A survey on warning signs or symptoms which may result

in the closure of AdSense account

[FromRocky]

From “The Culling” [webmasterworld.com] thread.

I would have thought that after 15 months no other problems they would have treated this as a warning offense. I would have fixed the problem in a heart beat if given the chance.

There may be some warning signs or may be not before an account is closed. This thread is intended to find it out. We’re better to prevent than let it happens. When it happened, it’s too late. To do this, we should compare notes on some of symptoms or warning signs.

The warning signs, I think, are warning email, site dropped from Google SE, EPC declining, etc. If you have AdSense on multi-sites, please state the contribution from the warning or offended sites. Whether it is a major or just a minor site.

1.Warning Email: Major site/Minor site
2.Site(s) dropped from Google SE: Major/Minor
3.EPC dropping: % drop
4.Account close: Which site (major/minor) you think may cause the close of your account. Had you seen any of the above symptoms?

The major site is the site where you get the most of the AdSense gross pay. Please, add some more symptoms you may think of.

Mine:
A minor site has recently been dropped from Google SE. This site contributed less than 5% of the AdSense earnings.

[jetteroheller]

Drops from small sites can also be a technical accident. At about 40 sites under me, it happens maybe once a year, that a smaller site falls out and reappears after some weeks.

[blairsp]

To be honest I think you are clutching at straws a little. Personally I got absolutely no warning and I woudl have thought most people are the same. However to answer yoru questions: One site using adsense, still ranks reasonably highly in a normal G search (depending obviously on the search term-it is a travel site) EPC was never that great anyway, earnings were very low (probably got a cheque every two months)

[freeflight2]

It probably comes all down to if advertisers like your site or not - Every day I find at least 2-3 adsense sites showing my ads not conforming to the TOS putting adsense on logout pages, pages without any content or "support us by clicking the ads below". For an advertiser it's very easy to trace them... so far I haven't reported them since I think this is google's job, but I am sure other advertisers do so.

[FromRocky]

I understand that drop of my small site from SE can also be a technical accident. But if my main site (80% of earnings, Google may also decide to drop my AdSense account since the site may violate some of their guidelines. In the past, they might penalize the site but not the AdSense count. The time has changed. Is there anyone who has been recently penalized both account and the main site at the same time?

blairsp,
If you don't mind I may ask "What are reasons which you thought they might use to drop your account?"

[howiejs]

"2.Site(s) dropped from Google SE: Major/Minor"

Google has been dropping sites from their index left and right this year (hijacking re-directs, etc)

I really hope this isn't linked (doesn't seem to be)

[blairsp]

If you don't mind I may ask "What are reasons which you thought they might use to drop your account?"

I don't mind but to be honest the answer is I don't know.

My url is in my profile feel free to have a look around. The only changes since adsense dropping are 200+ articles moved to another website (better domain name), adverts in left column WERE simple cpm skyscrapers, content in middle, adsense on right. No leaderbaords at the time.

[anallawalla]

At one of the banned sites I know about, I see the following symptoms:

• Largely noncommercial content
  
• Few words per page
  
• AdSense Preview Tool gives no results for most pages
  

I think this is not a "Made for AdSense" site - instead, it could be regarded as a "Not Made for AdSense" site, i.e. has little or no value to Google. Perhaps Google runs the equivalent of the Preview Tool and drops sites that show very little scope for showing ads?

Perhaps people with such sites should diversify and add some "quality commercial content" sites to their portfolio?

[dollarshort]

If your site is not conveting into sales, for whatever reason, ie curiosity clicking, kids, students ect, the people who actually pay for the ad will inform google that this site is not working out for them. Rather than loose a paying customer, they would rather sack the publisher. As there are countless other publishers.

One person told me she would send her kids go to the local library to click on ads, of course her account was eventually terminated. This goes on a lot.

[suzyvirtual]

Oddly enough, though I would only assume it is coincidental...I got banned from adsense the other day, and the same day my main adsense site started getting significant Google traffic (it had very little before).