Cancelled my account

I don't understand it. Well I do understand it they're accusing me f fraudulant clicks??? Dude. I havnt clicked my own ads or told people to click my ads! In the beginning for about 2 days i thought it was okay so i clicked it once or twice and generated maybe out of this entire year $3.00 fraudulantly but other than that my $100.00 is pretty much mine why are they doing this to me???

 

Technically you breached TOS. So, they have the right to shut you down. However, I'm not sure if this was why.

Did you click on them recently?

Skinny

 

There's something I don't understand:

But then you admit to click-fraud:

So which is it?

You should never have clicked your own ads. Didn't you read the Terms & Conditions or Programme Policies? You should have, then you'd have known it's wrong.

When you next join an advertising network... don't click the ads & read the TOS.

 

This would help you if you are innocent:
http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/request.py?contact=spam_appeal

If you are guilty dont waste your time here, give me some bad words and look for an alternative. Will help you for alternatives depending on your site. Good Luck !!!!

 

no not recently hahaha and yes i suppose *shrugs* just so strict and they're butts shoulda cancelled it sooner ya know? I bet they didnt even give back the money that just ran with it

 

He wrote:

Even if it wasn't recently, google seems to wait until the publisher hits $100. So having clicked his own ads makes sense.

 

That is true. I forgot about that.

Thanks ryan. It's just that the majority here at DP get cancelled before they even reach that so I made an assumption.

Skinny

 

They'll have given it back. It's a big business and runs itself well. Google is making millions. Why is it going to want to keep $100?

 

Google doesn't audit sites until they have hit $100 and qualify for payment.

 

Totally untrue. I have seen sites/accounts getting banned even when they dint reach $2

 

Not True. Several accounts have been banned in the past even before they reach US$ 50.00. Google monitors the activities from the day one onwards

 

This may be past the fact that you clicked. There may be a pattern they see of fraud clicks from other. If you asked them to or not, it's your problem. Good luck.

 

Very true. I tend to think (and it's just a personal opinion) that Google allows "grace periods" for webmasters to report to them that they "accidentally" (even if it wasn't an accident -- wink wink) click on their ads. If you do this, they put your account back in good standing, and doesn't bother with the few clicks you generated yourself. But if you don't, well, why would they think they can trust you? As soon as something else happens that smells like fraud to them -- bam, you're done.

 

good point jack. I haven't thought of it this way.

 

tip: if you see an ad you like hover over it and get the url :lightbulb:
they are advertising on your site afterall.. not good to steal any money from them

 

True and a nice hint but, funny thing is when ever a person is banned it is always Google at fault

Learn from the mistakes rebelagent

 

in this case.. and alot of others.. legally it was the posters fault not googles

 

lol, wow, what evil ba$tards!

I acidently clicked one of my own ads (came to 1/2cents) but I emailed them to tell them - got an automated reply telling me not to do it again, and its against their TOS.

I hope they dont pull my account when i get to 100. its taken me 3 months to get to $10.

p.s rebelagent -- you must have clicked a few times to make $3? did you keep clicking them over and over or somthing?

 

If my "grace period" theory holds, you're safe!

 

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