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I got an email from google today stating that they have disabled my account due to "invalid" clicks... I have never made any clicks on my site. Yesterday I had added the adsense code to my ebook site, maybe that triggered something? I never thought such a thing would happen to me. I had registered an account in the end of last month, and was getting a pretty constant ctr. Is there any hope of reinstating my account?
Anyway The email itself is not being shown in gmail. I came to know of the start of the email thru the gmail notifier, which shows only the first few lines of new emails -
Google AdSense Account Disabled
<paraphrase>invalid clicks have been generated on your account</paraphrase>
In Gmail itself, it shows Inbox(2) showin that there are 2 new mails but in the right hand pane "No new mail! There's always Google News if you're looking for something to read." All emails to gmail just got me canned responses. I tried all sorts of things to try and read the email like searching for it etc. but nothing worked :( In all mail it shows me all the mails except the invalid clicks one!
Are there any ad networks out there that wont screw me over like this?
[edited by: Jenstar at 5:00 am (utc) on Aug. 24, 2004]
[edit reason] No email quotes as per TOS, thanks! [/edit]
Invalid clicks does not always mean they believe you generated the invalid clicks, however, I can see why they don't neccessarily want to keep accounts with higher instances of click fraud. You can always try to appeal it.
For other advertising networks, see the Advertising forum [webmasterworld.com], this has come up a few times in the past in that forum.
