adsense account disabled

[jmaresca2005]

I just had my adsense account disabled. I have doem nothing wrong. what i can i do to reolve this issue

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Yawn ...

[mgpapas]

sailorjwd, no, it's not against the TOS.

I asked the question awhile back and...

Thank you for your email.

We understand the importance of maintaining the quality of your site and your site's user experience. We currently offer a number of display options for AdSense for search. However, currently, the default for SiteSearch is to search the web.

Please be aware that modification of the AdSense for search code is a violation of the AdSense program policies. We therefore kindly ask that you use the AdSense for search code in its unedited form as provided in the 'Search Settings' section of your AdSense account.

etc etc read the policies.

[hunderdown]

mgpapas, maybe things have changed. I just looked at the page where you set up your AdSense search code, and it says:

"Enable your users to search the entire Internet, or within the domain you specify with SiteSearch."

You can choose either one. I've got my search box default set to search my site, and I'm sure many other people do too.

[sailorjwd]

BeeDee..

Go back to bed under the bridge.

[mgpapas]

mgpapas, maybe things have changed. I just looked at the page where you set up your AdSense search code, and it says:
"Enable your users to search the entire Internet, or within the domain you specify with SiteSearch."

Yes you can add the option for searching your site BUT the default in the code is for www search and the user has to click the site search radio button.... you would have to modify the code and change the checked value to checked for site search to make that default and THAT is against the TOS.

[hunderdown]

Well, when I set up the code--which was some time last year--you COULD have your site as the default. Maybe THAT is what has changed.

The question now is, would Google expect me to change code that was kosher when it was generated?

[added] I've just gone back to AdSense. You can generate the code with either the Web or your site as the default. So they must both be valid. I was able to toggle it back and forth. Google always sets up those code-generating pages to ONLY generate valid code so that must be deliberate on their part.

But we're getting off at a tangent. jmaresca, where are yooooooouuuuuuu?

[calman]

Just to reiterate what others have said:

-The remark by jmaresca2005 (apparently quoted from another thread) that adding Adsense for Search doubled his Adsense revenue really raised my eyebrows.

-Knowing how little I make from Adsense for Search versus Adsense for Content, this doubling of revenue would certainly raise some questions in my mind. I have yet to encounter a post in which any Adsenser makes a significant portion of their income from Adsense for Search.

[incrediBILL]

Original poster merely mentioned his account was disabled and the thread took off like an olympic racer jump starting when a car backfires.

Tangent?

This thread clearly skipped off the atmosphere during a re-entry attempt.

[ann]

and again the poster abandoned the thread. Why start one if you are not going to keep up with it?

[hyperkik]

It looks to me like, although you can still click the radio button such that it appears that your site would be the default target of the search, the code no longer changes as a result - that is, the web remains the default target. (As hunderdown indicates, you used to be able to make your own site the default using unaltered, Google-created code.)

If null search results are a problem, though, Google wouldn't have to display ads. If Google is displaying ads under such circumstances, it seems unreasonable for it to blame the webmaster for its choice.

[sailorjwd]

To keep consistently off topic...

I (a-hole supreme) contacted G after reading this and they got back to me already and said to use the interface to set your domain as the default - no problem.

They gave click by click instructions.

[hyperkik]

I also received clarification from Google on the issue of SiteSearch. You may set the default to either WWW or your own site. If you want the default to be your own site, first select SiteSearch and then select the radio button for your site.

[Jesse_Smith]

***Yawn*** Pass it on.

[hunderdown]

[Sigh] jmaresca, if you are still reading this thread, please ignore the static and the tangents, to which I have made my share of contributions, and let us know if you have figured anything out, or have more to tell us, or have heard more from Google.

[MikeNoLastName]

I know this is probably a stupid question, but since I've never had it happen to me and noone has mentioned it...

When Adsense deactivates your account and sends you "the notice" saying you won't be paid anymore, do your existing ad blocks on your pages start showing all PDAs, nothing or do they continue showing the same type ads as before?

[Atomic]

do your existing ad blocks on your pages start showing all PDAs, nothing or do they continue showing the same type ads as before?

Good question. You would think that they would stop showing ads since Google had determined a policy violation had occurred. continuing to show ads when they know it's costing advertisers money due to fraud could make Google liable.

[incrediBILL]

do your existing ad blocks on your pages start showing all PDAs

I'm not sure why Google would want to show Palm Pilots on cancelled accounts

ANYWAY....

I've always heard that AdSense just stops working, period, no PSAs, nothing.

[jenkers]

if I remember rightly from ones that I have seen they show the 'Page cannot be displayed' message in the adblock.

[miguelito]

thatīs correct...i speak from personal experience ;)

[Sierra_Dad]

Original poster is in another forum here asking about Yahoo's Version of Adsense.

So either our static on this thread discouraged him, or he saw no more luck with Google, or both.