I received the dreaded email from Google on 30 August and responded as per the yfs1 reinstatement guide. Unfortunately I received the appeal denied email this morning saying: "We have reconfirmed that invalid clicks were generated on the ads on your site in violation of our Terms and Conditions and program policies." Now I only ever earned $4-5 a day from Adsense which in the scheme of my other business channels is pretty small, small enough that I didnt really check my account closely more than once or twice a month. Anyway the day I got the first email I immediately logged into my Adsense account (I still could) and checked out all my channels. On a normal day this year I would see only about 500-750 impressions. However from late July this more than doubled and the source was my DP rev share channel. I basically can never remember seeing more than a couple of impressions a day from my DP channel. I hardly ever post on DP anymore but I did post a couple of reciprocal link exchange requests in the buy/sell/trade area in late July that corresponds with the increase in impressions. Within 24 hours of these posts I was getting a number of impressions on my DP channel, within a week it added up to nearly 800-1000 impressions a day. CTR was low, much lower than my other stuff and revenue was $1-2 a day. This number of impressions and clicks continued on and off until the end of August, some days I would get no imps, the next day another thousand. The sad thing is that without the logs for DP I've got absolutely no way of confirming if these two threads were the source of all the impressions nor have I any way of examining whether or not there was anything odd with the IP's of visitors to the threads. Anyway, I pointed this out to Google in my appeal email, even pointed them to the URLs of the threads. Alas to no avail. I have no idea if it was the DP rev sharing that caused my banning. It certainly wasn't any 'invalid clicks' on my behalf. Adsense was such small money to me that it was simply not worth the effort of doing something nefarious. Furthermore I'd never do anything like this anyway, I run things straight down the line in both my online and offline businesses. And no, my family or employees didn't click on my ads, because I dont have any employees and my family doesnt know the address of my ex-adsense stuff. Anyway, it's all very odd and more than a little dissappointing. However, life will go on. One thing I can recommend is to re-evaluate your participation in any scheme that uses your adsense id on any site that you do not have access to the logs for. The DP rev share *may not* have been the issue here but I have no way of proving it one way or another. Cheers & Beers, Mark
I wish I would have looked at my DP stats more closely but it was never really something I ever looked at...
am i wrong, or all the ones dropping like flies all participating in the DP revenue sharing? Am i stupid, or is a pattern developing? IF this is the case maybe the owner of DP (Shawn? is that his name) can intervene? get in contact with a google rep (ASA, are you reading this?!), provide logs, or help in some other way? i take joy in seeing a 'bad' Adsense publisher go down.. but this just sucks - and on the surface it's making Google look bad.. very bad..
What a publisher to lose to stop the "adrevenue sharing program"? Couple of bucks (if you'r a really great poster)? At least you would be on the safe side. Peace,