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This was my 4th month in adsense and my earnings for the four months were something like $45, $150, 295$ and for September it could have been something around $340 at my current average. The increase in the earnings was becasue I gradually added the adsene code on my full site and also added new content. Currently it shows 600 plus pages indexed in google. My website is around 6 years old, one city portal and I came to know about adsense just 4 months back. My daily unique visitors might be around 800 plus. My overall CTR was constant may be around 7-8%. Around 60% of my income was from one particular channel only whose page views might by 10% of my total site. My Highest per day was around 25 last month, and since last 4-5 days it has between around 12-20.
I am quite aware of the TOS and have been checking this forum constantly since last 4 months.
Few days back one of my channel had some unexpected CTR of 220% (10 page impressions and 21 clicks around $0.50 for this). Also there was a difference of 1 Click in my all channel report and aggregate report. Just on that day I read the post of HiCairo [webmasterworld.com...] and so thought to contact google.
I had posted a question about which email address I should use to contact google that day as the contact form didn’t have a proper option to select for these kinds of emails. Here is that post [webmasterworld.com...] The next day I had a CTR of 345% with my earning of $0.35. So I changed the wide scrapper to Button. And that day as far as I remember I saw 2 impressions and 1 click. The pay per click on this particular channel is also extremely low compared to couple of my other channels.
I was feeling very nervous and just couldn’t think of anything for sometime. But then I tried to keep cool as I had lots of hopes that if my account is further investigated then I should be back as I haven’t done any intentional fraud. I read this forum and as per some of the suggestions I asked them to investigate bit further and also offered them my ftp, stats or any other information they want. But till today I haven’t received any email back from google team.
Currently at this stage my mind is thinking for the following reasons why google might have disabled me.
1. May be online contact form which I filled didn’t go to the right person and due to that high CTR in one channel might have triggered some alarms.
2. I changed my Ad display on that particular channel from Scraper to button. When this High CTR was there google might have found scrapper ad in their log and when they checked the site it was button. I should have waited.
3. Google might have thought that this guy clicked his own advert and then complained about it to check it.
4. There were incidents of the channel aggregate less then overall earnings.
5. Few pages on my website are quite ugly in looks and not changed in 4-5 years. This is because I had done this website 6 years back when I was in school and then left this website without updating for years because it didn’t pay me any penny until I had adsense 4 months back. As I have my day job I was slowly converting the pages to better looks. I did convert many to new pages to new better looks too.
6. The channel which I reported google with high CTR had a game on it and hardly few lines of text. I read in one of the post that google might baan due to less content. But this page ranked good on one search query and had hits directly from the SE’s. Also this page was there since more then 4-5 years and I didn’t make it for adsense.
My questions to the fellow members are
1. Has anyone got an idea if google lets us know the exact reason for disabling an account?
2. Say I am penalized for something like less content on particular pages, then does google give option to remove such pages or at least can I apply for new sites?
3. Where do I go from here?
I am ready to share my URL if any of you would like to have a look at my website. But I still have hopes alive to get back my account, so as many of the senior members suggested I would not like to disclose my website to every one. I am sorry to say this but I would prefer it to disclose it to only those members who has 50 plus posts here. If you are interested then please let me know I can sticky email my url.
Thank you!
I would be getting your server logs ready to submit to Google.
If the IP of these invalid clicks is yours, forget it - they wont unban you EVER
I won't flame you, but if I see obvious violations (current or in the past) or anything suspicious, I'll say so.
P.S. I don't know how the TOS would apply exactly, but having AdSense on a page that consists of nothing but a game seems inappropriate. It wouldn't be easy to serve ads that are relevant to the subject matter or would be of interest to the game-player.
Spaceylacie, jomaxx I have sent you my website URL and the high CTR channel URL through sticky mail. Please feel free to give your neutral suggestions after checking my website on the forum itself as our other fellow members can also take appropriate steps to avoid such unfortunate results in working with adsense.
but having AdSense on a page that consists of nothing but a game seems inappropriate. It wouldn't be easy to serve ads that are relevant to the subject matter or would be of interest to the game-player.- This page has 3-4 lines written, and the ads on that page were delivered perfectly fine related to the Title of the Page. I am fine if google lets me know that due to this less content we are disabling your account. Because then again if I add more websites in coming future this disabled account reason might give me chance to apply for new websites which I am working on.
Hyperkik– When I started the website I was a paranoid. But recently I was getting bit relaxed as this was my 4th month running and every thing was going fine. I didn’t have anybody accept my wife know what I was doing. Infect Internet isn’t that popular in the place where I live and in my friends and relatives there might be very few who has an access to computers even.
- One page with either MP3s or links to MP3s, but AdSense did not appear to have been run on these pages.
- There's a "we are thankful to our sponsors" type statement on the homepage (not an exact quote so that people won't be able to Google the phrase), but it is not close to any AdSense block and IMO should not cause a banning.
- Overall the site doesn't seem to have been changed to remove dodgy content, and in fact the AdSense code is still in place.
- The one thing I still wonder about is running AdSense on that game page. Among other things, it's a Space Invaders style game that requires the user to wave the mouse back and forth while clicking. I can't see the ad block now, but a quick glance at the code suggests to me that it would have been right next to the game window, thus a very high chance of repeated accidental clicks.
Ann
My website is around 6 years old, one city portal
I wonder if too many clicks from the same geographic area triggers a flag. Google may think your friends and family are clicking the ads.
How about sticky me the url and I will take a look.
Ann
The best I could see, having a little eye trouble right now is this:
Google ads are still displaying on your site.
First:
You have the longest keyword stuffed title I have ever seen!
2nd
you hav 3 met content tags full and 2 of them are identical.
And you have a download page of mp3's
About the mp3's they are not considered legal or at the least infringing. Here is what Google says about that:
Site may not include:
Excessive advertising
Any other content that promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others
It also says that a site must conform to webmaster guidelines.
On one page there is nothing but links and google ads?
anyway, part or all of that could be your problem.
Thank you for sending me the url and I hope this may help you.
Ann
Did the problem with the back button only start after your account was disabled? The code is loading as if it is a new page so you have to click "back" for each time the code appears. But probably this is because the of the error where the code used to be.
I also saw an extra " " within some of your Google code. I don't know if this would be considered altering the code so clicks on those particular ads with the extra " " would be deemed invalid. If they do an auto check for altered code, maybe this triggered something.
Being a local directory, most of your visitors would be from the same area. Especially the university information, those visitors would share the same IP address, I believe. If most individuals in your area do not have computers, your visitors would be coming from office buildings, etc. Again, probably all under the same IP address. This could have caused an alarm to go off. Google would have no way of knowing if they were people you knew in the area.
Also, you probably should have left out the link to phone sex on your main page.
From here, I would say do this: Completely overhaul your site, make it look great. Get rid of everything that has to do with sex, mp3s(although I didn't see that), etc. Make sure your site is easy to navigate, no dead ends, and a good amount of content on every page. Add content that would appeal to a larger, more global audience. Then, re-apply to Google. Let them know that you've changed the site to get rid of any possible violations. Offer logs, everything you have available to show that neither you nor your friends in the area have clicked the ads in the past. If they won't take you back, apply for another ppc program after the site overhaul. Good luck to you.
They're all hosted on a free host site that may or may not be affiliated with the site in question, and as far as I can see none of the links work, so make of that what you will.
Re MP3s: The Program Policies says "website publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results". This is different from the "Site may not include" list, so IMO this is not necessarily a violation.
For an MP3 would it be the actual MP3 or could it be a link to an MP3 subscription site too? Also, what constitutes an image to which they are referring in "image results". Actually, going a step further, what does Google mean by "results"?
I have only 1 single page of MP3, which was since years. I never had any adsense on it anytime. Infect there is one other page too in which there are local language real audio songs, but even on that I don’t have adsense nor do I have those music files on my server. Infect I don’t have a link from that page to my home page even. So I think that might be fine according to the TOS.
we are thankful to our sponsors
I wonder if too many clicks from the same geographic area triggers a flag.
First: You have the longest keyword stuffed title I have ever seen!
2nd you have 3 met content tags full and 2 of them are identical.
On one page there is nothing but links and google ads?
The ads were the only exit on the page
I also saw an extra " " within some of your Google code.
Make sure your site is easy to navigate, no dead ends, and a good amount of content on every page.
Let them know that you've changed the site to get rid of any possible violations.
Also, on one of your Games page, while the game was downloading, i saw this text message
'Click once to proceed/start'
I think, this is is against TOS.
Conjo
