darkmage - 7:17 am on Jun 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

My first thought is that you knew you get paid per click and then you clicked on the ads several times. Surely the idea of 'checking the landing page' just seems like a poor excuse for the real motivation - personal greed.

Also, in effect you were stealing from advertisers - many advertisers that are in this forum. I am one and I don't see why I should pay for a webmaster to 'check' my ads when there is perfectly good tool out there - the Adsense Preview tool does everything, plus Google staff check the ads too.

With the internet there are two ways to learn a lesson - greed will take you down the hard path. That's where you are now. Next time you do anything, think of the consequence it has on others. Doing the right thing will not get you banned from Google. And in the rare case you do get banned for being good, it is the one path to getting reinstated (and it has happened exactly this way to people on this forum).