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Google said my account has been disabled because of "invalid clicks". I used adsense for about a year. I swear I NEVER click or ask somebody to click on my ad since I placed adsense on my websites.
Google used to be my most respected company, but it is not any more. I have removed Google from my IE homepage.
a) - Write them a nice letter assuming you haven't already burned your bridges with flame mail, beg, plead, throw yourself on their mercy that "you did nothing wrong and they should credit back anything suspicious that anyone else did, but it was without your knowledge".
b) - NEVER NEVER let them hold more than $100! It's YOUR money for starters and when you leave it in their checkbook they earn interest and those cats are fat enough already
They simply mean, if you make more than $100 a month, it would be wise to get paid each month instead of asking Google to hold your money for another month, just in case something like this happens. If you have Google holding a lot of payments for you, you could get royally screwed if you get kicked out before you finally ask for a check.
I swear I NEVER click or ask somebody to click on my ad since I placed adsense on my websites.
It's been said before but it obviously bears repeating that Google does not limit their definition of invalid clicks to "clicks I've made or instigated."
If there's something about your site that violates the TOS, perhaps unintentionally, then clicks there are invalid. Or if there are weird patterns of clicks, or if a competitor came in and started clicking like mad....
Others can give other examples. My point is that you may need to do more than just prove that you didn't do it.