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All It says is to contact google the failure of which prevails to nothing, the strange thing is so is my business adsense account got held too.. it's all too much cries.
I'm doing nothing wrong all i did was paste the google ad code and this is the respect i get back... its upsetting me.
Ann
I'm very dissapointed in the google service of which I've been using since january 2005 (when it was good).
I've lost all respect for the service and going to have to resort to a uk publisher that pays decent click values because this is really hurting my business and creating a depression on my life which I don't need right now.
Too bad my near 15,000$+ a month turned into 300$ month over the case of about 4 smartpricing cycles.
Lesson learnt? Don't have a big site you get smartpriced into nowhere.
Seems to me something abnormal in your a/c. Maybe that is why it is on hold. They may actually fix the ' smart pricing' thing, and you may come back up ;-) ..wait and see.
As for the hold im worried they are delaying a kick out of adsense and they are just gathering my whole years+ of data to against a broken smartpricing worth of crappy income with an algorythm that will support all my income as false by mistake and there i go with a ban and nothing to do but look for something else.
Best luck to you greedy_player.
the strange thing is so is my business adsense account
Exceptional high earnings should trigger a review of what you are doing, which is a good thing.
If there is a problem with TOS compliance they should know and be able to tell you what it is. It seems that there is a bug in the account somewhere their end that they first need to acknowledge and then fix. It won't help your earnings until they fix it, but it would be nice to know that they are actively working the problem.
This sort of response from Google demonstrated the poor end of their support.
[edited by: Pengi at 10:39 am (utc) on Oct. 18, 2006]
seems to imply already a ToS violation: "thou shall only have one account".
Not so, multiple accounts are allowed so long as the requirement is justified.
I don't know if they'll ban you if your traffic quality is just so crappy they don't want it, or if there's some other connection between the two things. But going from $15,000 down to $300 is a vast drop; you were already 98% banned before this happened.
Ann
Maybe someone scraped your site or you are in frames on several sites. It's good that you did not get an outright ban and they are checking...they don't tell us everything.
Do you have a break out script on All your pages?
15,000 unique ip's daily access my site producing 500k page hits
Over 30 page views per visitor? Man, I've heard of some sticky sites, but I thought the only way to get that sticky was to show dirty pics:-)
I was hoping to hit 1,000,000 page views daily and join the premium adsense club, sounds like I'll be in the no-adsense club soon :(
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I really find this a painful experience as you say my site is pulling off some good hits then why the hell have i gone from nearly 1000$ to 10$ day is beyond a joke.. thats 100x less income from smartpricing , and wasn't smarpricing suppose to make publishers more money (this is frustrating)
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I wonder if your account could be on hold (pending a human review) simply because, now that smart pricing has slashed your earnings, serving ads for the account represents a significant cost for Google without enough revenue to cover that cost.
Side note: Are you running any other kinds of advertising, such as CPM ads from the banner networks? With your kind of traffic, even low-CPM run-of-network ads might be able to produce decent revenues (assuming that you could get enough ads to fill your inventory).
whats wrong with 30 page views per visit? it's not enough.
Didn't mean to imply there's something wrong with it, just that your site is apparently so sticky that nobody clicks on the ads. I've never run a forum or community type site, I imagine they could get that high, though I've never seen numbers quoted. Do your Adsense impressions agree with your site statistics? I ask because I've seen a lot of phony traffic on our site lately, shows in the logs but not with Javascript tracking.
Things are looking great however it appears that adsense does not like me.
Alternatively I may try another ad-provider although it must pay at least 0.15 cent a click, 0.25+ would be perfect.
These stats look suspicious and could have prompted a review by Google to confirm you are complying with the TOS.
I still think they should at least inform you if they are doing this though.
The problem is that this occoured out of the blue by ip I dont know, but its completely taken hold of my account and I can't lift it, i contact them many times . "payment issue" and it wont be replied to, one reply says can't find my address despite replying to them times before on the same e-mail account and which is a google account connected to adsense as it is, its dumb.
75% of traffic are my user base returning everyday
hmm..if 75% of the clicks are coming from the same users day after day - I would think this would raise some eyebrows. They very well could have been discounting clicks from those repeat visitors and that is why the huge decline in revenue. This reminds me of several "AdSense click clubs" that are out there. I wouldn't blame them if they shut down your accounts as return visitors should be "less likely" to click on ads IMHO.
I think I got around 200,000 more than I usualy get so far today
75% of traffic are my user base returning everyday
What on earth is your subject, just generally, we don't need specifics?
You must have the stickiest site on the Net:-)
