Do established Adsense accounts get disabled?

I am sure you could get an established Adsense account disabled but it seems to me that it usually the smaller, newer accounts that get disabled or threatened. I got an email from Google when I got a 40 times spike during my first month two years ago but I haven't seen any crazy spikes since and haven't had any more nastyGrams.

I'd like to hear stories of those who have been disabled and what range of Adsense income you were in and how fast you got there.

 

I actually had my account deactivated once about a year ago for a few hours before they finally realized they had made the mistake, or their filter I guess. One e-mail and I was back- pretty nerve racking though, since my adsense revenue pays all of my bills, partying expenses, and travel costs... lol.

 

Ouch schlottke. If that was my "bread and butter" I'd be scared shitless to get an email like that.

 

Haha- it was nothing to be alarmed about though- they were actually extremely helpful in getting it resolved very quickly.

 

schlottke :

they re-activate your account only after your email inquiry?

how about you are on holiday or have not log in for a while,
then you will not know about the de-activation?

 

schlottke,
may be you could advise Josh over in the "Adsense Account Disabled?" thread. I read that thread and was made to wonder about the size of the Adsense account and its relative safety. He had a small account, Google wouldn't miss his 50 clicks a day but they would miss account that have 1000's or more clicks per day. It does seem like guys who are making "$15,000 a month after a few tweaks" are a bit braver than the rest of us.

 

I read his thread, and though I hope he gets reactivated, the smaller accounts are usually ignored. Which is a shame, and I think a huge flaw in their company's tech support.

 

If I was Google, I'd reactivate base on any human response to the disabling. If it says please, I'm sorry for my two clicks, or what did I do wrong, they'd be good in my book.

 

Please, start an ad company, and I will be the first to signup


Josh

 

and I will be second to signup

 

I actually pondered it back in 98. I had some text ads from ClickTrade on a JavaScript sample site I had and found that if I put up a dialog box (javascript's window.alert method) that said thanks for visiting, all scripts are free, please visit my sponsors, I could get 25% clickthrough rate for the clicktrade ad. I thought about building a ad system based on dialog boxes with a brief advert and an OK button to go to the site and Cancel to ignore the ad. I never quite got done and I am not sure how I'd get up to critical mass for advertisers and publishers.

Gee, one of us ought to start it.....

 

Everyone who are "small potatoes" (and I'm one of them) should remember this and stop worrying about getting dropped by Google. If they drop you, they'll drop you, and there's nothing you can do about it. You'll get one of those generic forms and they won't even bother wasting a live person on you for a second. Fuggedaboutit. You don't matter to them and don't spend days trying desperately to get back. Move on. There's just no use worrying all day about what you did wrong, etc. People should really just accept this. It's no big mystery.

 

Its a sad truth- especially for the few who actually haven't cheated. I can't wait for the day that CJ or another affiliate manager offers a contextual Affiliate program where it generates affiliate links based on your content, you then have a winning idea, and make a hell of a lot more money.

 

affiliates are still affiliates. they require more than click throughs but sales. i know that my site won't make as much in affiliate sales as it could in cpc programs. this is probably true for most of us

 

Think about it for a second guy...

If the links the people are clicking on from your site were all affiliate programs, the people clicking the links are genuinely interested in whatever it is they are clicking on. Odds are that they are going to purchase, otherwise people wouldn't let the adwords be displayed on your site to begin with.

Obviously this isn't always the case, but in many situations it would pay *much* better.

 

Looks like every body will get a shock if adsense account is disabled. Maybe just treat it like a hobby, too much dependent on it will hurt.

 

If you aren't doing anything shady, you *shouldn't* have anything to worry about.

 

schlottke,

i've had success with adsense but have had no luck whatsoever with affiliate programs (despite the fact that the affilate ads i chose were directly related to my site's content as if these were contextual ads).

 

yeah, like I said, it wouldn't be for everyone, some sites just don't sell well.

 

Google does what it wants. if the googlers at the googleplex dont like you, out you go! I read about webmasters who are innocent getting kicked out...