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-- Need Some Very In-Depth Clarification On This --

by WyattTenG
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Hi everyone,

I've been seeing some posts here that claim their Adsense accounts are being banned. I'm pretty skeptical about this though. I'd really like to start my Adsense empire and fully focus on it. I don't wanna end up with getting banned by Google.

Why do people always claim that their Adsense accounts are being suspended? Are they doing something fishy or what?

If I'm doing it very right and 100% white-hat methods, does it mean Google will ban me without any reasons as they just don't like you making more money from them?

I'm quite confused on this and I hope any Adsense experts could help me clarify this and explain it more in-depth.

Thank you in advance.
#clarification #indepth
  • Profile picture of the author Matt Bard
    My first thought is that they are breaking the TOS somewhere along the way, but I don't know enough about Adsense these days.

    My friend John (Zeus66) has a lot of experience with Adsense and has written a book or two on the subject.

    Send him a PM here:

    View Profile: Zeus66

    I'm sure he has the answer. If not, he will not give you bogus information.

    John is a nice guy and a good guy who will try to help if he can.

    Matt
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Originally Posted by WyattTenG View Post

    Hi everyone,

    I've been seeing some posts here that claim their Adsense accounts are being banned. I'm pretty skeptical about this though. I'd really like to start my Adsense empire and fully focus on it. I don't wanna end up with getting banned by Google.

    Why do people always claim that their Adsense accounts are being suspended? Are they doing something fishy or what?

    If I'm doing it very right and 100% white-hat methods, does it mean Google will ban me without any reasons as they just don't like you making more money from them?

    I'm quite confused on this and I hope any Adsense experts could help me clarify this and explain it more in-depth.

    Thank you in advance.
    This is outside YOUR or MY control: it's Google who runs the show and sometimes they hit the wrong target.

    Not saying IT WILL happen but...
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    • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
      Google created Adsense to make money by allowing advertisers to advertise on other peoples' websites.

      They have learned over time that many 'made for Adsense' sites do not give their advertisers a good experience.

      So they learned how to track that.

      If they deem your site(s) as being the kind that won't give the advertisers a good experience (clicks that actually help the advertisers bottom line), they'll nuke your account.

      Especially in niches that have been over-gamed.

      Adsense is not the goldmine it used to be. One of the worst things you can do re:Adsense, is to pick up an ebook or course on Adsense that is a few years old and think you will strike it rich using Adsense.

      Adsense is great for established sites that have a lot of content and traffic. Not necessarily a good tactic for new sites. There are exceptions, don't count on being one of them.

      ~Bill
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        Here's some feedback straight from the horse's mouth. That's right, I'm banned from Adsense, and it had nothing to do with Google not wanting to pay me money. The only time Google pays you is when advertisers pay them, so if you make money, they make money.

        That said, they are seriously protective of their advertisers, sometimes to a fault.

        In my case, I decided to start tilting at windmills and report sites which were scraping my content and using it without my links. Eventually, I reported the wrong site and they decided to get even with me.

        They click-frauded my account right out of existence. I noticed a funny spike in both traffic and ad clicks, and reported it to Google. The next time I tried to log into my account, I got the notice that the account had been suspended - permanently.

        Which meant that any money they hadn't paid me yet would be returned to the advertisers. Fortunately for me, it was only a couple of hundred dollars.

        I went around and around with Google, through their reinstatement process, and finally got an email from someone there. They explained that, even though I had done no wrong, I still represented a risk to their advertisers and that my account would remain suspended. Nor would I be allowed to open a new account.

        So the stories you've heard of people having their Adsense accounts closed are true in at least some cases. You may not do anything wrong that you can tell, but once you get that "risk to the advertisers" tag, you're dead meat...
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    I've had the same Adsense account literally since the first day they made it available back in 2003, and no major issues across hundreds of sites over the years. I'm inclined to say that if you just write decent content and don't rock the boat, you have nothing at all to worry about. Obviously, stay within their TOS at all times. Give your site visitors at least a decent experience... doesn't have to be stellar, but shouldn't be worthless either.

    If you pay attention to what Google does for their own users at google.com on the search results pages, and try to mimic that a bit on your own site, I think you do yourself a lot of good. Google kind of gives you a blueprint right there for creating sites that they will see as adding value to the Web and user experience.

    John
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