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Hi,
I got banned this month too. I appealed but was turned down.
Google are judge, jury and execusioner but they don't ever tell you the real reason for it.
From my point of view I wasn't guilty of anything other than experimenting with a few different web sites. It seams Google have an agenda to clear out anyone who isn't providing a good user experience. This is in both Adsense and Adwords.
It is obvious they are picking on newbies as that will have least impact on their already falling revenues. But everyone else should take care because when the time suits Google, they will come for the rest of you with sites of little or no value. You will get the same email as I did, that your account has been cancelled and your money returned to it's 'rightful owner'.
Since being banned it has become clear to me that the business model of building lots of web sites with hundreds of pages monitized with adsense, advocated by so many gurus, was a flawed model. I bought the video's, adsense templates and the like. But I am now concentrating on just a few sites with good original content. I use ClickSensor to simulate adsense and put affiliate links into these ads. You can look on Google to find the most popular affiliate programs for any given phrase and even use the same tried and tested wording used by the experts.
Don't give away your precious virtual real estate for a few cents when, if adsense works for others, you can just copy what they do and make the profit yourself.
The other thing is that just as people have developed 'banner blindness' they will/are also developing 'adsense blindness' and so monitizing with any ads in this format will become harder. So we will have to keep reinventing things to attract attention.
For me the only way is up. For Google the only way is down.
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