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Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down

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Re: Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down

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Post by andrewcooke »

one2many wrote: post #10
andrewcooke wrote: post #3

it's like the guy at the newspaper cannot read. google sent him a link to a list of issues, and he doesn't address them at all. if you look at the link, it was shut down for bad clicks, incitement to users to click, or similar. at the very least he could have said in the reply something like "we don't think we have people clicking on links, but if you could provide some IPs we might be able to track down someone at t…

First of all, this has been going on for a month and I have been trying to figure it out. I have spoken with people across Google and no one seems to no how to fix the issue or even be able to access what the issue is. I am not asking for sympathy, I am asking if anyone has experienced this and if so what they did. Even our YouTube Account Manager said, "I have honestly never seen anything like this before" I filled…

i'm sorry you're in the mess you are in. i think my reply contains suggestions for how you could manage things better. and i do not think that the link above conveys the message "has this happened to you; what can i do to fix it?". it reads a lot more like "google sucks".

even your response here is purely defensive. you don't mention anything about local clicks at all. i don't know what more to say except that you really do not convey the message that you seem to think you are sending.

Re: Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down

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Post by DanBC »

That blog makes the same mistake that many blogs makes and has no links to the product, nor to whatever the hell it is their talking about.

(https://www.youtube.com/user/pe?feature=watch)

I'm guessing that's the channel.

Their website (http://www.pe.com/)

The subscription link on the website, which takes you to this page: (http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=pe)

There are 5 videos with viewership over 5,000. The rest? Most have less than 500 views.

The innovationmedian blog links to a few sites that make my neck itchy, in that "I'm sure these people are doing something unsavoury with online ads or reviews but I have no idea what it is". I know I'm over critical of advertising stuff.

Re: Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down

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Post by downandout »

It's most likely that "invalid clicks" have occurred. If you clicked a few times on your own ads, this is why. It could also be a competitor intentionally trying to take you down. They just simulate automated clicks from the same IP on your ads. In this case you would have no control, and Google would yet be justified in destroying your account because of the activity that your participation in their network is generating - even if it is through no fault of your own.

This is one of many reasons why Adsense is not recommended. Another reason is that fact that they take so long to pay. No one pays on Net-60 anymore, except Google, because they can get away with it.

You are lucky though. In many cases, they wait until you've sent them a ton of traffic for 60 days - just before payday. They then tell you that you aren't being paid, close your account, and refuse to provide a reason for it. There is no indication about how much (if any) of the traffic you aren't being paid for is being refunded to the advertisers. I'd suspect it's not anywhere near 100%.

I'd suggest you join a CPA network that pays weekly and then choose advertisers from their inventory.

Re: Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down

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Post by tlogan »

Here is the problem:

"We migrated all of our videos from the expensive Brightcove platform in August and went live on YouTube in August and on our site with YouTube on August 22, using the embedded player."

That is all. Google is free and nice but it is not really smart to run business based on company which essentially has no support.

Re: Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down

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Post by mibbitier »

one2many wrote: post #10
andrewcooke wrote: post #3

it's like the guy at the newspaper cannot read. google sent him a link to a list of issues, and he doesn't address them at all. if you look at the link, it was shut down for bad clicks, incitement to users to click, or similar. at the very least he could have said in the reply something like "we don't think we have people clicking on links, but if you could provide some IPs we might be able to track down someone at t…

First of all, this has been going on for a month and I have been trying to figure it out. I have spoken with people across Google and no one seems to no how to fix the issue or even be able to access what the issue is. I am not asking for sympathy, I am asking if anyone has experienced this and if so what they did. Even our YouTube Account Manager said, "I have honestly never seen anything like this before" I filled…

I feel for you. Our account was shutdown with no warning in July. We got the same brick wall of canned responses, and no answers to our questions.

We were finally able to get to the bottom of it with some help from someone within Google - in our case, they had decided to shutdown the product we were using (adsense for ajax), and had just forgotten to mention it, instead opting for closing our account, leaving us wondering what the hell we'd done wrong.

If you have contacts in youtube, adwords, etc, they should be able to find out what has gone wrong in your case if they dig enough...

Re: Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down

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Post by mylittlepony »

andrewcooke wrote: post #11
one2many wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First of all, this has been going on for a month and I have been trying to figure it out. I have spoken with people across Google and no one seems to no how to fix the issue or even be able to access what the issue is. I am not asking for sympathy, I am asking if anyone has experienced this and if so what they did. Even our YouTube Account Manager said, "I have honestly never seen anything like this before" I filled…

i'm sorry you're in the mess you are in. i think my reply contains suggestions for how you could manage things better. and i do not think that the link above conveys the message "has this happened to you; what can i do to fix it?". it reads a lot more like "google sucks". even your response here is purely defensive. you don't mention anything about local clicks at all. i don't know what more to say except that you re…

No offense but you don't seem to know what you are talking about, you are making the assumption that Google is some nice guy trying to do things right. Many of us went through this here, so it is common knowledge that Google has no support, and they even purposely take advantage of it just because they can, exactly like other comments here say.

Re: Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down

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Post by jonknee »

mylittlepony wrote: post #18

How come we still haven't seen a YC company competing with Adsense/Adwords?

I'd love to see some competition, but it's a tough nut to crack. Yahoo gave it a try for a few years, but ended up shutting their offering down. Google has millions of paying advertisers, billions of page views and the ability to match them up in real time. All the while providing analytics to both sides. You're not going to beat them at efficiency.

I get pitches from ad networks all the time, but they are almost never able to beat AdSense. Google never had to set up a conference call to win my business, they just do a better job,

Re: Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down

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Post by jeremymims »

DanBC wrote: post #13

That blog makes the same mistake that many blogs makes and has no links to the product, nor to whatever the hell it is their talking about. ( https://www.youtube.com/user/pe?feature=watch ) I'm guessing that's the channel. Their website ( http://www.pe.com/ ) The subscription link on the website, which takes you to this page: ( http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=pe ) There are 5 videos with viewershi…

This personal blog post is referring to one of the top 100 local newspapers in the country. You may not like advertising, but this paper is 130 years old and has won a Pulitzer prize. It's the paper of record for the Riverside community.
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