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I have obviously never clicked my own ads. Infact my CTR had dropped down a bit since 4-5 days. I have asked Google if I can use ads below images to which they said yes & I added a broder. I really dont understand this & is very discouraging as Google adsense was the main source of income from my sites & had future plans with this income. I also monitor my ad clicks thru diff softwares like adsrep & clicklogger. I dont see an IP clicking my ads for long time. This is truly disappointing.
I have also emailed them my asrep logs which clearly shows that theres no click fraud done.
Good luck.
Mack.
But of course you anticipated this question:
Why would you want to change the payee name into your aunts name? What problem do you solve that way?
P.N - I just asked them if its possible & did not ask them to change it already.
Also, if its due to my cousins disabled A/C then the email would say my a/c is disabled as its related to disabled a/c & not the invalid clicks thing.
The point is that it is very hard to draw any conclusions from the initial canned answers from Google. You got to go on trying to communicate with them and stay polite (I know, very hard sometimes!). If you can get to phase 2 (e-mailing with a real person instead of an automated reply) your chances are growing cause then it might become clear to you why they banned you. If you know that, it becomes more easy for you to cooperate and send them the data they really need. You might want to know there are forum members who got their account reinstated this way. Again, best of luck.
[edited by: mack at 12:48 pm (utc) on Mar. 7, 2006]
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[edited by: caran1 at 3:06 pm (utc) on Mar. 7, 2006]
be patient, try to contact a google representative.
Truthfully, what you were trying to do is not 'kosher'. trying, for tax reasons, to move an account in another person's name which you obviously hold. It's the same as keeping a car registered in a name of your aunt to save on car insurance - do you get what i'm trying to say?
[edited by: caran1 at 3:55 pm (utc) on Mar. 7, 2006]
Back to your website and Adsense:
I have been searching for 30 minutes and could not find any nudity whatsoever;-(.
But perhaps Google triggered on the word b@bes in your URL. Perhaps they are mistaken your site for some sort of p@rn thing. It should be easy to convince them your website has no real adult content.
1) Publisher asked to have account changed to someone else's name. (An odd request to begin with.)
2) The "someone else" turned out to be associated with a banned account.
Bingo! Suspicious smell. If you were on Google's QC team and your job was to protect advertisers, would you give the publisher the benefit of the doubt? You'd probably err on the side of caution and give the publisher the heave-ho.
Banned for association.
Easy to understand if last name of Aunt and son were the same.
And wanting to change names to almost anyone but yours does not pass the old smell test.
The email sent was a query. I never asked them to change it.
1) Publisher asked to have account changed to someone else's name. (An odd request to begin with.) - Why would this be odd? This is due to personal reasons like tax saving, non-permanent residence, or maybe I want her to earn rather than me.
2) The "someone else" turned out to be associated with a banned account. - Even I was associated with my cousin then why was I approved & nothing went wrong for more than a year with my account?
Google needs to understand this... Two relatives who share the same last name can or cannot stay in same place and also have diff business. The cheques sent are on a person's name so it belongs to that person only so theres no need to check the adds & other relationships.
Google should have some reasonable kinda checks rather than straight away banning people for sharing same last name & adds.
Eg: I stay in a house shared with a friend. Tomm his a/c is banned & due to some reason and I am not getting approved for adsense just because my adds is as same as a person who has been banned from adsense. We are not relatives, we share same place. Why would I suffer for him?
For instance, I'm considering "incorporating" myself/my "business" to take better advantage of legitamate business expensing & tax deductions. This would necessitate changing the name on the account from my personal name to my corporation's name... if/when I decide to proceed.
I would think this would be Okay with Google.
So... I must conclude that it's NOT because the OP requested the account's payee name change... BUT who the name was being changed to (being associated with a previously banned publisher) IMHO
But in Yeshwant's case, the Payee name that the account was being changed to, was already banned by Adsense. Hence, the new ban on Yeshwant's account.
I think the reason your ban may be due to "Invalid clicks", has to do with why the other account (your aunt's son) was banned. Maybe it was banned for invalid clicks, or other reasons. Either way, Google sends out some "generic" emails when approving or banning persons.
Like EFV stated, you didn't have to specifically ask to have the Payee name changed. Once your inquiry went to Google, they probably checked the account; associated it with the name on an account that was already banned; and linked the two accounts.
If I were a Google QC officer, I may conclude the same thing:
"Receive an email from a person wanting to change their Payee name. Check the account: Good. Check the new payee name: Bad (from a banned account). I ask myself, 'Is it possible that the person from the banned account had a new Adsense account opened through someone else (a cousin), and is now trying to get his name added back to an Adsense account?' Since this is possible, I would probably choose to disallow the account."
Yes, you are probably innocent in all of this, but Google has to follow a policy when it bans accounts.
For all of those future publishers out there, I recommend setting up your own Adsense account; do not use someone else's name; do not use a previously banned account; or a previously banned domain name.
Google will obviously investigate and find issues with it.
I still think Google is associating your aunt's son's account with your new one.
Not sure how, but it seems that way.
But keeping in contact with them through email will hopefully help the situation.
