AdSense booted me...

[too tall jahmal]

Okay So I got booted from AdSense. I've come to terms with my self clicking now self hating... self.

Well now things have taken a turn for the worse. My page no longer shows up for certain keywords and phrases that I used to search and find my page under. The keywords are dropping like flies as a matter of fact... For a couple phrases in particular my page doesn't show up at all when it used to literally show up on the first page. For other searches my page has recessed from page 1 to several pages deep in the search 5 or 6 back.

I was very conscious of these searches too.
I monitorred them for a couple months.

Thankfully my pagerank score is still a 5...
but who knows how long it will last if it's even that great to be a 5 and
I only recently discovered page rank so I couldn't tell you how good it was doing for more than a week ago.

This is a sad sad week for me.

Be Aware. Screwing with Google AdSense can jeopardize your ranking in Google...

[edited by: too_tall_jahmal at 3:44 am (utc) on Sep. 2, 2004]

[freeflight2]

were you running a screen scraper / 'directory' site?

[too tall jahmal]

Not at all. Completely original content.

It's been up for 8 years now and I found there are more than 2400 links to the site using the www+.domain+.com or whatever method.

The site is updated every single day as a matter of fact and my hits are doing real good for my site... It isn't some huge popular site but I average 1500 unique hits a day 33% of which are brand new visitors.

I mean I admit, I only recently got hip to the stats and googleism thingy majigs because of webmaster world... I am learning the hard way that google is the monster that controls my fate.

[too tall jahmal]

obviously I have a tiny little nothing site compared to all you guys for the most part I'm guessing... but still... this is tough. I was getting excited about my googleness... oh.

[kotetsurain]

Haha, I only get about 10 uniques per day, so I wouldn't say that.

[too tall jahmal]

lol, that's cool I mean I'm seeing people on here talk about millions of hit etc. but anyways... just be careful. In fact I wouldn't even mess with google adsense...

[Jenstar]

Since you were suspended for clicking your own ads and for telling others to click, I don't think your drop in the rankings has anything to do with AdSense.

The Google News forum [webmasterworld.com] is full of members who are suffering from drops in their ranks which have nothing to do with AdSense.

[chrisnrae]

Unless of course you were using some shady SEO tactics that may have been noticed, and thus reported, when they reviewed your site re: the click fraud.

[too tall jahmal]

I swear I am not doing anything Shady. I'm just some yuts who has a hobby site community type of photo gallery thing. I just noticed that my page was getting crazy listings in google for a couple months and now they are gone... :(

what a week...

[rich42]

Okay So I got booted from AdSense. I've come to terms with my self clicking now self hating... self.

there's an impression that there's a wall of seperation between the SERPS and Adsense / Adwords. I think this is generally true.

However - if the situation rises where it really makes sense to adjust things due to -fraudulent- behavior - don't you think they just might?

If nothing else - consider the impact of your own post to this forum as a warning unto others. I suspect Adwords Advisor and Google Guy are smiling...

[too tall jahmal]

who are those guys? dudes that work at google? just know that theres one sorry mofo over here... ugh. I gotta go wander the halls again... be back later.