Here is what the evil Google Adsense did to me

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Here is a weird one. I used to have many niche blogs that followed this model:

1) Domain name
2) Wordpresss
3) WP Robot for bot posting
4) Revenue generation - Adsense being one

I got an email from Google Adsense that said that one page on one of my sites had an embedded YouTube video and that video was in copyright violation hence ad delivery was suspended to my domain for showing it.

Further they warned me that this was but one example on one site and that there MAY be other sites in my collection that are offending too. They told me that it may lead to the closing of my Adsense account if I continued to deliver ads that showed copyright infringed videos.

So I immediately went to the offending page on my site and then clicked through to the video on YouTube and guess what? The video was still there in all of its glory and serving ads. Yes serving f'ing ads.

So this video was flagged for copyright violation on my site BUT Google and the Uploader are profiting off it through YouTube. This happened a few months ago and it is still there to this day generating income for them.

I have not fought it because Google is infringing copyright yet telling me not too. I did not do it on purpose yet they are. This whole thing just seems looney tunes to me.

I do have a viral video generating me a few thousand dollars per year so I do not want to rock the boat with these pricks. What I did, for now, is suspend Adsense to all of my robot blogs niche blogs and closed down the ones that made most income from Adsense. :confused:

Any comments or suggestions?
#adsense #copyright #evil #google #viral video
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    WP Robot is a fail by itself If your running Adsense.

    Your setting yourself up to scrape all kinds of content that Google doesn't allow.
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    • Profile picture of the author ToddMac
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      WP Robot is a fail by itself If your running Adsense.

      Your setting yourself up to scrape all kinds of content that Google doesn't allow.
      WP Robot is far from a a fail. Post in draft mode and review it before publishing is one option.
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  • Profile picture of the author legoog8
    even auto blogging aside normal people sometimes put youtube videos on there videos like music videos and that... so google is hypercritical really.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    Google is the LAMEST. Change your codes to an affiliate plan and make more money is my advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author ToddMac
    I did not create this to discuss the pros and cons of auto blogging. I created it to show how YouTube and Adsense are used by Google to generate revenue from supposed copyright infringed content.

    They threatened me for doing exactly what they are doing.
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    • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
      Originally Posted by ToddMac View Post

      I did not create this to discuss the pros and cons of auto blogging. I created it to show how YouTube and Adsense are used by Google to generate revenue from supposed copyright infringed content.

      They threatened me for doing exactly what they are doing.
      Yes, they suck. So now you know it too. They closed my Adsense account after I earned $474K over 9 years. Their message simply said that I didn't fit with the "spirit of their guidelines."

      That forced me to look for alternative methods of traffic and monetization - of which there are ZILLIONS.

      Take this opportunity to move on and find other ways of doing things. Google will break your heart every time.
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      • Profile picture of the author honestbiz
        Hmm. A fairly normal/frequent case of pot calling the kettle black....:rolleyes:
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by ToddMac View Post

      I did not create this to discuss the pros and cons of auto blogging. I created it to show how YouTube and Adsense are used by Google to generate revenue from supposed copyright infringed content.

      They threatened me for doing exactly what they are doing.
      It's not like you own the content (youtube video) so why is it any of your business what Google does or doesn't do with the video?
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