No Longer Earning From Adsense What Gives?

[Jon Tees]

I was earning somewhat decent money by having ad sense installed on various niche blogs and websites along with forums that I run for various hobbies and interests. Although, I appear to be getting clicks and impressions, I no longer seem to be getting paid. Did I somehow violate the terms of service, did something change and as a result I have been given the boot?

[AnilK]

The main reason google gives users the boot is if your content is not original.

Google will take action against domains that try to rank more highly by just showing scraped or other auto-generated pages that don't add any value to users. Examples include:

Auto-generated content: Content generated programatically.

Or google may consider the clicks to be 'invalid' and you don't get paid for invalid clicks. Also I assume you have listed all your sites as 'allowed' in your adsense settings.

[kindsvater]

Are you not earning from clicks in your Adsense account, or is your Adsense account accumulating but you are not getting paid to your bank account?

[Underground SEO]

same as the above, also have you made any big changes to your site recently? For example added more AdSense ads - as the ads they serve to your website payout less the more ads you add to your site

[cashcow]

If you got booted out of the adsense program I think you would not be able to login to it at all so I dont think you have been booted. What do you mean by not getting paid though? Are all your clicks earning you $0 and if so how many clicks is that?

Lee

[ccd]

I'd think you would have received an email notification from Google if you were being dropped from the program.

Did you mean that you're not making as much as you were, or literally $0?

In my (admittedly limited) experience, revenue from adsense can vary wildly, going from record highs to near record lows within the span of just a few days.

So if your earnings have just declined - but not stopped altogether - I'd just give it some time to see if it cycles back.

[pdrs]

They gave me the boot a few weeks back for no real reason that I can figure out at all. I only had it on a few of my old blogs that I never looked at and it made about $2 a month. One day I woke up to an email saying that my account had been terminated for being suspected of fradulent activity or something... I emailed them for a response but just got a letter back saying there was nothing that could be done, decision was final. Strange...

[Mike McAleer]

That happened to me before but in a different situation. Basically my ads stopped serving.

It kind of sucks.

[NoviIM]

I am actually just getting into building Adsense Websites... I mostly do affiliate Amazonand Clickbank.
How Profitable Can Adsense Sites Be If your CPC is at least $1 and you do consistent Backlinking and SEO?

[Jon Tees]

I was making between $5 and $10 a day and now I’m making nothing in spite of impressions and a high amount of traffic with strategically placed ads. It shows a few clicks, but at the end of the day there is still a zero balance for today as well as yesterday.

Could bots or lack thereof be to blame? I installed some security software on a particular forum to get rid of spam bots and this was right around the time that I started to notice a slow decline.

[tdj]

Once you reach a certain amount earned, you have to submit a PIN and bank acct. numbers for payments. They will stop showing ads on your site until you do. Not sure if this is the case here. Check your account for any messages.

[blueorca17]

Originally Posted by ccd

I'd think you would have received an email notification from Google if you were being dropped from the program.

Did you mean that you're not making as much as you were, or literally $0?

In my (admittedly limited) experience, revenue from adsense can vary wildly, going from record highs to near record lows within the span of just a few days.

So if your earnings have just declined - but not stopped altogether - I'd just give it some time to see if it cycles back.

I second this. You would have received an email for sure if they took action on your account, or you would see it in your AdSense dashboard (bottom left- where it says "messages"). I know this from experience. Keep in mind that since we're also in the summer, advertisers and clicks may not be the same now as they were a few months ago. Most people are out vacationing right now and doing stuff AWAY from the computer... Summer sales (unless you're promoting swimsuits) is not the best time for clicks for adsense. They'll pick back up in the fall and winter. You'll see.

[Jon Tees]

The account has been officially disabled due to “invalid activity” whatever that means and I am in the process of filing an appeal. I look at this as a situation where you know or suspect something is going to happen before it does and then it happens as you expect it to. But in the event the appeal is not successful is there anything that could be used in place of ad sense?

[Jon Tees]

I’m trying to figure out if it’s against Tos to use adwords to promote a site that displays adsense ads, as I recently opened an unconnected adwords account to take advantage of a promotional offer. It would have been impossible to use the same e-mail address for adsense and adwords as it wouldn’t allow me to do so for whatever reason. It Kept saying that the address I was entering already belonged to an adwords account, but yet I couldn’t access it with any usual password combination I entered nor could I retrieve my password as when I tried it said the user name/e-mail address was not in the system. So long story short I used a separate e-mail account for adwords from the one I had been using with adsense. Google seems to be on this campaign to get people to link their accounts together or use one account for all of their services.

I’m still waiting for a response to my appeal and it’s nearly been two days now. Since I had ad sense installed on numerous domains and on multiple developed sites and blogs, this puts me in an awful position, as it relates to what to do to replace adsense for content with and what to do with the domains I was using as adsense sites in event the appeal is unsuccessful. This is sort of like working for someone else where the ball is in their court basically and they can pull the rug out from under you and take away a source of income in an instant. Not a good feeling as far as certainty goes.

[paulgl]

It is not against any rules to promote a site that has
adsense on it via adwords. Many, many, many people
believe this myth.

Adwords does not allow a site that generates revenue
only with adsense, or it appears you are only trying
to get a click.

But having adsense is just fine. Google even has a case
study that they promote from a plastic surgeon who
made decent money with adsense and new customers.

That's the key. You have a main product or service, and
toss adsense on the site. Perfectly legit.

Note: Having unoriginal content is hardly a reason for a ban.

So many misconceptions and misinformation.

Paul

[yukon]

Originally Posted by paulgl

It is not against any rules to promote a site that has
adsense on it via adwords. Many, many, many people
believe this myth.

Adwords does not allow a site that generates revenue
only with adsense, or it appears you are only trying
to get a click.

But having adsense is just fine. Google even has a case
study that they promote from a plastic surgeon who
made decent money with adsense and new customers.

That's the key. You have a main product or service, and
toss adsense on the site. Perfectly legit.

Note: Having unoriginal content is hardly a reason for a ban.

So many misconceptions and misinformation.

Paul

Not saying it can't be done, but I find it hard to believe anyone could turn a profit taking money out the front door (Adwords) & bringing more money in the back door (Adsense). I just don't see that happening.

Google is the middle man twice in that type of deal. They'll get a cut of the money two times (Adwords + Adsense).

I would never have Adsense on a Adwords landing page, it would have to be my own product with 100% profit (no middle man) on the sale, other than Google/Adwords (one time).

[Jon Tees]

My appeal was rejected so it looks like I’ll never again have an Adsense account. I got what I perceived as a smug we’re in the driver seat sort of attitude from the person who responded and they continued to be vague not providing answers as to why they took these actions. It’s really like they did this simply because they could and there was no other reason for it. I’ll merely need to figure out what to put in Adsense’s place on my content sites, forums and PLR blogs, and what to do with the domains that I had Adsense for domains installed on. I was making some pretty good but not great money, so maybe there in lies the problem. I may have been making a suspiciously large amount or not enough could have been either one or a little of both. As I said earlier their responses were incredibly vague and it was summarized as “invalid account activity” in a smug sort of manner.

[scole954387]

That really sucks. That's what I hate about Google. Would it kill them to provide details on what "invalid activity" took place? Geez.

All Google has to do is send you a heads up saying that they've noticed invalid activity in the account, what that activity is, so that their customer can correct the problem.

Most adsense publishers will be more than happy to correct any offending site. I wouldn't even care if they refused to pay me for any invalid click on the account.

Just tell me what the problem is so we have a change to correct it... not hard Google.

[TotalGaz]

Jon Tees you should check out some of the other recommended alternatives to adsense here. Quite a list to try.

[GeorgR.]

Forget the appeal....

Something about your site(s) they dont like, appeal will 99,99% not work.

Only chance you have is opening a new adsense account, and this works only if you

*) Have a family member which can open a new adsense account in their name
*) Open a (new) business adsense account if you have a legit, registered business

So or so, the new account should not be tied to your name...but its allowed to have a business account and of course each family member can have an adsense account.

Should you be lucky enough to get another one, you would need to CAREFULLY evaluate your sites and why and what Adsense didnt like.

"various niche sites and blogs" always has with it the dangers of invalid clicks, click bombing etc...i preach it all the time, Google got incredible strict and picky, and IF you have an adsense account you need to be really, really careful with it.

[Carl Brown]

Originally Posted by scole954387

That really sucks. That's what I hate about Google. Would it kill them to provide details on what "invalid activity" took place? Geez.

All Google has to do is send you a heads up saying that they've noticed invalid activity in the account, what that activity is, so that their customer can correct the problem.

Most adsense publishers will be more than happy to correct any offending site. I wouldn't even care if they refused to pay me for any invalid click on the account.

Just tell me what the problem is so we have a change to correct it... not hard Google.

"Don't be evil" no longer applies to google once you reach god status. Good and evil is for us mortals trying to make a few bucks

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by yukon

Not saying it can't be done, but I find it hard to believe anyone could turn a profit taking money out the front door (Adwords) & bringing more money in the back door (Adsense). I just don't see that happening.

Running a site with just adsense as a monetizer would probably not
be approved in adwords. Unless you were someone special. As you
say, that would not be cost effective. You could not generate enough
clicks. Google does not like landing pages that require another click,
then more clicks.

But google does explain how to put adsense on your adwords landing page.
I have lost the page, but google itself explains how a plastic surgeon was
making some nice coin by putting adsense on the side of his site. The
people that were interested in his service were his customers. Those that
visit, but may not be interested in this plastic surgeon and his office, has
adsense ads for information on other services. His main income from the
plastic surgery, but a nice sum of adsense clicks. I would imagine the CPC
for plastic surgery would be quite high.

My point being, the blanket statement that google does not allow adsense
in adwords is just false. Again, this just points out that people do not
read the pages of TOS that google provides. Other paid advertising is
allowed as well. All they do is tell you to do it the right way, and be sure
the traffic is targeted and genuine.

I would imagine there are lots of businesses running adwords and adsense.
Why not?

Paul