$12,000/month Adsense account disabled, Please Help!

Did you use adwords for the traffic to your site? I don't think that is allowed when using adsense, and did you have privacy policy on your site, seems like you start making good money in 15 days so they had human check on your site I am sure of that because when the site start making over a 100 dollars a day they check it out to see if you are complying with their TOS. I am not expert just my opinion

Sent you a PM.

That's a pretty scary story you have there.

How many AdSense ads did you put and where?

Having an authority site for that many years, I don't think you resorted to any gray / BlueFart backlinking methods, did you?

Somehow, did one of the pages mentioned gambling somewhere? I've read in the TOS (policy or TnC, whatever you call it) that no "gambling" sites are allowed of any nature.

Without seeing the site or your ad placement, the first thing that would come to mind would be PPC. Arbitrage isn't allowed, but you didn't mention you still use PPC.

I've heard a number of times that adsense "reviews" sites when the income breaks through a certain barrier - and that if they decide to "cull", you're pretty much done.

But if all fails with adsense, don't worry, all is not lost. The fact that yours is obviously an authority site in your niche means that others would want to advertise on it - you just have to connect with them.

It's true that other ad *networks* don't have the same revenue potential, but there is another way. Think about the underlying mechanics of what happened. Google is effectively a traffic broker which connects buyers and sellers with an advanced matching program. They are taking a slice of YOUR pie to find you advertisers. It's not their pie that you are getting a slice of, it's your pie! Know what I mean?

So you may be able to do better and cut out the middle-man. If advertisers are paying Google (say) $2 per click (of which you get 50% or less anyway) they might be delighted to pay you $1 directly for the same click. Can you see where I am heading with this? You can sell links or ad space directly.

First, put up a couple banners saying "your ad here" plus some banners from other ad systems; whatever, just make it look good. Give the site a fresh lick of paint or something. Next, go to the sites of your competitors, the sites most similar to yours in content, and make a note of which companies ads, appearing in their adsense, are a match for your site. (I'm assuming that you didn't make notes on which companies ads appeared in your adsense - most people don't but for anyone else reading this, it's a nifty idea to keep all that stuff in a spreadsheet.) Anyway contact such companies directly; they are buying traffic already. Present them with your stats and offer them a better deal:You know your earnings per click so you can guess they are already paying "this plus google's rake-off". You may need some understanding of tracking clicks and how to set up such a system; either that or simply sell ad space based on a time period.

Note that I haven't done this exactly... but I have sold ad space on my sites directly on a monthly basis and it's what I would do if my adsense went down. Sounds like you've already done the hard part, which is building a high traffic site which generates a high number of leads. Google definitely kicked you where it hurts but you may be able to bounce back.

Failing this, I'd say sell the site. Have a cruise of flippa.com if you've never checked it out, I'd say all that traffic of yours is definitely worth some $$. 1-3 x annual earnings? Wish you well! A.

This is scary... How can people improve if Google don't want to share facts every time they ban an account? The sad thing is, they don't even send prior warnings..

Well, obviously your content is not unique if you wrote it yourself. You weren't born knowing everything, and what you do know you read *SOMEWHERE* so, the source of your content is not unique, you've just rehashed other content! (big dose of sarcasm)

I agree, they can be hit or miss, but in my experience, its mostly miss.

Thanks for your comments.

There are many people whose adsense account has been disabled. But in most cases, reason was clicking on own ads or sudddenly increase the clicking. Also your traffic source does matter. If you are doing PPC then it's totally braking for their terms.

OP, I sent you a PM.

I looked at the site & don't see anything wrong with it.

I did a copy & paste of a few random sentence & didn't see any other pages with the same content.

You have a privacy policy & contact pages, I also checked the same as far back as Dec. 2010 in Google cache (all good).

If it was me I would sell links like already mentioned, your at #5 position in Google SERP for your exact main keyword phrase which I'm sure is getting good traffic.

This is why I have only a few adsense sites to many people get there accounts shut down. I would just use another network similar to adsense or you can even get clickbank ads that look like google ads and list products that might relate to the niche.

That is really a big problem. I think the only people who can help you that are the people in Google.

PM'ing you MY adsense code for a 50/50 split




J/K of course

Really sad to hear man That's the BIG downside with adsense. When you get suspended you will never come back to there program. It have happened to me also.

Oddly one of my accounts just got banned today for "posing significant risks to advertisers".

I suspect clickbombs but won't know for sure, will wait for their reply.

Have you tried reinstating the account? I did and it said it's in process about 8 hours ago.

OK, some more shots in the dark - could there be any regulatory issues relating to that niche? Something that might contravene something in the Adsense TOS - I haven't read them in a while, but something 'forward-looking', speculative etc. etc?

But my money is on the sudden spike in earnings tripping something - it's all automated anyway, maybe an actual human might look at it now. You didn't actually apply for an Adsense account using that site, right, so it wasn't on their radar (Adwords is different, and anyway, you hadn't used that for a while, a lot has changed there)? If they had proper affiliate managers for big accounts (hmm, maybe they do) then there would actually be some communication going on and they would be expecting a spike.

As an alternative to Adsense, well, it's a bit more work, but everyone on this forum will tell you the biggest earner would be if you put together a decent product (ebook/guide, whatever) in the mortgages niche that your type of visitor would be likely to buy. Or outsource the work to someone in the biz, even better.

You could potentially earn more with a high-ticket, high-value product in that niche than through Adsense, CPL or anything else put together. Just a thought... Unless there are potential regulatory issues with THAT..!

I think you can make much more by promoting an opt-in box and collecting Names and Emails, in which you sell a good product to them.

But since you don't have the time to do it, you might as well put up Chitika so you salvage a few thousand bucks first while you take the time to decide!

In my humble opinion, it really sounds like you did not do anything wrong at all.

News like this really dishearten me because I'm doing AdSense as well. Hate to see this happening to you.

adsense is not the only money source. you can build your own list. then you can monetize them whenever you want

Sorry to hear your story.
You should try and explain your position to google ( which i know you already have)
Try and ask them what has triggered the ban...

sometimes i think there really is no rhyme or reason to why they ban accounts. if you make a lot of money and they decide they want to keep it, they just ban you. it isnt like you can do anything about it. good thing i only make about .25 a day. not much to worry about

Is everyone 100% sure that arbitrage is against the ToS for AdSense? I read a pretty convincing argument/statement in the forums here that you could use PPC arbitrage and that it was incentives to click that was not allowed. Can someone point me to the exact wording that covers arbitrage?

Some of the new "PPC networks" out there with Bing/Yahoo/Miva etc. have been riddled with fraud.

Bots that click Adsense ads to keep you "happy" and still buying their traffic.

Back in Novemeber December 2010 we still had a allot of PPC from these networks and we were clawed back over $500 for the month because what Google saw to be invalid clicks.

Since we went ALL natural, not a penny of claw back from Adsense.

PPC is a risk now.

If your niche is mortgage and loans (anything credit related) - you should look into CPA offers and use that site to build a list. I'm not even sure AdSense is the right way to monetize it.

If you are seriously thinking of letting it go - PM me, I might be interested in buying it.

I think what may have happened is that you never had adsense on it and then overnight you put it on there and it makes $400 a day. I don't know, but I suspect that immediately got their attention and a manual review. And with that, it's a crapshoot as far as who reviewed it, what kind of mood they were in that day, etc., etc.

I haven't seen the site, but you mention images and ads placed close to them. That may have triggered the reviewer to ban the acct. It's all speculation however as Google is the only one who really knows.

Did you include the adsense terms of service on your site? The main reason it happened was because one day your account is not earning much, next day your earning $400. Obviously it was going to look suspicious. Send me a pm with the url and I might be able to figure it out. If your content is npt unique that could be why. Chances are it was due to the suspicious behaviour of you adsense account earning $400+

Wow, that's terrible. I had my account banned by Google in 2007 for putting small graphics next to the AdSense links, which I honestly didn't know was verboten at the time. It wasn't when I started doing it but they shortly thereafter changed their TOS.

Google as they're #1 knows it and has the arrogance of that position. You have to go to them hat-in-hand. It's hard but is the wisest thing to do. Be honest with them about anything you did illegal. Here's their email: adsense-support@google.com.

Be ruthlessly honest about any wrongdoing. Mine was inadvertent and I told them that over and over again. They didn't reinstate me until a year later.

All is not lost. You can be reinstated. Go over the site w/ a fine toothed comb to see if you're violating their TOS. It's here: https://www.google.com/adsense/terms.

Hope this helps.

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all the help. Just want to give a quick update. My privacy policy was not in compliance with Adsense TOS and was pointed out by two people. I corrected that problem this past weekend.

The form response I received from G said that it could take a week or longer to hear the results of my appeal. It will be one week on Friday night. As of right now, still no response from G. I will update again when I hear something from G.

I extend my sincere thanks to everyone to everyone who took the time to respond in this thread.

Good to hear that . Hope you will get b your account back .

Would you please share the mistake you make with privacy policy..and who is the " adsense expert " that advises you

$200/day and then $400/day basically from ZERO over night is extreme.

There were probably alarm bells ringing at AdSense immediately, no on makes such an amount of money on Adsense right away.

This likely the reason you got banned...although of course Google is in the wrong since this is legit traffic and legit clicks.

Can't really think of any advice I can possibly give you, all I know is all these 5 and 6 digit figures are making a drool a little..

Not capable of giving you advice, but I will tell you that this talk of 5 and 6 digit figures are making me drool a bit..

I think you violated adsense TOS.

I know an almost same story. A guy invested 7000 $ in adwords, and to promote his site with adsense, and when he hit 2000$ on his adsense account he got banned by adsense with the reason of invalid activity/click fraud. I don't think adsense is what it used to be, try other advertising programs.

WOWWW...that's really...

I just got my Adsense account disabled, and i have a site with a "weight loss calculator". On my site i have the wording "enter your values [...] and click" <--- this is VERY interesting.

Of course i appealed immediately and i am hoping someone replies. (Of course i dont think they will...)

I hate reading threads like this, just reminds me not to invest too much time and money into my adsense sites.

If you base your business on G you are doomed. You can hope to get a reply but it can take a long time. In the mean time I suggest to contact Advertising.com and put CPM ads on your site.

That is a big income already. I think Google adsense admin are the ones who can solve your problem. They are the one who control everything in Google adsense.

hey did you eever get your adsense account back?

Well I've found that the Big G has a really nasty attitude when it comes to how to deal with customers. They feel like they are at the top of the world and can't lose.

Even though it may be tough and might take some work, my advice to you, if Google denies your appeal would be to just completely remove Adsense from your site and put other ads up. If your site is still gaining as much visitors as you say then I would recommend selling ad space directly to advertisers.

Once they see your stats the potential of new business you would bring would be too much to pass up. You could charge as much as $500 per advertiser per month depending on your site traffic and the size/location of the ad space in question. Look at the blogger JohnChow.com site to see what I'm talking about.

Sometimes the Big G is not the only way.

I got a notice from AdSense that they were disabling ads to a site I had them on. Which they did. I requested more information on why, through the site in the link from the email.

It took them a while, but they did respond with valuable information, which made me understand why they disabled it. Fortunately it was just to that one site, and not my whole account that was disabled.

So find out what the issue was, and then fix it and appeal. You got nothing to lose. Then if you don't get reinstated, sell the site to a company you create and open up a new bank account for that company, and a new address, even if it is only a suite number of your house if that is your only address you have and that was what you used for AdSense before.

Do you have all the basic requirements for an AdSense site? Contact page, privacy page, it is also recommended you have an about page, but I have got away with not having those.

Wish I had better news for you, but that is the only way I know of to get back in.