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Ok Im getting afraid, why?
Because everyday I keep reading about how google banned accounts from other webmaters! By this im not telling im cheating, of curse not, I follow the G TOS by the inch and Im not doing anything agains G TOS. But you may ask, why Im afraid then?
Its simple, becuse I've seen in this forum lots of webmasters that got banned from adsense because an idiot visited his site or probably a jelous webmasters visited his sites and started clicking on all the adsense ads so they get banned from google.
Im about to launch my biggest project ever, and I decided to stick with AS, and im expecting lots of traffic for this new website Im about to launch, but with a hopefully popular website my chances will increase that an idiot will try to mess my account with google by clicking on AS ads to get me banned. Im afraid this could happen!
Why google dosent protect the webmaster in this cases? It's not webmasters fault! There is nothing we can do against that, is it?
Let me know what you think about this, or maybe you know a solution to prevent this? anything would help guys
i've been using adsense for almost 2 years and i never have had a problem... i run a high traffic site too.
when they terminate someone's' account it's for a reason.. not because it's a full moon.
Im not gulty of anything, I have my adsense account in good standing, Im just saying Im afraid that an idot could click on my ads to mess me up, and actually he would do it! because google will bann ur account if you get invalid clicks!
and uk_webber or whatever, Im a girl by the way, I dont know whats the problem with being a girl, you macho old fashion guy lol
Really?
See.. I learned something from those AA meetings.
I've seen in this forum lots of webmasters that got banned from adsense because an idiot visited his site or probably a jelous webmasters visited his sites and started clicking on all the adsense ads so they get banned from google.
You seem to have been reading a different forum than I have. Of the "I've been banned" threads I've read over the past year, and where the ACTUAL cause of the ban was determined, it was usually due to a clear TOS violation. Very few cases of click attacks. Some CLAIMS of click attacks but I was often left with the feeling that posters were claiming click attacks to cover up for other violations--including botched attempts at click fraud.
We also never hear of the cases where the AdSense system deleted bad clicks from someone's account, because they don't know about it themselves. I suspect this happens quite often.
Don't become paranoid, remember that the total of banned accounts this forum knows about is realistically very few considering there are some what, 50,000+ Adsense advertisers?
Possibly more these days.
Without doubt the vast majority have been from people who never read, or didn't want to understand, the TOS/T&Cs and have created their own problems.
There have been the odd one or two cases which have been reveiwed by G and re-instated.
Honestly, I don't understand why so many have to sail "so close to the wind" when such an excellent program is usable within the terms.
Heavens, it's not even 3 years ago most of us would have paid to get into a program like this so difficult it was to sell advertising space on our web sites!
BTW -- can you tell I'm a girl, too? Or does my name look like a young kid saying "yes, mom".... hmmmm
but one last question, what happens when there is click attack? do people get suspended?
but one last question, what happens when there is click attack? do people get suspended?
Not in my experience.
Obviously, you need to have a site that will pass a manual review.
Also, if you do see a suspicious jump in clicks and earnings, report your discovery to AdSense Support. That will be a point in your favor, since publishers who are stealing from advertisers aren't likely to report their crimes to Google.
Google's no dummy. It sees the repeated clicks and credits them back to the advertiser. Why? Because it's good business AND the right thing to do. If an advertiser saw money fly out the window without decent leads Google AdWords would be toast.
There is no harm in checking into what Yahoo! has going on with its own AdSense clone -- and other ad network options -- but that doesn't mean that you should worry about it as long as you are being true.
some inocent webmasters have been banned with aparently no reason,
Care to name some?
Ann
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As for that "being a girl" issue I might add that as some guys think the earth is made by US, some think it is driven by males only.
Ignorance adds to the value of wisdom and is neccessary to see the difference...
