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The second site made me around 60 bucks in 2 weeks and I never had any invalid clicks, but they just banned me.
I told a few people about the site and one person supposedly said she checked many of the ads out -- so maybe she clicked 10 times or so from her computer.
Anyway, what do I do? I just replied to their e-mail, but what are my chances of getting reinstated?
Google did inform me that the account was closed. Then I sent them two responses explaining what happened. Then they sent me one automated response with instructions about my sending them a whole bunch of info (including publisher number) to another of their e-mail adresses meant to take care of complaints.
Now I keep my fingers crossed for three weeks.
I asked them if there was a way for them to never give me credit if one person clicks on more than 5 ads in future if I get reinstated (i.e., ignore clicks from a competitor or a former girlfriend).
I wonder if they can do that?
You could make a java/php script that will prevent the ad from showing to certain IP addresses. You could even really get fancy and save every IP clicked into a database. Then when that IP loads a page you could have a threshold that if they have clicked on x ads in the last y days they will not see any ads.
Who knows what Google's limit is, but you could guestimate and adjust your threshold accordingly.
Then when that IP loads a page you could have a threshold that if they have clicked on x ads in the last y days they will not see any ads.Who knows what Google's limit is, but you could guestimate and adjust your threshold accordingly.
There is no fixed threshold. Some providers tunnel their users to just a handful of IP addresses (AOL is the most famous of them but certainly not the only one) and it would be a bad idea to only serve X ads per Y days to those users. For a good detection system you should also put cookies on the visitors computer to identify them all personally, but I doubt if this is worth the effort in most cases.
Received the e-mail below from google adsense team today (seems like they acted on my appeal pretty fast):
DELETED E-MAIL IN CASE ITS AGAINST TOS. THANKS TO THE GUY WHO WARNED ME.
[edited by: serengeti at 12:04 am (utc) on Jan. 26, 2006]
A couple of people at my workplace also know about my site due to unforseen circumstances. None of them visits it, but in case they do and click on these ads, we all have the same or similar IPS. So I have also asked the Adsense team to ignore all IPs that are identical or similar to my work computer.
I doubt they can do that...but why not? Isn't that something obvious that you would think they were aware off? i.e., ignore clicks from your computer or computers with the same IP addresses or almost identical IPs?
If I make a new site (hopefully, if I get better at web designing) I will not tell anyone about it.
Its just stupid to tell acquaintances about your site I think.
Luckily, this time I knew who clicked on the ads since I only got more than 5 clicks on that one day and my friend said she checked out all of the ads she could on that day.
In future, I wouldn't even have an appeal if this happens again as I expect to get 20-30 clicks a day on a regular basis -- so I won't be able to figure out a reason for getting banned were it to happen again.
I only tell people I make money on the net but no longer give the site name for fear of just this situation. Now mum's the word!
Just warn mum not to do any clicking. :-)
What a relief to hear that Google Adsense team do listen to appeals from honest publishers! It gives me more hope and faith in Google Adsense program since I am doing this full time and do not wish to get myself banned.
I am NEVER EVER telling anyone about my site again
How?
I call at an interesting project to get a termin.
I drive there several 100km and make several hours an interview and photos.
They want to know what becomes published.
They aks for the URL.
They visit my reportage and find links (AdSense) to all their competitors.
Also, You can not run around a fair with a stative and make photos, without beeing asked for what newspaper You work. Here again goes my address. At this time, there is no special page about the people asking.
But 6 month later on an other fair in an other city, You meet the same people again. Can You give us the URL from the article, You wrote last time?
Every good magazine has a reader contact card to require information from all the companies mentioned in the magazine.
So when somebody visits a reportage and clicks on the contact button, he comes to the contact form
My name and address
The form will be also sent to
Company where I write about
Name [_______________]
Email [_______________]
When he fills out the form, an email is
sent to me and to the company mentioned in the article
Request from http://example.com/about-your-widget
One of our readers filled the contact form on
http://example.com/about-your-widget
The form, he filled.....
And quess what happens, when the recipient in the company clicks on the link? He comes to a page about his widget and links to all his competitiors affording AdWords.
It's written in the TOS, a site has to be responsive to user requests. This means to tell the reader the address of the vendor from a widget, when the reader asks about it. I do this automatic by sending the request also to the vendor.
:) :) :)
Frankly, when I read you thread I thought that Google wouldn't even bother to read your email, based on the fact that your site had little traffic - therefore little revenue for them.
I am glad to be proven wrong!
Is this common?
