Should scraper sites get you a "LIFE TIME" Ban from Adsense?

I am one of the many who have been shown the door (forever it looks like)..

[teeceo]

Hi all,

I along with a ton of others who have been shown the door from google's adsence strikly becouse of building scraper sites.

I have tried to get back in but, have been told (through email as I don't have a adsence phone number to a live person to call) that my services are no longer needed.

My question is (to all here and to any "offical adsence members" from google here on webmasterworld as well): Should getting banned for building scraper sites get you kicked out of adsence for "LIFE"?

Anyone else here that has been kicked out for building scraper sites (and) who actaul got back in, please share you input here as well as those people who are in my shoe's.

There is one other thing to consider. The people who have been banned from adsence, once ypn becomes aviable, we will all be going over there (along with thousands of other PO'ed webmasters who can't even call a adsence person on the phone to get a answer, even though they are doing thousands of $$$$ in biz monthly). Now don't get me wrong, I am not going over to ypn to do scraper sites (i have real content sites for ypn and for adsence if I could get back in for that matter) but, the "EX" scraper site builders are infact brillant seo's and know how to bring trageted traffic to advertiser's, why would adsence want to just throw "us" in the garbage can and watch there market share shrink when they should be looking for ways to stay on top. Heck, I would even be for a "pobation peroid" for offender's like me but, I "LIFE TIME BAN" (as in never ever again).....

Teeceo.

[21_blue]

oddsod wrote:
>If scrapers created over a year ago are still "stealing"
>your traffic, blame the SE.

I think that is a fair argument.

>If I was able to remove scrapers a year ago - and didn't - I
>wouldn't feel I had to moral authority to dish out lifetime
>Adsense bans purely on the basis someone created scrapers.

That is another fair argument. However, I'm not convinced of the the premise - that they have been "able" to remove scrapers without penalising genuinely useful directories and web portals. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, they may be playing slowly, slowly, catchy monkey.

[oddsod]

It's not impossible that they lacked the ability to weed out the majority of scrapers using automated means. Though I think that, on the balance of probabilities, it wasn't the capability they were lacking. That they are willing to take collateral damage is clear (they may not even consider that something called collateral damage exists; why should they?). It doesn't matter to them if an apparently useful portal disappears from SERPs as long as the top 100 results are all highly relevant and give users satisfaction.