Banned by Google - Frequently Asked Questions

[warriorjohn1444]

I can't remember doing anything bad or against the TOS of ad sense but i can recall i attempted to create another adsense account for a friend blog i created and hosted on my hostgator. The request was turn down saying one of my email already have an active ad sense account. Since that time, i have each time i try to log into my account i get told to active my already active adsense account. This persisted for three days before i finally when ahead to active and a mail came in telling me my account has been active.

Secondly, i have been seeing some warning signs each time i try to search for a thing of interest on Google.com saying something like my computer or so detected traffic coming from another source. Next, if i try to log in using explorer it says "There is a problem with this website's security certificate. The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address. Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server. We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website". So i stopped using explorer to open my adsense and prefer to use firefox".


Thirdly, i attempted scraping with scrapebox without proxies because i couldn't afford private proxies. Could it have causes some abnormal traffic?



Which of these could be responsible for my woes?


I have re-appealed but this is not a surefire way. I want to create another adsense account as i have a major project coming up. Can i create another adsense account from the same IP? What if they approve my account? What if the traffic mess continue? Pls who can deal with this?


Thanks

[Clint Butler]

Your adsense account is gone, best bet would be to try to get a new one using an email from a new domain. Don't open another gmail account to do it.

When you use Scrapebox without proxies it triggers a flag from Google saying your searching too fast and the limit your IP address for a set period of time. At a minimum when your using the software you need to use the free proxies the software harvests to prevent the issue.

Regards,
Clint

[warriorjohn1444]

Are you trying to say they won't consider my appeal? I have about $168, something that took me over three years to accumulate.

What if i create another adsense account using my IP that triggered the problem?

[CarmenDA]

You can always make some e-mail campaigns with affiliates and use amazon or any other affiliate network that is willing to have you. Good luck.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by warriorjohn1444

Are you trying to say they won't consider my appeal? I have about $168, something that took me over three years to accumulate.

What if i create another adsense account using my IP that triggered the problem?

No offense,

If it took you 3 years to earn $168, being banned is the least of your problems.

That's $0.15 per day.

You can find plenty of other affiliate products, still, you need to make sure it's earning more than $0.15 per day.

[luvtrees]

There are loads of Adsense alternatives. Chitika is a good option for some niches. Also, consider CPA and/or affiliate ads. Do some testing with these options or a combination of them and measure your results. You might just find that you make more money with the alternatives and this was a blessing in disguise. Good luck.

[Jerryl]

Time for a new plan...cause getting back in Google's good graces won't be worth your time and effort

[paulgl]

Google pays you what they think you rightfully should have.
But they reserve the right to keep it all. Maybe you will
get lucky, and they will give you some. You must have been
having a "month" if you now have 168 and this took 3 years.
That would mean, say you had 99.99 at the end of Oct,
and earned 69 in 9 days of Nov. That would mean, you
finally woke up the account(?)

Unless for some strange reason you requested to not get
a payout. Lousy choice, actually.

None of those things would ban an adsense account on
their own.

Those security warnings are different animals. Not sure why
you connect them to an adsense account. A whole host
of things could remedy that, including something simple
as rebooting your router/modem.

You don't get banned for the other junk you described.

I suspect that you are just not telling us everything, as
most people in this situation. Either you don't know that
you broke the rules, or you just ignored them.

Either scenario is, sorry, inexcusable.

Paul

[Dwayne Morrison]

Originally Posted by paulgl

Google pays you what they think you rightfully should have.
But they reserve the right to keep it all. Maybe you will
get lucky, and they will give you some. You must have been
having a "month" if you now have 168 and this took 3 years.
That would mean, say you had 99.99 at the end of Oct,
and earned 69 in 9 days of Nov. That would mean, you
finally woke up the account(?)

Unless for some strange reason you requested to not get
a payout. Lousy choice, actually.

None of those things would ban an adsense account on
their own.

Those security warnings are different animals. Not sure why
you connect them to an adsense account. A whole host
of things could remedy that, including something simple
as rebooting your router/modem.

You don't get banned for the other junk you described.

I suspect that you are just not telling us everything, as
most people in this situation. Either you don't know that
you broke the rules, or you just ignored them.

Either scenario is, sorry, inexcusable.

Paul

Paul is right about the last part he stated to some extent. But if you truly didnt do anything wrong then don't worry about it. Take that situation, learn from it and move on.

There are many legit ways to make a decent income online WITHOUT Adsense. Stressing over it isnt going to do any good for you.

Clickbank, CPA Marketing, Creating your own products and services...and more. Even though Adsense is a very good way to make money online, you truly don't necessarily need Adsense at all. A lot of marketers don't even touch Adsense whatsoever and they still make a killing online via diversifying their income.

Just don't stress, you'll get over it and quickly find another viable way to earn an income online. Just remember to do your research

[boxoun]

LLC. New name. New ip. New address. Good luck.

[warriorjohn1444]

Originally Posted by paulgl

Google pays you what they think you rightfully should have.
But they reserve the right to keep it all. Maybe you will
get lucky, and they will give you some. You must have been
having a "month" if you now have 168 and this took 3 years.
That would mean, say you had 99.99 at the end of Oct,
and earned 69 in 9 days of Nov. That would mean, you
finally woke up the account(?)

Unless for some strange reason you requested to not get
a payout. Lousy choice, actually.

None of those things would ban an adsense account on
their own.

Those security warnings are different animals. Not sure why
you connect them to an adsense account. A whole host
of things could remedy that, including something simple
as rebooting your router/modem.

You don't get banned for the other junk you described.

I suspect that you are just not telling us everything, as
most people in this situation. Either you don't know that
you broke the rules, or you just ignored them.

Either scenario is, sorry, inexcusable.

Paul

I said the truth and nothing but the truth. Why should hide something and still come out here and cry.

[warriorjohn1444]

Can i create another adsense account from the same IP address. Atleast, they have taken the one i have, that does not mean i can't join them again.

[mosthost]

Originally Posted by warriorjohn1444

Can i create another adsense account from the same IP address. Atleast, they have taken the one i have, that does not mean i can't join them again.

Just appeal to Google. The people on this forum don't work for Google and don't make decisions for them. Find out what you allegedly did and what the appeals process is and then appeal.

[boxoun]

In another thread you stated you use scraped content. I thought that was against tos? I could be wrong but I think that falls under " automated generating content"

[alantay]

Be positive, being banned by Google Adsense is not the end of the world. There are many networks out there that do a good job as well. Since you are off from PPC ads, why not just focus in selling direct ads at buysellads.com and do some affiliate marketing. If you can affiliate well, you don't need 3 years to earn $168.

Good luck

[skooja]

Just go with chitika or get in cpa. I would suggest its best way make money.

[lowongankerja]

Just make new adsense account..But i'm not sure google will approve your application if you
apply from the same IP as the banned account..You'd better try it..

[yukon]

Originally Posted by skooja

Just go with chitika or get in cpa. I would suggest its best way make money.

Lol, have you ever tried to monetize chitika (I have), & they are a waste of time IMO.

I've done multiple 50/50 split test with chitika & Adsense on the same traffic sources, Adsense always did way better than chitika.

[hammertorch]

Originally Posted by lowongankerja

Just make new adsense account..But i'm not sure google will approve your application if you
apply from the same IP as the banned account..You'd better try it..

like what do you mean by "the same IP"
as far as i know, you can sign up adsense using a gmail account, so does that mean he need to sign up for another gmail account for adsense in a different IP/location?

[ronaldec]

Getting a new account with a new email would not be an answer in my opinion. Most Guru's might say to get a LLC or other type business entity. Apply with this entity.

Also apply for a new hosting account at a different hosting company.

Different entity and different IP address.

[bg-011]

totaly agree,
Chitika is waste of time, helps only owners make money... Adsense is much stronger

[guzpra]

Originally Posted by yukon

Lol, have you ever tried to monetize chitika (I have), & they are a waste of time IMO.

I've done multiple 50/50 split test with chitika & Adsense on the same traffic sources, Adsense always did way better than chitika.

agreed. in my experience there is no better than adsense!

[jahangir87]

If you aren't able to get the adsense account back then I would say try this network-LINKWORTH-this network offers various ways to make money from a single site or blog.Or you may work with affiliate marketing.

[dotgirish]

Google TOC says, you should not have two adsense accounts , you might have created it for your friend but google consider it as multiple account, that could be the reason for the ban.


.1% chance is there to get get back your account. Lesson learned and move forward .. You are not all alone with this problem.. also try some affiliate advertisement stuff and amazon.

[nickson]

its unfortunate, some people enjoy adsense, while some are burned, i have being banned by google three times, and recently a have a new account after several months of trying and being rejected. but i wish i know how to make money from affilliate programs, can someone help me

[Casiveo]

Originally Posted by luvtrees

There are loads of Adsense alternatives. Chitika is a good option for some niches. Also, consider CPA and/or affiliate ads. Do some testing with these options or a combination of them and measure your results. You might just find that you make more money with the alternatives and this was a blessing in disguise. Good luck.

There is an interesting news release by the FTC regarding Chitika: FTC Puts an End to Tactics of Online Advertising Company That Deceived Consumers Who Wanted to "Opt Out" from Targeted Ads. The FTC charged Chitika’s claims about its opt-out mechanism were deceptive and violated federal law.

(I can't post a link yet but you can Google it.)

[Landro]

They suspended your adwords account? Why would they shut you down for spending money with them? I've heard of people losing adsense accounts for violating adsense TOS but this is the first time I'm learning that an adwords account was suspended.

Did you forget to pay your credit card balance?

[StevePeterson]

Thousands of people have already faced what you've been presented with.

You have a couple options:

1) Reestablish a new Google account, and continue trying to work with them.

2) Learn how to become independent of Google.

I choose independence from Google.

Instead of Google PPC, learn about PPV, CPV, and paid media.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by PM or email.

Thanks,

Steve

[Eddie Titan]

You may have violated their terms of service with your website or they may have screened your financial information and found something they didn't like.

[nicheblogger75]

Originally Posted by Landro

They suspended your adwords account? Why would they shut you down for spending money with them? I've heard of people losing adsense accounts for violating adsense TOS but this is the first time I'm learning that an adwords account was suspended.

Did you forget to pay your credit card balance?

My Adwords account was terminated about 3 years ago because I promoted a Clickbank product. google gave me 72 hours to change the landing page to fit their specs. I explained to them that it was not my website and I was only an affiliate promoting the page, therefore it would not be possible to do this. My account was suspended permanently less than 24 hours later. Every month I write them and ask that it be reinstated, and every month they write back and say no.

[onegoodman]

Google adwords has become so picky, I got suspended and was shocked, contacted their support (who certainly ignored my emails). It came as a shock since I never had an issue with them.

I search it, apparently, Adwords, would suspend you even if they are not happy with how much you spend, if you running mini ads with low budget, they may get rid of you, they looking for big bucks.

To be honest, I am happy they doing so, I guess our money is appreciated somewhere else more. By kicking advertisers from adwords and publisher from adsense. I guess these two will just have to meet somewhere else

By the way, I am not affiliated with anyone, I don't sell click bank products, the only ads I had with adwords was for my websites. I never had a warning. I guess they weren't happy as my budget was a little low

[wolfmmiii]

Originally Posted by onegoodman

I search it, apparently, Adwords, would suspend you even if they are not happy with how much you spend, if you running mini ads with low budget, they may get rid of you, they looking for big bucks.

Oh stop, please...

[badass7]

They canceled mine today to.my website was good and everything.idk but i called and they said theres no chance of reinstatement

[mhalawa]

My account was doing very will with adsence
7k a month without any worning pooff account banned all money earned gone

[TheJustWarrior]

Originally Posted by bowerboy

I think I know now why my account was cancelled. Apparently you cant make statements about losing a specific amount of weight within a specific amount of time!!

Question now then is if they will reinstate my account if I simply cancel all of those adverts (that were not even live yet anyway!!

Im sorry to hear that, an expensive and unfair lesson on their operating guidelines. They are notorious for not answering emails, should you want to patch it up, they have a forum where problems can be posted and volunteers give advice and involve actual google reps when needed.

BTW, you never used conversion tracking? You were never identifying which keywords were bringing in bank and which kw's were trashing your budget?

If you get your account back you will be delighted with your returns once you use conversion tracking. Anyway hope it works out for you.

[andynathan]

This could be a chance to use Facebook.ads or media buys.

[wrayor]

I'm sorry for what happand to the OP.
But I think we can all learn a lesson here. That is we can't depend on one source of revenue . If we really want to have our own business we must have many streams. This is true for a web site and it is true for any brick and motor business.

[Landro]

Originally Posted by nicheblogger75

My Adwords account was terminated about 3 years ago because I promoted a Clickbank product. google gave me 72 hours to change the landing page to fit their specs. I explained to them that it was not my website and I was only an affiliate promoting the page, therefore it would not be possible to do this. My account was suspended permanently less than 24 hours later. Every month I write them and ask that it be reinstated, and every month they write back and say no.

Thanks for your explanation. I'm sorry to hear that you've been unsuccessful getting your account reinstated. Is google generally averse to clickbank products? Or is it just the specs on a site that instigates this?

In any event, I hope you are doing well through other means.

[mrjosco]

Originally Posted by wrayor

I'm sorry for what happand to the OP.
But I think we can all learn a lesson here. That is we can't depend on one source of revenue . If we really want to have our own business we must have many streams. This is true for a web site and it is true for any brick and motor business.

There is also another lesson to be learned here : Read and understand the terms of service. If there is something that is unclear, then do research first.

I am amazed at how many people say "My account was banned for no reason" or "with no warning" or "I don't know why my account was banned". Certainly I can understand this happening occasionally (no one is perfect) but for there to be 'widespread' confusion as to why they are banned (and then for people to be made at GOOGLE for banning them) is silly.

To the OP, I have no doubt this will open a ton of new doors. Sometimes we get reliant on one type of method and it keeps us from expanding to new, more lucrative, opportunities.

[onegoodman]

Originally Posted by wolfmmiii

Oh stop, please...

wolfmmiii are you working for adwords lately just kidding

I am sorry if you don't like what I found, but believe it or not it happens. If they are firing advertisers because they are not happy with their "content", then they got a bigger issue.

I have been advertising the same websites for over a year and half (last website to their ads was 8 months ago), did adowrds stuff wake up yesterday morning and find out my content is not good enough ? I don't think so.

Adwords is nothing more than a channel to advertise, and the moment I went out, my ads were more than welcomed in Microsoft Adcenter. I am paying less for click anyway and if there is something I can say to adwords would be thank you guys, I wouldn't find out about others if I didn't get a problem with adwords.

By the way, I came on something a google employee said to someone got his account banned on their forum :

Once an account is suspended, its hard to get details on the exact violation (I, for example, have no insight as to why accounts are terminated). That said, it almost doesn't matter, because once an account is suspended, Google reserves the right to terminate all future advertising with AdWords. If I were you, I would look into other advertising options.

This is a link for the discussion, you can see he get banned and no one really knows why, probably because it doesn't matter. :

Banned from adwords, no reason found. - AdWords Help

[tryinhere]

Originally Posted by bowerboy

Yesterday I started running a new ad campaign (actually the account was paused and not ven live yet) for my weight loss ebook (thedietturbo.com)

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers

BB

Originally Posted by bowerboy

I think adwords doesn't like clickbank products?? Could that be the problem?

if you own the domain / its yours then it may be you can apply to G to fix the site in question so that it supports G's T&C's

to do this there should be a reply option on the suspension email, reply and open some dialog that you were un aware of the breach of rules and will repair the site in question fr re submission and to have the suspension lifted.

Now to do that you going to need to drop all the click bank lander page and information and just build a decent site with supporting information about your topic, that has real visitor appeal.

you might have a link to join our news letter where you promote your e book and even maybe have your land page as a sub domain ? if possible probably remove that to a whole new domain say thedietturbo.co or similar

its not that G hates CB its more 99.9% of CB sites are hype and this is where they fall down. / if all goes well you may get your account back.

[wolfmmiii]

Originally Posted by onegoodman

wolfmmiii are you working for adwords lately

No, there's just been a slew of complaint threads lately.

Originally Posted by onegoodman

I have been advertising the same websites for over a year and half (last website to their ads was 8 months ago), did adowrds stuff wake up yesterday morning and find out my content is not good enough ? I don't think so.

I am working with the Google AdWords team to get a client's site approved. We've traded emails with AdWords support and this is a direct quote from their email to my client just the other day:

However, please note that we keep updating our policies, so there is no guarantee that your site will remain compliant in the future.

So yes, they can wake up one day and change their mind and determine your content is not good enough.

[onegoodman]

Originally Posted by wolfmmiii

So yes, they can wake up one day and change their mind and determine your content is not good enough.

Then, I am glad they finally woke up .

Again, Adwords reserve the right to cut anyone out with or without a reason (this is what term of services are for after all).

You might dealt with some "Good Customer Support", but I bet not all of them are and if they don't have a lousy support as well, adwords wouldn't be ban advertise without a good reason and wouldn't stop reply to their emails.

Again, I know you don't agree with me. However, there are thousands of reviews and articles about adwords ban people without a solid case. It is hard to believe they are all wrong and you are right.

Beside, if I don't bet on their content, I bet on mine

[yamphy]

What gives? You spend so much time trying to learn effective ways to advertise on Google, only to get shut down!

[wolfmmiii]

Originally Posted by onegoodman

Again, I know you don't agree with me. However, there are thousands of reviews and articles about adwords ban people without a solid case. It is hard to believe they are all wrong and you are right.

We can agree to disagree.

Just consider one thing though - what's in it for Google? How would they benefit from banning people "for no reason"? Why on earth would they ban "thousands" of paying clients "for no reason" and leave that money on the table?

Typically, folks can't answer that question.

[johnhayesfc]

The thing that I have figured out with adwords is that the big G doesn't need your money. They have many affiliates who are spending in the 10's of 1000's to the 100's per day. Maybe even in the millions who knows. They are #1 and if you do something they don't like you are just a speck of dirt to them unless you are paying them huge amounts of cash then and only then will they work with you. For an account that has been banned, best bet is to use a different card with a different ip. That's the only way that I have heard of anyone getting a new account other than begging them to re-instate your old account.

Optionally, I would suggest trying to move away from Adwords like everyone else is suggesting because it's like gambling with Google. One day you may have your account and be killing it and the next day poof all your earnings stop. Seriously consider moving to an alternative advertising unless you are making serious dough with adwords.

[wolfmmiii]

Originally Posted by yamphy

What gives? You spend so much time trying to learn effective ways to advertise on Google, only to get shut down!

Three letters ----> T O S

People refuse to abide by TOS and violate them (knowingly or unknowingly). This is why bannings occur.

[wolfmmiii]

Originally Posted by johnhayesfc

you are just a speck of dirt to them unless you are paying them huge amounts of cash

In a vacuum, you would be correct. However, we are not in a vacuum. As the other poster claimed in this thread, there are "thousands" of folks who have been wrongly banned.

I'll use a basic example:

10000 "wrongly" banned users each spent $500/month (this can hardly be considered huge amounts of cash) in advertising. That would be 5 MILLION DOLLARS per month in revenue that Google is leaving on the table. I believe that qualifies as significant, even to Google.

So, you need to ask yourself if Google feels that messing around with affiliates and banning them for "no reason" is worth the $60MIL per year they are losing out on. It hardly makes any sense.

[johnhayesfc]

I can totally agree with you wolfmmiii. And you are right on point with the people not following their TOS. Also, it's a filtered banned more than likely. The run a scan for specific words being used or specific figures or whatever and their software automatically bans you if you fall into the wrong use of words. I haven't had my account banned ever, but I have talked to others who have and usually they get notice to correct their mistakes. It's odd they are just banning without even investigating. Or could it be they are giving a 24 hour notice and the banned individuals are waiting past the 24 hour window to try and fix their infractions, so therefore they are being banned automatically you know? Lot's of scenarios and reasons that may not be completely stated. Would like to know if they are really just banning without giving anyone a chance though.

[Cathy Shelver]

Why do you think google does not have telephonic support, I look at hostgator a tiny company in comparison with Google and they have 24 hour support. I know google does not have to offer it, but I think the investment will pay dividends as far as goodwill and customer support goes