Google Adsense Banned

[Matthew Sherborne]

It’s a horrible sight, to open up your email and see the message that you've been Google Adsense Banned.




Many people who receive this message know exactly why it’s happened, by abusing the Google terms of service.
Doing things like clicking your own ads, or engaging in asking people to click your ads can definitly get you in trouble.

It’s easy to say well anyone who gets their account disabled probably deserved it. However, I’ve become aware of an alarming
trend. Google is frequently disabling the accounts of people who do not know how it happened, or what they did wrong.


How do I know this? Well, I’ve heard from people on my internet marketing forum, in email comments and in customers I’ve
coached over the years. One of the most recent examples happened just this week.

I was instructing a good friend on how to set up a Hubpage to create an online presence and drive traffic to her website. One
of the benefits of Hubpages is you can make money from Ebay, Amazon, and you guessed it… Adsense.

Well, lo and behold not three days after she had put up her hub (which was doing quite well), and with no explanation, her
Adsense account was disabled.

Here’s the message she received…

“While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to
our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our
advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.

Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the interests of both our advertisers
and our other AdSense publishers. We realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in
advance for your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve taken, please do not reply to this email.
You can find more information by visiting
google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153&hl=en_US.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team”

Gotta love that last part, don’t call us we’ll call you, not. I instructed her to contact Google and ask what she could do to get back in
good standing, and to tell them that she values the relationship with them and she will continue to do everything possible to comply
with their TOS. I told her to explain her situation and appeal for help with re-instating her account.


Unfortunately in 99% of the cases I’ve heard of an Adsense account that’s terminated is not reinstated and a canned response is
given. Not a great way to treat people. Here’s a link to a post I wrote titled, Banned from Adsense what do I do?

As more and more people hear that using Google’s AdSense program, could be here today gone tomorrow, more are turning to
Adsense alternatives. Luckily, there are many alternatives to AdSense which can turn this bad situation around.
Here is a list of some of the best Alternatives to Adense:


Yahoo Publisher Network - Yahoo! Publisher Network


By displaying ads relevant to the content of your site you earn money from qualified clicks-throughs. Much like the Google Adsense
Network, YPN pays you per click of advertisements featured on your site.


Chitika - Chitika, Inc. » A Blog Advertising Company » Home


Chikita bills itself as being #1 for making bloggers money. With Chikita you can make money from impresions, clicks and sales. You
can create your own mini-mall or shopping links. They also offer something called RLU, which means related products unit. Using this
feature you can add advertisers links right into the content of your site.

Clicksor - Online Contextual Advertising and Behavioral Marketing Service for Advertisers and Webmasters


Clicksor will earn you as much as 60% from the amount of money your website produces. What you get is about the same as AdSense,
there are targeted text ads, you can view the revenues from your website in real time. You can receive money via PayPal or through a
check every two weeks, provided that you have earned more then $50. If you haven’t made that much, your earning roll over to the
next period


Bidvertiser - BidVertiser - Pay Per Click Advertising On Sites Of Your Choice.


When you display the BidVertiser text ads you make money for every click and the payments are sent to your PayPal account.


TargetPoint - https://publisher.targetpoint.com/default.aspx


TargetPoint is oriented more towards content publishers. It offers full control over the look the ads, statistics over your site’s overall
performance and better revenue. It’s free to register and you earn a guaranteed 60% of the total revenue. You can get payed with
Paypal of Bank checks and (most times) wire transfers as well.


Kanoodle Ads - Kanoodle - Providing Search-Targeted Sponsored Links Since 1999


Kanoodle’s offering allows publishers to get ads related to topics or segments, and not the traditional keyword oriented ads. The site also
groups publisher sites with advertisers by hand to ensure high-revenue generating ads. And speaking of revenue, the amount of money
you receive is a clear 50% share of the amount of money Kanoodle recieves for an advertiser.

AffiliateSensor - AffiliateSensor - Your path to affiliate profits.


AffiliateSensor has highly customizable ad blocks, which you can make for yourself with an easy to use on-line interface. You also get
real time reporting with clicks-by-domain, page and refferer. There’s integration with Google AdSense as well, through the google_
alternate_ad_url so AffiliateSensor can be used as a substitute for Google PSA’s (Public Service Ads).

How to Get Your Adsense Account Back


If you've fallen victim to having your Adsense account banned, then you know it’s a rotten feeling. Before you give up on them, I

recommend you attempt to send a letter explaining your side of the story.


It’s possible to get your Adsense account back by explaining the following:


1. Thst You value the relationship with Adsense.
2. You will do everything possible to comply with their terms of service
3. That the invalid clicks they detected on your ads were not due to your actions or negligence


You can submit your responses for your Adsense appeal from this link:
https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo..._clicks_appeal

If you’ve been Google Adsense banned and then had your account reinstated, let us know how it went, and how you did it.

[waynedcam]

After my adsense account was banned, without any known cause or any recourse on my part, except for the joke commonly known as the adsense appeal form, I started to wonder if there was anyone trying to hold google accountable for how they are treating us publishers, advertisers and users..

After many hours researching the subject online (using google ), I discovered hundreds of stories just like mine or very similar. I also found sites (eg suck(s) sites) that are activly hostile toward google and are working to convince people not to use the search giant.. And while I know where this comes from, I didn't feel like it was an effective way to deal with google.

What we need is something that will actually embarass the big "G" into changing it's ways.

That is why I started the Google Horror Stories web site. It is not intended to bring google down or to really even hurt it in any way. It is sole intended to "shine a light" on the underbelly of the beast. It's a place where people who feel like they have been burned by google unfairly or who have had a negitave experience can post their stories in article form.

I would be very interested in republishing the above information, on my site, as I have a section dedicated to google alternatives. But I will only do that with persmission.

Thanks

[Matthew Sherborne]

Hey Wayne, Thanks for your comment. Yes, you can republish the article above as long as you credit this site
with the info

Yeah, being google adsense banned seems to becoming more frequent these days. The problem is that with
as big as Google has become, they tend to paint people with a broad brush.

In the process banning many people who may not deserve it, or even have a clue what they did wrong. I think
they need to do a much better job keeping a level playing field for all people, not just Google insiders and big
corporations in regards to search engine results, link sales and advertising.

[waynedcam]

Originally Posted by Matthew Sherborne

Hey Wayne, Thanks for your comment. Yes, you can republish the article above as long as you credit this site with the info

Matthew,

I'll be glad to. Thank you very much.. If I find any other useful articles on your site, may I use them as well? I haven't had much time to look around but it looks like you have some good info here. I'll try to come back later this week and take a closer look. Thanks again.


Wayne

[Matthew Sherborne]

Hi Wayne,

Just drop me a note about specific content you'd like to reprint on your site. I can be reached here by private message, or at submit@xperior. c o m