Sad end to my Adsense Golden dream

[bighostchennai]

I had been sitting and watching my adsense revenue grow very gradually, I had set, some 5 -10 niche blog for adsense, did lot of hard works on seo, but today I got account is disabled, all my apeal went wain, for the reason, invalid activity, but never did anything to that effects, infact very careful in that regard.

[hatem]

I'm really sympathetic with you, but this is google, do whatever he wantsو NO ONE can ask him why...

I have faced the same situation last month, and believe it or not, my adsense account which was disabled due to fraud click activities did not generate one click over 3 months, almost 5-10 clicks along this period...

Try to forget and focus on affiliate marketing through your blogs, it's far safer on the long run...

Best wishes

[koreancowboy]

That's odd...I haven't heard many good things with Adsense, yet some people do pretty well with it.

I wonder why that is...

[sbucciarel]

Well, it doesn't have to be you clicking on your own ads. It could be also that you purchased junk traffic or something like that.

[TopKat22]

I am so sorry to hear this but I've heard this many times before.

I recommend what was said above, promote affiliate links on your blogs.

I also recommend that you build a list that you own and control. And maybe even eventually create your own product so that you are in more control of your income.

Good luck in the future. :-)

[Bob Ford]

Yeah, Google has gotten kinda arrogant over the years, but there are other monetization options out there. Don't let this setback deter you. instead, make it a rallying cry of sorts. Adopt the attitude that not posting ads on your blogs/sites will ultimately be Google's loss, not yours.

BF

[JohnMcCabe]

Welcome to the club. Cash bar is over there...

[bighostchennai]

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Well, it doesn't have to be you clicking on your own ads. It could be also that you purchased junk traffic or something like that.

no.. I never purchase any traffic, I know this rule, still Iam not able fix.. may be some visitor rapidly clicked my adsense ad.. I don't know.

[mosthost]

The Golden Age of Easy Adsense Earnings seems to be long over. Now it's a hassle.

[KenFighter]

Don't ask your own boss why you're fired..

[36burrows]

It's not only dealing with clicks.

Rest assured there's a valid reason why you got banned. There's NEVER a ban for no reason at all.

Claim innocence all you want, but you need to be looking at where you were getting traffic, ad placements and all that. If your ads were placed in a ninja type way in order to try and increase your CTR, you'll get banned.

[BloggingPro]

First off. It's going to be OK. In the grand scheme of things it may not even be much, and here's why.

Have you heard of affiliate marketing? If your sites are already targeted into niches where products exist (evidenced by the fact that people are buying ads) then simply seek out those products or services and become an affiliate.

Re-tailor your sites in this manner and see where it takes you.

[jgant]

I wouldn't sweat it at all. There's way more money in affiliate marketing. Re-calibrate your sites for affiliate marketing and get into other adsense-style networks. I use Adsense, but it's a tiny portion of my income.

Don't quit. Live and learn. You can carry on. Many people making money online don't use Adsense at all.

[Mike Tyler]

It's really sad man. But never give up! There are many other ways to monetize your content than adSense.

Mike Tyler.

[Rageki]

Dang that sucks, you should try affiliate marketing, It makes good money or try CPA networks. You could also try adbrite, an adsense alternative. Good Luck

[Kal Sallam]

That's why diversity is always a good thing. Don't keep all your eggs in one basket.

[EugeneA]

When I got banned from Ad sense I smiled. I don't know why, I read of a bunch of others getting banned so I felt like a bad ass! You know, I was finally in the club.

Ad sense is a good start and all, but I wouldn't recommend it as a serious source of income. Move on to something else and don't look back!!

[Justin Finkelstein]

I would move on to another monetization method and then plan for a third back up monetization strategy. That way, you will not get caught without a plan again, like you did this time.

It is rough to get banned from Adsense but it happens to the best of us.

[InternetMarketingIQ]

Google continues to crack down on sites whose sole purpose is to generate revenue through Adsense.

If you build a site that is content based and actually offers real value and incorporates adsense you won't get banned.

If you build a crap MFA site it's likely you will.

Why? Because ADVERTISERS want legitimate visitors who will actually buy something... it costs them money to have MFA sites just pulling exit traffic which doesn't convert.

[JohnMcCabe]

Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ

Google continues to crack down on sites whose sole purpose is to generate revenue through Adsense.

If you build a site that is content based and actually offers real value and incorporates adsense you won't get banned.

If you build a crap MFA site it's likely you will.

Why? Because ADVERTISERS want legitimate visitors who will actually buy something... it costs them money to have MFA sites just pulling exit traffic which doesn't convert.

I agree with this, except for the part I bolded. It should probably say:

"If you build a site that is content based and offers real value, you might not get banned."

Not a guarantee, there are too many outside influences that can make your account a "risk to advertisers" even if you are on the straight and narrow.

I lost my Adsense account when I got crossways of a syndicate that was scraping my sites and stripping out the links (or worse). I started reporting them, as requested by Google. They figured out it was me, and click-bombed my account into oblivion.

After much digging, I finally got an explanation from a live Google employee. They told me that a) even though they could find no evidence that I did anything wrong, I was still a risk to advertisers and b) I was still banned for life.

So my advice is, go ahead and use Adsense while you develop alternate income sources. Much like traffic generation, relying on a single source of income is riding an unstable bomb over a bumpy road. You don't know when, but sooner or later, you lose your rear end...

[John Romaine]

Internet Marketing - "It's not a perfect journey..."

[graymax]

Oh boy, I second the sympathies that have already been offered. Here's a question: if were making money off of Adsense already, you must've been generating some traffic. Can you monetize this traffic another way? Another ad network, affiliate links, etc? Just because it's not Adsense doesn't mean it won't make you money.

[DianaHeuser]

Originally Posted by laptopwarmonmylap

So go get an LLC or something like that and carry on with your wet dream and quit lamenting your losses. That's life. Mama did tell you that it can be a cold, cruel and unfair world out there, right??

I hope that when you encounter a major setback in your business that people are a little more supportive and understanding towards you than you are towards the OP.

[Dapper Fellow]

Well, that's a kick in the head! I agree with the others that you seem to have learned how to move a site on to the first page, so it shouldn't be all that much trouble to do the same thing with Amazon products or your own product.

I bet you come out ahead in the end just because you now have a knowledge base and skill sets.

[John Hocking]

Google has forgotten who helped make them what they are today.

If they continue down this path, they open the door for someone else to show up and take care of the "Outcasts".

It sucks that Google now has 82% of the search and PPC market combined.

[ruby2011]

This also applies to pure search engine optimization. You spent years to write great content and did your best to meet the Google Guidelines but one day, you found all of your hard work disappeared without any reason. So guys, when you get enough money from Google, you have to think up some other money making plan instead of Google as you do not know what's the next move of Google and your business is under risk.

[Zeus66]

I've had the same Adsense account since literally the week they launched it about 8 years ago. If your content doesn't suck - if it's unique and on topic, etc. - and if you don't do anything to break their TOS, you should be fine. But it's Google... they have a history of making arbitrary decisions and changing their minds. That's an inherent risk with any third party. So you become an Adsense publisher knowing you've given up control over the ultimate decisions re: your income stability. It's not for the weak of heart. But the bad outcomes are far outweighed by the good. I've made a good chunk of money for 8 years now. And I'm far from alone. Just play by the rules and give good UNIQUE and targeted content. Stay away from dodgy tricks and incentivizing clicks.

John

[chall vandenbergh]

google will always do as they want they are to big i would suggest to try out a cpa offers on those blogs they dont gonna ban you without reason

[jahangir87]

So this is why we should have diversification in our income sources.

Really another unfortunate story.Join an affiliate network and start promoting product related to those blogs or also can try linkworth as an alternative to adsense.

[Doherty192]

Don't get me started on AdSense. Long story short, I know what it's like to be banned for no apparent reason!

[sans]

I had adsense on my first site I waited for over a year to get to the $100 to get paid and just as it got there BAM! they sent me the same email as you said I had clicked on my own ads because the clicks came from an ISP in Melbourne Funny that I live in Western Australia so I thought okay you play your games and I will go else where now I make a little each month with Amazon and CPAs and never would go back to even thinking about adnonsense.

So you keep your chin up and just move on as most of us here have done.

[HeySal]

My adsense account was banned years ago. I had done nothing wrong - they were on an authority site in my niche. My forum members were clicking the links - um.....scuse me? Isn't that what they are there for? Google didn't seem to like it that people on my site would click the links. I guess they only wanted breeze through traffic clicking links. Anyway - not my loss. I just put up more affiliate sites instead and make dollars instead of cents from my site clicks. Google gets insane at times. If they treated all sites like mine they'd lose most of their own income. Go figure.

[lovboa]

Google does not ban for no reason. Although every who gets banned seems to think they did nothing wrong.

Google is known for not telling people the reason they get banned...but I'm sure if they told each person the specific reason for banning them, they would go..."Oh, yeah...I did do that."

[JohnMcCabe]

Originally Posted by lovboa

Google does not ban for no reason. Although every who gets banned seems to think they did nothing wrong.

Google is known for not telling people the reason they get banned...but I'm sure if they told each person the specific reason for banning them, they would go..."Oh, yeah...I did do that."

I never said I got banned "for no reason" - I understand the reason very well, and I don't even disagree with it.

As long as I was on that syndicate's **** list, I was a risk to advertisers.

Even if you have a record of unproductive clicks (clicks that failed to generate some expected level of sales or other conversions), your site is a risk to advertisers. Some will say that it's the advertiser's responsibility to block their ads from your site, but Google doesn't see it that way.

Suzanne mentioned putting Adsense on her forum and her members clicking ads. If the clicks/conversions from her forum were way out of line with similar forum traffic, they assume something is hinky and take the basic zero-tolerance reflex action. "Ban 'em all, there's plenty more where that came from..."

[Dellco]

Sorry about your loss, OP.

Now where are those guys with sky high CTR who proudly proclaim that anything less than 5% CTR is way too low for them?

The OP has never shared his CTR, but likely it was too high. Google will never tell you your CTR is "too high"......and then ban you. They will always use terms like "invalid clicks"/"invalid activity"/etc. Assuming everything else is ok.....

And yet there are people here happily declaring 10-50% CTR is normal.

[JimmyR]

I'm dreading this day. My biggest earner by a long shot is an Adsense site. It is in a niche where there is almost zero other monetization methods. Believe me, I have searched for days in the hope of something, and I found one place that does $2 for a lead that has name, email and address. The adsense gives me half of that just for a click, so it's kind of useless.

Knowing my biggest earner is at the mercy of the big G kind of sucks

[learnrope]

To Peoplethat have been banned, yes you are banned for life, I understand that, but why don't you just set up a company, that company have a adsesnce account?

or

Does a site get banned by adsense as well?

[learnrope]

Just wondering if anyone knows the answer?

[Fallen_Angel]

Originally Posted by learnrope

Just wondering if anyone knows the answer?

Sometimes the domain gets banned. Sometimes just the user.
I was banned before and just opened a new account.

[phans]

Originally Posted by learnrope

To Peoplethat have been banned, yes you are banned for life, I understand that, but why don't you just set up a company, that company have a adsesnce account?

or

Does a site get banned by adsense as well?

do get your domain banned i would think you would really be doing some blackhat stuff otherwise i think it's more likly that only the adsense user will get banned!

and yeah like you said no reason to give up!
even no reason to stop using adsense!
try to find the mistake you made and correct it if it wasn't your fault you don't have to change anything like if you are the victim of a adsense bomb (one user clicking your ads mutiple times to get you banned)

so open an llc and make a new adsense account this way!
if you have a lot of sites open a couple of llc's to limit your risk!

if you don't even want to open an llc than ask your members of your family or friends and if you want to thank them for the favor give them 10% of the adsense profits or whatever...

so just DON'T GIVE UP!!!
there are ways to keep using adsense!
and even if you don't want to use adsense anymore there are even more ways to make good money

so no reason to be sad buddy

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by koreancowboy

That's odd...I haven't heard many good things with Adsense, yet some people do pretty well with it.

I wonder why that is...

That's because you spend too much time on the WF.

99.99999999% of adsense users love it, and keep their accounts.

The other 0.00000001% posts their complaints here.

The more people try and shmooze the system, don't read or
care about the TOS, and other shtuff, the more google will
crack down.

Nobody has any real reason to be worried. Nobody. But people
bring stuff on themselves, then blame google for taking out
the trash. It's google's program. It's not a right.

There is no program easier as adsense. Telling people it's the
best thing to get banned, or you are better off, or other such
rot is just a case of misery loving company.

It's quite funny to hear such nonsense about google and adsense
on the very day they reported yet again, record profits.

They have no reason to be lenient with anyone. They have
no obligation to be lenient.

Paul

[Dellco]

Originally Posted by paulgl

That's because you spend too much time on the WF.

99.99999999% of adsense users love it, and keep their accounts.

The other 0.00000001% posts their complaints here.

The more people try and shmooze the system, don't read or
care about the TOS, and other shtuff, the more google will
crack down.

Nobody has any real reason to be worried. Nobody. But people
bring stuff on themselves, then blame google for taking out
the trash. It's google's program. It's not a right.

There is no program easier as adsense. Telling people it's the
best thing to get banned, or you are better off, or other such
rot is just a case of misery loving company.

It's quite funny to hear such nonsense about google and adsense
on the very day they reported yet again, record profits.

They have no reason to be lenient with anyone. They have
no obligation to be lenient.

Paul

I don't think that figure is 99.99999999% at all.

But, you are right that people bring disaster upon themselves and they have NO ONE to blame if they get banned, in at least 97% of the cases.

Even right now, we still have people complaining that any CTR below 5% is "too low". They totally forget that Google's obligation is to the advertisers. So, if the advertisers are not getting a good conversion rate from your high CTR ad clicks, Google have no qualms dispatching your Adsense account off, at any time.

It doesn't matter if you are a high earner or not. I'm seeing increasing cases of big earners who were themselves playing with fire getting the "invalid activity" ban email these days.

[shaunixlol]

I too got disabled. I just lost my first ever $1k earning.

[sans]

Originally Posted by paulgl

That's because you spend too much time on the WF.

99.99999999% of adsense users love it, and keep their accounts.

The other 0.00000001% posts their complaints here.

The more people try and shmooze the system, don't read or
care about the TOS, and other shtuff, the more google will
crack down.

Nobody has any real reason to be worried. Nobody. But people
bring stuff on themselves, then blame google for taking out
the trash. It's google's program. It's not a right.

There is no program easier as adsense. Telling people it's the
best thing to get banned, or you are better off, or other such
rot is just a case of misery loving company.

It's quite funny to hear such nonsense about google and adsense
on the very day they reported yet again, record profits.

They have no reason to be lenient with anyone. They have
no obligation to be lenient.

Paul

I disagree with that I was a newbie with my first blog I was slowly getting clicks on the adsense ads it took over a year to build up to the $100 pay out and then some idiot messed it up by repeatedly clicking the ads so I got banned and did not get the pay out.

I wrote asking why I was banned and they were kind enough to let me know they tracked the isp to Melbourne, but when I explained the isp was not mine but from the other side of the country and it was not my doing it made no difference to them,

So I ask you if a stranger comes to your site and clicks on your ads over and over again is that your fault? and how can you stop it if you are unaware of this until you get the banned email from google?

I do agree some people do try to wrought the system but for those that try to do the right thing also become convicted without a trial.

[Khal]

I got my account disabled this year.
The funny thing is, it happened exactly 48 hours after they paid me for that month and it was a good chunk of money.

My wife was so worried that they might take the money back, but that never happened.

I was tempted to register for a new account, but every time I remind myself that I'm better off without them.

[dagaul101]

It's always sad when this happens and the appeal doesn't help, you could try the what you have learnt to get traffic to focus on other areas like affiliate products/services

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by Dellco

I don't think that figure is 99.99999999% at all.

But, you are right that people bring disaster upon themselves and they have NO ONE to blame if they get banned, in at least 97% of the cases.

I'd put it closer 99%.

Normal people doing normal things have nothing to fear about
adsense. I can't believe how people can live their lives, cowering
in a corner, just waiting for google to hammer them. Why?

What the freak are you people doing with your websites?!?!?!

Paul

[khepworth]

Originally Posted by bighostchennai

I had been sitting and watching my adsense revenue grow very gradually, I had set, some 5 -10 niche blog for adsense, did lot of hard works on seo, but today I got account is disabled, all my apeal went wain, for the reason, invalid activity, but never did anything to that effects, infact very careful in that regard.

i was thinking of doing niches with adsense but after reading that dont even think there is even any point doing it the right way if all they do is ban you still

[AfteraDream]

Originally Posted by JimmyR

I'm dreading this day. My biggest earner by a long shot is an Adsense site. It is in a niche where there is almost zero other monetization methods. Believe me, I have searched for days in the hope of something, and I found one place that does $2 for a lead that has name, email and address. The adsense gives me half of that just for a click, so it's kind of useless.

Knowing my biggest earner is at the mercy of the big G kind of sucks

What about going to advertisers directly and selling them spots to advertise? This is what Google does, why can't you? Everyone forgets that it can be the other option, not only CPA or affiliate marketing. People, if you get banned, do some work and if you are in top 10 results with some good traffic then you can still save your site...

[Tony W]

Don't give up.. create another account using a family member's name/address.

Or get another account created at adsenseg.com. Both have worked for me.