Any possible way to get unbanned?

[batcavenet]

Google banned me a while ago- after multiple appeals and emails- I get no response. I had 3600 in legitimate revenue that was taken away.

The answer that was given was invalid clicks although I did nothing to generate these.

Is there any way to get back in - is google actually correctly filtering invalid clicks instead of going on a banning spree?

I am looking for suggestions on what if anything can be done. My traffic is a lot better than some people who still have adsense ads and I have no reason why I was targetted necessarily- maybe just bad luck.

Thanks

[martinibuster]

Sounds like you possibly may be misunderstanding what invalid clicks are. Invalid clicks isn't limited to rogue clickers or bot clicks. That's a common misperception.

It encompasses any click generated contrary to the TOS, including from an improperly labeled adsense unit, pics posted next to the units, attention drawn to the units either on your page or even on another website, and even clicks from unapproved traffic sources. Your case would be better served if you reviewed their TOS and find out what part you are in violation of.

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[edited by: martinibuster at 11:28 pm (utc) on May 1, 2007]

[batcavenet]

Well - it is very hard to correct a site if you don't know what you did wrong. Most publishers would cooperate if they are told what they need to correct instead of a generic response and then a cancellation - and then refusing to communicate further.

Considering I was in the 1 to 2 k range a month you would think they would care about keeping a publisher.

[martinibuster]

>>>...it is very hard to correct a site if you don't know what you did wrong.

A careful consideration of the their policies will probably be helpful to you.

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[batcavenet]

I guess my point is - they should tell people what they did wrong. The invalid clicks is google's way to ban anyone for whatever they want to - and it usually happens right before they issue a check so they don't have to pay anyone.

[nippi]

Reason you are getting few responses, is this is repetition of all other ban threads. You need to read them, the debate is already over as to whether google bans to keep accounts. Clearly, this is nonsense, they make far more if the account is kept open.

I have previously been banned, and unbanned. I set up an adsense account, then set up the site at work as the home page on two computers.

Of course I logged in from the same mac/ip address as others using the computer which was in the public domain area, so of course it appeared as false clicks.

I appealed the ban, stated my case, apologised, and got unbanned.

Having done a lot of research, I am confidant that rarely does anyone get banned for click bombing from an ip address that you have not used to log in from, and if you got banned, you likely did something wrong intentionally, or perhaps negligently, and it happened from the same computer you logged in from.

[FrostyMug]

nippi, i dealt with this issue by blocking our office's IP range through some php programming on the site. That way you can still login from work, but the office dwellers, even if they know about your site, will not see ads.
of course, this whole thing would not happen had i followed rule #1: never talk about your at-home business with co-workers (and friends, and relatives, the list goes on and on) ugh...

[edited by: FrostyMug at 1:24 pm (utc) on May 2, 2007]

[jetteroheller]

nippi, i dealt with this issue by blocking our office's IP range through some php programming on the site. That way you can still login from work, but the office dwellers, even if they know about your site, will not see ads.

My web site would look strange without ads.

So I change my SSI to show Amazon ads instead.

Nobody get banned for clicking on Amazon ads :)

[batcavenet]

I don't remember clicking on any of my own ads - I tried to avoid that. Is logging on to the member area from multiple locations also something that can get you banned?

[Bondings]

I don't remember clicking on any of my own ads - I tried to avoid that. Is logging on to the member area from multiple locations also something that can get you banned?

Only if the same computer/ip address performs excessive clicking or a click bomb. I don't think a few clicks would be enough, considering your revenue per month.

Putting Google ads on websites you host for free is also a big risk and I already heard about a lot of people who got banned doing that.

And yet it is probably bad luck, I agree. It could happen to anyone.

The best way, in my opinion, is to keep trying to contact them to reinstate your account. Eventually you might be lucky. However, consider the unpaid revenue as lost and don't ask it back - I don't think that would help you.

[netmeg]

If you really have no clue as to why you might have been banned, it might be helpful to find someone (familiar with AdSense but not a competitor) who can take a look at your site and see if they notice anything that might be dicey as far as TOS. A second set of eyeballs never hurts.

[explorador]

Don you think they should handle invalid clicks? like not paying? instead of banning an account?

I'm trying not to get paranoid about this as we don't really have any control of what users do with our sites, including clicking on the ads (even the competitors or people trying to understand how Adsense works) no, they wont experiment on their own ads...

So, back again, don't you think it should be handled by G?

[nippi]

yes, I went the ban ip address click thing at work too, much more betterer.

[batcavenet]

My site is user contributed websites- so I think adsense doesn't like this sort of site because I don't have total control of all pages. It is a free hosting site, and very few free host owners are able to keep adsense accounts.