It still depends. As long as the clicks does not come from a single IP. Like if the clicks were generated from your IP and the number of clicks is more 3-5, it is considered as cheating... and don't even think about doing it daily.
It is one thing if you had a mad clicking frenzy when you first set things up. As others noted those clicks are usually ignored by google and don't count for anything. If you managed to rack up $75 in revenue by regularly clicking on your own ads for 4 weeks, I am not sure you deserve anything but being burnt toast. Your excuses don't hold up, and even if they are true, they exhibit extremely poor judgement. I think your only chance is to come 100% clean with adsense. Even tell them they can close that account down and you will start over from scratch. Adsense is not a toy.
Don't some of you people read things thoroughly, I've already e-mailed them and am waiting for a reply. No it's not a toy it's a waste of time : 100's of ads, number of clicks in 2 days 0, 1 search, total profit 11c. I've already started removing them and replacing them with something people might click on.
When you say people you mean you right? Let me guess you are under 18 years old right? You have the patience of a small child.
And you didn't read Google TOS throughly either. You put yourself in this pickle. I think you have to be at least 18 to have a Google AdSense account, but I agree with you. He sounds very whiney and unwilling to take the time to read the DP boards and many other online resources, learn, implement what he's learned - make some mistakes along the way, and grow!
It's called irony, I suspected it would go right over your head. You're right about my judgement though, I should have had more sense than to post on here hoping for just good advice, there has been some in between the insults and accusations and I thank those for that.
Unbelievable.. You tested your website and you "payed" yourself 75$ for that!!! I would`t worry, now, at your place..
wow wow let me get this straight u saying u were clicking on your ads and you taught there was nothing wrong with $75 mysteriously appearing in your account?? omg hope google bans u and other dumbasses like you cause of people like you respected publishers are getting less and less from adsense btw what age are you? 10?
Let's say your ads pay an average of $0.10 each. For you to reach $75, you would need to click your ads 750 times. You call that a test?!
or at an average of $0.05 i get its well over 1500clicks some test, hey ill go and test my local bank, hehe lol
Please don't stereotype like this... Most of us actually have common sense... This guy seems unreal... BTW After hearing this over and over again I just don't understand why publishers would keep going back to AdWords...
Wow why are people so hard on this guy? Hes just a kid and acting like a kid whats the big deal? The advertisers will get their money back as google says so who cares.
Thats an easy one... First of all click fraud even though supposedly under control, costs many advertisers money, and effects the PPC cost, thus lowering earnings for publishers like 90% of the people on this forum are... So basically even if a guy like this is caught, the doubght he puts in an advertiser's mind, can not help his bidding price... So to conclude...he is screwing us over in two ways... and hes only excuse is IGNORANCE...which is unexusable...
findwhat (miva) is bad, pretty much like ah-ah (enhance). highest conversion with Overture (yahoo search marketing) Yahoo is the only company not allowing kids and Chinese in their program conversion is 3x better than Adwords, and payout for publishers may be 5 to 10x
Well if people use adwords they obviously trust google thus they trust that google will refund the money to them so no harm done.
cornelius: Just because there's one bad apple doesn't mean we need to throw out the entire bunch. Google AdWords are used by many people and know that Google stops people like this anyway.
Base on the TOS ,yes , you will be banned .They ask you to read the TOS before you add adsense to your web site . So I would say there is no chance for not been banned .