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.

[leadegroot]

and have you read the Terms of Service (TOS) and complied with it by not clicking on your own ads and not asking/inviting/encouraging others to?

[durbass]

Yes i read the TOS although it does'nt read very well. plus i did'nt click on the adverts but i did notive my bandwidth jump up alot from 3 gig to 5gig a month.

[ncw164x]

If there was something wrong with the html code you would receive a warning email to change the code, your account has been terminated due to one or possibly more of the following reasons

1 - clicking on your own ads
2 - asking others to click on your ads
3 - having text saying please "click to sponsor our site" or anything similar
4 - your site was hit with a click bot
5 - your site has no content other than ads

99.99999999 recurring comments posted saying they have had the adsense account terminated have been at fault either with clicking on their own ads or encouraging other to click,

be honest with yourself have you clicked on any of your own ads or encouraged anyone by having text just above the ads saying CLICK HERE or similar, google have found a pattern on your account and that's why it's has been cancelled

It will "NOT" be terminated due to any of these reasons
1 - your ugly
2 - they just don't like you
3 - you smell
4 - you've been having an affair

no one yet has posted saying it could be because of my personal hygiene my account was closed ;)

[durbass]

I can honestly say i have'nt clicked on any adds at all, i have'nt asked any 1 to click on them either.

[durbass]

If i give you the website u could see it anything is wrong with it?

[leadegroot]

The usual method is to add the url to your profile (under Control Panel, above)

[frox]

don't puit the URL here, it's against the rules.

I think you can put it in your profile. though...

[durbass]

i have added it to me profile now

[frox]

I can't see it...

[durbass]

i just clicked on my user name and its in there for homepage

[ncw164x]

it will be for you but not for us

I think you have to have a certain amount of posts before it appears so we can see it

[durbass]

oh cheers.. i've been investigating all invalid clicks on this forum, i have come to the conclusion some1 has decided to pick on my website..... does anyone know of any1 who managed to get back there adsense acc

[ncw164x]

I have only heard of 2 cases where the account was reinstated after being terminated but there will be more, you need to find the information yourself and show it to google to plead your case

You need to analyse your sites log file to look for any patterns or obscure amount of clicks from the same IP number

I'm not saying this will work but its all you can do because they wont give an exact reason why your account was terminated

did your earning or ctr jump up suddenly, this would raise a flag for your account to be looked at

If you have read other threads on adsense accounts being terminated then you will know the only way forward is to put adsense behind you and start using another contextual ad supplier

No one has ever returned to say "hey guess what I have got my account reinstated" by doing xyz...never

[durbass]

my 1st month earnings for dec was $400 althought i join 20th dec, jan was $783 and feb was $1088 and march upto they clsed the acc was $240 the ctr was avg out at 15% give or take

[roycerus]

Wohh! That's a HIGH CTR. Mine ranges from 2.5% - 3.5%
Like I said earlier in some other posts. I think Google does make certain distinctions on what kind of visitors you are sending and how well they are converting. I would say if your website is not themed then there is a chance of generating many curiosity clicks which don't convert. This may be the problem.

Regards,
R

[ncw164x]

did you use any of these crappy traffic building sites where they will drive zillions of visitors to your site for a few dollars therefore you earned money but the advertiser got stung

google frown upon this type of thing

[durbass]

nope all i did was build the site and have reciprical links on other skiing websites, i have never paid for any advertising

[jetteroheller]

Durbass wrote:

5 GB traffic per month
15% CTR
$1088 in Ferbruary

If it's a site with many pictures with about 50 KB per page view, 5 GB are 100.000 page views at 15% CTR 15.000 clicks. Makes EPC 7 Cent.

[durbass]

jetteroheller

there s only a few pages with pics on each page work out about 75kb there are 2 or thre page with pic hich are 150kb - 500kb the 15% is avg as dec there was only 10 days of adverts for $400

i have just checked from dec 20 to jan 20th the ctr was 16.7% average click 26 a day out of average of 218.some day i had ctr of 6% and the highest was 56% on dec 25th

I'm just checked feb 1st to feb 11th ad the ctr was avg 22.% 374 impressions and 83 clicks

[lammert]

i have just checked from dec 20 to jan 20th the ctr was 16.7% average click 26 a day out of average of 218.some day i had ctr of 6% and the highest was 56% on dec 25th

As mentioned by others in this thread your CTR is exceptional high for a general site about skiing. I would like to have 56% CTR, but I am some magintudes behind you (on other subjects). Although it might be all genuine clicks I can imagine that Google decided to disable ads on your pages just to be on the safe side. Although I have no information about CTR of sites in the skiing business, I can imagine that your site's CTR is far above the average and that caused your account to be disabled.

[durbass]

I found out that on 8 days there was way to much ctr was on avg of 40% compared to other days of just 11% so ow i just have to get google to try and see my point...... know doubt they still say no

[ncw164x]

Are you saying the ctc went up 8 days after you started or this figure rose 8 days ago

[durbass]

ncw164x
no from the 25th dec 27,29,31 1st jan 2,4,5 were avg out at 35% with vlicks of 60 or more on impressions of just 150....... while other days it has been about 10% ctr with impressions of avg of 300 and clicks of avg 20... i can send u a copy of what i had so u can see what i mean

[Buzliteyear]

Durbass,

Using your username and skiing, I was able to find your site and forum.

For the life of me, I can't imagine how you got such a high CTR. Where did you have the ads on your pages? Did you have them in your forum too?

[durbass]

no i had the ad to the rigth side at the top in skyscraper 120 600 and this was on say 15 pages. as for the forum i had no ads on there i only had it on the website

[Paris]

durbass, I checked out your site and I can see why clickthrough rates should be higher than the typical AdSense account.

You have a lot of resort-specific resources and that (along with your high PageRank) will probably send a lot of travel-related traffic your way.

I think the initial fear here was that it was a forum site -- or a community site with a constant stream of regulars. If those sites generate better than 1% CTR I would think that Google would flag that as suspicious.

Still, 15% CTR -- or even 11% -- is WAY out of the norm for a site. Yes, some may draw higher but it's easy to see why Google was at least suspicious.

While I haven't seen cases here of folks having their AdSense accounts restored -- Google tends to be pretty thorough before they toss someone out -- Yahoo! is likely to launch its competitive product soon (and MSN.com maybe come next year) so it may not be the end of contextual text ads on your site. Yet I think you will need to take a closer look at why someone was looking to enrich you with unusually high click rates. If that goes unchecked it's likely to happen again.

[novice]

Search all the posts in your forum and see if there are any remarks like, click the ads. There seems to have been a run on forums getting cancelled lately.

[durbass]

the forum part of my site don't get many looks plus no ads was ever put on there

[creepychris]

Just a stab in the dark: You have a link to an SEO site at he bottom.

According to Google's program policies:

Deceptive or manipulative content or construction to improve your site's search engine ranking, e.g., your site's PageRank

But, personally, I don't see how having that link constitutes deceptive practice.