Has anyone quit their 9-5 job for Adsense

Then Subsequently Lost their AdSense Account?

[G_Smitty]

Has anyone quit their 9-5 job for Adsense and then fail or get banned?

[toldan]

Well, I don't know anybody that got banned that way. If you are ready to quit your job and dedicated your business to Adsense, then you are also 100% ready to safeguard integrity of the Adsense program.

Safeguarding integrity of the Adsense program means:

1. Absolutely no cheating of any kind
2. Every two weeks e-mail Google and ask them to review your site for compliance
3. Buy traffic from reliable sources, such as Adwords, and avoid "Search Engine Optimization" (Let Google decide your website's ranking)

You see, if you follow the three rules above, you will NEVER be banned. I can guarantee you that.

[wyweb]

2. Every two weeks e-mail Google and ask them to review your site for compliance

LOL.... I think I'll pass on that one.

[pageoneresults]

G_Smitty, you mean to tell me that you quit your day job based on the assumption that you could support your income with AdSense earnings alone? Wow, that is a pretty brazen move. I'm sure you carefully weighed the pros and cons before making such a decision? AdSense earnings must have been respectable enough to make the move. And, you must have been at it for some time to feel confident enough to quit the day job?

So, why did you get banned?

Or, how do you fail at something if it was going so well to quit your day job?

[malachite]

2. Every two weeks e-mail Google and ask them to review your site for compliance

Seriously? If Google receives these mails from thousands of publishers, PLUS all the "ooops, sorry I accidentally clicked my own ad" mails, it's no wonder they don't have time to chase all those MFA sites. They're too busy dealing with this lot! ;)

[europeforvisitors]

I had the impression that G_Smitty was just trying to decide whether to risk giving up the day job. (Note the wording, with my italics: "...and then fail or get banned?")

[wyweb]

I had the impression he was just asking a question. Possibly out of curiosity, possibly for some other reason. Without anything else to go on it's a little difficult to tell.

[StuntasticAudi]

2. Every two weeks e-mail Google and ask them to review your site for compliance

What if you do that and they find something wrong and ban you? then you're mad at yourself for even bringing it up for them to check your site.

[21_blue]

If they find your site is noncompliant then, unless it is a flagrant breach, my guess is they'll ask you to correct it.

But if you keep sending them the same email every two weeks, they'll soon find a reason to ban you!

[miguelito]

I imagine they would also get rather tired of people like toldan asking for their site to be reviewed every two weeks and think (even if not true) that something fishy was going on.
As for this comment (also by toldan)

You see, if you follow the three rules above, you will NEVER be banned. I can guarantee you that.

Well sorry but that is ridiculous, you can't guarantee anything, you do not own or run Google Adsense.

I started a thread about this over a year ago because i had given up my day job and some days later got banned by Google, after months of exchanging emails and logs, they eventually accepted that nothing was wrong ( although they never admitted mistakes had been made) and reinstated me.

I'm sure that cases like mine are extremely rare as are cases of being reinstated but don't ever presume that by following all the rules you are 100% safe...there is no such thing although the risks may be minimal.

[Rodney]

2. Every two weeks e-mail Google and ask them to review your site for compliance

Sounds like more of an annoyance than trying to protect the integrity of the program.

Reading the TOS and following it from a common sense perspective is most all you'll need to do.

If you have a quality content site that is delivering value to advertisers, I don't think you have much to worry about.

[G_Smitty]

No I have not been banned. I was just curious about all of those post I have read about being banned and if that was their only income. Google is currently my only major income. I do have another business that I run out of the home.

[Zygoot]

and avoid "Search Engine Optimization" (Let Google decide your website's ranking)

Bad advice IMO. There's nothing wrong with SEO.

[jetteroheller]

I had my last 9 to 5 job 1985.

I only shifted away from being an internet promotion company to being a publisher of online magazines.

[dr_rizwan]

I think that Google has already decided how to check a website; whether weekly fortnightly monthly quarterly or randomly. If there is a mature website with a mature publisher who is strictly following the TOS then no need to check that site even quarterly.