Even though there is slim chance I'd still try if I were you. $280 is a big sum of money for most of us, so no harm done in appealing. Edit: Is buying traffic illegal in googleland?
They were probably suspicious that in one week you were able to increase your revenue so drastically.
I bought 2k hits @ a ptc site. I got about 3 clicks on google ad .. but i did it so i got a high ranking in blog directories... i doubt i'll get in trouble.. but what would i do in such case?
Hi. I've been through all this. My account was cancelled for 'illegal clicks'. There is no recourse. Google wouldn't tell me what the clicks were or where they came from. No replies to emails other than robot emails. Google STOLE the $80 I had in the account too. In short, there is not a lot you can do. As soon as there is a viable competitor (MSN or Yahoo) available worldwide, google will be put out of business. I hope. Good luck.
That is the letter I received a while back for accidentally clicking my own ad. I optimize so good that when I was scrolling down the site I clicked it on accident. I didn't get banned because they think I am so yeah.
may be you are banned due to you or some other has clicked the ads excessively or repeatedly , it may be not you but some other user , google didnt tolerate these things.
Not sure, the situation in the previous post is not something that would lead to illegal impressions. I think the people talking about the 60% coming from a 10% time period is where the problem is. WHERE did those impressions (and subsequent clicks) come from??
hey guys,, sorry for the late replies ,,i have done nothing legal ..and all i did is this:-- i purchased 5.1 million email ids of whole usa ..and mailed them bout my forums what i think is that this went wrong..i saw my cpanel stats and confirmed that most traffic in last days..and when they clicked ads google may have taken them as illegal work.. ok..can anyone here please tell me which else networks apart from google ads are profitable if they are..?? and yes about the other sites i have started i have not signed for adsense yet..oly my friends have done that.. please suggest if that is possible..??
Well then yes you have, google doesnt tolerate traffic from spam emails which is obviously what you have done. I reccommend ADBRITE http://www.adbrite.com
'I have done nothing legal' pretty much sums it up. Buying millions of e-mail addresses and spamming them isn't that legal indeed. Someone probably complained to Google causing your account to be closed. Sorry - but they have done the right thing banning you.
ok then..it means that promoting of forums via the emails and all stuff is spamming and is against the google policy.. if yes then guys please tell me ..so that i will be aware of this in future..
I don't think you have future in google anymore, better try other programs like chitika, kontera... but again not to comiit on spam emails..
Wow, 5.1 millions e-mails that are working, that is a lot of spam, and annoyed people. Where did you buy that from? (Not that i want to use after what has happened) If only 1 or 2 e-mailed google than your in big trouble.
5.1 million email ids.... US population is little above 300 million. You sent an email to every 1 in 60 people in the US... I guess many Google guys got it too and didn't like it .