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I run a network for community forums. My forums have been spammed a few times with objectionable content. When this happens, usually I get warning from adsense asking me to remove the objectionable content with in 48 hours. Sometimes, they block adsense on my website and email me about it. I promptly removed the content and reverted back. Adsense was restored on my website after a few days.
I am one of the many victims of an adsense ban. One of my sites was picked on, and I was blanket banned. When I appealed using their form I got an automated response saying that they had considered my request and it will not change (within 30s of submitting the form). I've been trying to get in touch with someone at Google for almost a year now to discuss the issue and find out why I was banned. Not only did it knock…
What do you mean by "picked on?"
Any site that attracts a large number of fraudulent clicks is going to get their AdSense account banned. The site owner has no recourse if this happens to them: they agreed to it when they signed up in the first place - Google can drop them for whatever reason they feel like at any time.
I run a network for community forums. My forums have been spammed a few times with objectionable content. When this happens, usually I get warning from adsense asking me to remove the objectionable content with in 48 hours. Sometimes, they block adsense on my website and email me about it. I promptly removed the content and reverted back. Adsense was restored on my website after a few days.
I get disabled, Google lets me know, I fix the issue, appeal, and get Adsense restored. My forums have Adsense incomes that range from $100/mo to $1800/mo.
Google has been great so far. It does feel precarious to have all my eggs in the Adsense basket, but the payout from other ad networks is abysmal in comparison.
I am one of the many victims of an adsense ban. One of my sites was picked on, and I was blanket banned. When I appealed using their form I got an automated response saying that they had considered my request and it will not change (within 30s of submitting the form). I've been trying to get in touch with someone at Google for almost a year now to discuss the issue and find out why I was banned. Not only did it knock…
What do you mean by "picked on?"
Once you receive a warning notice, your site enters the scopes of the policy enforcement team. When you make changes to your AdSense code, possibly other relevant code on your site, they send human reviewers to reevaluate your site.
I believe this because I received a warning for encouraging unintentional clicks.
I received this warning because in-content ad units had links blended to site link colors.
Additionally, I was aligning ad units with images.
After making these changes, the issue was resolved.
They never ceased serving ads, which was nice.
This occurred around the 7-8k monthly mark for those wondering.
After making these changes my revenue dropped about 1/4. This was disappointing.
A few weeks later I tried to revert to the in-content ad units with the blended link colors. I tried to use a light gray background color, literally one shade away from white, to distinguish the ad unit from content.
Within 30 minutes of making these changes, I received two new warnings,
one for encouraging unintentional clicks, and another for having content over ads.
This is because I had a hover drop down menu for navigation that dropped over ads in some parts.
I made the changes and ad serving has continued.
I make less now, but as someone who depends on AdSense income to provide for my family, I am happy to continue serving ads in the first place.
The reason there is no competition is because everybody else is scared shitless to open themselves up to publishers.
Click fraud is a thriving and sophisticated business, and nobody else (major) has had the chops to explore that black box.
I found my experience with AdSense enforcement to be fair, but the process is frightening.
I am excited that Facebook is experimenting with their ad network.
Competition is good for everybody.
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What do you mean by "picked on?"
Say you don't agree with a particular site that's using adsense. You could (for instance) have you and all your friends click over and over again on the ads on that site, which Google will quickly flag as fraudulent. Any site that attracts a large number of fraudulent clicks is going to get their AdSense account banned. The site owner has no recourse if this happens to them: they agreed to it when they signed up in t…
Is it really that easy to put a gun to any random adsense user's head?
I find it hard to believe that a multibillion dollar company is plotting to steal hundreds of dollars from publishers. Perhaps a more productive activity would be to post the reasons Google cited for ceasing the ad serving on your site and then explain what you changed. Linking to your site would also be helpful. In this way we can determine more reasonably whether they were right in suspending your account. Surely i…
Is there any reason why 4x more people would be banned within four days of a payout than any other part of the cycle?
(This presupposes the poll results can be trusted, which seems dubious at best. But if this survey is trustworthy, then I wonder what it implies.)