I've been disabled from Adsense cos of invalid clicks

how ca this happen

[durbass]

I signed up for google adsense in dec 2004 and was amazed by the program but last week they cancelled the acc cause of invalid clicks, can someone help me understand what has happened, my website is for a guide to skiing and snowboarding whish has about 60 pages, i put the adverts on about 20 pages and i check each page every day to see how may impressions and clicks appear and take out the adds on pages wot don't get good impressions and putting them on the pages that get the most impression. Plus could it be soething in may html code that caused them to cancel the acc. The website is very popular for a ski guide with an average hits of 10000 a month.

[durbass]

All i can do is either try and proof my case which i don't think Google will give in. which i don't blame them in a way.. other than that i'll have wait till yahoo or msn come out or try adsonar

[martingale]

Do you have your own weblogs? Did you run an adsense click tracker? Maybe you could try and analyze your own logs and see if you can find any evidence of click fraud yourself. Also consider sending what logs you have to Google as a sign that you are trying to help track down the fraud.

[martingale]

FWIW, my two cents: I think AdSense should have more ways to penalize a site than just a death penalty. For cases where there's invalid clicks but it's not clear that the webmaster was complicit or where it was only a minor violation of the TOS I think the appropriate action is a temporary suspension, say one month, or one year, depending on how serious it was. Absolute termination should be reserved for cases where the webmaster was clearly actively involved in the fraud (like, "Click on the ads" messages on the site) or for a repeat offender.

I live in fear that one day my account will be terminated because someone will post a "click the ads" in a comment, or someone will launch a bot against my site, or something else. I am willing to co-operate with Google to the best of my abilities to stop click fraud; I just hope that my best is good enough. It seems like sometimes maybe it isn't.

[Zygoot]

Absolute termination should be reserved for cases where the webmaster was clearly actively involved in the fraud (like, "Click on the ads" messages on the site) or for a repeat offender.

A week ago I reported a website which had phrases such as "Click on the ads, you must!".

I checked back yesterday and they had removed the text. I guess either Google warned them or that the webmaster discovered that he was playing a dangerous game.

[ncw164x]

there was a thread similar to this one started last week and a member posted its not hard to find sites promoting "Click on the ads below" or text similar

every single page what are indexed at google and show up for that phrase now dont have adsense on the sites so it seems the adsense team have been very busy over the last 7 - 10 days sending out termination email or even just a warning