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And I don't see anything wrong with that, if so. Google has limited staff. It may not be worth it to spend time and money checking and rechecking a $50/month site, while it may well be worth it to check and recheck a $5000/month site--if the violation is minor and can be easily fixed.
One minor correction, as an Adsense publisher, you are not a customer, you are a supplier.
true, talking in logistics terms, adsense publishers are distributors of googles products to target audince of its clients, the adword advertisors. :-)
More likely it's based on the quality of traffic and clicks (if there even is any leway).
If you're asking if Google is willing to overlook a suspicious click or two in a data bank of thousands of clicks, probably more so than a suspicious click or two in a data bank of 3 clicks, but you still need to be careful.
A maliciously errant publisher isn't going to escape based on size. If a webmaster is stealing from advertisers, the bigger the webmaster = the bigger the fraud = the more the victims = the greater need for Google to act quickly to keep its integrity in place.
will they let you slide little more then some average joe
What does this mean in English?
The thread seems to have taken it to mean possible T&C infringments.
Is that was is meant by the OP?
It would be nice if google warned you before they completly ban you. Yes I agree that if you dont follow the TOS then you should be banned. But lets say if someone else clicks on your adsense hundred times a day then adsense ban you for invalid clicks and you didnt do anything wrong and you're banned. From reading other forums it seems like it's very hard to get your account back once you get banned. Even if it's not your fault. Some people even prove it and google still wont allow them back, they just simply ignore your emails when you try to contact them. I've read many other adsense forums and found couple people in that situation.
I agree with a comment above that Google's staff might not bother with a small account that generated $50 a month but what if you have a large account that gets $5000 a month...that means Google gets a good cut of that too, i would hope they just put your account on freeze until you resolve the problem not just ban you.
I'm sure however if it was a major, major breach of the rules, for example fraudulant clicks, then something more would be done.
Several times we asked support for permission to do the same things and we are always told no. The odd thing is they let *some* small publsihers do these things, not only premium publishers as you would think. They tell us it's only allowed for non-premium smaller clients by special invitation, and the invites are not available now.
It certainly is not fair. For example, we had a competing website (one of our strongest sales competitors) selling the same product as us who was also much smaller and lesser know but was apparently allowed to change the javascript and target specific high paying keywords, thus making more money than us on very likely less traffic vs our larger site.
My competitor was even blatantly abusing the right of using keyword suggest line of code by targeting keywords not relevant at all to his website (i.e. the word mortgage loan) which paid more ppc than his own actual product keyword did.
We wrote support about that abuse and unfair advanatge they gave them but as far as I know they did nothing as some time later we checked and he still was doing the adsense abuse of the altered code permission G apparently gave him, with the changed javascript still there and running well. Of course his ads were always much better than our ads. That really is upsetting to see that happen in the first place and nothing apparently done about it too from what we could see.
I apprecaite that G allowing small publishers (plus international ones ) to join.
Im never trying to break their TOS for earning more but having click attack my nightmare :(
What we don't know is, does Google give the larger publishers a *different* ToS just for them? If so, they're not violating the ToS necessarily just because they do things that non-high-level publishers aren't allowed to do ...
It would make sense to me that Google would offer different terms to different publishers at a certain level.
JK
I'm sure google has to deal with hundreds of people a day who click their own ads. It would take too much time to deal with someone who makes peanuts for you.
It might not be fair, but it would be naive to think otherwise in my personal opinion.
One minor correction, as an Adsense publisher, you are not a customer, you are a supplier.
Actually, publishers are customers too. We hire Google to find advertisers to advertise on our site. And we in fact pay Google for that service (commission).
