I'm a subscriber/client of Adsense, so Google will have to inform me to remove copyrighted materials within 10 days or so. Or as soon as they forward the DMCA notice to me, I will need just send them counter notification and remove nothing. That's all. In fact, he didn't do the DMCA. He click bombed the ads! Today's revenue and CTR jump unusually high. That's poor puppy doesn't know publishers can report suspicious clicks. I did report and saw $10 worth of clicks removed from the earnings. He is cornered... awaiting to be slapped with a lawsuit.
Got a reply from Adsense staff yesterday. The reply was the usual computer generated message which says they were closely monitoring the situation, and at the same time suggesting me read some guidelines and TOS.
My adsense account is BANNED due to invalid clicks. Now i'm sending out appeal emails to adsense support. I feel really offended by these actions Google and Yahoo have done to me. Not only have I not done anything wrong, but I am also a victim of what this Richard Henry is doing to me. Here's the lessons for you to learn from my mistake. First, there is no use to contact Google support to report any invalid clicks, because you'll get banned anyway. Second, use AdLogger to monitor clicks on the ads. When you appeal, you'll need to provide which IPs and when the invalid clicks were generated from. Your server log is useless in detecting clickbomb.
Adlogger? I think it is time for you to sue. Sue him for damages, sue him for lying and fraud, hell, sue him for everything you can.
Should make an interesting movie too. He could write a script and profit off of it - then give it a name like "300 days of hell" and include a scene where he kicks that jerk off the side of a tall apartment building - whilst clad in Spartan Armor - and screaming at the top of his lungs "THIS IS [site name here]" Best part - he'd make millions and get publicity for his site whilst that criminal doesn't make a dime.
if getting banned from yahoo is so easy and fast, i guess soon yahoo will not be trusted by webmasters and general search audience.
@visioninfotech: read the thread completely. Richard filed a DMCA which demands results than proofs. So, Yahoo or Google or Msn will have to take steps and ban the site before looking on the proofs unless brandnewx files a counter DMCA. So its not only Yahoo... any company ( Msn. AOL, Google, A9 any company) will try to safe guard its interests.
hmm, interesting to know the reason why it has been deleted. copyright violation is not enough to be deleted from their listing.
Thats really amazing. I should give it a try for my rival sites. Did you contact Yahoo about this matter? If yes, what was thier response??
Well its the flaw within DMCA ... so no company is responsible for this. They are compelled to remove the listing unless the second part files another DMCA.