I'll just leave this right here:
http://pastebin.com/qh6Tta3h
Poll: Were you banned by AdSense? When in the cycle were you notified?
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#132I'll just leave this right here: http://pastebin.com/qh6Tta3h
Two other people on this thread have previously linked this.
Lengthy previous discussion of it yesterday on HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976
Including Matt Cutts' response to the text in the pastebin:
Re: Poll: Were you banned by AdSense? When in the cycle were you notified?
#133I dont recal when in the cycle it was, but I've gotten temporarily banned a few times because of user-generated content that violates their rules. Each time they've given me an example and stated that there a might be others. I clean it up, check for others, submit an appeal, and get advertising turned back on within a week or two. I never show ads on the pages with UGC, and I used to point out that I wasn't technica…
I'm in the same boat. What are you using for UGC sites instead of Adsense?
I tried out a few different networks, but they were all so spammy and/or low-paying that I just gave up. I think I have one or two amazon affiliate links and the rest don't have anything to generate revenue.
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#134I use admob. I was banned inexplicably after I made about 20$ for "click fraud." They never responded to my emails. I stopped development on that app after that - it wasn't just that, but it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
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. Is it really that easy to put a gun to any random adsense user's head?
Yeah, and guess what? You can "purchase" clicks and traffic in order to achieve this.
If you get on the tor network, you should be able to find a few places where you can pay (for example) a $100 for 30,000 views/clicks from a random country in the world to hit a site.
I'd imagine 30,000 false adsense clicks would do it.
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#136I dont recal when in the cycle it was, but I've gotten temporarily banned a few times because of user-generated content that violates their rules. Each time they've given me an example and stated that there a might be others. I clean it up, check for others, submit an appeal, and get advertising turned back on within a week or two. I never show ads on the pages with UGC, and I used to point out that I wasn't technica…
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#137I recently had my account disabled over a policy issue. The thing regarding that policy was I had written permission and verbal permission in person to go ahead with my web properties directly from multiple google representatives. I was encouraged and every step of the way and even given ideas that I implemented directly from adsense reps themselves.
It seems unfair especially in my case when they give you the go ahead and you end up investing alot of time and effort only to have one person not like your site and completely disregard all the work you have put in. When the reason for disabling your account is exactly the same reason they encouraged you to create your site in the first place it makes it all that much more frustrating.
My sites were not small either, they had heavy daily usage and brought over 800k in overall advertising revenue in the last 2 and a half years.
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#138This was back in 2008, we were banned from adsense and lost $120k (1.5 months of revenue).
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#139What are the best alternatives to Google? I hope they're not using the same kind of tactics as Google.
At least I'm never ever going to use AdSense again.
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#140Honestly, this kind of automated banning with no appeals process is a huge problem. I don't usually opt for the government to step in - but giving Google the power to essentially take away hard-earned money with no recourse is reprehensible.
Banning an individual from a service without clear proof that they committed or colluded to do fraud or otherwise malicious behavior -should- be illegal. And when you ban that individual, you should be responsible to tell them why and be willing to defend yourself in court.
This would, I suspect, rather than cause a large amount of litigation, cause Google to reform from a banning mentality to a permissive one. There will be individuals who try to abuse it, the same way SEO does for Google Search, but Google could easily route around this issue if given a reason to do so.
I could say similar things about other services that employ automated banning/freezing that's way too aggressive with no recourse: Paypal is a good example. It's wrong, and needs to be fixed.