Adsense Ban... Now's my turn...

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OK, after having my Adsense account for more than 5 years, today I've received the email that I would not want to see...

Yes, my Adsense account has been banned.

I thought I have a very good standing, with Google Adsense Singapore inviting me to all their Adsense session. Well, they only invite who have good account standing, isn't it? Maybe, maybe not...

Well, as usual, I don't know which policy I have violated. I may missed one and perhaps that's the one they caught me and ban me.

I have over 50+ Adsense sites so how will you check, pal? Isn't it suppose to be "passive income"?

Anyway, like what most of the marketers say here: "Don't put all your eggs into one basket".

Right-O, I'm moving to other stuff now.

For me, the Adsense game is done.

Game Over...
#search engine optimization #adsense #ban #turn
  • Hmmm There are so many Adsense expert got ban too.
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  • Banned
    I have a 6 year old Adsense account & never banned.

    Then again I only monetize a few larger sites (not 50+ domains), makes it easier to manage IMO.
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    • I have wondered about this myself because there has been a trend of accounts being banned that seemed to have an aggressive number of domains.
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    • Well, if I get my Adsense account back by any luck, I'll go for this route too.
  • Yes, I also have couple of accounts that Google banned, but I am still using it because I feel this is pretty good source for online earning.
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    • Banned
      So you have had at least 3 Adsense accounts?

      Maybe that's the problem (multiple accounts)?
    • Do most of your sites use a similar template/layout?

      Since you got banned would you mind sharing a few of your sites so we can see where you might have gone wrong.
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  • Bad luck dude.Look out for some other advertising alternatives.
  • I guess I did post half a thought as I was not directing my statement at the OP just seems like a majority of the bans fall into 2 groups.
    A. A person knowingly breaking the TOS or didn't take the time to read it. These people tend to be new at it and lose their adsense account just when they are going to get that first check.
    B. They have created a MNS Empire of sorts (major assumption on my part since like with the OP I have no clue what he is running, just know 50+ sites).

    Now Google has always gone after group A but it would seem they have started a trend to start looking more seriously at group B now. Don't get me wrong I do think some MNS have a reason to exist but there seems to be a magic number when you are perhaps asking for trouble with Adsense. What is strange for me with as little weight that is given to EMD that people seem to stick with this old strategy and not adapting to a cleaner model such as larger sites. They are cheaper to run and easier to maintain plus over time it becomes easier to rank pages I have found in my experience.
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    • Banned
      That's true & I've told people on this forum those same things, I guess since they didn't read it in a paid ebook they don't give it much thought.

      The more sites you create the more money comes out of pocket (simple math).

      Also, like you said, the larger the site, the easier it is to rank relevant pages. MFA folks build sites, I build categories, it's cheaper & has the advantage of getting a SERP boost from existing ranked internal pages (internal links).
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  • This has been going for awhile. That's why micro niche networks are a doomed business model. Too many 'thin sites' plus one Pub-ID = banned.
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    • I've seen little evidence that owning many sites = ban.

      It's just as likely that bans result from:

      A) The click traffic from your sites are not converting for advertisers.

      B) A few of your sites not being compliant but you didn't notice due to a large portfolio.

      I don't think its unreasonable to believe a large portfolio of sub-par sites could result in a ban, but there also isn't much data/evidence saying that is the case. In fact, there is much evidence suggesting otherwise.
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    • Hmmm interesting thought...I have 20 adsense MNS sites presently, working on scaling that particular section of my business as we speak.

      Unfortunately they all have the same theme and layout...I concentrated my main efforts to quality well written content.

      What do you think the magic number is before I should register another Corporation and open a new adsense account?
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  • Yeah... sorry to hear about the ban man. Sucks to lose an income stream. Been there (not Adsense) and it wasn't good times.
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    • You can sue anyone.. for anything. Your task will be proving it
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    • I am not sure how many TOS agreements you deal with but there is nothing out of the normal for Google's. Keep in mind it is your choice to sign up or not.. if you don't like it or don't want to do what they require, don't sign up. It is actually very simple.
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  • The more sites you have, the higher the chance you're doing something 'wrong' that you didn't realize was wrong in the first place - mostly because you're managing too many sites and don't have the time to check them all the time.

    I have an account that had about 30 sites connected to it, they were all making money. I took adsense off of 25 of them because I didn't feel that had enough pages or add enough value yet. I lost money initially, but reduced my chances of getting banned greatly. That account has been live for 6 years.
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    • Same here...I only plan on putting Adsense on a max of 5 sites. I'm currently running one authority site and two niche sites now, but I plan to expand to 5 authority/15 niche sites eventually.

      KISS - Keep It Simple Silly
  • Sorry to hear the news Joseph. You've been around here a long time. I'm sure you will get past it and be better off from it in the future, but it sure stinks in the short term. Best of success moving forward!
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    • HOGWASH

      there are tens of hundreds of MFA adsense builder with more than 50 sites. Why 50 limit?

      Why not 25, 75,100

      I bet 100% the reason is a violation against google T&C's people simply dont read them and then BAM the sites gone and they look for some random reason..

      Poeple with 1 yes ONE site have had google adsense accounts frozen

      There are plenty of adsense creating people out there (you must read blogs not forumns).

      With 300, 500, 1000, 2000 site sin one LLC in one adsense account.

      Why would google care? if you comply you'll be fine.

      OP, share 5 banned sites as is and we'll be able to show you the violations. They dont need tobe running adsense. So show..

      My bet is bad content, ads on contact us pages, images and ads to close together, maybe no privacy page (surely not), Poor quality content.......
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  • I too stripped adsense from 15/month type sites to protect myself yet a lit of people sell that business model. 15/month give me a break. 1k/month/site.
  • I had a friend who got banned and he swears up and down someone went out and had a bunch of his team click his ads repeatedly to get his adsense accnt banned

    I believe him to because he was trying to make sure he was obeying all the TOS that google has

    do you think this may be a possibilty for what happened to you? you don't seem like someone who would purposely try to cheat the system
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  • This is not a mystery. The publisher of 50 thin content websites that provide low visitor satisfaction and exist primarily to display Adsense ads has been banished.

    Can this come as a surprise to anyone?
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    • Hi Paul, I can say that it has nothing to do with my signature! I'll be damned if I put Adsense there! Nope, not that, obviously.
      Well, it's not 50 thin content websites. It's full of information that are mixed with unique and PLR articles. They are updated at least once a month, most of the time weekly.

      I have to admit, managing 50+ sites can take a toll, especially when half of them fell to the sword of Penguin and Panda.

      I believe that it is one of the site that I accidentally missed because it is autoblog and unfortunately it took in an adult content. Adsense warned me about it and I took it off fast. Maybe they are just cranky and ban me for that.
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    • Where is your proof... i know if 5 to 6 people with 2 or 3 BIG websites filled with good content who got their adsense account banned... so there you go...
  • It's probably a blessing in disguise. I love Adsense but I've never regretted moving towards CPA and my own products...literally 100% increase in revenue from the same traffic.
  • Banned
    BTW, autoblogs + Adsense sites are black h@t unless your scraping public domain content.
  • A lesson learnt, never put all of your eggs in one basket!
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    • Banned
      Or scrape porn onto an Adsense site.
  • This is the reason why we all should diversify our income sources.
  • I had my Adsense account banned about 2 months ago with 5K in there. If you want to keep your account good standing, keep your websites / network clean ASAP. You have been warned!

    We should always diversify. I heard about his many times but I ONLY learned this when I got banned I've managed to bounce back 70% Adsense revenue. I feel happy now because I have CONTROL.
  • I lost my adsense account 3 years ago and since then I made more money than during the time I was running an adsense program. Losing an adsense account can be a blessing in disguise sometimes...
  • Pure bad luck. You can do an appeal to restore your adsense account but I not think that there will be a positive response. Google remains mysterious as always.
  • If the ban is due to invalid clicks, then there is usually a some chance of success on appeal. That is because the ban is usually carried out automatically by system that may be flawed. However, if they ban you after going through your account, then the chance of success is virtually nil.

    Using an autoblog with Adsense is playing with fire. If you value your Adsense account, just don't do it.

    Another misconception is that if you have original content, then it cannot be classified as a MFA site. This is just not true and is completely up to Google to decide what is MFA or not.
  • My account got banned 2 days ago too, less than 5 sites but in a very high competitive niches. I was going to flip those sites anyway but this is another sign that we can't build a business focusing only around google and their weird games.
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