AdSense Disabling Arbitrage Accounts by June 1st

[Freddy81]

They told me my account will be disabled at 1st June, and also added that I'll receive payment for all outstanding earnings in accordance with the standard AdSense payment schedule.

For this day (17 May), does it mean that they will pay for April 1-30 earnings, or for May (1-18) also?

[fischermx]

shut down about 2 hours ago

Really two hours ago?
Those are not working hours, not even in California.

These emails are totally automated!

[heyday]

Ya totaly automated......

Now I want to know how many non-arbitrage publishers have been shut down.....

Anytime you have automation like this many "normal" guys get shut down with the croud......thats what happend to several of my product sites with Adwords introduced the quality bot on the content network.......

I got to tell you....I am WAY WIGGING out right now....super paranoid that us non-arbs may start getting hit.

heyday

[Green_Grass]

heyday

What you need to tell us is, if the site in question was a pure MFA with thin content or something more....

I am working on the premise that they are knocking off sites with minimum content and maximum ads. I maybe wrong.

[Hobbs]

Just before the fear spreads:

- Getting the letter at night does not mean it is fully automated, you don't know how big the list is, it can be that the delivery is automated, the flagging is automated, but I would be very surprised if the pulling of the trigger is automated, public companies do not play dice.

- If one non arb site was banned you would have heard loud screams of horror already days ago.

[fischermx]

You're right. It does not make sense to be fully automated, because none have plead innocence.
Must be they just programmed email batch for the night.

[Green_Grass]

"Just before the fear spreads"

Well, I checked some other forums and there are publishers complaining that even though they donot use the arbitrage model and run blogs, they have been banned. Source of traffic seems to be myspace? They are speculating that it could be a combination of MFA and low conversions or both.

[trannack]

Let me re-iterate what I mentioned earlier - as it has obviously got a tad buried in here - and can certainly answer a couple of questions.

I have a friend - who had a very much so MFA site. Totally lame - no content etc.

100% of her traffic was from PPC YAHOO - NOT ADWORDS, nor was there ever any adwords traffic. Her revenue was under $10K a month. Her CTR was probably over 35%. She had had her account for several years.

There is no loss with this site being banned - it is exactly sites like these that need to go. I've been telling her for ages. The point is that this is not just adwords/adsense related - it is more to do with PPC/adsense and probably a whole load of other factors.

I wonder how many of these banned accounts had robots.txt files, contact details, privacy policy, sitemaps, aboutus pages etc, etc.....not to mention unique content.

I think that there is some sort of automated filtering going on - possibly to filter out the worse offenders - followed by perhaps more manual reviews to get rid of some that slipped through the net.

I suspect that unless you have at least one legit site running in an account you will have little if any chance of reinstatement. Perhaps if you have at least one legit site - you might be able to prove your case - and get your act together to produce more of similar quality.

Just my pennies.

[Hobbs]

there are publishers complaining that even though they donot use the arbitrage model and run blogs

SSDD turns into DSSD
Banning for click fraud is still on too.

[Green_Grass]

Shoemoney on his site quotes Kim Malone (President - G adSense) saying ( last fall) that they will use adWords data to find out which sites are not converting well for advertisers and knock them off the program. This seems to have come true.

Seems to me to be just the start of the clean up process...Next target could be any site? Seems to be a logical step. There must be thousands of sites with legitimate low converting traffic which could bear the brunt of the axe. Sites which cater to colleage/school students, teenagers seeking thrills or information and much more..

[Hobbs]

To each his own GG
There are publishers too for those niches, marriage & dating sites, ringtones, lyrics.. Google serves high as well as low ends of the spectrum, that's why I don't think they will be going after specific niches, right now they are clearing MFA, what's next?

I am hoping parked domains.