Hi I'm posting this on behalf of my mother Mariam Al Azzawi. I'm writing this to whom may it concern. I'm the owner of AppleSiam.com. AppleSiam is a website that own by me, and this website is a regular blog that publish daily news about the technology going on, and specialize on Apple news. AppleSiam was publish to the internet world on March 2012, but it was a former of http://YourSn0w.com which I also own that domain. In May 22nd, 2012. I receive a Message from Google Adsense team, "(quote) recent review of your account we found that you are currently displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our program policies (https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=48182&stc=aspe-1pp-en). -------------------------------------------------- EXAMPLE PAGE: http://applesiam.com/tag/assistantserver-installer/ Please note that this URL is an example and that the same violations may exist on other pages of this website or other sites in your network. VIOLATION(S) FOUND: MODIFIED ADS: Publishers are not permitted to alter the behavior of Google ads in any way. This includes resizing ad frames to cut off parts of ads or hiding the Ads by Google moniker. REQUESTED ACTION: Please make all necessary changes in the next 72 hours. If the violations are corrected within the aforementioned time period, ad serving will not be affected. (end quote)" I've taken the action on the first hour when I receive the message. First I have remove the page just because of afraid of losing my Adsense account because it is very important for me, and I have go to the "My ads" tab in http://google.com/adsense to get all new codes for my ads in case if it was any mistake in code when I copy them. I never modify the ads nor resize or put them in any frame. The code was plain paste to the section. I've even contact Google Adsense team about the resolve that I've done from my side, but on May 29, 2012 I receive a Message again say that the ads were disabled on my domain. I have contact the Google Adsense team many times to get this resolve because I have done nothing against the Term of Services, and I respect and always follow them. I always review the rules from Google, and really would like Google Adsense team to reconsider because I only have one website, and I can not survive without having Ads from Google. If any more information require in order to resolve the problem please feel free to ask at anytime. I would love to please see some response at least from Google Adsense team Thanks and best regards
I have been first hand witness and victim of the dumb adsense policy team several times.. With recently the whole account being banned. I won't enter into more details but now I'm one more person who can tell you it happens and the appeal process is a big joke on us. They don't care and they should receive punishment for not doing their job correctly. If I had communication with the bosses at google I would tell them to fire their adsense policy team as in several documented cases they are doing a bad job which in turns hurts google as a whole because they lose some good publishers for no reason.. If I was guilty I would admit it clearly, but when you're victim of injustice you don't forget.
They never go into any details and attempts to get the ban lifted rare (and I mean RARELY) ever work.
You are absolutely right! Like if I actually know myself that I did something wrong and I got ban on the whole account or even on my domain name specifically, then I would not even bother going around by posting at the Official Adsense forum and here!. It is unfair where my site I have a good traffic, and good rank eventhough not very good income, but still having ads on my site is important, so that I can pay the bills. If I'm not going to hear anything from them about what really is wrong about my domain and why it's banned then I will not stop.
Because I hear a lots like that, and it is inspired me to actually stand up and fight for my right and make it right! If this is happen to everyone and they give the right only to those whole so call "popular website" and not for us..... O'Oh no man Google Adsense team I would love to see some justice this time please!
Its not very nice when you get that email from the Big G but they have found something that has not complied with TOS so they have banned your accoun for what reason they will never disclose so its catch 22 you cannot rectify what you are not sure of.You have hardly any chance of getting that account back infact zero chance and this is a classic case of not having all your ehhs in one basket as it is much better to rely on multiply source of revenue for this exact reason. Not sure what you can do but i would forget about having adsense on that site,you did not mention who the account names was in if it was yours then you could get another member of the family to get a new account but start a fresh new site as they will pick up the old site and ban you gain. No point in writing letters or emails to Google as that will be a total waste of time,move on and just forget about your old account.
This is the part where I hate the most They mention that I modify code for the adsense on my site, but wait a second Google Adsense team how I would modify the code when I just get it from the google.com/adsense page!??? I know it seems like waste of time and no point at all because they will never waste a time to response to me and I don't think I will see the justice from them. But they really tell me like "You can use your account with other domain" but come on Google Adsense team! Changing Domain is not something its easy. I have like over 26,000 fans on my fan page both combine and to start over it is like put all of my time again for that!? WOW. @Mega B, so you suggest I should just forget about it and move on and find other than adsense? but which one can you suggest because I did many research about many others and really non of them can compare to Google adsense. If I want to use is like the only option for me is to create a new site and risk again with their so call special TOS...............
So can you gain access to youir account or is it just that one site that is the problem ??? if its just the one site take all the adverts off it and try something else.Preserving your account is the main thing especially if its just one site. So have they banned the account or just that one site ???
From what I understand they only banned that one site for him. But in the past they've banned one site from me and it was clearly a mistake from them because they told me I should not have more than one mobile adsense ad, where in fact I had none, I never put any mobile adsense ad. So they ban the site, I make an appeal and next thing they tell me is that I should not have more than 3 ad units, so suddenly the reason changes.. But even then, I know the rules of adsense because of working many years with them, so for sure I never have more than 3 ad units, 3 link unit and 2 search boxes. So I ask for them to tell me where they see a fourth ad unit in my code because I can't see it, and I also can't see it when I use their fetches as google bot tool to see if my site was hacked/cloacked for the adsense bot (which would make no sense anyway) and of course I get no answer, that site is still banned, for no reason. Now recently I got my whole account banned, because.. one or more of my sites was crap (didn't follow webmaster guidelines) of course they don't say which one. And I have no idea which one it could be and what part of the webmaster guideline is at fault. For all I know it could be someone putting my adsense on another domain, then reporting it, I don't know if it works like that, so simply. Anyway, I appealed with a detailled email, they send me a copy and paste answer (poorly pasted as some part is screwed up) that since I'm banned I can't be enabled again, what is their problem? They are too lazy in this team to do a proper job. My account was earnings several thousands of dollars each months and increasing, doesn't change anything in terms of publisher support. Now you're right, we should use this frustration and hatred towards those fuckers in a positive way for us, use it to get revenge (abstractly) and perform even better via other ad networks. It is a challenge, but this hatred force can be transformed into a positive and useful force for us to overcome this unneeded challenge and end up better off.. But in the meantime, I'd like to express from the bottom of my heart: fuck adsense, especially the lazy bastards at adsense policy team for losing my time, I won't forget and there will be no more good word from me about adsense, of course they are the number one ppc ad network, but I sincerely hope they don't stay that way and die.
Wow I thought I already have one of the worst cases out there, but yeah there are plently and yours is one of them. I do like to see some Adsense supporter to come out and really clarify these issues as we are also their customer without us they wouldn't have the job (I know they have a big guy left where they don'y have to care about us anyway), but yeah we are one of that who can be the big guy in the future too! I don't know what to do really now
Me I know what to do, what I should have started to do years ago: make money with other ad networks, PPC, CPA, CPM.. Perhaps making my own product and sell it, myself and through affiliates programs, etc.. All the things I should have done but didn't do (not much anyway) because I was lazy and adsense was so easy..
I wish I can do the same..... I spent over 2 years on a a site call "YourSn0w.com" build this site till it very known in "Thailand" and it was never have any problem.... until I learned more about SEO and realize that having '0' on the domain name will never get me far, so I did lots of research and found a very good domain name and it was very cool to have it and it is "AppleSiam.com", but WOW in just 4 months I got over 13,000 likes on my Facebook fan page, and I gain a very good rank in "Thailand" my site was ranked at 3000 of all the country which is really good..... but one main problem was! in Thailand I get very low low low low low CPA and my earning out of 100 clicks was only like $3 So I thought like ermmmmm I should make another site and work on English one that could bring me more $$$$ with Adsense and I found one very good name too techtotalk.com but well..... making a site to compete with English site it was very hard.... so I went back to my Thai site again and now I got ban on my site
For sure we need to change our mindset.. Well for you it's another matter, because you still have your adsense account, so if you're like me you won't learn until you get the real kick out, and that's ok I guess. But for me now I need to change my mindset, now I'll focus on learning the skills which are appropriate for CPA networks, the traffic should not be like for CPM or CPC, the pageviews count doesn't need to be so big, but the traffic needs to be more targeted to visitors with the right mindset to trigger an action more complex than a simple click.. The experience you and I got from our past is not lost, at least that's something positive that we can use when learning other techniques, and perhaps by associating ideas we will be able to come up with something innovative that other people who have always been making money with CPA networks won't be able to come up with. And no matter what happens, if we have a goal and a plan and we follow through each day, adapt it and never quit, we can only succeed, like we did when our goal was to increase adsense earnings.
WOW your statement is so motivative! Really I was thinking if I should abandon my mom's account and focus on mine and work on the site techtotalk.com and just work on it from scratch..... it will take me real long time and may not success on it, but really is like I have no other options now.... sigh**** I wish whatever in my mind can work easy so I don't have to work outside world LOL By the way does any Adsense team come and answer question here sometime?
No they don't come they're too busy wanking.. The ones who come on forums and blogs are from Infolinks and less often Kontera.. I haven't seen any from Chitika and if in the past some from Adsense were participating in DP forum, it's been a very long time I haven't seen any here. I don't even remember if there was still some in 2006 when I joined DP or if it was already a thing of the past. Me too my goal is to not have to go back to work for a boss or customers for as long as I can.. That's why creating my own product is something I have always been not too keen on, because of customers.. So I'll explore other possibilities first. Since you are going to continue with adsense I advise you to focus your efforts on non technical audience form western countries. Because they are more numerous and are more likely to click on ads and not have adblock addon installed or be ad blinds.
OMG You just made me laugh so bad for the first morning of this Thursday hahahaha...... I guess I should rethink and start some business for real online this ain't gonna get me far.... even if I get my domain unban I still going to make only like 120$ montly for 100+ clicks a day
check with your site ,you may be violated any of the adsense tos,there is lot adsense tos which only few people are aware of .One more thing you can change the color,ad format before you generate code for ads ,once after generating codes for ad formats .You cannot alter it,that is strictly against their tos.I myself member of adsense from 6-7 years never did this thing.
Yeah, but I didn't nor even thought ever to alter the adsense code. When I went to the site all I did is generate and paste it in the site.... So I don't know what is their definition of MODIFY the code
I want to share the conversation with people (one guy) in Google Forum for Adsense productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/adsense/i-have-an-active-account-working-with-adsense/syfzGa9gVws%5B1-25%5D