Free-RSS-Resources
08-18-2005, 09:48 PM
Just wanted to remind everyone out there to not get too
dependent on your AdSense income -- Google feels free to
take it all away whenever they feel like it.
Back in June, Google falsely accused me of click fraud
and terminated my AdSense account. :mad: After two canned
robotic responses to my emails asking them for proof,
Google forwarded the rest of the emails I sent directly
to the trash bin, without even a canned response. A
quick search on Yahoo turned up over 20 other people
that this has happened to (I'm sure there are more out
there who are less vocal than us). Some of them lost
thousands of dollars :eek: , some have very high traffic sites,
some have very low traffic sites, but all have one common
theme: we’ve all been terminated by Google with no proof
and no recourse (see the articles in my blog for more
information and quotes from these people).
In my situation, I didn’t see anything odd happening
with my stats ahead of time, my only warning was after
Google had shut down my account and then they wouldn’t
let me see the ad stats to determine what happened. My
site stats didn’t show anything out of the ordinary,
leading me to believe it was just a few clicks instead
of hundreds or thousands. And all of my AdSense ads were
ones which only brought in a few pennies per click, it's
not like it was a site of high-priced keywords that cost
advertisers any significant money when some idiot came
along and started clicking on them for fun.
As another one of us put it so well (in the posts on my
blog), “it appears my right of appeal consists of - you’re
guilty and we are not going to tell you of what or how
we know - just accept it and get lost.” Even their paying
AdWords customers like me (in fact, Google continues to
hold out its hand with a nagging email every time I pause
or end my AdWords campaigns).
Anyone out there have any thoughts on how to get Google
to re-enable my AdSense, or should I just give up and
hope that Google hasn't sold their click-fraud list to
Yahoo to prevent me from using their new AdSense-like
service too?
Since Google captures your social security number, along
with all sorts of other identifying information for your
AdSense payments, it seems hard to create a new identity
that they won't figure out (I suppose I could form a multi-
person company in a different city and put the account
under someone else's name, but I'm currently a 1-person
operation). Especially in light of the following quote
from another one of us that's been hammered by Google:
“A strange twist is that my brother who has a site on a
totally different topic, different area of expertise etc,
has had his account terminated also - reason is because he
knows me. No I am not kidding - ’Google AdSense account was
found to be related to an account previously disabled for
invalid click activity’” :eek:
Best of Luck With AdSense,
Kurt Inman
Free RSS Resources (now Google-free)
http://www.ProsperAll.com/free-rss-resources
dependent on your AdSense income -- Google feels free to
take it all away whenever they feel like it.
Back in June, Google falsely accused me of click fraud
and terminated my AdSense account. :mad: After two canned
robotic responses to my emails asking them for proof,
Google forwarded the rest of the emails I sent directly
to the trash bin, without even a canned response. A
quick search on Yahoo turned up over 20 other people
that this has happened to (I'm sure there are more out
there who are less vocal than us). Some of them lost
thousands of dollars :eek: , some have very high traffic sites,
some have very low traffic sites, but all have one common
theme: we’ve all been terminated by Google with no proof
and no recourse (see the articles in my blog for more
information and quotes from these people).
In my situation, I didn’t see anything odd happening
with my stats ahead of time, my only warning was after
Google had shut down my account and then they wouldn’t
let me see the ad stats to determine what happened. My
site stats didn’t show anything out of the ordinary,
leading me to believe it was just a few clicks instead
of hundreds or thousands. And all of my AdSense ads were
ones which only brought in a few pennies per click, it's
not like it was a site of high-priced keywords that cost
advertisers any significant money when some idiot came
along and started clicking on them for fun.
As another one of us put it so well (in the posts on my
blog), “it appears my right of appeal consists of - you’re
guilty and we are not going to tell you of what or how
we know - just accept it and get lost.” Even their paying
AdWords customers like me (in fact, Google continues to
hold out its hand with a nagging email every time I pause
or end my AdWords campaigns).
Anyone out there have any thoughts on how to get Google
to re-enable my AdSense, or should I just give up and
hope that Google hasn't sold their click-fraud list to
Yahoo to prevent me from using their new AdSense-like
service too?
Since Google captures your social security number, along
with all sorts of other identifying information for your
AdSense payments, it seems hard to create a new identity
that they won't figure out (I suppose I could form a multi-
person company in a different city and put the account
under someone else's name, but I'm currently a 1-person
operation). Especially in light of the following quote
from another one of us that's been hammered by Google:
“A strange twist is that my brother who has a site on a
totally different topic, different area of expertise etc,
has had his account terminated also - reason is because he
knows me. No I am not kidding - ’Google AdSense account was
found to be related to an account previously disabled for
invalid click activity’” :eek:
Best of Luck With AdSense,
Kurt Inman
Free RSS Resources (now Google-free)
http://www.ProsperAll.com/free-rss-resources