Banned from google with $148.90 in account for this month..said it was for invalid clicks but I never clicked them myself >_> how gay is that? I submitted an appeal, but I bet you $10 it will be denied.

If you are honest on your parts, then google will reactivate your account with outstanding balance. We cant beat the google coz google can find click fraud easily and more correctly. They are very smart to find invalids clicks and other click frauds.

Yeah right!!

And how many have you heard of getting their account reinstated??

Google Adsense is not a good program. It works for some websites, but does not for most websites. If somebody clicks your ads everyday in order to support your website, YOU will get banned amd loose all your account money, even if you don't know that person. When google bans somebody it can keep advatisers's money . Cool huh? They get clicks for free and keep the money too.

You won't get reinstated.
Invalid click or not, it was easy to ban a Google account before, by bomb clicking an account and tell G that the owner asked you to do it. Now, it seems that they actually record IP. I have had bomb clicks on one site and got zero dollars for it. Me and them knew it was not relevant clicks but not coming from my IP. Thta site was doing a couple of clicks/day for years except that day with more than 100 clicks.
My guess is you did click yourself on your ads...

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Yeah right!!

And how many have you heard of getting their account reinstated??

This one time Chris I am going to disagree with you based on my personal experience.

My account was banned for invalid clicks which I or no one I know apparently made. I noticed about 20 clicks with zero dollars in my account a day or two before the ban. I still believe I was click bombed by someone I ticked off in another webmaster forum.

I appealed and was reinstated after answering a followup email to my appeal where I explained the situation as I have above and answered a couple of other questions that were asked and I don't think I should post here. Sufficent to say I answered all questions truthfully and I don't click on my own links.

I don't buy links or traffic and I don't want people to click on my ads as a favor that has always been my attitude. Most of my family does not even know the sites I own.

wtf is an invalid click thats absurd, every click you receive is valid whether it being a bot or a human, every human thinks about what and where they are going to click. I wouldn't allow for that, all clicks are valid imagine how google would feel if you didn't pay them for some clicks as they didn't pay :P

Originally Posted by xpguy

wtf is an invalid click thats absurd, every click you receive is valid whether it being a bot or a human, every human thinks about what and where they are going to click. I wouldn't allow for that, all clicks are valid imagine how google would feel if you didn't pay them for some clicks as they didn't pay :P

See, it is people who think like you do that mislead others into doing something stupid like clicking on their own ads, having a bot do it or encouraging friends to do it.

Google tracks the ip of the clicks and the rest of their safety management is a closely guared secret.

Go ahead and cheat if you want to be banned.

I think you got the wrong idea I don't have ads on any of my sites but can see both points of view oh I don't click ads either however I have advertised on google and last time they where quite happy to take my £400 and who's to say some of those clicks which I got charged for where not fake clicks the truth is every click counts if google where happy to take my money for x clicks then why shouldn't they pay out to people who have their ads on there site I see this as a take money but we won't pay out as much idea if they don't want to pay for people clicking the ad from the same ip then change the code to only allow 1 click per ip

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Yeah right!!

And how many have you heard of getting their account reinstated??

Never.

Originally Posted by colbyt

This one time Chris I am going to disagree with you based on my personal experience.

Excellent, it's always useful to hear the other side of the coin.

Well done. You are actually the first person I have ever heard of getting an account reinstated.

Of course it maybe that the others weren't as innocent as they claimed