We should start a petition website against google adsense, telling them to setup some sort of program that serves as a virtual hearing or something. They are basically acting like monarchs, if they have the slightest pattern of an adsense site having invalid clicks- "off with its head!" I mean really they don't even deliberate for a second they just eliminate you right away.

Once you are banned from AdSense, it's permanent. You can try to fake your information and put in someone else's name, address, etc., but when they find out they will ban you again. Just move on.

Originally Posted by neorunner

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Earning money on adsense is good, while it lasts. However, like anything on the internet, it can dry up in a moment. Don't place all your eggs in one basket.

Yahoo also has a program similar, but be warned....

If you have ANY international (non U.S.) visitors, they place it on YOUR shoulders to NOT show their ads to the international visitors. I had made almost enough to be paid ($100), and they cancelled my account because of non U.S. traffic. Even though 85% of my traffic is U.S. traffic, they placed the blame on me.

I used adsense for a while. I made a little money. After about 3 months I got the dreaded email. Oh well. There really is nothing I can do about it. I just worked to make my money online in a way that the whims of someone else cannot put me out of business.

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Where does it say in their policy that you cannot have foreigners come to your website? That can't be helped. It is also unrealistic, because 1. The WORLD has access to your website, not the USA, for Google to expect for you NOT to have NON-US visitors is unrealistic.....and 2. I thought Google was a "world-wide" organization of some sort, even though they are based in the USA. Like Symantec, they have places worldwide.

He's talking about YPN, not Google. Yahoo is still in beta and only available in the US, so it doesn't sound far fetched that they would have a problem with non-US clicks. As long as they let their publishers know that they have a problem with international visitors then I don't see a problem. If they leave that part out and ban for things that normally wouldn't be a problem then I can definitely see something wrong with that.

Hello Guyz,

Just new here but I wanna share one script that claims it can protect your Google Adsense from unusual clicks. Check it out at http://www.adsenseshield.com/ . Anyone using this script please share your opinion here.

Thanks.

Hello everyone. My account has recently been suspended due to "invalid clicks". I asked them why and they just send me another e-mail saying to go see their policies. I never even told my family or friends about the website and I never clicked myself on any ads, so I don't see any reason for invalid clicks. I had about 50$ in my account, which I obviously lost after spending 75$ at least on Google Adwords. Will they send all my money back to the advertisers or just the last click, and then keep the rest? I think this is a trick from Google, because I saw that many people got suspended and they lost their money as well. I think this is a very profitable way to make money, acouple of bucks from 1 million users ads up to a lot.

There's many victims of Google that are truly suspended for no reason at all. I think we should all gather and sue Google. If you're willing to join please write to <removed> and we will take it from there when enough people have gathered. Like that we have more proof that Google suspends for nothing and gets our money. And if ever we win in court, then we will all share the money equally. Thanks for the support!

sounds stranger ! but not happened on me

Google is very smart to find invalids clicks on their adds. If you are honest don't worry about your account. I respect to google and trust their decision on any account cancellation.

Originally Posted by eNoobz

Hello Guyz,

Just new here but I wanna share one script that claims it can protect your Google Adsense from unusual clicks. Check it out at http://www.adsenseshield.com/ . Anyone using this script please share your opinion here.

Thanks.

I haven't used this, but all seems to do is turn of your ads for 24 hours, not ideal really - what you need is some code that turns of your ads for an IP address or session (if you are using sessions) after so many page views

Oh man, if I had a dollar for everytime I heard this story..

Google DOES have a responsibility to their advertisers. Imagine you were spending your company's money to increase your brand awareness and generate sales. You have an AdWords account and while it's costing the company some money, it has an amazing advantage that few other advertising and marketing tools do - complete and transparent metrics to gauge your ROI. You spend X amount of money, and you recieve 2X or 3X or 10X back. What other advertising tool lets you do that??

So if one day you open your AdWords account and you see that your ROI is not 10X but instead -1000X. Your 100$ a week advertising campaign just cost your company 100,000$. Your boss is going to get pissed. And who is your boss going to yell at? That's right. You. And who're you going to yell at? That's right. Google. And who is Google going to yell at? That's right. The publisher.

So, in an effort to keep their advertisers happy (or to keep them at all), Google has to crack down on the publishers. Ok, yes, that means losing a little revenue in the short run. But advertisers are WAY more important to a big, impersonal monster like Google. And while you think it's not your fault and this should matter to Google, it doesn't. Google doesn't care whose fault this is. All they care about is that you've become a provider of Clickfraud. Doesn't matter if you're the victim or the original perveyor. Google is the target and therefore, they need to get rid of you to get rid of the threat.

The thing is, Google is a great adserver. It's fairly uncomplicated (compared with some others) and it's a recognized brand that everyone works with, in some capacity. The thing is, Google is so omnipresent and successful that they can afford to be impersonal. They don't care about your problems. They can sign on a new you in seconds.

I like to think of Google has the hot girl from Harvard.

See, Harvard girls are not hot. Sure, they make good wives. They'll earn well, they know how to do their taxes, they don't waste money on jewelry and clothes, and they probably have no STDs. But when it comes to the bedroom...*YAWN*

So along comes Google. Now, Google does pretty well at Harvard. Gets good grades, dresses well, all the teachers like her. Is she really the best student? No. Is she going to be the class validictorian and be voted "Most Likely to Rule the Earth"? Of course. Why? Because she's hot. All the Harvard men want to be with her. All the Harvard girls want to be like her. And slowly, but surely, she starts to dominate the campass. And like all dominatrices, she can cast away/invite anybody she pleases. She dumps you? Too bad. What can you do? She's Google, and she's a *****.

I like the post Sanjay, not sure about the analagy though, but I do agree, as a publisher, you may not regard it as your responsibility to prevent click fraud, but it is in your interests. On a more positive note, google do not always ban you, they may suspend your account, pending further investigation, if you can show google that your intentions were sincere you have every chance of being re-instated, but if you have cause for concern ie a huge increase in CTR then its worth your while to investigate the cause and even contact google to pre-empt any action. Personally I have found google to be helpful when I have contacted them on a range of issues.
I still don't like the secrecy though, but what can one do, like Sanjay said, they are the market leaders and can afford to be fussy - like the hot girl from Harvard

Consider using adsense alternatives like Chitika and Kontera....

Google has to deal with many hundred thousands and probably millions of Adsense Publishers. You can´t expect a very good support. You can try other network. For example Voxant News Room. They pay CPM. Very good option. If you want visit my blog to see what it looks like. Sometimes publishers are banned because of bots. It happened to me too. Anyway, just look at the next Ad Network!