazakhstan and all 5000 of them clicked your ads 3 times each... busted. Their refusal to tell people why they are banned is very suspicious. They are behaving in a very suspicious way so I suspect that they are up to no good. My guess is that about 90% of the people of read this won't be able to understand what I am rambling on about (I have a feeling that I am about to get a ton of negative hits on my reputation). For the 90% please feel free to publicly lambast me as you see fit. For the other 10% just take a moment to note how many of google's products are on your machine and how much they actually know about you. One last parting shot. I remember when I lashed out at google a certain DigitalPoint.com long timer slammed me. It was such a sweet feeling when he got banned a year later and was looking for someone with a YPN account to partner with. I don't believe the guy deserved to get banned (he seems way too intelligent for that), but it was nice seeing that what comes around goes around. Sweet sweet Karma. I will get off of my paranoid kick here and get back to the HTML, JavaScript, and CSS pages. But before judge me too harshly just keep in mind that everyone likes a good conspiricy theory ... LOL ... Oh yeah, and I am really sorry about the person who got kicked off of Adsense, I know you are feeling really bad about this right now. I wish you nothing but the best of luck and my advice is to stay in school, adsense accounts may come and go, but a good education will last a lifetime.
Im really sorry to hear that ! I am expecting to get the first cheque from Google in April first week and i am really afraid maybe they will ban me ! I just want to ask is there any who got Banned and then he explained his innocence and started again , or when Google bans you , there is no other opportunity to continue with that banned account !? Olgi
You know, you cant place Adsense on pages the googlebot cant crawl (e.g membership pages). Perhaps you were banned because of that?
Because it's easier for "G" keep all the bread. Why would they want to bother with hand delivering you some crumbs. They want all the "cake". Rise up against the big machine!!