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Account banned for potential risk?

         

kempozone

3:24 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Just woke up this morning and received an email from Adsense that my account was disabled due to a risk of generating invalid activities?

Here is the exact words from the first paragraph.
"After reviewing our records, we've determined that your AdSense account poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due to invalid activity, we've found it necessary to disable your AdSense account."

I have gone through the reinstatement process and awaiting their response. I've had this account for at least 10 years and was making good money in the past - good money being around five digits per month. That changed when I sold all of the sites a few years ago. So for about four years, I earned nothing due to taking a break on starting other brick and mortar businesses.

This year, I started a few authoritative sites with high quality content and focused only on organic traffic. For the past few months my earnings amounted to just pennies a day and on really good days - a few dollars. Not enough to pay for hosting and other fees. But, in the long run, I hope to get back to the five digit earnings of the past.

I am a veteran of Google Adsense so there is really no reason whatsoever to generate invalid activities. This is a nightmare for someone else not for someone who adheres to Google's rules and guidelines for over 10 years.

Now, I am here to find out from other people who has similar problem and the chances of reinstatement. If the chances are slim, I will find other ad network to work with.

netmeg

4:18 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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The first thing I'd probably look at was the source of my traffic - where it's coming from (referrals) and where it's coming from (geo / location) Make sure everything there makes sense.

farmboy

4:38 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Any chance any of the sites you sold still have some of your code on them?


FarmBoy

kempozone

4:39 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Thanks netmeg. I've checked over the source of my traffic and everything seems to be in order. 99% of my traffic are from the US and from google search engines. Although referrals are limited they all checked out normal. None of the referrals are so-called spam sites, BTW.

I get a approximately 200 unique visitors total to my sites each day and earning on avg. $2/day and getting a disabled acct letter is beyond my comprehension.

kempozone

4:44 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Any chance any of the sites you sold still have some of your code on them?


LOL. If they still had my codes on them, I'd be earning some $$$ all these years.

Anyway, is it wise to go ahead and use other ad network on the site while Google sort this issue out?

explorador

5:16 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Already using the allowed site lists?
Any family member of friend knows about your sites, it's been proven risky...

kempozone

5:55 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Already using the allowed site lists?
Any family member of friend knows about your sites, it's been proven risky...


I realize all ad networks are at risk of potential fraud and understand Google's stance on disabling accounts before it happens. It is an honor system based on individual ethics and integrity.

Anyone has the potential to inflate their earnings by asking friends or relatives to click on ads. However, I have been with Adsense for over 10 years, perhaps 15, and have thorough knowledge of all the rules and guidelines. I have taken considerable steps to ensure sites are made for positive user experience and no accidental clicks can be made from self. My investments in the sites far exceeded what I have earned from Adsense this year. This is a long-term commitment that I know will pay-off in the future and would not risk my account over a few bucks.

My sites have grown steadily and my earnings parallel my traffic. An average of $2-3 on traffic of 200 unique visitors a day is not something that could raise a red flag.

I am now wondering if my site generated $200/day would Google ban me or work with me to fix the potential risk problem? hm...

HuskyPup

7:37 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)



I've had this account for at least 10 years


However, I have been with Adsense for over 10 years, perhaps 15, and have thorough knowledge of all the rules and guidelines.


It started in June 2003.

Habtom

7:45 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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It started in June 2003.


He meant Internet Years, which is also incidentally the same as Dog years. :)

kempozone

7:47 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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How time flies. I keep thinking Adsense was started in late 9o's. It may have started in 2003 HuskyPup thanks for clarifiyng. The point is, it seems much longer than that for me and I have been with them since the beginning.

I just want to find out about similar experience of what G called "poses a risk of generating invalid activity" and if anyone have any luck getting reinstated.

scooterdude

7:50 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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do you remember this post of yours below

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kempozone

7:57 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Yes, scooterdude, I do remember that post and immediately fixed the problem and wrote to Google to look into it.

My fix to the problem was removing the forum and made sure to disallow search engines crawl to the forum with robots.txt

BTW, traffic has steadily returned. Not much to begin with on this site.