Well first i started adsense in late january, i opended up a brand new phpbb3 forum we got about 20-35members online ever since. (these members are online 24/7 tho) and I was making 300$ the first month, then 400$ the second month. and then i was schedueled my 500$ payment on april 24th then i login back on last night and it said I generated invalid clicks..?? I was making about 8-10$/day... sometimes even 20$+ So why would they just suddendly disable my acct, when they already payed me twice over 700$.. ?? freakn weird, lol i filed a appeal form, and sucked ass i hope i can get them back. and there's 500$ in my account still... too bad it's disabled wow so pissed off.
If I understand your post, you claim the same 20-35 are on your site 24/7. I would imagine if they are the ones clicking, and $20 a day is some good clicking, and they did this daily, perhaps google looked at this as click fraud. If it's not click fraud, it certainly would not look good to say the least. Since you were able to login, maybe you have a slim chance to continue using it. Make the ads not available to logged in or even regular members. Stephen C
This is the drawback of the forum. I think those 20-35 members are generated invalid clicks purposefully with same IPs. Google will not restore your account unless you appeal to reduce $$$ of invalid clicks.
Well my problem I think was I put the code right below the navigation bar so whenever they clicked back home, i got over 40k impressions a day, they had a small % to click it, so maybe that's how they got invalid.. I did the appeal form and told google that was a accident because it truly was, and i'll put the ad's in the top like digitalpoint does it, so less incident to click.
Adsense is good at catching people who are clicking their own ads or having friends and relatives click their ads for them. It's not stealing from google, it's stealing from advertisers. A ban if for a lifetime and you won't get paid your balance.
Adsense is good at what they do. They are always checking to see if the publishers are clicking there own ad's 24/7. Try callinq there office?
So let me get this straight... if someone does not like you on the Internet for whatever reason... all they have to do is go to your website and click the sh!t out of your Google ads... and YOU will get banned from Adsense?
If that is true though... I aint got the words. It would piss me off beyond belief, and it is definitely not fair of Google to disable/ban accounts because of it. Fine, don't pay for the 'invalid' click(s) (whatever that is supposed to really be - a visitor clicks the same ad 4 times and that is invalid? What if the visitor is dumb and don't know no better? Criteria for an invalid click?), but don't ban/disable accounts. That is simply ridiculous. All the more reason for folks to not post/spam their websites here on this site. Someone gets sick of it (or you in general)... then they go click bomb your Google ads on your website(s). Then come back here with a Google just banned my account thread, which seem to pop up every other day.
I agree man.. It just sucks cause I had 500$ coming on april 24th.... in payment history page.. wow.. Edit: I mean i bought a car and everything with this, i was starting my life, lol And plus they already paid me twice before, did I not earn there trust... ? I guess not.
sorry to hear this happened to you. Google can be rewarding, but there are instances like this one for example, that they can be a pain to deal with. It's the result of them not really having any real competition.
Google must have detected multiple clicks from same location. Try not to put adsense on forum, monetized it with affiliate programs or CPA
Well i just remembered the night before i had my eCPM at 24.00$ (no lie) once and i had only 2clicks, and 2.00$ for estimated todays earnings, i remember that, i've never seen it do that before, there must be a problem here, lol. Cause it never did that before... the highest eCPM i've ever had was like 1.20$
Then, do you recalled accidentally click on your own ad...that could be the possibility in my opinion.
nope i never did, i mean i think in febuarary i clicked mine once, by accident just browsing around, but never again... (they issued the payment after that date) so it wasn't that click.. hmm iuno man im so lost and really sad at the same time it feels like my whole life is gone like this was my motivation man i looked forward to login to my account every morning/night to see my $$ just keep going but now i cant.. reallly a big bummer.