Hi guys, I just received this message from google, any of you recevied it? I didn`t do any clicks on my on ads, and i didn`t ask anyone to click on them. The problem is that i have in my account more than $300 and i don`t what to lose them(I allready realeast the payment). What should I do? If I get banned from adsense will be very bad for me. And I think I can`t activated again. Hello, It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on your Google ads, posing a financial risk to our AdWords advertisers. Please note that any activity that may artificially inflate an advertiser's costs or a publisher's earnings is strictly prohibited by our program policies. We understand that you may want more information about the activity we detected. However, because we have a need to protect our proprietary detection systems, we're unable to provide our publishers with any details about their account activity, including any web pages or users that may have been involved. Thank you for your understanding. We recommend reviewing these references to learn more about invalid click activity and other activities that could endanger your account standing: http://www.google.com/adsense/policies http://www.google.com/adsense/terms http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=8426 Please note that because we credit advertisers for any invalid activity we detect, we may adjust your account earnings for any days during which invalid clicks occurred. If you were clicking your ads out of interest or to see who was advertising on your site, please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is strictly prohibited by our program policies. Instead, we suggest using the AdSense preview tool as an alternative. This tool will allow you to check the destination of ads on your page without the risk of generating invalid clicks. For more information, please visit our Help Center at https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/topic.py?topic=160. Lastly, please note that if we continue to detect invalid clicks on your Google ads, we may take further action on your account in order to protect our advertisers' interests. Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely, The Google AdSense Team
Maybe you will want to remove the ads until the $300 is safely in your hands before enabling it again?
Remove the ads for a while, completely. Whoever is doing it will eventually stop when he see there are no longer any ads to click on. But you can't risk having him do it again.
Yes you will, but you have to protect your account. Once you get banned, there's no going back in. I also suggest for you to remove any links to your site which you might have on webmaster forums in your sig (if you it linked there). This makes it easier for anyone who doesn't like you on these forums to find your sites & get you in trouble with Adsense (since they're on a webmaster forum, they'll know exactly what to do to accomplish that).
What you need to do is figure out where the invalid clicks were coming from and block them before you put the ads back on your site again. - Ask your friends and family - sometimes they think they are "helping" by clicking. - Make sure that your web site doesn't load as the home page at an internet cafe, university computer lab or other location where a bunch of people will be accessing your web site from the same IP - Check your logs and daily information from your Adsense account to see if strange click activity corresponds with traffic from a particular source There may be other ways of safeguarding your account too.
To OP, You are consider very lucky to receive that advance email warning. Many Adsense publishers doesnt have ANY early warning and their Adsense account was banned immediate.
none of my friends use the website becouse its with drivers license tests, and after you get your drivers license is no point of using it . And I didn`t get more money this days, it was like usual, $1-1.5 per day. It pissies me of the I just stated to do more than $30 per month, I get a lot of clicks but they are low paid like 1-2 cents. After I receive my cec with $300 I will start puting the ads back or should I try another agency? Any of you received the email and after got banned?