What can lead to banning from adsense?
Google is not known to take click fraud lightly as they also are to
retain the advertisers interest in their mind. But I have seen that they
are open to reason. I personally know at least ten webmasters whose
account has been restored. If this disabling has happened to you, first
action you must take to
write
them a mail giving all the reasons with some evidence as server log,
files etc to strengthen your claim. It is definitely difficult regaining
account from Google but if you are honest, it is not impossible. I
think more often is the case where the person suffering the ban was
doing something they shouldn’t have been doing.
Some of things,
you must avoid to avoid disabling of your
account is signing up under multiple names, clicking yourself or through
any network on ads appearing on your publishing network, generating
robotized clicks through many enticing programs available on the net,
expressly encouraging a visitor to your site to click an ad, having a
site that is based on adsense arbitrage. I have seen many sites
that expressly state something to the effect that their services are
free but to help them sustain please click the ad. To mind, it is like
playing with fire and such publishers can face disqualification any
time.
When you are buying a domain, please satisfy yourself that
it is not previously blacklisted by Google. Remember when Google bans a
site, it does not deliver ads to any other url which was previously
running on same adsense pub-id.
One major reason of getting banned from adsense is get rich quick. A
new webmaster, in case, he does not have much content on his site would
barely get 10-30 visitor on his site, which are not sufficient to help
him earn from ad clicks. What he should do at that stage is to build
good content but he is soon tempted by con men on the net selling
something like “Automated Adsense Software”. This is biggest scam
happening where many new webmasters are trapped. Most of the time such
software would steal content through scraping methods and creates
thousand of content pages. As such search engines are cluttered with
duplicate and useless content and you are risking getting banned from
Adsense as this violates the terms of adsense.
I suggest 5 “dont” for Avoiding adsense banning:
Don’t click on your own ads
The obvious one but still people do it. Google has the IP address of the
computer/s that you’ve used to create and check your AdSense account.
If it sees that this IP address clicks one of your ads you’re in
trouble.
Don’t do it. It’s theft. Not from Google but from the AdWords advertisers.
If you want to go to a site advertised by one of your ads don’t click on
it look at the URL of the advertising site at the bottom of the ad and
type it into your browser.
If you click on one accidentally (which does happen) you’re probably be
ok but it’s worth dropping a quick email to Google with an explanation
and apology
Don’t log in to AdSense from a shared computer.
As I said above Google keeps a record of every machine IP address used
to look at your account. If you check your stats on a machine then
someone else clicks on your ads from the same machine Google sees this
as click fraud. Worth bearing in mind when thinking of checking your
stats from somewhere like an Internet Café.
Don’t log in to your AdSense account from work.
Apart from getting in trouble with the company that employs you there’s
also a further real risk. Most companies use a proxy server to access
the Internet. A proxy server with ONE IP ADDRESS. Therefore you checking
your ads from work means this proxy IP address being recorded by Google
as one that you use. Problem is if there are 1000 people in your
company it is the same IP address for them too. Google can’t
differentiate between you and the other 999 employees in your company.
If one of these 999 clicks on one of your ads it’s ban time.
Don’t get into a I’ll click your ads if you click mine’ agreement with another Webmaster.
As above Google will have your IP address and that of every AdSense
publisher. If they see these IP addresses consistently clicking on each
other ads it’s goodbye for both of you.
Don’t tell friends and family.
Telling friends and family about your money making websites can lead to
problems. Even if you tell them not to click on your ads there’s always
the chance that Auntie Maud will think it’s a good idea to make some
extra money for her favourite nephew. 100 clicks later from the same
visitor and your account is screaming ‘Click Fraud’.
Warnings by Google
Many webmasters whose sites have been banned, grudge that they never
got any warning. Remember it is up to you to take precaution at the
right time
and
keep checking the logs. Google will not give you any warning. However
on a more personal note I have seen Google give warning or sorts. I saw a
site which ultimately was banned, had high value ads being offered and
gradually started getting low value ads and more and more of “Public
Service ads” even when similar sites were served paying ads. This may be
was Google’s way to telling that something is amiss.
What to do when banned from adsense?
Google bans publishers guilty of fraudulent clicks for life and does
not allow then to rejoin the program. I would also like to share from my
experience that such is Google’s reputation that many advocates who
claim to specialize in fighting your case against Google to regain the
account also would agree to take your case if you satisfy them that you
are a victim and did not do any act against the terms of service.
There is no record of Litigation with Google being fruitful on this
account. Google has its proprietary technology to detect such click
frauds, which Google does not disclose. This stand of Google that it is
not open to disclose its proprietary technology has been upheld by
various courts. If you are the one whose account has been disabled, I
don’t want to appear distressing to you but from my own experience in
dealing with such cases, I must say generally ‘something’ is there which
leads to Google disabling the account. If you are sure you did not
indulge in such acts, must look around. May be some competitor did it to
hurt you.
If your adsense account really dead, you can take a try for the following networks like adsense:
- Bidvertiser
- AdsFor Indians
- Yahoo Publishers
- Clickbooth
- Adbrite
- Clicksor
- Azoogle ads
God Bless You!
