Mass de-index or Adsense ban due to XFactor sites?

When ever I see 'I was banned by AdSense for no reason' I always just substitute 'for a reason I don't know'. They don't ban people for no reason, but reading their TOS is like reading many leagal contracts, it is a lot of gibberish that is hard to understand.

I agree that I doubt anyone would have a passion for copper faucet heads, but I think people can spend an hour or two on researching a list of sites that sell copper faucet heads, and then give an "opinion" about the price, quality, and style. Instead of just rehashing the product description, you can give it a little twist... for example... "I bought these copper faucet heads about 3 weeks ago for my friend, and he said it is much better than the ones that he used to have. When I bought it through (link), it was only $15 on sale but now it is selling for $25."

Then, you can post other sites that also sell copper faucet heads as well and then in the conclusion tell your readers which ones you think are the greatest deals.

If I found a site like that that compares a bunch of copper faucet heads, I would actually find it useful. However, most of these AdSense sites would say "Are you looking for copper faucet heads? Copper faucet heads are my favorite and I stare at it everyday. If you are looking for faucet heads, always go for the copper type because they are the best. There are many sites that sell copper faucet heads or you can buy them in stores."

I remember this one person told me he wrote high quality articles only, and guess what? My example above is very similar to what he believes to be high quality when he showed it to me...

can someone PM me one of such sites also please?

corvett: i dont think that making a site for copper faucets is per se "a bad thing", nor does google punish people "who want to make money". If someone wants to buy copper faucets (or bread machines or electric scooters or whatever)...your site could be a god given to them if you HAVE what they are looking for.

Its all about delivering to the customer what they are looking for!

Problems arise if the site is deceptive, or advertised in deceptive ways.

EXAMPLE:

You have an ad up advertising "cheap copper faucets", and if you were an affiliate of amazon etc. and actually SELL those i dont think its a problem.

Problem would be if customer arrives on the site and it turns out he cannot buy them on your site (despite what your ads says) and there is only garbage on your site and ads...your site basically has no function whatseover than being a worthless portal, the customer doesnt get what he is looking for on YOUR site.

This might be the problem with many adsense sites because they dont "offer" anything really except collecting clicks from people...just one annoyance on the way to what the customer is looking for.

Same goes for ezinearticles.com and they make $70k USD/day from Adsense last time I check. :p

Thanks for the search result Unlimitedsubmissions. I looked through some of his sites, and they do not guide me to buy any products. It pretty much just says, "This item looks great and you should definitely buy it."


Let's pretend you are a potential buyer. Wouldn't you want to find links to get to the site that sell the product? I do not want to know how great a red vacuum cleaner looks, and then hit the back button because there is no where to go. I want to buy it!

My assumption would be that most of his sites are violating URL trademark infringement and Adsense doesn't want to be part of the problem. For example... huggiesovernitesdiapers dot com and many other of his sites.

If you were Huggies, would you be too happy that you have clicks coming from huggiesovernightsdiapers dot com? All they need to do is file a report to AdSense and say "hey... this person is using our name in the domain and I don't like that at all..."

https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...n&answer=48182

"Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others"

and

"AdSense publishers may not display Google ads on webpages with content protected by copyright law unless they have the necessary legal rights to display that content."

^^ you misunderstood what Google meant.

Quotes refer to content that is stolen from other sites.

Buying a tradermark name in your domain name is not illegal.

anything that is remotely close to MFA will eventually get banned from Adsense once detected. I do not want any of the xfactor et al type crap in my search results and either will the vast majority of searchers, so why would Google index them or serve Adsense to them?

A method that I use for product based adsense sites is to also utilise an affiliate program such as Amazon. Your site is now useful for the consumer, content is a lot easier to produce, the keywords you can target grows, your site is no longer MFA.

Get creative with your Ad Placement and your CTR won't suffer too much. It isn't as high as a MFA site BUT you will fly under the radar. You should be able to get more traffic too.

I have added an Amazon plugin with "auto post" to all of my existing adsense sites and the traffic is increasing very quickly. I use a different template for my content posts to the Amazon posts to help keep the CTR high.

I make my homepage display amazon items underneath an article so the site looks like it is an online store. With the adsense unit above the fold, my CTR is still pretty high. They don't see the distracting posts until they lose site of the adsense unit.

A lot of the time people lose their adsense account for wording in their pages.

For example "You can get copper faucet heads on the internet. Look around and you will find many links to copper faucet heads". This text is against adsense TOS and will result in a ban. Also creating content for the sole purpose of making an adsense site is against their TOS. So if all your content is poor english with no real information or value then you run the risk of a human editor hitting you with the banhammer.

I just want to add my 2 cents worth regarding the Trademark name in the domain conversation.

Companies usually will just ask you to remove the website if they have an issue with you using their name, but this is not always the case. I had one website a couple of years ago that had a Trademarked name in the domain name and this company went straight ahead and filed a dispute.

It cost me close to $2000 to settle the issue with the company and I had to transfer the domain to them.

So as far as I'm concerned - regardless of whether this issue is against Googles TOS or not - it isn't worth using trademarked names - it could end up costing you a lot of money.

^^ $2000 for what?

My site's got a trademark {or semi-trademark} in the name and we've had that there for 5 years. Course, we also got a disclaimer.

Hell, if I was contacted by Harper Collins asking me to hand mine over, I'd just hand it over free. Not worth THAT much to me!

So what you guys are saying is that people are getting banned simply because the content sucks? Or is it because they are making too many sites?

Take a look at gatoradebottle dot com. It's not deindexed but it's obvious that his Adsense is banned. Is the site providing value? The site is certainly not selling Gatorade bottles. If I'm a potential customer who wants to buy Gatorade bottles, I'll be pissed that I saw this because I want to buy it! I don't want to know the history of the bottles, advantages, and designs.