[Google Sucks!]Adsense Account banned right before first payout!

[jeffam]

It took me over 2 years of lazily posting blog posts to get to $100 in my Adsense account, only to be click-attacked 230 times in 48 hours from a guy in Mumbai, probably paid off by Google!

And one day after I filed a report regarding the suspicious activity, my account gets banned!

Though I've filed an appeal, I am 95% confident of not getting my account back!

Guys have any of you had something similar happening to you?

I don't know why they wouldn't reactivate your account if you reported the suspicious activity before being banned. That's not fair.

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by samo

So I guess the answer is to open another Google Adsense account

Oh yeah. That'll work. That'll show 'em...

And people wonder why google has a heavy-handed approach.

Paul

[indihow]

Hi Sonny!

The hourly limit on PMs has been crossed (5).

It's possible you misread my PM:

I wrote: "I do understand that you are no noob in IM"

Let us continue the conversation over gtalk.

I've given you my gtalk id in the PM.

[Spiritthedog]

I had no idea you couldn't put ad sense on "about us" or "contact us" pages. I did get my site banned from Ad Sense because some guy over clicked my ads. It really sucks that Google doesn't give you a warning.

[Black Hat Cat]

Originally Posted by indihow

I had reported the invalid clicks earlier, following which my account was disabled.

After that I re-pasted the details in the reinstatement appeal.

I really hate to be so pessimistic, but the timing of the click-attack and that of my crossing the payment threshold can't be a co-incidence!

It's not a coincidence. It's a well known fact that Google never pays out on Adsense. That's how they got to be a billion dollar company......they wait patiently as innocent newbies slave away for two years to finally cross the $100 threshold, and then steal it away from them. Seriously, dude, you didn't know this? Where have you been?

[Avo19]

Originally Posted by Black Hat Cat

It's not a coincidence. It's a well known fact that Google never pays out on Adsense.

That's just BS. I've taken up to mid 5 figures a month from AS in the past. Paid without any issues.

The reason it often *looks* like G ban just before first payout, is that they usually run a check on the website when first payout is due or the site makes X amount of $'s in a period.

That's when they spot sites that are breaking TOS. It never ceases to surprise me how many people never bother to read the TOS in detail and then wonder why they were banned.

Have you ads running on pages with out real content? i.e. privacy, about, contact, a single video etc. If so you're setting yourself up for a possible ban.

Run headings above your ad blocks, like "Sponsor", "More information" "New" etc? Then you're breaking TOS.

Running images near ads, using link units that may deceive in their placement and so on.

There's just so many "gotcha's" that will catch the one's who ignore TOS.

And how many ignore the ability on the Adsense back-end to explicitly allow only certain sites to display your ad code?

[dagaul101]

Stick with the appeal you have nothing to lose, people have had their accounts reinstated

[eguynth]

yes google banned be two days before I was getting payed. some a** hole bombed my blogger, even I cloed my blogger they banned me. Talking to them is total bs.

[indihow]

I received the first reply a few hours ago, but it was in the negative.

So, I sent a stronger application in terms of tone.

I'd given them all info necessary to catch the culprit including his email ID!

Couldn't give any more info even if I wanted to!

So let them **** off!