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?

[Bddmed]

I've no doubt it is related. With all the examples given in the Adsense blog of what *not* to do. And by acting with a severe amount of webmasters being banned they must've known it is food for discussion.

I removed Adsense ads on pages because there were Flash-games on it. Just to be on the safe side.

[martinibuster]

Anyone think this will add more money to regular publishers?

If there are less networks pulling a hundred grand a month's worth of advertiser money through arbitrage, does that mean there will be more money for regular publishers?

Will this help improve advertiser confidence in the content network?

[matrix_neo]

How these two are connected? I have no clue, can any one please explain? By the way I have not updated mine yet, as it was difficult.

[netmeg]

Are they tossing these people out of AdWords too, or just assuming that once the AdSense revenue is gone, they'll either find some other way to monetize their sites or else drop out of advertising as well.

I think it's a major step in the right direction (and to my mind, Google has amply shown that they are willing to forgo short term profits in order to establish their brand as one that can be trusted) It also makes me wonder if they're going to address all those eBay, Yahoo, Target and other big player ads with the millions of DKI not-necessarily-relevant keywords.

[Hobbs]

Wonder if this is connected to the Google accounts consolidation

told you so!

Anyone think this will add more money to regular publishers?

Not sure if it's related, but Thrs May 17 & Friday May 18th were exceptional in terms of performance.

Gentlemen, backup and empty your filters.

[Edit: fixed dates]

[edited by: Hobbs at 4:46 pm (utc) on May 19, 2007]

[newsecular]

On just or unjust mentioned above.

I say a strong reaction from AdSense is just. A warning, a payment denial (pay the money back to the advertisers if that's the right thing to do, I consent to that), a total stop in ad servings until a specific set of criteria is fixed, this is all totally just. Google makes the rules, and we all want this great system to work.

Yet, I honestly think the sudden total ban forever is unjust.

The email indicates a total ban, forever.
Everything we have invested in learning AdWords and AdSense, the hours, the communication, the interaction with the AdSense team, the suggestions here on the forum - it's then all worthless.

We are all still early in this game, it's still a steep learning curve. When Google recently started suggesting their own sites as ads/links in the searches, it was soon pulled back - you try something honestly and fairly, when it does not fly you pull it back and try something else - we are all learning.

By the full outstanding payment Google is sort of admitting that this is a grey zone, that’s what I sense most webmasters here seem to feel as well.

I say honest webmasters deserve a second chance.

Trying to be objective here, not easy on something this close to home.

[trannack]

Well in theory - the geniune adwords advertisers should see a decline in costs - as the lower payers will have gone. This, in turn, I would expect to reflect in a reduction inadsense payments initially - folowed by an increase, as the advertisers that had opted out of the content network start opting back in. It will be interesting few months I think.

[pexcornel]

Can we know how much a month the banned guys earned from adsense?
Thank you everyone.

[Chapman]

Hobbs-

but Thrs May 18 & Friday May 19th were exceptional in terms of performance.

What calendar do you go by? ;-)

Chapman

[Hobbs]

I make up a new one every day Chapman :-)