My Friend Got Banned From Adsense...

Ryan6

15 years ago

Ouch, sorry to here that. It is always difficult to get re-instated, maybe he should opt for Adbrite/Kontera etc.

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krishananda

15 years ago

That's why you don't give away adsense publisher ID, have your friend contacted google adsense for this?

This is interesting, please update on the news later on. Thanks.

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creativemark77

Banned 15 years ago

It's very hard to get back on Adsense once they banned you.
I nearly got banned last month when I suddenly got a lot of clicks and traffic from one of my sites. seems to be a sabotage.
Luckily, I only got a warning letter.

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Banned 15 years ago

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dburk 15 years ago

Hi kittyluver,

From the way you describe the scenario, it doesn't sound like your friend was an innocent in this case. He was profiting from his AdSense code that was (secretly? or accidentally?) embedded in the templates he was giving away, right?

So, someone used one of his templates on a porn site and his money scheme backfired. Sounds like a case of what comes around goes around. If Google sees it this way, then there is not much chance of reinstatement.

Regardless of whether it was an accident or on purpose, it looks very much like a common scam and an easily avoidable mistake, I'll be very surprised if AdSense will even respond to any request for reinstatement.
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Solidsnake

Banned 15 years ago

For this violation, I'm sorry to tell you but there is no way he can recover his acocunt... the only thing that he needs to do is to create another acocunt with different address or a name of one of his family members.

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tommen

15 years ago

Nothing you can do if you get banned from adsense.There are other networks like kontera,bidvertiser, yahoo and so on.

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Solidsnake

Banned 15 years ago

tell him to do CPA instead if he found difficult to re-apply.

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kittyluver

15 years ago

He raised a ticket to Google's help desk. Fortunately he got a reply and they'll look into this case. Any how, still, he is waiting for a positive reply. In the mean time he is searching for different adsense alternatives.

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Solidsnake

Banned 15 years ago

Originally Posted by kittyluver

He raised a ticket to Google's help desk. Fortunately he got a reply and they'll look into this case. Any how, still, he is waiting for a positive reply. In the mean time he is searching for different adsense alternatives.

Good to hear that... hope his case will be considered.

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ahefner33

15 years ago

Just a quick question and thought it related to this thread but what is stopping someone (competitor) from taking your publisher ID off of view source of your page and placing it on ads that are on sites against the TOS?

Adam

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Kay King

15 years ago

Just a quick question and thought it related to this thread but what is stopping someone (competitor) from taking your publisher ID off of view source of your page and placing it on ads that are on sites against the TOS?

Where would the benefit be? He could only place it on sites he controls/owns which means google could trace the abuse right back to him. The only reason would be to try to sabotage another marketer - and it would backfire.

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ahefner33

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

Where would the benefit be? He could only place it on sites he controls/owns which means google could trace the abuse right back to him. The only reason would be to try to sabotage another marketer - and it would backfire.

kay

The benefit would be that the competitor can sabotage the publishers account. The thread starter stated that their friend had Adsense code with their ID embedded in templates and then site owners of "XXX" sites used this code to place on there sites? So I was just thinking the same could happen if one wanted to get rid of another publisher, they take the ID and place it on sites that are a violation.

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dburk

15 years ago

Originally Posted by ahefner33

Just a quick question and thought it related to this thread but what is stopping someone (competitor) from taking your publisher ID off of view source of your page and placing it on ads that are on sites against the TOS?

Adam

Hi Adam,

Yes, this has definitely been done and AdSense has long ago provided a solution for publishers that that prevents this. However, it is the publisher's responsibility to set it up and use it.

It's called "Allowed Sites" and it's prominently featured in the account along with documentation on how to use it. If you use this feature, not only does it prevent any abuse it lists any websites that are trying to use your publisher ID without your permission.

I think this is an appropriate time to use an old worn-out expression: "If you don't take care of your business, your competitors surely will".

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ebuyer123

15 years ago

[QUOTE=dburk;430417]Hi Adam,
It's called "Allowed Sites" and it's prominently featured in the account along with documentation on how to use it. If you use this feature, not only does it prevent any abuse it lists any websites that are trying to use your publisher ID without your permission.
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Yes, you can use the "Allowed Sites" feature, but it's almost not possible to block all XXX domains/sites, right?

ebuyer

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Kay King

15 years ago

The benefit would be that the competitor can sabotage the publishers account.

Yes - but google could easily see what was being done - and who was doing it. The result would be the competitor losing his adsense account if an investigation were done. Google's not stupid.

The problem here is the friend was looking for more income and thus sold sites with his adsense embedded - that wasn't a good idea. Were the instructions included with the site that mentioned changing the adsense code? Or did the seller hope the purchaser wouldn't notice this for a while?

Had the publisher code been used without permission, the friend would have a case to appeal. As he knowingly put his code on a site he then sold...the only reason he would do this is in the hope he would get additional revenue from the site he sold. It backfired.

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ahefner33

15 years ago

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi Adam,

Yes, this has definitely been done and AdSense has long ago provided a solution for publishers that that prevents this. However, it is the publisher's responsibility to set it up and use it.

It's called "Allowed Sites" and it's prominently featured in the account along with documentation on how to use it. If you use this feature, not .......

Originally Posted by Kay King

Yes - but google could easily see what was being done - and who was doing it. The result would be the competitor losing his adsense account if an investigation were done. Google's not stupid.......

kay

Thanks for this. I really would have never thought of this situation if it wasn't for the thread starters friends circumstance. Definitely need to put it to use.

Adam

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dburk

15 years ago

[quote=ebuyer123;432102]

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi Adam,
It's called "Allowed Sites" and it's prominently featured in the account along with documentation on how to use it. If you use this feature, not only does it prevent any abuse it lists any websites that are trying to use your publisher ID without your permission.
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Yes, you can use the "Allowed Sites" feature, but it's almost not possible to block all XXX domains/sites, right?

ebuyer

Hi ebuyer,

Not to put too fine a point on it, you are wrong.

This feature allows you to create a whitelist of allowed sites. That means every single possible site that you haven't specifically added to your allowed sites list is blocked from serving ads with your publisher ID. There are no exceptions.

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Keith Ngu

15 years ago

Heard of one case similar like this before. Just prove to the adsense support team that the wordpress themes created by your friends used by others, then ask them to recover the account.

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jspmedia

15 years ago

sorry to hear that but once they banned..that's it...very hard to get it back..you need to apply with new name, address, etc or apply as a company.

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winy925

15 years ago

i got banned when i put it on a pokerwebsite and started one with my business id

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lianwei 15 years ago

That sucks.. there is actually nothing much your friend can do about because Google are really strict at this and most of the time, they refuse to unban..
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lexilexi

15 years ago

This is a great thread. It's very difficult to get un-banned. Google has seen it all before and they know most of the ways people try to game the system. One thing you can do is to make sure you keep raw logs of all site activity. I think some cPanels have an option that has to be switched on for this data not to be dumped after 24 hours - can someone verify on this?

Anyway, if someone has decided to sabotage your account by pounding on your ads, at least you may have a line of defense if you have all the info.

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maestro2010

15 years ago

well its really sad to hear..........but like the websites get blocked in the search engines due to one or more reason, the same way your friends adsense account is blocked. In this case there is hardly any chance that he can recover any of the lost money. Now he has only 2 options left behind- either to wait for some months to get adsense start again on his website or he needs to have a manual assistance from google help desk.

There is no other way that can be used for this case as google being more strickt to these cases.....i recommend a human interuption would be better in this case.......

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Bella Ann

15 years ago

Sometimes to make money we do things that are not quite ethical and it back fires. Do what you can to straighten out your account (write your letters for account reinstallation). Try alternative solutions. But don't quit, Just do it right next time without scams and cheats.

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