Digitalpoint user got me banned from AdSense.

Discussion in 'Guidelines / Compliance' started by Wulkanen, Aug 21, 2011.

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    So apparently some Digitalpoint user that didn't like me decided to go crazy
    on my website and clicked my AdSense ads 20 times within a short period of time.

    I know it was a DP user because it was early in the day and my Google Analytics
    showed that the only visitors I had gotten to the site was from DigitalPoint. Plus one
    of the visitors showed some really strange activity on the site.


    After finding out I sent an email to the AdSense team explaining the whole thing. The amount I
    earned from the fraud clicks was only $2, meaning it must have been someone located in a low
    paying country. If it was from the US I would have earned about $30 from the fraud clicks..

    I included all information in the mail, stating that the clicks were invalid and that the money should be
    given back to the advertisers.

    NOTE: This was the first and only time in 2 years that this happend, so I thought it was no biggie.


    Anyways.. One week later I got a mail back from the AdSense team saying that my account had been suspended
    and all my money given back to the advertisers ($3500+).

    So I sent in another email stating explaining (again) everything that happend and that I will be
    installing protection against these kind of things so that it may never happen again.

    Then the AdSense team simply replied to me that specialists had looked over what had happend and understood that
    I was innocent, but they couldn't restore my account.


    Conclusion.
    I built up my AdSense earnings to almost $1000 per month over 2 years. I never misused the system
    and all it took was for 1 guy to spam my ads for a few minutes, generating only $2 to get me suspended.

    So for all of you out there using AdSense I got 2 advices.
    1. Never upset anyone on DP if you got your website in your signature.
    2. INSTALL ANTI-CLICK FRAUD PROTECTION ASAP!!!!
     
    Wulkanen, Aug 21, 2011 IP