Adsense Account Disabled

How can I get my account opened back up?

[rmdoka]

Hello everyone,
I've been a long time lurker here, but this is my first post. Forgive me if this is an incorrect post. I was hoping someone can help me out.
I received an email from the Google Adsense team stating my account was disabled.

Part of the email stated (Not word for word, but my own wording from the original email):

"Our specialists noticed that you are
displaying AdWords ads on a type of website that we don't currently
support in our program."

Has anyone ever received this email? If so, were you able to make any necessary changes? If so, what changes did or did not work so Google would open your Adsense account back up. Did Google allow your account to be opened again?

I have been running ads and approved in adsense for about 6 months and have never tried any fraudelent activity whatsoever.

Any help would be appreciated as I am totally lost as to why my account was disabled!

[edited by: rmdoka at 11:48 pm (utc) on Aug. 24, 2004]

[cwnet]

What "type of a website" do you run?

[rmdoka]

The "type of website" I run is simply a directory of services with Adsense Ads on the content pages.
I was taken back by that in the email because I have a high Adwords budget. It's the same website since the beginning when I was approved. There are no fraudelent clicks or any "sneaky behavior" I actually spend 10 time more on advertising than I make through Adsense. The other income comes from sales. Needless to say, I have always made sure I was within their guidelines. Obviously not well enough though. :(
Any ideas anyone?

[Galtego]

Do the services include any of the kinds of content prohibited in Google AdSense Program Policies? If the directory is broad, then gambling or casino-related content, for instance, if there - even if only a portion of what you cover - might be what they object to (or something else on the list).

[rmdoka]

No. No gambling or all adult material. The services simply sell different widgets with Adsense ads on some of the pages.

Has anyone had experience having Google allow your account to be active again?
Also, does anyone know if I will receive the income from last month if my account is disabled this month? I had "payment approved" made in my account last week and disabled today. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[alika]

Their email seems to say that your account was not disabled due to fraudulent activity. It was the type of site. G seems to be doing a house cleaning, and redefining the types of sites they want in their network. You can try contacting them, but if they object to your type of site, then you may need to create a whole new site that is acceptable to them

[skunker]

It would be great to know what type of sites Google will not be supporting in the future. Anyone know yet?

[FromRocky]

As one of the members here mentioned that the payment was received after the AdSense had been disabled. Since your July payment has been approved before your account was disabled, you may have a high chance to receive it. The cheque may have been already made out to you.

[Jenstar]

Does the directory contain "scraped" content? (ie. a bot goes out and finds pages that are relevant to certain keywords, and then includes short descriptive snippets from each page - either with or without a link to the site the snippets came from.) Or is it all original from submissions to your site?

[mike schmitz]

...and the witchhunt is on.

[rmdoka]

The directory is all original.

I am completely stumped. I just wish I knew what I did wrong so I could make the necessary changes. I read their guidelines again and I must be interpreting their guidelines differently than they are.

[cyberair]

There has to be something abnormal here. Are you telling us everything? Because G just asked another member to remove AS code from non-content pages, but they don't just disable an account who is doing everything right and has a content site.

[rmdoka]

As far as I know I'm telling everything. Obviously there is something I'm missing. I just don't know what it is.

What I do know is this:

1) All my ads have been on a directory related website (no adult or gambling) with content related links and affiliate programs on some of the pages since I was approved over 6 months ago.

2) The site is the same site that was approved by Google. The only changes I have made to the site in 6 months is obviously add Adsense ads to the pages once I was approved.

If I'm missing something or leaving something out, I really don't know what it is.

The email stated I am showing Adwords ads on a site the Google Adsense folks don't like (the same site approved 6 months ago). That is what they said I was doing wrong, but I don't know what that means. Hence the reason for this thread.

[btas2]

There's always:

No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant

So if you were to put up a directory site simply to attract vistors and show them ads, you'd be in violation of AdSense rules.

Google gets to decide of course. Maybe they're getting serious about sites with actual, real, content.

[Jenstar]

I think we are seeing a crackdown on scraped content - content that is actually taken ("scraped") from the sites that they are linked to. While the directory in itself might be original in that no one has the same exact set of results, the content is still taken from another source, and is not original.

Advertisers are complaining about scraper sites, and AdSense is going to do what it can to make the advertisers happy, even if it means suspending sites that might have originally been approved. Unfortunate for those who have come to depend on the income, but if advertisers continue to leave in droves because of things such as scraped content or sites with little content at all, there won't be any advertisers left for publishers to earn money from.

I think the push is on for publishers to deliver quality content for the advertisers, and if you don't have quality original content, you better get some fast ;)