I was kicked out because of click fraud

I did not click my own ads

[ifly]

I did not ask visitors to click the ads.
I am in China.My average CTR was above 4%.I just checked my adsense statistics a few hours before I received the Email from google which informed me of click fraud,and the stats was NORMAL at that time.

Was the CTR too high,even they were valid clicks?

My check for Feb is above 2k,will it be cleared?

My earning of March is about 1k,will I receive the check?

Last and most important,will it have some good to email google?Is there any chance for me to reinstate my account?

Thanks,and sorry for my poor English ^_^

[howiejs]

OK - reviewing ---

based on YOUR post:

80,000 (avg impressions day)
1% (CTR)
800 (clicks a day)
24,000 (avg clicks a month)
$5,000 (your stated earnings)
$0.21 (epc)

is this too high for gaming related (gaming for VIDEO GAMES - NOT GAMBLING - is the way I read it)
I thought the above paid less?

Also many of the kicked-out threads seemed to be forums?

[Vec_One]

When I came across this post, it was imediately above another one about going into AdSense full-time. :) That underlines the importance of having our eggs in more than one basket.

I was kicked off of AdSense [3] ( 1 2 3 )
30 ptah 6:54 pm on May 4, 2005 (utc 0)

last fri. i quit my job,for adsense [10] ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 )
need your "good luck" 93 kwongwo 6:52 pm on May 4, 2005 (utc 0)

ptah, I presume all of your highschool kids log on from the same IP addresses at the same time during school breaks. I can see how that would look very suspicious, especially if the conversion rate is unusually low. Perhaps an affiliate program would be more suitable for you?

[incrediBILL]

Perhaps an affiliate program would be more suitable for you?

Unless all those high school kids have credit cards I'm not sure what the point would be.

[Visi]

Believe the reason for dismisal was stated correctly back on page 1 with the denial right below it. Checked on cached copy of the site and clearly has "Advertisment - Ads by Google" above the ads. Against the TOS to edit the code or display that text.

[Vec_One]

Recently, I received several warnings from AdSense because my search field was pre-populated. I wasn't monitoring the email account the warnings went to, so I was eventually cut off. I then removed the text in the search field and informed G by replying to a warning message. They thanked me and my AdSense was working again a couple of days later.

My infraction seems similar to ptah's but the results are different.

[walkman]

"my search field was pre-populated"
what does that mean? I'm curious, that's all

[fischermx]

"my search field was pre-populated"
what does that mean? I'm curious, that's all

Some people modify the Google Search code to put some keywords (usually those that show up high paying ads) on the textbox to search, in the hope somebody just click the button.
Actually don't need to modify the code, some JS does the trick.

[Vec_One]

In my case, it said something very innocent, like "Enter your search term here." Apparently, Google doesn't permit anything at all like that.

[ptah]

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[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 2:45 pm (utc) on May 17, 2005]
[edit reason] no PRIVATE emails are posted on WebmasterWorld - please review the TOS [/edit]

[AWJackRWN]

When I was kicked off, I waited about half a year and tried to reapply and after getting no response, I e-mailed them explaining that it wasn't me doing the clicking.

They told me that they felt they made the right decision and angered me by thanking me for understanding.

[spaceylacie]

Google had to teach me a lesson or 2 when I first started the program. I'm glad they thought it was worth their time to contact me about the problems, and gave me the time to fix them.

I'm thinking that too many people rush into the Adsense program. Google doesn't work like other private advertisers, I found this out quickly.

At first I thought it was totally crazy that my advertiser(Google) didn't want me to invite people to visit their client sites.

After getting an email from the "Google Team", that I had to edit over 250 pages to meet their TOS, plain html pages, I thought, whoa, who does Google think they are?

I finally did a little more reading and a little less writing! I understand what's going on now.