So my Adsense account was banned

Real quick post, but yesterday I got a lively email from Google telling me that my adsense account had been banned because of click fraud. The strange thing is that i have adsense code on only one site and that site has been down for at least two weeks.

I used the please-be-nice-and-let-me-back-on-adsense form and tried to explain that something must be amiss because I havent had any code up on the site for ages. However Google wouldn’t budge and reminded me of this…

My account was disabled and my appeal was denied. Is there any way I can rejoin the programme? Can I open a new account?

We understand your concern about the actions taken against your account. Please know that our actions are the result of careful investigation by our team of dedicated specialists, taking into account the interests of our advertisers, publishers and users. Though you may be disappointed with our decision, we are unable to reinstate your account.

Please also note that publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed any further participation in AdSense. For this reason, these publishers may not open new accounts.

Lastly, please bear in mind that Google does reserve the right to disable an account for any reason, including invalid click activity from any source.

So just remember, even though Google is this really cool company that helps us find what we need on a daily basis, they are also a bunch of bastards who can close down your account without actually giving you any real reason why!

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Laza
Laza
15 years ago

Maybe, just maybe your site did had fake clicks BEFORE the adsense code was removed, which would still be in the prervious month. A month back is G’s usual term for reviews (what they do till the 10th of every month).
In addition to this, posting their email is againts their TOS, so it surely won’t help your case.

You would have done far better by sending them raw access logs, dude 😉

laza
laza
15 years ago

I was banned on adsense, too and got resinstated.
Reason for the ban was worse than click fraud, I got no replies to my emails … till I sent the right one.

You have to do EVERYTHING you can before writing them. If you do your thing right, they will reply … and most likely get you back (presuming it was not you who arranged false clicks).

So, you have just seen G’s customer policy at its best – do zilch, even mislead the wrongdoer, till he fixes his mistakes to the maximum.
There is some justice in it … it even has a funny side.

Ricardo Candeias
14 years ago

Well I have been banned to unknown reasons to me as they do not inform me what specifically happened to award me a ban, The only thing i can think is that for a period of time I distributed over certain areas a card advertising my blogs as I wasn't yet well know (in no way or form I promoted clicking, or clicked myself on own adds, not in the blog or cards distributed) but somehow during that period there was more click as more people in the area saw my blog….I realize now that this unusual clicking my have looked suspicious to them, but it would have been no different from me having bought some ad-words, as my blogs would get more attention would gain more clicking, and we not even talking about 100's of dollars the period where invalid clicking occurred would have not mounted up to more than $20 dollars. My account was banned somewhere near Nov or Dec 2008 and I have launched two appeals both advising that I haven't done or promoted and invalid clicking explained why they may have occurred due to my advertising and on both occasions I got the email above noted, they will not budge even after this long period of time and me promising to keep a closer eye in case of any suspicious activity incurs me notifying them.
Which means if anyone wants someone banned from ad-sense (ad-words) all they have to do is possibly clicking a lot on their adds to create the suspicious clicking activity or as they call invalid clinking and they too will get banned forever,,,how fair is this???
I done nothing wrong and still I am punished for someone else possibly over-clicking my ads. Fairer would have been a warning and remove all funds from inactive clicking and return it to advertisers and if it happened again to then maybe just maybe ban the account. But this banning without giving any explanation nor a second chance I feel is unfair and manipulative of Google, they have me as a blogger on their blogspot, I have a google mail account and much more they surely can see me as being a honest person from all my other activity yet they won't give me a chance to redeem my status with them.
This is definitely wrong WRONG

The punishment definitely doesn't fit the crime if there was a crime. In my case I have never got a penny from google-adds ever, as I never reached the required amount and the little I had mounted up twenty odd or thirty odd dollars where clawed back and given back to advertisers (or just kept by Google I dunno) and they just say I pose a great risk to advertisers, how can that be….especially based on the figures I just gave, which were accumulated over months even with their so called invalid clicking.
Very WRONG Please protest …big companies like this always do what they want no questions asked.