Google Adsense account disabled

[Diver's]

i never click on my own ads, i never did such thing..but they said they detect such thing and disabled my account. all the money is with them now..

and all the hard work, all these years is useless now....

about 30 site is affected

[Sheryl Polomka]

That sucks and Google are like Paypal in that regard that they wont listen to your side of the story, they make up their mind and that's it!

Try to appeal it though, you never know

[Diver's]

Hi Sheryl... will try..but there's no email to contact... they ask to read the FAQ... posted in the adsense official forum..

all of a sudden, your account was disabled... hmmmm...

[Zack Lim]

You will want to contact their support team through the link below:

=> Contacting Support - AdSense Help

Do contact them and they might review your account again.

Hope this helps

Zack

[Diver's]

Thank You Zack..

[TristanPerry]

How often did you monitor your ads? Perhaps you were click bombed? If so, consider mentioning this (with any logs you can find) at Contacting Support - AdSense Help

[Geoff101]

Some Google employees are on Google Groups. You can present your case there. Show them the log files for possible click fraud, you may get your account back.

[Lauryn]

How can you show that you may have been clickbombed?

[seymorebutts]

Happen to me 3 times , lost a bit of money . never using adsense again

[Damz]

Most probably your competitors clicking on your ads or sent a bot to click on adsense ads automatically
This happens when others envy about your rankings and revenue you get. Cruel world

[Diver's]

i sent a log file including ip address of one of my site. i was quite surprised people hang about 45 minutes to 1 hour plus to one of my niche blog.

The log is complete with ip address/hours on the site/date and time. I use Statcounter.com visitor log and pageload activity/visitor activity to manually gathered the report.

I hope they will restore back my account... since this morning tragedy, i have shifted my focus and started writing a new info product (other niches)...(maybe i cant rely on adsense any longer) i just cant sit and wait for it to be restored and become a source of income again.

it was years of work developing those site to monetize adsense. although still not much revenue from it, it does brings clicks here and there..

i'm sadden by this, but hope to see their reply..hopefully a positive one.

[Crew Chief]

Originally Posted by Diver's

i never click on my own ads, i never did such thing..but they said they detect such thing and disabled my account. all the money is with them now..and all the hard work, all these years is useless now.... about 30 site is affected

You stated that you didn't click on your own ads but what about?

• Did you purchase ANY traffic?
• Did you join ANY traffic exchanges?
• Did you sign up for ANY traffic networks?
• Did you purchase ANY PPV?
• Did you share ANY of your Adsense sites with family members, relatives or friends?

Giles, the Crew Chief

[theurbantwist]

What kind of traffic is being sent to your site? This happened to me but I won my case. I was using adengage and was getting a lot of clicks on the ad, literally thousands of clicks. I just stopped using adengage and replied to the ban email they sent me stating my case and they reinstated me.

In a weird way I am glad that they banned me, because I was using adengage to increase my Alexa rating, but it wasn't making me any money with Adsense and that was in the early days of my site and me not really knowing the importance of quality traffic. I thought any and all traffic was good traffic back then. So by them banning me, it forced me to stop using adengage.

[theurbantwist]

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

You stated that you didn't click on your own ads but what about?

• Did you purchase ANY traffic?
• Did you join ANY traffic exchanges?
• Did you sign up for ANY traffic networks?
• Did you purchase ANY PPV?
• Did you share ANY of your Adsense sites with family members, relatives or friends?

Giles, the Crew Chief

I just saw your post after I posted my reply and that's what I was saying as well. I got banned before purchasing traffic from adengage but got reinstated after I stopped using them for a while and my traffic went back to being normal.

[Crew Chief]

Originally Posted by theurbantwist

I just saw your post after I posted my reply and that's what I was saying as well. I got banned before purchasing traffic from adengage but got reinstated after I stopped using them for a while and my traffic went back to being normal.

In most cases, it's always more than meets the eye. It usually boils down the the Adsense publishers not learning the Adsense TOS and then subsequently violating them... and then pissing a fit when they get their accounts disabled.

To be clear; I'm not saying that's what happened with the OP, but that first round of questions starts the process of eliminating all of the possibilities.

P.S. Its good to know that you cleared that issue up and was able to recover your Adsense account.

Giles, the Crew Chief

[theurbantwist]

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

In most cases, it's always more than meets the eye. It usually boils down the the Adsense publishers not learning the Adsense TOS and then subsequently violating them... and then pissing a fit when they get their accounts disabled.

To be clear; I'm not saying that's what happened with the OP, but that first round of questions starts the process of eliminating all of the possibilities.

P.S. Its good to know that you cleared that issue up and was able to recover your Adsense account.

Giles, the Crew Chief

I was definitely fortunate because I've heard the horror stories. Also what may have worked in my favor was that my account didn't have a lot in it as well...I think I may have been approaching that $100 threshold possibly so I don't know if that helped since they could see that I wasn't abusing their system to become rich.

But you're right, most people on these forums leave out the most important information as to what truly happened so that we will never know the actual truth. There is usually more than meets the eye. As long as OP re-reads TOS and states his case and highlight specifics from the TOS to show that there isn't any wrong doing going on, I think he/she will be fine.

[Diver's]

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

You stated that you didn't click on your own ads but what about?

• Did you purchase ANY traffic?
• Did you join ANY traffic exchanges?
• Did you sign up for ANY traffic networks?
• Did you purchase ANY PPV?
• Did you share ANY of your Adsense sites with family members, relatives or friends?

Giles, the Crew Chief

Nope..None Of Those Crew Chief

Submitted my log file, Still waiting for google to respond to my case

[Dellco]

You may want to recheck your sites to make sure they look better to the reviewer. Reviewers are all human, some may be stricter, some less.

That's why it is a danger to have tons of crappy sites (not saying you have those)....because it may not look so good to the reviewer if he/she goes through your account and history records....

For example if you have many autoblogging sites using Adsense, and you got banned, don't you think your chances of reinstatement is next to zero, because it will look pretty bad to any reviewer at Google....

But on the other hand, I have seen quite a number of cases of people who got their accounts back, all because they had strong sites that were previously making money and getting traffic, and it seems, this is a big factor that can make or break an appeal.

In a worse case scenario, you could try starting over by applying for a Business Account or vice versa, if you already have a Business Account, do it with a new (but solid) site that you can "demonstrate" to Google will make them (and advertisers) money. I've seen this done before, and it has worked for some people.

[derekwong28]

I actually appealed successfully before against invalid clicks, but I needed the help of a Google staff.

1. Go to WebmasterWorld and register an account
2. Go to their Adsense forum
3. Look out for a Google staff called "AdsenseAdvisor"
4. Write a polite pm to AdsenseAdvisor and ask him for his help.

To date, I still do not know what happened. The only abnormal activity I detected on that day involved a forum for the Sony PSP that I wonder. It usually had 200 unique visitors a day but it went up to 2000 on the day my Adsense account was suspended. I suspect that a new game for the Sony PSP was about to be released that was responsible for the large increase in visitors.

Derek

[Dellco]

It might be a better idea to actually go the Adsense forum and try to get the attention of one of the Top Contributors to flag your thread to a Google Employee....

I'm not sure if the AdsenseAdvisor on Webmaster World is still there or not, or if he actually logs in these days.

[Diver's]

Thanks for the suffestion Derek, Dellco and Chief..

i already posted at the forum and waiting for a response, a senior in that forum advised the same thing, sent the log file and such.

i'm looking for the business account possibilities.. You guys a great..thanks

[Dellco]

One more tip, try to make your argument as thorough as possible, because a few sentences on the Adsense forum may not get the attention of the TCs (Top Contributors).

Put as much detail as you can, into it. You need them to flag it for you.

There are many "I got banned" threads there, that are ignored, and even more "I can't get approved" threads there, every single day, so you will need to stand out from the crowd.

[Slaughter]

Originally Posted by RafayAnsar

Get Adsense Account back in just 2 days.

Fck off you spammer.

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Diver's: Don't worry. You are not alone. Even I was banned for an unknown reason. And I was never told the reason as well.

Karan

[new12world]

Same thing hpnd with me and i did mail to them .but they said that they cant do any thing....