You sound crazier than Richard Pryor on cocaine. Look dude, if you are worried about being banned, just do it. Not using Adsense because you are worried about being banned is a self ban. You're basically screwing yourself. Contact Adsense and ask them to check your sites to be sure they comply.
All these changes are due to Google feeling the heat from the economic recession. Now, I'm sure they will really boot publishers who never make decent money. Previously they closed one eye, but it was always in their TOS. They need to preserve the advertisers, and the entire Adsense network. It is not surprising to me that they are doing all this now. Their shares have taken a dip, and forecasters are all gloomy.... Good times, bad times...ain't that the way life is supposed to be?
I think this isn't changed. I also believe that this has been there forever. It's not a change in so much as you probably just noticed it. I wouldn't sweat it. I have some clients who earn about $5 a month, and have done so forever and they aren't booted.
Maybe this is why my clicks are generating 2 times what they were two weeks ago... it was like on feb 15 google decided they liked my site again.. ok wishful thinking
You guys scared me, I thought this is a new TOS. I've been with Google AdSense since October but haven't even made my first $100 yet, and I'm still in the program
The tos we are talking about has been there already for the past 2 years and and 7 months as you can see that a post about this was published in july 2005 on labnol.You can read that here.....http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/07/google-adsense-sports-new-look.html
now google adsense is getting worse.. i'd recommend forget it and get another popular service like bidvertiser or adtoll.
you guys have nothing to worry about, i doubt they will ban persons for low impression. There are many smaller earners than big earners, their profits would fall drastically!
I think this is just in there so when they are alerted to a questionable account they don't need to really look at too many details to have an excuse to terminate. If in addition to having questionable content the site also doesn't make a minimum amount of money, they can just terminate it. Saves them hassle. It just means - like many other provisions - that as long as your account doesn't attract their attention, you'll be safe. But if you do attract attention, low income is just one more reason for them to terminate your account. If you only make dimes a month, who cares if they terminate your account anyhow? But the old advice to FIRST get visitors and only then start monetizing is certainly confirmed by this part of the google TOS.
Site impressions are easy to get anyway, just use a traffic exchange website. You can easily get 15K impressions per day that way.
Taking the revised adsense TOS positively, we take it as a challenge to update our site more frequently and bring more legitimate traffic to our site so that it will get more page views and impressions as suggested by the google. By this way, small publishers can try to remain in the race and google provided the much needed impetus, especially for the small publishers like us.
Like one person said about sending some kid 2 dollars every five months for his "look at my puppy" website. That's overhead. You think it's free for google to do all that accounting and send us checks? look at how much money bank of america saved by just cutting out deposit envelopes. I think this helps real sites. I remember reading about a guy who was buying thousands of keyword intensive .info's, putting one page articles with adsense up, and moving on to the next one. The content probably wasn't even useful, just cobbled together from his google keyword searches to make a couple bucks here and there times 3000. Policies like this help stop site spamming like that. (when they are enforced)