Adsense Account Disabled Today

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Been an adsense member for about 4 years now, never had a problem. I had about $1400 in my account for the month of June and got an email today that it has been disabled. Never had any invalid clicks, no black hat methods. Nothing. Just poof, all my current earnings for the months of June and all my potential earnings have gone down the drain. Was averaging about $1900 per month.
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  • I keep repeating it over and over.

    Adsense got VERY strict and there are MANY reasons why a site could be against AdSense TOS. I see so many site layouts and (well meant) "Tips" which are ultimately already against TOS...and all it needs is a manual review (which might come sooner or later) and you are GONE.

    Keep using bad site navigation, "fake" menus (link units), low quality MFA sites, use so called High CTR themes (blues sense etc.)...and then after a few months come crawling here to the forums and crying that the AdSense account has been disabled.

    MOST of those example sites from very known and established Adsense courses are basically already AGAINST AdSense TOS and would NEVER survive a manual review.

    Example:

    * Content not wrapped around ad COULD already be one reason for a ban. Headlines can never be on top of ads - which they usually are if you do NOT wrap your content "around" the ad.

    * Link units on places where there is usually a menu plus bad navigation. All kinds of tricks which will lead to LESS converting ads and bad user experience, site navigation.

    Yes, it will give you higher CTR, but it wont have any use once you are banned.

    * Wrong Terms, Privacy Policy (not mentioning Google Dart Cookie etc.)

    * Trash traffic with low CPC clicks, ads not converting (3rd world countries traffic etc.)

    Even as a PRO i am amazed how easy it is to get many of those things wrong, believing that a site layout is 100% "ok" but finding out it still has elements which could be already against AdSense TOS.

    Google: IS YOUR CLIENT if you do AdSense. They have no reason to be tolerant or mild on you if they spot inconsistencies with your site, traffic, conversions, content etc.

    Google is using YOUR site for their business...so look over YOUR OWN sites and think about it why they should advertise on YOUR site and what benefits they (Google) have in terms of traffic quality, conversions etc. by using YOUR site.
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    • Here is a post from google touching on that for anyone interested in learning more. I am sure a lot of people do this to increase CTR

      Another look at optimizations - Inside AdSense
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    • 5. Prohibited Uses. You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) directly or indirectly generate queries, Referral Events, or impressions of or clicks on any Ad, Link, Search Result, or Referral Button (including without limitation by clicking on "play" for any video Ad) through any automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid means, including but not limited to through repeated manual clicks, the use of robots or other automated query tools and/or computer generated search requests, and/or the unauthorized use of other search engine optimization services and/or software; (ii) edit, modify, filter, truncate or change the order of the information contained in any Ad, Link, Ad Unit, Search Result, or Referral Button, or remove, obscure or minimize any Ad, Link, Ad Unit, Search Result, or Referral Button in any way without authorization from Google; (iii) frame, minimize, remove or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display of any Web page accessed by an end user after clicking on any part of an Ad ("Advertiser Page"), any Search Results Page, or any Referral Page; (iv) redirect an end user away from any Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page; provide a version of the Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page that is different from the page an end user would access by going directly to the Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page; intersperse any content between the Ad and the Advertiser Page, between the page containing the Search Box and the Search Results Page, or between the Referral Button and the Referral Page; or otherwise provide anything other than a direct link from an Ad to an Advertiser Page, from the page containing the Search Box to the Search Results Page, or from the Referral Button to the Referral Page; (v) display any Ad(s), Link(s), or Referral Button(s) on any Web page or any Web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content; (vi) directly or indirectly access, launch, and/or activate Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons through or from, or otherwise incorporate the Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons in, any software application, Web site, or other means other than Your Property(ies), and then only to the extent expressly permitted by this Agreement; (vii) "crawl", "spider", index or in any non-transitory manner store or cache information obtained from any Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Events, or any part, copy, or derivative thereto; (viii) act in any way that violates any Program Policies posted on the Google Web Site, as may be revised from time to time, or any other agreement between You and Google (including without limitation the Google AdWords program terms); (ix) disseminate malware; (x) create a new account to use the Program after Google has terminated this Agreement with You as a result of your breach of this Agreement; or (xi) engage in any action or practice that reflects poorly on Google or otherwise disparages or devalues Google's reputation or goodwill. You acknowledge that any attempted participation or violation of any of the foregoing is a material breach of this Agreement and that we may pursue any and all applicable legal and equitable remedies against You, including an immediate suspension of Your account or termination of this Agreement, and the pursuit of all available civil or criminal remedies.

      I don't see anything that talks about page design in the manner you've described. I just read the whole TOS. Maybe I missed it, its definitely possible.

      Also that Google Blog post is not in the TOS and was just a Google suggestion not a rule.
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    • What about if the adsense is wrapped and is located below the post title (left or right) is it also prohibited?
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    • I'm no PRO, but keep learning and digging daily.

      Amazing how people refuse to consider all cases when google can't possibly
      give every friggn example of a violation. Common sense must apply.

      I am also amazed that people swear they do nothing wrong, etc., even
      crow about never getting invalid clicks. Fat chance. I get them daily.
      There is no way you can avoid it. Invalid clicks will not get you a ban
      unless you have 1,000 clicks and 1,000 invalid. (Hyperbole on purpose
      for point)

      If you login and see 40 clicks and $50, you have no idea if you had
      an invalid click. That is until the end of the month and your earnings
      are finalized lower. I see mine lowered each month. I can't see how
      a person who makes decent money on adsense will not get invalid
      clicks.

      Google undoubtedly credits money back to advertisers. Why wouldn't they?
      They pride themselves on giving paying customers a decent ROI. Anything
      that lowers ROI google takes seriously. Do they refund money in all cases?
      Of course not. If you violate the terms, but had valid clicks, they keep
      the money from you, but probably do not need to credit back an advertiser.

      They keep "your" money because of your stupidity. You violate the terms,
      they have no legal reason to pay you. You agreed to this when you signed
      up. Yes, I know. Nobody reads shinola. Prisons are full of innocent people.

      Robbed? Come on. The money was never yours in the first place. As soon
      as you get a me, me, mine mentality about adsense, you are going down
      a tricky path. It is a privilege to earn with adsense, not a right. That
      privilege can be revoked anytime.

      All TOS could be summed up by GeorgR
      Paul
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  • Now that I don't have adsense, I want to sell my sites, but the problem now is that I can't log into my adsense acocunt to show proof of earnings. That sucks.
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    • Sounds like a trap! Even if it isn't "hey buy my sites that got my adsense account banned so your account can be banned too!" Either way it's a bad idea!
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    • Banned
      That's hardcore If you sell/advertise those sites as Adsense sites, & don't tell the buyer straight up, those sites had your Adsense Ads on them when your Adsense account was banned.

      The first thing Adsense/Google will think is, the new owner of the site is you (instead of the new owner) & you have multiple Adsense accounts (against TOS). Then the new owner will get his Adsense account banned.
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  • GeorgR - Thanks for the info. I'm not a rookie or newbie and I know most of these things, but my sites generated, real & fair clicks this month so the part I'm angry about is how they keep my $1400 for this month. I would be ok if they paid me what I earned and then disabled my account beginning next month due to failing to comply to TOS for whatever reason. Unless they return money to the adwords people who paid for legitimate clicks on my sites, then they robbed me.
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    • ...as far as i know, they do just that. i am sure i read it somewhere in the past but i just cant seem to find it! when an account gets banned Google returns the money to the people who paid for the clicks.
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  • What suggestions would you have as an alternative. I am in the same boat and want to be earning some decent money through advertisement.
  • Hi Guys, I'm brand new to the forum. Just listening to all this adsense talk begs the question to me anyways.....is there an easy method to look over my sites and see if they comply...I hope they do...I am worried now tho.

    Best regards Steve
  • About headlines, it's clear from that "suggestion" you shouldn't put ads under MISLEADING headlines like "Hot deals". Still, I stopped doing ads under ANY header, at least without wrapping the text. I took a CTR knock but I sleep better at night.
  • Personally I can say that one should use Amazon affiliates or some other good paying affiliates to earn money online other than adsense.
  • It won't be help you to sell your site showing adsense income proof because the person wil not able to allow his ad sense account if he buy your account if he/she do this there account will banned. that site won't be able to use for ad-sense anymore
  • Although Adsense can be a decent business model (I just got paid today :-p ), I have to admit that it isn't always the best.

    Any business that is reliant on only ONE source of income, ONE source of traffic will be doomed when times go bad.

    So when your MFA site gets your Adsense account banned, you're screwed.

    When your one authority website gets sandboxed by Google and you have no videos, press releases or anything else giving traffic to it, you're screwed.

    When Clickbank decides to start shaving some of your sales, you're screwed.

    Diversify- have multiple income streams and multiple sources of traffic. Or you can just pray that Google is always nice....

    P.S. This is why people say to build a list :-)
  • Like the post above me states.. AdSense isn't the ideal business model since we're reliant on the mood of any Google reviewer on any given day to determine our fate. But.. having said that, my heart goes out to you on this one. I'm making about $2000 a month now and if it just disappeared, I'd be pretty bummed.

    Having said that.. I would also just view it as a setback.. not a loss. Take action right away and get this going again so the loss is just for a few months. I'd be hitting up coworkers/Mom/Grandma.. getting someone else's ssn and telling them how they're going to get 10% every month for free.. and I'd have every blog that just had adsense successfully running on it.. recreated within the next week. Import and export those mysql databases, create new domain names on a different server and try to correct what you think what may have happened.

    My neighbor had a $4000 a month AdSense account go bye-bye earlier this year (account wasn't banned but all sites deindexed). I helped him to recreate everything and we had it done in 2 weeks. He's already back up to about $40 a day. Nowhere near where he was yet.. but for the short amount of time.. doing very good.

    Best of luck to you. Sorry to hear about the misfortune. Make it so it's only temporary.
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    • Banned
      Trust me, family & friends do NOT mix well with money!

      Your going to give your family member 10% free?

      Your also going to be giving them of the tax liability, that the IRS will hold them (not you) accountable for regardless of the deal you come up with between you & your family member.

      Your asking for trouble, with another persons SSN.
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  • Well, in short, I like the Adsense money too much to do anything stupid that'll get me banned. At the moment, working with Google is a win-win for me and for them (and for their advertisers, hopefully - I am one myself!). We can talk about the ins and outs but the bottom line is I want those cheques to keep coming, so I'll just play by the book, thanks. If anyone can tell me a CPC program that pays NEARLY as well then I'll start sticking my neck out and asking that they respect my human rights, or whatever! Or maybe not...
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    • I, just like you was also playing within the rules and was very cautious with my sites. You could wake up banned tomorrow for no reason at all.
  • The same thing happened to me by that awful dictator know as Goggle. They encourage you to join their program, you make some money then close your account, keeping millions of dollars from hard working people.

    They close the accounts at a certain time to maximise their loot. It's just daylight robbery and we are defenseless against them, even if we do have the power of the force. God help us!
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    • a) You obviously haven't read the thread, we've done all this, yours is just another sob-story unless you have some hard evidence. Or maybe you are really talking about "Goggle", the not-so-well-known search engine.
      b) You haven't read the TOS of the WF or you wouldn't have affiliate links in your sig, so I rather doubt you ever read the Adsense TOS either.

      So your tale of the evil dictator Goggle lacks some credibility in my book.
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  • Yes, it is true that after so many years, we are not able to guess what the main algorithm of Adsense as any time any account may be disabled..... I think you have to pay more attention to CTR?
  • google can do any thing ?
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    • Yes. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

      Paul
  • It appears that the ban was triggered automatically by the detection of invalid clicks. As far as I know, you usually receive a warning first for violations of most other violations of the Adsense TOS. That is especially if you earn a fair amount through Adsense, and $1900 is a good amount.

    You can certainly appeal against invalid clicks and sometimes, they will re-instate your account. However, more often they will not, even if they think you are innocent. Their logic would be if your site attracts invalid clicks for whatever reason, it is still a risk to their advertisers.

    The sad truth is that a person with malicious intent can get you banned. It can happen to anyone and therefore you should not rely solely on Adsense as a long term means of generating income. Google certainly knows what you best performing sites are. The chances are that even if you put another person's code on those sites, the ads won't show up.
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    • Derekwong your are wrong and people should not believe this. Invalid clicks or anything against google TOS are gonna get immediate ban. Invalid clicks is the most likely thing that will not get you banned as long as you are not initiating them.

      To the OP. Your sites are banned. Let us see these bad sites so we can all understand what type of sites gets an adsense ban.
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  • And NO, this screenshot has not been edited:



    BTW this result only appears in Google & NOT in Bing or Yahoo...

    Very sorry to hear what has happened to you Tizzko. Somehow I believe that there is far more going on behind the scenes than just wanting to give user's a "good experience". To me, that is the only explanation for Google completely ignoring people like this who have no idea why they were banned. This is all about the bottom line: money. Too many are losing their entire livelihoods from being de-indexed or banned by Google.

    Type "Can Google Really Do Anything" in Google, this is what you get:

    guitarjosh (post #40) brought up an excellent point: if someone starts making money via adsense, I would guess that the FIRST thing that money should be used for is to create a backup and a contingency plan, so if the account is gone you already know what to do about it just like say for example your site is hacked you should already have the backup ready to be implemented.

    Steve asked a really good question, I am also looking for the same answer.
  • You could always try to appeal, and let them know that maybe a mistake was made
  • This isnt uncommon...

    Thats why i use an alternative called searchreviews. Its free to download and free to run.

    checkout searchreviews (dot) com for more info.

    You can monetize your wordpress, blog, website, etc.
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    • That's funny right there. searchreviews is a joke. I threw it on a high ctr auto blog for a high demand product that gets around 1000 visitors a day, let it go for a month.. not .1 cent in earnings. Even the horribly paying infolinks made me a few bucks with that test.
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  • If your website gets lots of visitors you can try adsense alternative like bidvertiser or adbrite..Or affiliate programs..
    After recession, Adsense is so strict, you can't take it lightly.
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  • Really wish google would start respecting adsense publishers more. I mean you did business with them that resulted in thousands of dollars of profit for both of you yet they wont even answer an e-mail when you ask them whats wrong. The only way they get away with this is because there is a lack of competition.
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    Adsense Account Disabled Today

    Been an adsense member for about 4 years now, never had a problem. I had about $1400 in my account for the month of June and got an email today that it has been disabled. Never had any invalid clicks, no black hat methods. Nothing. Just poof, all my current earnings for the months of June and all my potential earnings have gone down the drain. Was averaging about $1900 per month.