I'm getting twice as many clicks now as before I started filtering competitor's ads. I've also been doing a little more promotion, but that usually adds up to more traffic, but not more clicks. I actually wrote to Google to tell them I'd been doing promotion, so they wouldn't disable my account. I did that before, and they wrote back a nice note, not stock, saying they appreciated me keeping them informed of what was going on in my account. Some girl on Hubpages got her account disabled because she made $16 in two months. Wow! I'm sure there was more to it than that, and I told her that they know if all the clicks are coming from one IP or not. Anyway, I wrote them, because better safe than sorry, right? I'm getting close to the payout amount, so I don't want it screwed up. I know one guy who had his account disabled with $97 in it, and he cannot get them to pay him, and won't reinstate his account so he can make the other $3. You know, it's almost like they do that on purpose. I wonder how many millions of dollars they've not had to pay out of small accounts that hadn't gotten up to $100 yet, because they disabled the account? Shouldn't that be illegal or something?