Please take your flames elsewhere. Anyways I just got banned from google adsense even though I didn't do anything. I've accidentally clicked my own ads maybe 2-3 times over the past couple months but it was by pure accident. I appealed it and told them the truth. Do you think they will re-accept me? And if they don't how do I get the money they owe me because that is stealing and is complete bullshit.
Taylor, it's no good bullshitting you here - you're stuffed. Although your honesty is commendable, by confessing your sins you are confirming to Google that you have broken the rules. It's very unlikely you'll get back in and just as unlikely you'll receive any money. It's in the terms that you signed up to that you forfeit your earnings if you get banned. Did they say you were banned for invalid clicks/impressions?
Yeah but it was a complete accident. You can't tell me that a corporation won't respect honesty? Nothing was intentional so I shouldn't be punished.
Is there any more to this? I did the same thing once...accidental click. I ESCed before the advertiser page came up and immediately emailed Google. They just thanked me for my efforts and it was no big deal.
I'm sure you can see the problem here Taylor - for every thousand people who swear blind they haven't done anything wrong only one of them actually hasn't. Statistics aren't on your side.
Make new site. Create new account. Dont click on ads at your site next time - "accidentally". Forget "the money they owe". Good luck.
If you told Google right away that you accidentally clicked they would be okay with it. If you never told them and you were just like "oh its just one click they wont notice" then you wont get your account back.
I was going to tell them but my friend said that they did that every time and google told them not to contact them every time.
I very much doubt you'll get your account back, or any money in it. I hope you haven't lost too much. I'd just set up a new account and be super careful from now on
No way in hell you'll get the account back. A simple email and a possible loss of 20cents would have kept your adsense account safe.
If you emailed them about your accidental click you would have lost maybe 20 cents. If you did it would have kept your account unbanned.
Usually when there are accidental clicks/suspicious activity you are supposed to e-mail the Adsense team. They take care of any problems and usually point you in the right direction to help prevent the problem in the future. A simple e-mail would have saved your account after the accidental clicks. You mentioned you tried to appeal and it was unsuccessful. Usually they allow a one-time appeal and you have their attention. But if they deny the appeal, chances are very very slim to zero of anything actually happening in the future regarding reinstatement. While you wait to decide what you are going to do, sign up with some other PPC providers and see how they fare.
When Google ban someone for invalid clicks they very rarely get it wrong - they have lots of funky software and PhDs to work things out. They also very rarely ban for 2 or 3 accidental clicks over the space of a couple of months.