You Too Can Be Banned From AdSense With No Money Down (Enquire Within)
It is certainly no new phenomenom to see forum posters complaining about being banned. In fact, many forums members have grown tired of the repeated posting which typically look something like:
I wuz banned frum assent for no reason! How do I get my acct back
Plzzzz Help!!!
There are so many posts like this that I thought I would address the issue from both an analytical and personal standpoint. To debunk some of the myths going around that people are banned for no reason and even more to the point that these bannings of accounts (more of a suspension really) are completely and easily reversible provided there has been no violation of the Google Terms of Service.
How can I give such advise? I am one of the muppets who has banned and posted in a forum. Now I can’t say my post was anything like the one sampled above, and I actually 
chose the forum I was going to post my questions in as carefully as I chose my words. I decided against posting them at Digital Point basically because for once I wanted a highly moderated environment. I wanted to avoid the natural backlash and rubber necking associated with these threads. If its a brand new member there is a “here we go again” attitude (highly deserved unfortunately) and if its a long time member there is a “whats the site, thats a shame” attitude. Neither of which informs nor helps your case so in my instance I decided to go with WMW. I thought at the time, I might even get a look from AdSense Advisor who hadn’t started posting at Digital Point yet.
My account was banned August of 2005 and of course I found out by not being able to login. The dreaded letter did not arrive announcing the ban for around 2 days and I have to say it was a stomach turner. Before I get into my eventual reinstatement and my tips for others, I should first explain why I was banned. The official reason was invalid clicks but as we all know, that is a catchall phrase and does not neccesarily mean “clicking on your own ads” (Although thats most common). The actual reason was because I was featured on a Radio Show syndicated throughout the world. This show sends out a newsletter which goes out to a few million people so its routine that your site goes down as all that traffic hits you. I was prepared for that aspect but I never thought to notify Google about the feature.
Now I can’t discuss specific days and CTR’s as I do not want to violate the Google TOS. However, I will talk about monthly numbers which is allowed and will give you an idea on the numbers involved and why it was signifigant enough to get red flagged. In the month before that feature I had done $1,800 with the majority of that being the affected site. The month in which I received my ban I did $7,800 (I was down for around 7-8 days due to the ban otherwise I would have probably hit 5 figures)Â on what was around 500,000-600,000 impressions. This is quite a signifigant difference, made even more problematic by the fact that most of these carried blind refferers seeing as how they got to the site through their email client.
Now on to how I was actually able to get the account reinstated. I want to take this chance to reiterate that I never violated the TOS. That means I didn’t click on any of my ads ever (even by accident) nor where there any other violations. This is important because your strategy may differ slightly if you made a “mistake” and clicked one of your ads or something similar.
Step 1:
Email Google - You can do this either by replying to the notification mail or using their online form.
As far as the contents of your emails:
- Remain Nice. Rather then going into a rant on how they can’t do this or they are being unfair, remember that they are the ones that will reinstate you so kiss a bit of butt. Use phrases like “I realize that click fraud is a real issue facing AdWords Advertisers” and “I have full respect for your program and would never violate the TOS”
- Don’t Threaten Legal Action. This is a biggie because as soon as you say “I am going to sue you”, they pass your account off to the legal department who file it away awaiting your lawsuit. So unless you have already sent the paperwork, don’t even mention the word lawsuit
- Offer Anything You Can. This is most commonly logs but it can also include emails, letters or screenshots. Basically make the offers and be sure to let them know “If you need anything, Please let me know”
- Check the Grammar and Spelling. So many people put 10 seconds into their letters and not only are they difficult to understand, they severely hurt your credibility. Right or wrong, Google may think “If this guy/girl can’t take the time to properly write an email that decides the fate of their account, are they really the type of Publisher we want?”.
Step 2:
Prepare Documentation - If you think your ban was due to a jump in traffic, put together your logs and burn them on to CD as a backup to your server. If there is a reason for the traffic, try to get a letter from the refferer. In my case I wrote to the Radio Show and they provided a letter explaining the whole situation and gave their contact information.
Step 3:
Don’t Give Up - Develop a regular schedule of emailing Google. Try to always save a few pieces of information so that you are able to send an email each day. It can take anywhere between 5-30 days for a human review which is what your goal is here. If you give up after 2 days, don’t expect a response.
Step 4:
Don’t Post About Your Experiences Publicly -Â A human review takes time so posting to a forum with all your details can only hurt your case for reinstatement.
In my case, I received a lot of this advise from others who I respected and had been in the same situation. For my account it actually worked and not only did I get the account back but all back monies were reinstated.
So if your account has been banned and you firmly believe you did not violate the TOS, there is hope. I have spoken to probably around 20 people who were banned in similar circumstances and every single one got their accounts back with full reinstatement of funds.
Best of Luck on Your Crusade!
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Comment by Nintendo
Posted on February 9, 2006 at 10:15 pm
Nice article!!!!!!
Comment by Jarodboy
Posted on February 9, 2006 at 11:09 pm
Nice info, i’m glad you got your account back!
Comment by miko67
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 5:02 am
This is positively one of the best complaint-by-email instructions I have yet had the chance to read.
As usual the advice you put together for the rest of us is full of reason and seems to be well researched.
Crossing my fingers hoping never to experience a ban of any kind, now at least I will know where to go look for a “How to get unbanned” instructional text.
Thanks a lot for your contribution
Comment by yury
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 10:04 am
wow, good ideas. I hope my acc will never been banned
Comment by James
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 11:23 am
Wow! I’m hoping never to be banned, but just in case. . . you’re getting bookmarked.
Comment by Jason
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 11:35 am
Given the response to this info it has prompted me to print the letters that I wrote to Google to give a better idea about my points. I think there are 7 or 8 of them. That post is due to be published next Thursday so be sure to check back if you run into this situation.
Comment by WorkAsFreelancer
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Great post.
I would rather first spend my time writing to google than writing a thread on any forum. I mean everybody in such threads first recommends to write google
Comment by mcfox
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Absolutely spot-on! I’m glad you mentioned the point about ‘legal action’. As soon as you read that on a forum such as DP, you know their Adsense account is history.
It’s a shame you forgot to let Google know about the sudden upsurge in traffic. You would’ve had a much heavier wallet that month!
Comment by Jason
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 2:08 pm
The notification was definately an oversight. I didn’t know in advance and when it actually happened it took me a day to figure out who was sending it (due to the blind refferers). With the clicks rolling in I never even thought to let Google know.
Thats a signifigant point though if you suddenly see a surge.
Comment by me
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 2:36 pm
You stated that you got your monies back, did obviously that did not include the days your account was suspended …
Comment by Jason
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 2:38 pm
No, While the account was suspended no ads shown on the site so therefore no revenue during that 8 days
Comment by Michael Goldman
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 6:48 pm
great article yfs1!
When I saw it on digg and clicked the link I already knew I would see the shit man again here..
Comment by Chris Taylor
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Just curious you said you got your back monies back - they can legally “take” the money you earned from you ? how exactly is that not considered theft ? I know if I worked at a job and they refused to pay that they just broke the law ?? just curious.
Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/
Comment by Greg
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Maybe some of the people who have been banned from the ad-sense program will use this article (which basically claims that if you use some common sense and brains, you might just have a shot at getting reinstated) and stop the irrelevant posts on the popular web dev/design boards that you re-created on que in the first lines of your article.
Great article.
Comment by Geeks Are Sexy, The Blog
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 6:58 pm
If you think that you clicked on one of your ad for whatever reason, you can also contact their custommer support via email to report it. When I did it, someone emailed me back the following day telling me that I would not get suspended because of this since I reported it right away.
Comment by Rob
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Well put. It’s simple common sense. It’s shocking how many people lack it. I hope this message serves as a real kick in the butt for some people. Thanks for doing this. =]
Comment by Ken Grondell
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Interesting article. It’s nice to know that getting “banned” is not the end of the world.
Comment by joaquim
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Nice article. But, if you are going to give advice about spelling and grammar, you should learn how to spell “Inquire”.
Comment by Joe Anderson
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 7:44 pm
It all seems so obvious… but I’m sure some dudes need reminding.
Comment by Robert
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 8:58 pm
Also, you use the word “advise” (a verb) instead of “advice” (a noun) throughout your posting.
Comment by Random Crap Online
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 9:21 pm
nice article.
Comment by Jason
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Just to answer a few of the negative comments over at Digg:
Point 1 - The Title
If you read my blog you will see I try to inject a bit of humuor in even my serious posts. If you don’t understand irony, I probably don’t have the time to explain it
Point 2 - Using a Post About AdSense to Profit from AdSense
Again, this isn’t accurate. If the few people critical of this took time to put down the papers they were grading for their Community College class and look at the site, they would see it was a personal blog with no ads. Uniques to this Point: 15,000 Profit: $0
Point 3 - Comments About the Grammar of my Post
This is my writing style - natural. Its what I am comfortable and if it means a , instead of a ; then so be it. I wasn’t writing the post to send to AdSense, I was writing it to convey my point.
To all that liked it and dugg it, Cheers!
Comment by Jimmy
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Excellent article.
Comment by Nokia
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Wonderful article.
Comment by play free games
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Good article here. Hopefully this will stop a lot of the “Adsense banned me!! Help!!!” posts we see too often. Smart, solid advice given here for the legit adsense publisher.
Comment by James
Posted on February 10, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Thanks, I have not been banned but this article is fantastic! DIGGED.
Thank you,
Comment by Mayson Lancaster
Posted on February 11, 2006 at 12:17 am
Please follow your own suggestions - check your grammar and spelling!
Comment by jjk
Posted on February 11, 2006 at 12:55 am
Just a point of clarification for the spelling Nazi out there, ‘enquire’ is a variant of ‘inquire’.
Comment by thewebguy
Posted on February 11, 2006 at 2:21 am
very good article.
Comment by Greg-J
Posted on February 11, 2006 at 6:27 am
Good read yfs. By the way, your page jogs 1px to the right in FF at the bottom
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Posted on February 11, 2006 at 9:23 am
For the most anal of you:
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=define%3Aenquire&meta=
;)
Comment by Richard
Posted on February 11, 2006 at 10:01 am
Great article!
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Comment by DoNotClick
Posted on February 11, 2006 at 1:23 pm
I’ve been looking for an article like this for a long time and finally found one. Best article about Adsense.
Comment by Jon Gratis SMS
Posted on February 11, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Thanks a bunch, good advice fo sure. I’ve heard of very few big earners that got booted from Adsense.
Comment by ChefQuix
Posted on February 11, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Here’s what I don’t understand. You got a huge upswing in traffic, and because you didn’t notify google that you were expecting more visitors, they automatically categorized the ad clicks as fraudelent? How does that make any sense? Does this happen to every site that gets a sudden burst of traffic when linked to by a heavy traffic site? What happens when the webmaster doesn’t know that the traffic is coming?
It seems to me that this kind of scenario would be very common, and yet because of this your adsense account was banned, albeit temporarily. If your ads were down for 8 days and you lost a significant amount of your money, I would think you’d be more upset.
Comment by Jason
Posted on February 11, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Well, I was upset but there isn’t a whole lot I could do about it. Firstly, because you would be on shaky legal ground to recover the lost revenue from those 8 days and secondly because even if you had a case, when you sign up with AdSense you agree that all legal action will take place in California. Its a simple business equation whereas it costs a lot more to be invloved in a suit 6,000 miles away then you would ever hope to recover.
Also, although it is more common then most people think, my case may have been further complicated by the fact that I had blind refferers. This meant the clicks were suspicious from the beggining as the majority of traffic was coming from an email client.
Comment by ChefQuix
Posted on February 11, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Oh I see, it was the blind referrers that set off their fraud detectors. Ok, I thought it was just the massive upswing in traffic. Still, seems a little bunk to me.
Comment by HopeSeekr of xMule
Posted on February 12, 2006 at 1:44 am
I can help you. I am one of approx. 2,000 (that’s it) members in the exclusive Yahoo Publisher’s Network because I am a Search Engine Optimizer by trade and was given access to it while attending a meeting at a recent web conference. By merely giving me 10% of your proceeds and a few (no more than 5) links from your website, I will be able to get you much better revenue than AdSense. YPN generally seems to have a *much* better payout than AdSense anyway. And, even if you’re not an American that is no problem as I am your proxy.
Comment by Jason
Posted on February 12, 2006 at 9:49 am
I am fully aware of the Yahoo Publisher Network and will have to pass…Thanks
Comment by Tony
Posted on February 12, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Good article.
Comment by miscblogger
Posted on February 12, 2006 at 7:26 pm
I remember when my site was featured on the front page of digg.com in December and I was afraid that the outpouring of traffic would red flag me. luckily, they didn’t.
Comment by Josh
Posted on February 13, 2006 at 8:08 pm
yfs1,
Great article. This shows why its important to treat online providers as bussiness partners. I have a site that is really low traffic right now, I’m posting a link to your article as one of my daily post so my readers can also see how to properly deal with companies when something like this happens. Sorry I’m putting this in a comment but I have no other way of reaching you.
Thanks, keep up the good work.
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Comment by Lyle, RN
Posted on February 14, 2006 at 1:41 pm
definitely a must-read for every adsense publisher. when i was new to the whole adsense idea, i clicked on my own ad as it genuinely interested me.
i didn’t realize back then that it was a violation of the TOS as i was so engrossed on the ad that caught my attention.
after realizing the mistake, i notified adsense about it. they were prompt in reassuring me that my “one” mistake wouldn’t get my account suspended or banned.
anyway, this article is really helpful. thanks jason!
Comment by Home Tuition Malaysia
Posted on February 19, 2006 at 9:41 am
Nice and informative articles.
Hopefully my adsense account can last in lifetime
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Comment by Dick Hetz
Posted on February 24, 2006 at 2:55 am
I Used your reinstatment approach and quated it and they asked where I saw such a website instucting “how to reinstate Banned Websites” They said they will have to bann you again…sorry but I got mine back …nanny nanny boo boo
Comment by Jason
Posted on February 24, 2006 at 9:31 am
Whatever I can do to help
hehehe
Comment by Amit
Posted on February 26, 2006 at 6:09 am
A Superb article not only for noobies but also for every Adsense Publisher who do mistakes and Shout in the forums.
Comment by Ron Cicotte
Posted on March 2, 2006 at 7:18 pm
I got the dreaded email from Google a couple of weeks ago. I was unsure of why it happened because there were a couple of conditions that complicated the situation. But I had an idea of what might have triggered their algorithm.
Behaving like the professional I know myself to be my appeal for re-instatement was polite and reasoned though I knew that I had actually inadvertently violated the TOC’s. I couldn’t have been more surprised when I received the email re-instating my account. I truly believed that the appeals process would be just as automated as the initial notification and did not expect that it would even be read by a human.
Click fraud is a real problem and Google has an obligation to it’s AdWord clients. It’s nice to know that they also value their publishers …even the small ones.
Comment by Home Tuition Malaysia
Posted on March 12, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Nice articles…helped me a lot..thanks!
Comment by Andre
Posted on April 11, 2006 at 5:25 pm
May I never need to use this information!
Comment by Garry
Posted on April 13, 2006 at 9:28 am
Oh well looks like messed up was new to adsense put it on my site and did click some of the adds got the mail today.
Mailed them back with an apology, do you think l will be able to get back in with adsense or am l doomed forever.
Can you open another account ?
Very Stupid
Garry
Comment by Jason
Posted on April 13, 2006 at 3:13 pm
The fact that you clicked your own ads is not a good sign. My analysis and advice was based on the fact that I (and others) did nothing wrong and the ban was due to others action. But in the end, persistence can get your account back if you believe you made an honest mistake (3 clicks is honest, 300 is not). Good Luck
Comment by Johan De Silva
Posted on April 21, 2006 at 1:11 pm
It always pays to be nice and what ever you do, before you click onto the send button walk away from your PC make your self a drink and come back and read it again. never click on the email send button with your blood boiling.
Comment by Rusty Kaohelaulii
Posted on May 5, 2006 at 7:04 am
Wow! Great information. I got axed last year and couldn’t humble myself after that. Maybe now there’s hope. Mahalo.
Comment by e10
Posted on May 9, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Great article Jason. Calm and clear exactly the opposite of how I’d be if I got kicked out.
Comment by AdsenseAddict
Posted on May 23, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Very good article for someone as paranoid as me.
Comment by Patrick Caillet
Posted on June 27, 2006 at 12:19 pm
I’m still impressed by the quality of your articles
, really love the way you put in the foreground the fact you got banned but without anger. Very very interesting stuff,
Thanks for sharing that knowledge,
Regards,
Patrick
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Comment by Tudor
Posted on June 30, 2006 at 7:21 am
great article, hope i’ll never have to use the info
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Comment by John
Posted on July 19, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Nice article. It make a change to read about someone who got banned, then used a little common sense.
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Comment by Mason
Posted on August 8, 2006 at 8:11 pm
great article, congrats for having your account back, but it also scares me off :S I’ve been banned once just like you.
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Comment by NamSing Then
Posted on August 31, 2006 at 3:01 am
I am in the middle of trying to get my account back from Google and your insights had gave me confidence.
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Comment by ibr
Posted on October 1, 2006 at 8:20 am
I’ve heard some in this situation who were also adwords users/spenders found they could get someone at G to listen by going through the adwords team (especially if the adsense side is turning a deaf ear).
Comment by Armaan
Posted on October 13, 2006 at 3:47 pm
I also have lost and recently get back the account! Although that was googles own technical fault.
This is risky bet to do business with google adsnese.
Comment by Per
Posted on October 16, 2006 at 1:27 pm
good article. i am happy for u that you got your account back. Good resource for people who want to try to get their account back.
Comment by Ron
Posted on October 27, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Great article! It’s quite a relief to find this.
My account was disabled two days ago and I received the email telling me about click fraud. My traffic was legit and I don’t think bad clicks had anything to do with it, now that I read your article.
You see, I was having very low traffic to my websites over the past year, only earning 20-40 bucks a month with AdSense. But then I began promoting my websites with AdWords this month and had a huge spike in traffic.
Well, after I had earned several thousand dollars from AdSense this month from that traffic, it must’ve sent up a red flag and got my account disabled for suspicious activity.
I never knew you should alert AdSense if you thought your stats/hits were about to increase. I only worried about web hosting issues and never even considered it would be a problem at AdSense.
I appealed it and got what looked like a copy and paste job twice, but they were worded a bit different. I then wrote the AdWords department (ibr a few posts up is right) telling them what was going on and why I had paused all my AdWords campaigns.
I tried to be as polite as possible but this incident really had me nervous after I had spend thousands in AdWords and had them seize all my earnings. So it wasn’t only about lost earnings, it was also about AdWords expenses that now had me thousands in the hole. Expenses that were to be replaced when I recieved my AdSense earnings next month.
You gave very good advice about not threatening legal action and such. Because that was my first thought. I thought how could they do this to me after I provided great traffic to their advertisers. I felt like they were accusing me of being a fraud when I wasn’t. I felt not only should they be liable for holding my earnings, but also for days of lost income as my campaigns were now stopped.
But I did get a nice reply from someone after I explained what was going on. I’m now very hopeful that this was only a normal precaution as a result of the spike in traffic and earnings and they will reinstate my account soon. Had I known that we should let them know about traffic increases, I surely would’ve.
I think the AdSense system is great but they need to get some sort of dependable phone support for situations like this. It has nearly caused us to have a nervous breakdown waiting patiently while so much is at stake.
And just when I feel better about the situation and am about to submit this post, this arrives:
———————
Thanks for contacting us. We understand your concern regarding the actions taken against your account. Please bear in mind that our actions are the result of careful investigation by our AdSense specialists. Though you may
be disappointed with our decision, we are unable to reinstate you into the
program. We appreciate your understanding.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
—————————–
I don’t what else to do here. I am devistated. About $13,000 in earnings and expenses pulled right out from under me without any sort of explanation?
With all the posts on Google on the topic of “AdSense Account Disabled”, it sounds like they are setting themselves up for another class action lawsuit.
I sure hope these emails are automated replies and someone there is really looking into each case. Things are looking really grim around here the past couple days.
Would they be liable for my nervous breakdown, heart attack or death from depression as well?
Ron
Comment by alex
Posted on December 8, 2006 at 4:31 am
thanks for the article. I find it very useful, but could you please answer a question:
if you have a big spike in traffic, do you really need to contact adsense and inform them about this to avoid possible problems with “suspicious activity”?
Comment by gl3nnx
Posted on January 15, 2007 at 7:06 am
nice article dude. can i repost it on my blog , ofcorz with ur site’s url as a signature
Comment by Web Hosting Reviews
Posted on January 16, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Well, as per my personal experience ,they have very hard AUP . So as i suffered banning for my 2 accounts earlier. Now i dont have dare to again request them to prove my innocence .
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Comment by Ron
Posted on February 14, 2007 at 10:12 am
I posted here back in October about how they stole my earnings. They never did reply to any of my emails or send the money they owed me. Now, they are disabling all relatives accounts and stealing their earnings as well, just for being “related” to a disabled account.
Before this, one friend did have their account reinstated after about a week and all of his earnings and clicks were still there. So their system obviously is faulty and after investigating they found no invalid clicks to deduct. He knows for sure, because he began taking screenshots of his account each day, after hearing about how they stole my earnings. They pretty much lock you out and leave you with no way to prove what they owed you or prove your innocense.
I assume they are connecting relatives accounts from me giving them pages on my domains or from me promoting their sites with my AdWords account. Those are the only two connections between our accounts really. That and maybe the login IP address from when they came over and showed me how much they were earning from the traffic I was sending to them. Now they are guilty by association and have lost thousands. All based on my account that never even had invalid clicks to begin with.
I’m going to set up a site to help address the problem and seek legal action against them. I’ll post the link here later.
Thanks.
Ron
Comment by Ron
Posted on February 14, 2007 at 10:18 am
Oh, by the way, the friend who had their account disabled for invalid clicks and was reinstated a week later, started monitoring his logs closely and submitting things to Google to try to help police his pages. It didn’t help. Earlier this month he was now disabled for having a “related” account.
Right now, we aren’t sure if they connected his account to mine or if their system saw his info and didn’t realize that he was reinstated. Like perhaps it thought he had signed up for a new account afterwards and took a month or so to connect them. Regardless, he is just another innocent victim and had his earning stolen by Google, just as I and my relatives have.
Ron
Comment by Wakish
Posted on February 22, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Hello there, nice article..
Btw i have a question.. at times you might have done at least one click to your ads just out of curiosity to a certain type of ad.. does google have 0 tolerance for even 1 or 2 of your own clicks?
Thanks!
Comment by Jason
Posted on February 23, 2007 at 11:06 am
Assume they have no tolerance and email them to say you accidentaly clicked. Curiosity won’t be an excuse if you do it on multiple occasions.
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Comment by Alternative Fuels
Posted on February 27, 2007 at 10:07 am
As a blogger, it is very scary to hear of being banned from Google. For me its a nightmare.
Thanks for the tips at least i know how and where to start just in case..
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Comment by HM
Posted on April 24, 2007 at 9:48 pm
My Adsense account was disabled yesterday. I sent them email expaining my situation, now I get my account re-installed in 24 hrs. Thanks the author of this arcticle for helping me.
best regards
HM
Comment by mason
Posted on May 26, 2007 at 3:02 pm
nice article … key is honest and always report if any weird stat to google
Comment by Hooshmand Moslemi
Posted on May 27, 2007 at 11:52 pm
What a great advice! It was pretty useful. I guess banning from Adsense has been a big problem. Although we should respect their TOS, but sometimes it would be a mistake.
I think Adsense may give a second chance to many publishers who are really sorry. Sometimes those publishers become advertisers on Adwords and discover the advertisers´rights. Then, they will respect the TOS more and more. Adsense may consider those publishers as the ones who want to change and might give them a second chance.
To your success!
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Comment by Gratis Kontantkort
Posted on July 24, 2007 at 10:23 am
Nice. I’ve been looking for an article like this. It’s nice to know that even if you get banned there is a way back. Once again a great article!
Comment by Ronny
Posted on August 1, 2007 at 6:47 am
Hi…
My Adsense account was cancelled because of invalid clicks…but i
don’teven know i had so many clciks from one computer as they say,
hmmm i only remember that i told my friends about my blog and about
adsense but i don’t think they clicked so many times, because i didn’t
ask anybody to do so, but oh well that’s not the case, the closed it and
that was it i guess, but i read the terms and conditions and i found
out that they say they are gonna take legal action …is that true, if
so what kind of legal actions are those? Does anyone know about
this? …I’m very scared, i didn’t even click my own ads…then how am
i gonna explain them?…hmmm this is very hard for me, does anyone
know about those “legal actions?”
By the way i read this article, and i got some tips, the problem is that i dunno if i shpuld write to them and try to explain, becauso, how am i going to explain that? I asked my firends whay did they do they said that when i told them about adsense they click some of the ads but that was it, and they also told their firends so i don’t know is someone really clicked the ads so many times, and how should i explain that to google? I was thinking that maybe i souldn’t tell them about it, but i don’t know if this is the right desicion…What should i do, om very nervous here, and also…i want to get my accont back so that doesn’t affect my family member’s account and websites…
Comment by Dumberest
Posted on August 28, 2007 at 4:24 am
OK, I’m dumb and I messed up. I accidentally clicked on my own ads because I enjoy my content and actually signed up for the service that was advertised. I also posted a sentence encouraging people to use the links provided by google as a starting point in their search or use a search with the item and their state. Damn. What can I do??
Comment by Dumberest
Posted on August 28, 2007 at 4:24 am
I clicked ONCE!!
Comment by Jason
Posted on September 16, 2007 at 1:52 am
Good Artical:
I wonder what I should do if I clicked on my own ads just to gain more revenue? Please help me
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Comment by Wayne
Posted on February 11, 2008 at 6:59 pm
That’s a good and fine, but these days, you are lucky if someone at Google ever even reads your e-mails or follows up on your appeal.
Google just doesn’t have time for us small time advertisers and publishers..
We are expendable in their eyes.
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Comment by Joe Williams
Posted on February 20, 2008 at 12:47 am
Just got banned by AdSense for making too much money on Feb 19, 2008. All websites that we had were generic business websites and everything was legal. Google Adsense’s email indicated a ‘bad business model’. Our translation is ‘We are paying you too much money’. Go figure. We had been up and running for over a year until our websites were getting noticed by Alexa.com and Google AdSense’s mysterious partners.
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