AdSense Warning E-mail

Hi,

After months of having a generally stressfree time with AdSense, I've just had a warning about 'invalid clicks or impressions have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s) through users of third-party programmes paid or provided with other incentives to visit your site'.

I'm really paranoid about not doing anything against the T&C so I can't figure out what could have caused this.

The only thing I figure might be a tad problematic is the use of BlodMad, which, I guess, is a sort of incentive to visit my site. I've now disabled it completely from both my sites, but I am just overeacting? Most Blogs I see on there have AdSense. Does anybody if this is something Google is going to frown upon? I honestly can't think of anything else that might have caused this.

TIA

Larry

 

have you clicked your own ads? do your friends or family click your ads? trust google when they say they will find out. They will catch on if the same person clicks the ads everyday or if you even do it from multiple computers.

 

I got this mail to because of sudden improvement of clicks/shown pages and more clicks from one IP i think ...

 

I assume you meant BogMad. Yes, Google does frown upon these types of traffic exchange programs. Kim Malone from AdSense talked about this on the premiere episode of JenSense's webmasterradio show, you can download it here.

If you have any questions about a source of traffic, ask Google about it first.

 

Watch out man...most people just get banned!

 

They sure are warning people a lot more than straight out banning.

 

Learn from mistakes! Just follow the rules set by google.

 

Thanks for that link tlainevool!
I go to that site from time to time, but never knew that Jenster did all those interviews.

 

Many thanks for the replies. No, we're paranoid about clicking on ads -- I wouldn't even do it from a local internet cafe. Just not worth the risk. Though we have three or four users behind a router, everybody in the house has been warned.

There has been a slight increase in our daily amounts, which I guess might be a trigger, but this was because I've now put Google in one of the hotzones they recommend -- top of the page. This has doubled the daily amounts, but it's still nothing huge, maybe ten dollars on a really good day and five-six dollars the rest of the time.

I have to guess it's the BlogMad. I knew it had to be too good to be true, and to be honest, it's not worth it for the poor quality visitors.

Does anybody know if it's worthwhile e-mailing Google and asking for more information? It's a real pain because our site's at that point where we're getting 20,000 page impressions a day and we don't know where the next source of visitors will be.

 

what does Blogmad do exactly that google frowns on it?

 

I would guess it's the fact that BlogMad (and all these other schemes) have an incentive to visit our site. Each visit we make to a site earns a credit which then translates into a visitor for us. You can also earn credits by having banners on your site, which means that with enough traffic visiting your site, you earn plenty of credits to spend on visitors.

The problem is: people just visit for the sake of the credit.

There is another scheme called AutoSurfBlog -- which I don't use -- which doesn't even require you to sit at your machine. It just seves up blogs every minute or so. I can now see why Google would frown on it.

 

explain to google about the situation.. usually they just ban you without warnings

 

rellay problem

 

Solution is that don't ask your friends or family members to click on adsense. Google is pretty smart you know