Im starting a small business of sites doing fun cool things and Im scared the adsense will get banned by accident. Ineed adsense just to pay for the hosting costs and I hope it will do well, but after reading post after post Im scared. Do good people get kicked out? I am going to hide mt ads on my URL and ect...and im going to pry no one clicks them that I know ..Im just worried that adsense is too SENSITVIVE....is it? it sure looks like it, or are all these people bad and did the wrong things.....also what are the easiest ways to get banned/......clciking your own site or getting to many clicks from other places...or scariest since I will be doing a forum...bad words?
Play it honest...stick to the rules...and you will never have a problem. Adsense is very stable or it would never have reached the size it has.
I see nothing offensive there. Just be carefull you don't spell the "bad language" out correctly as this will cause problems with your SE placement. Being subtle is a nice twist though!
No way to prove it, but I suspect the people who got themselves banned "for no reason" were actually banned for very good reason. You don't get banned for minor stuff. I've had Adsense since 2003 and probably have accidentally clicked on of my own ads at least two or three times because I saw something I was interested in and didn't notice it was from my site (tabbed browsing makes that easy). It's unimportant and I'm sure Google realizes that (if they even noticed it at all). Just don't start doing it on purpose
Yeah, just play by the rules. But if you make even a little mistake - BAM! He kindof is a little too sensitive
When using Firefox it is possible to click without clicking, it has happened to me many times, I was not banned, I think Google knows if this happens and will not give you credit since they know your box from others out there!
You can always sell text links to cover hosting... a descent PR and traffic site should be able to pull $5 - $10 a month per link pretty easily.