Suspended WidgetBucks Account - Click Fraud‏

Dear Sir or Madam,



We have detected suspicious activity that may be indicative of fraudulent click-through activity on a number of your widgets in violation of section 4 of the WidgetBucks Terms of Use. As a result, we have suspended your account pending further investigation.



For your information, here is the relevant section of our Terms of Use which you have agreed to:



"Prohibited Uses. Client shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) generate fraudulent impressions of or fraudulent clicks on any Paid Listing, including but not limited to repeated manual clicks, the use of robots or other automated query tools and/or computer generated search requests, and/or the fraudulent use of other search engine optimization services and/or software; (ii) edit, modify, filter or change the order of the information contained in any Paid Listing or Widget, or remove, obscure or minimize any Paid Listing or Widget in any way; (iii) frame any Web page accessed by an end user after clicking on any part of a Paid Listing link ("Advertiser Page"); (iv) redirect an end user away from the Advertiser Page, provide a version of the Advertiser Page different from the page an end user would access by going directly to the Advertiser Page or intersperse any content between the Paid Listing and the Advertiser Page; (v) display any Paid Listing on any error page, registration or "thank you" page (e.g. a page that thanks a user after he/she has registered with the applicable Web site), or in any email or on any Web page or any Web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related or violent or illegal content ; or (vi) act in any way that violates any Program Policies posted on the Mpire Web Site, as may be revised from time to time. Violation of any of the foregoing may result in immediate termination of this Agreement and Client's participation in the WidgetBucks program; (vii) disclose information related to the click through rates, CPCs and other statistics."



If you believe that your account has been suspended in error, please contact us at hxtp://support.mpire.com



Yours Sincerely,



The WidgetBucks Team

 

and?.... so

 

So, do you think they were right or wrong in banning you. Most publishers are getting banned because are integrating the WidgetBucks onto non-english sites.

 

This is like the 10th thread I have seen with " I have been banned from widetbux"

I wonder why there are so many threads ......

 

i was waiting for the question, i cant seem to find one in that post

 

So did you click your own widgets then?
They're clever people these WidgetBucks folks.

 

There are A LOT of people being banned today, hotmail3 isn't the only one. Check out this thread and this thread -- there are plenty of other "I've been banned!" topics in the Affiliate Programs category too.

 

just like google, they make more by banned people and keeping the cash themselves

 

I guess you'll just have to suck it up and move on.