You may have noticed all the white space which suddenly appeared today on the Free RSS Resources website where the Google Adsense ads used to be. Not my intention, believe me!
Got a nasty-gram from Google this morning telling me I’m doing click-fraud!
Ironic that they single me out for attack and shut me down when I’m one of the most cautious people around about making sure I and others DON’T do anything which could be considered click fraud. They claim they’re protecting their advertisers by shutting me down, when in fact they’re just ruining Google’s image among innocent advertisers.
Can you afford to have your Adsense revenue cut off forever with no warning and for no reason? Think about that! In my case, the revenue was almost nothing and they cut me off. What if your Adsense revenue was thousands of dollars a month? What if it was tens of thousands of dollars a month? Can you afford to lose that because some stupid heartless Google robot decides you should be terminated?
If you’re not advertising with Yahoo and other competing networks, now’s the time to start. I wouldn’t trust Google with any portion of my revenue stream, now that they’ve proven how stupid and greedy they are. I used to consider their advertising network useful, innovative and helpful for the small businessperson. No more! Stupid heartless greed, that’s what appears to drive them, just like all the other big corporations in the news for stealing from their employees and customers.
In the meantime, enjoy my site, Google-ad-free. If you’d like me to keep the site up and full of useful information and news, consider clicking on some of the links you find and purchasing some of the products I recommend here (I can say that now that I don’t have any Google ads here!). They’re all good products that will help you promote and build your online business, whether or not you utilize RSS!
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— Google AdSense adsense-adclicks@google.com wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:53:36 -0700
> From: Google AdSense adsense-adclicks@google.com
> Subject: Google AdSense Account Disabled
> CC: Google AdSense
>
> Hello Kurt Inman,
>
> It has come to our attention that invalid clicks
> have been generated on
> the ads on your web pages. We have therefore
> disabled your Google
> AdSense account. Please understand that this step
> was taken in an
> effort to protect the interest of the AdWords
> advertisers.
>
> A publisher’s site may not have invalid clicks on
> any ad(s), including
> but not limited to clicks generated by a publisher
> on his own web
> pages, clicks generated through the use of robots,
> automated clicking
> tools, or any other deceptive software.
>
> Practices such as these are in violation of the
> Google AdSense Terms
> and Conditions and program polices, which can be
> viewed at:
>
>
https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US
> https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US
>
> Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are
> not allowed further
> participation in AdSense and do not receive any
> further payment. The
> earnings on your account will be properly returned
> to the affected
> advertisers.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> The Google AdSense Team
>
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January 13th, 2006 at 2:39 am
Dear Sir,
The same problem occured for me too. I have three websites and placed Google adds in my websites. My websites are business websites and I have submitted my websites to 1000’s of directories and search engines. My websites used to receive tremendus traffic by various sources. At a sudden Google had disabled my account and I received the same ditto message from Google. When my account was disabled I have more than 145 $ in my account and the money was disappeared. There was no explanations for my clarifications. I too strongly agree that Google Adsense program is not genuine. It’s not managed by human beings. Kindly put my comments in your webpage so that some peoples will be cautious about this fraudulant google adsense program.
Regards,
Yaseen
April 22nd, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Happened to me about a week ago. Right after I received my first check from them.
I don’t have a clue where the “invalid clicks” came from, if they really existed at all. I put up a lot of blogs and maybe one of them scored some traffic. But in the end, I just don’t know.
Google does not tell you anything. No appeal. Just kill your account. Maybe it is fortunate that I have not built up thousands a month in Adsense revenue.