Google CLOSED my ACCOUNT!

[Graphic Addict]

Has anyone else been banned by google today??? I just received this email:


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
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153&hl=en_US.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team


WTF?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?! I abide by their TOS, and HAVE NEVER CLICKED my own ads, and have been a member for over a year.... why did they do this to me?

[Nora]

A lot of people seem to be getting that lately.. I really don't know what causes it :S
Maybe the users that click on the ads don't remain long enough on the site of the advertisers. I can't think of any other reason if you follow their rules.

[Graphic Addict]

This is terrible man. Terrible. I rely on them for my income. GOSH I am in tears. I appealed, but they seem hell bent by that email. This is weird.

[Nora]

This is terrible man. Terrible. I rely on them for my income. GOSH I am in tears. I appealed, but they seem hell bent by that email. This is weird.
Google is a really decent company, if you appeal and tell them that you're doing everything to protect the interest of the advertisers and ask them to review the page again they'll probably do it. Just give them some time to reply :)

[Graphic Addict]

Ok. I know I sound like a baby, and Im freaking out, but I am seriously freakin out.

[Nora]

Its normal to freak out but I don't think the Google horror stories of never getting your account back are true unless you're really tying to cheat the system.
Where did you place the ads? If people just click accidentally without even wanting to be on the advertised page then that's probably why they closed your account.
Just work along with them and you'll get your account back :)

[Graphic Addict]

http://themyspaceaddict.com ..... its where all the PAGE NOT FOUND things are

[Nora]

I looked at their help forum and it looks like more people got that exact email last night :S

[Graphic Addict]

can you send me a link to that thread

[Nora]

link to thread (http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help-guidelines/browse_thread/thread/87fb5547980ae189/211d6655a1dc8e5f#211d6655a1dc8e5f)
If you go to DP -> Adsense you'll also read many stories of people who got this email.

I still think you should contact Google about it, they're not trying to take away anyone's earnings :)

[marshall_26]

See the gif on your main page "im-the-princess.gif" I'd seriously consider moving it while you appeal, they may not be too fond of the language :)

[Graphic Addict]

Ok I am now..thanks I hope they reinstate me.

[Graphic Addict]

Ok I was going through the forum and it seems i am def NOT the only one. So, it has to be something to do with the NEW TOS. I read through that too, and no conflicts. Seems like people that have been members FOR YEARS have been banned. Just since a couple days ago. I remember logging in and they made me add another email to my account... Its like I couldnt get past that page. It was really weird. EVERY time I logged in. I hope that this is just a glitch. If not, I will have to switch to another advertising company. But its sad because I made $ with them. If they dont re-instate... I will simply move on. I just hope that this doesnt happen to ALL of us. Man, this sux guys...

[spokenforxx]

I'm really sorry that Google banned you.
I know exactly how you feel, Google suspended me once in 2006 or so before but they were nice enough to allow me to change certain ad placings and unsuspended my account.

I hope they do the same for your account, good luck and keep us updated.

[thplooy]

Don't forget to add a privacy policy to your website.
This is required by their new tos...

[Graphic Addict]

ok call me stupid. What exactly is this privacy policy and where can I find an example to work with.... I am not thinking clearly now


Thank you for all of your help guys!!!!

[Ajay]

the adsense blogs says that you have to add a privacy policy to your website, when you agreed to the new tos http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/02/updated-terms-and-conditions.html maybe that has something to do with it, not too sure though.

[spokenforxx]

I use this to generate one for my site

http://www.the-dma.org/privacy/creating.shtml

[thplooy]

This is mine:

We do not collect any information about our visitor's email or referring domain.
For visitors on our website we collect Aggregate (General Tracking) information about pages that users visit on our site.

The information that we collect is used for tracking and internal review, and is then discarded.

Cookies and/or web beacons are being used to collect data in the ad serving process.

We may partner with 3rd party ad or content delivering services to deliver relevant ads or content to our visitors.

With respect to security, we use industry standard encryption technologies, when transferring and receiving data from visitors on our website.

[Graphic Addict]

Thanks guys. I got a privacy policy up now

[Ajay]

the kid that owned myspacegeek.net had his adsense terminated, because he put "cool links," as a header above his ad block. But, he got reinstated... so maybe you will too. the worst part is waiting for a reply, since they take long. 4 - days to 2 weeks whenever i email them about a question.

[Graphic Addict]

Ya, well I sent them 2 emails... they were sure quick to shut me down, but I am sure not quick to respond. Oh well. What can I do but wait. I will tell you this is NOT my week... first my laptop and now this. Myabe I will wake up and this will have been a bad dream... I doubt it lol.

I also posted in their help forums to see what all I need to do. Maybe it was a new TOS thing, and anyone that had one tinny thing outta place, they disabled to show how strong they are on enforcing TOS. I can only hope that theyll give me a second chance.

[msbooya]

Google tried calling me last night. I wonder what that was about.

[Graphic Addict]

Google tried calling me last night. I wonder what that was about.


Did you get the # off caller ID by any chance lol.... and try to call them back and see what they wanted. Thats interesting that they would call you.... hmmmm has anyone else got a call from them? Mybe they are checking recent phone #s.....:helpsmilie:

[MKInfo]

Who knows what G are up to.
I have attached a generic privacy policy which covers all of the bases if you want to use it. Also I would advise to have as little advertising on the Privacy page as possible. example http://www.getonmyspace.com/privacy/

[MyspaceMom]

I'm sorry :( I hope they give you your account back!

[Graphic Addict]

Thanks MKinfo, and MySpaceMom. I was just reading some idiots response to my post on adsense help forum, man some people can be rude. I meen, I have a right to be upset. I know in some way its MY FAULT, but its still that I think I should have received a WARNING so that I could have the chance to fix what was wrong.

[MKInfo]

Thanks MKinfo, and MySpaceMom. I was just reading some idiots response to my post on adsense help forum, man some people can be rude. I meen, I have a right to be upset. I know in some way its MY FAULT, but its still that I think I should have received a WARNING so that I could have the chance to fix what was wrong.

I agree or at least have just stopped serving ads on that domain until you modify it etc.

[Graphic Addict]

Oh well.... I guess i am going to go to bed now. I feel sick to my stomach. The people on the google forum seem to think its because I dont have enough TEXT on my site..... but what gives. Anywho, thanks to you all for your help. YOU'RE THE BEST GROUP OF PEOPLE I KNOW!!!!

[applebooty]

Aw I'm sorry sweetpea! That sucks so bad!! :(
Don't they have a number you can call? I've never needed it, but I'm sure they do somewhere!

[Cyclops]

Thats really sad to hear .... good luck in your quest to be reinstated.

I have a theory about why Google are pulling peoples accounts but in your case it's drawing a long bow.

Google reduced the clickable area on Adsense text ads ... Before, a user could click anywhere on the ad and be brought to the destination. After the changes, users have to click on something that looks like a hyperlink.

"The CTR on text ads declined about 60% in the last 2 months with Googles changes, Image ads on the other hand stayed the same."
Quoted - January 4th, 2008 Marcus of Plentyoffish.com

4 months later, that little back and forth in the Google Rec Room shaved about $85 Billion (with a B) in market capitalization.

I think Google are starting to beef up their affiliates by removing sites that they don't think fit their metric .... a lot of companies and individuals have pulled their content ads because of the low conversion rate. They only use the search component because it converts so much better.
In the long term Google need to ensure that people using the content network are getting value for money which at the moment they aren't receiving. To try and rectify this they are pulling accounts of peoples whose sites don't convert.

I would have thought Google would start by pulling the accounts of all those made for Adsense sites that have little or no content on them, mainly just Adsense links.
But maybe our Myspace resource sites come into that category, I mean from an Adsense viewpoint thats what our sites are for, receiving income from Adsense, we don't promote or sell anything, we just give away content and most of the Adsense units on the sites point to another resource site.

[Nora]

Thats really sad to hear .... good luck in your quest to be reinstated.

I have a theory about why Google are pulling peoples accounts but in your case it's drawing a long bow.

Google reduced the clickable area on Adsense text ads ... Before, a user could click anywhere on the ad and be brought to the destination. After the changes, users have to click on something that looks like a hyperlink.

"The CTR on text ads declined about 60% in the last 2 months with Googles changes, Image ads on the other hand stayed the same."
Quoted - January 4th, 2008 Marcus of Plentyoffish.com

4 months later, that little back and forth in the Google Rec Room shaved about $85 Billion (with a B) in market capitalization.

I think Google are starting to beef up their affiliates by removing sites that they don't think fit their metric .... a lot of companies and individuals have pulled their content ads because of the low conversion rate. They only use the search component because it converts so much better.
In the long term Google need to ensure that people using the content network are getting value for money which at the moment they aren't receiving. To try and rectify this they are pulling accounts of peoples whose sites don't convert.

I would have thought Google would start by pulling the accounts of all those made for Adsense sites that have little or no content on them, mainly just Adsense links.
But maybe our Myspace resource sites come into that category, I mean from an Adsense viewpoint thats what our sites are for, receiving income from Adsense, we don't promote or sell anything, we just give away content and most of the Adsense units on the sites point to another resource site.
I agree.. :)
But it would be nice of Adsense to add a feature so publishers can see whether its converting. That way we can experiment with different ad placements to see what works better for the advertisers..

[Connections]

I just received a email from google telling me to pull ads from about 10 sites I own or they would ban me!!!!!!!!

they are really getting TOO tuff on certain thing, its deffiantly to do with protecting their affiliates.

[MKInfo]

I just received a email from google telling me to pull ads from about 10 sites I own or they would ban me!!!!!!!!

they are really getting TOO tuff on certain thing, its deffiantly to do with protecting their affiliates.

Thats sucks AND blows.I don't know what they are up to.
Can you deduce anything from the sites they want you to pull?

[Ajay]

odd, i don't see any posts about this on dp or on the adsense forum. there were like 3 people talking about getting banned today on the link to the adsense forum posted earlier... umm, what am i missing?

[Nora]

It's starting to sound scary.. I haven't heard anything from them yet but people are starting to think it has to do with not getting enough UV's.
I do think it has to do with protecting advertisers though.

[agoldfinger]

But maybe our Myspace resource sites come into that category, I mean from an Adsense viewpoint thats what our sites are for, receiving income from Adsense, we don't promote or sell anything, we just give away content and most of the Adsense units on the sites point to another resource site.

Common, most websites' business model is give away free content and earn cash from advertising. What YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo News are all about? What radio stations are all about?
Most respectful sites that do SELL a product want their visitors to stay and buy, they don't put adsense ads, and they're the big advertisers.

For most ads promoting just other resource sites - it's google's pure benefit. It's like a huge link exchange program on resource sites - only that google earns real money for each click no matter what direction it goes. They would want to encourage this traffic.

Also - google had me banned once for a minor thing on my site, and after I contacted them the reactivated my account.

[agoldfinger]

I just received a email from google telling me to pull ads from about 10 sites I own or they would ban me!!!!!!!!

they are really getting TOO tuff on certain thing, its deffiantly to do with protecting their affiliates.

It DOES sound scary. What was their problem with those sites?

[JazzyJazzdotnet]

ok Vanessa.

I Got This Email Lastnight.

I Was Banned Too. WTF.

And Im wondering Vanessa, if my google acct was closed because of something I did wrong.
Or if it is because we are under the same hosting plan, or because my site is still in YOUR godaddy acct & under your WHOIS?

Or would that not effect me?

[Priya]

Omg very scary.Hopefully you will get our account back.

[Ajay]

i noticed that you don't have a privacy policy either. i wonder if that has something to do with it.. and from connection's signature links he doesn't seem to use them either.. hmm very weird.


ok Vanessa.

I Got This Email Lastnight.

I Was Banned Too. WTF.

And Im wondering Vanessa, if my google acct was closed because of something I did wrong.
Or if it is because we are under the same hosting plan, or because my site is still in YOUR godaddy acct & under your WHOIS?

Or would that not effect me?

[nando]

We got a big club going on now huh... received the same bullsh!t email last night...

[JazzyJazzdotnet]

Sorry Nando :(

I'm just fed up.

I don't even wanna try to reinstate my acct. This is the 2nd time they banned me.
They banned me last year too for some bullsh*t reason.

I can barely understand all their heebyjeeby rules anyways lol.

My site might run a little faster & look a little cleaner without all that crap.
I'm out $100/month though but maybe I can find another source of income?

Shux.

[nando]

Sorry Nando :(

I'm just fed up.

I don't even wanna try to reinstate my acct. This is the 2nd time they banned me.
They banned me last year too for some bullsh*t reason.

I can barely understand all their heebyjeeby rules anyways lol.

My site might run a little faster & look a little cleaner without all that crap.
I'm out $100/month though but maybe I can find another source of income?

Shux.

yeah.. thats what i'm doing - looking a replacement...

[danos880]

Adbrite can pick up some slack.

[Nora]

Did any of you have cartoons or copyrighted images on the site? Maybe that could be causing it.. but in that case its weird that its a mass ban :S

[George]

No one on DP is talking about this so maybe it's a myspace resource site thing.

[mrbrantley]

I suggest everyone take a good read at the new TOS. It has information about privacy policies, minimum impressions and CTR requirements. In a nutshell, Google is now requiring we provide them with a decent level of traffic / CTR for them to allow us to participate.

https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms

[rizza]

I just received a email from google telling me to pull ads from about 10 sites I own or they would ban me!!!!!!!!

they are really getting TOO tuff on certain thing, its deffiantly to do with protecting their affiliates.

Of those 10 how many were porn stars?

[Aleisha]

OMG girl, that is SO scary!

[spokenforxx]

Now I'm scared to check my email.

[NYCBORN]

Google has made statements very recently about hosting images that are copyrighted. So if you are hosting images that infringe on copyrights that might be a violation. Disney, Nascar, Hello Kitty, so forth.

[strawberryswirl]

Wow, that's definately creepy! I haven't gotten this email yet, but I guess that means I better throw a Privacy Policy up really quick! Good luck to those who've been banned! This sucks...

[Jen]

What was the reason last time?


Sorry Nando :(

I'm just fed up.

I don't even wanna try to reinstate my acct. This is the 2nd time they banned me.
They banned me last year too for some bullsh*t reason.

I can barely understand all their heebyjeeby rules anyways lol.

My site might run a little faster & look a little cleaner without all that crap.
I'm out $100/month though but maybe I can find another source of income?

Shux.

[ajarchibald3]

A simple solution to this is make whatever changes you need to make and simply create another adsense acct. If you signed up under your personal information create a company and sign up under that. I have multiple accts just incase some bs like this happens.

[JazzyJazzdotnet]

I cant remember the reason I got banned last time, Jen. I dont think it gave a specific reason & I didnt care enough back then to check into it.

But as for what NYCBORN said, I do have stuff like Disney, Hello Kitty, and other cartoon related graphics on my site. None that were bought from others or redistributed or sold by me; mainly graphics I created or just threw glitter over for people to use on their profiles.

Which- Im sure Google doesnt care what the reason is they are on my site for. I think they are just crackin down hard because way too many people are getting paid (that are scamming them some how) so theyre trying to throw out the bad apples & in the meantime some nice guys like us get the grunt of it.

Not to mention if they are now going by a minimum amount of traffic- I have had a large decrease on my site; so that may be another legit reason?

Ohwell, nothing much I can do- and to be honest I am not all that concerned. Just wish theyd pay me the money I have already earned but they wont. SO whatever.

[Greg31583]

Has anyone else been banned by google today??? I just received this email:


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
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153&hl=en_US.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team


WTF?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?! I abide by their TOS, and HAVE NEVER CLICKED my own ads, and have been a member for over a year.... why did they do this to me?



:cheers: :clap:

[George]

A simple solution to this is make whatever changes you need to make and simply create another adsense acct. If you signed up under your personal information create a company and sign up under that. I have multiple accts just incase some bs like this happens.
Yes, please listen to this advice and get your other account banned too the moment you put adsense up on the same site.

Google != stupid.

[NYCBORN]

Yes, please listen to this advice and get your other account banned too the moment you put adsense up on the same site.

Google != stupid.

Hey dude that Pchangout forum is the bomb. You always come up with these gems. Can I borrow your brain for the weekend I need some new sites.

[nsmchris]

Yes, please listen to this advice and get your other account banned too the moment you put adsense up on the same site.

Google != stupid.

Right. You can have multiple accounts via the business route, but putting a new account on site that was terminated in against the tos.

Prohibited Uses #10: create a new account to use the Program after Google has terminated this Agreement with You as a result of your breach of this Agreement;

So if you do legitimately have multiple accounts don't use on a site that has been terminated.

[Andrew2]

Terms of Use < Privacy Policy

Is there any difference?

[Sergio]

No offense to anyone's site, but MySpace sites aren't exactly quality. Of course they're going to ban accounts using them (with the exception of bigger websites).

If you can't get accepted into VCM and all other cpc programs fail, then I suggest you move on to another niche. There's a lot of money to be made from affiliate marketing, and they won't ban you so easily.

[Nora]

Terms of Use < Privacy Policy

Is there any difference?
I thought terms were just what you allowed your visitors to do with the content. Privacy policy is probably the whole "we're not gonna spam you, we just stalk you" thing..

[Andrew2]

i added that part under my terms though.
"terms of using my site" not so much as "terms of using my content"

i address cookies, ads, content usage and privacy in my terms.

[Nora]

i added that part under my terms though.
"terms of using my site" not so much as "terms of using my content"

i address cookies, ads, content usage and privacy in my terms.
That's okay too.. I don't think the bans had anything to do with the privacy policy thing.
It takes a while for them to review sites so that all the bans are all happening at the same time is really weird.

[George]

Terms of Use < Privacy Policy

Is there any difference?
Terms of use are the terms that you set for users accessing your site. And if the users should decide to break your terms the actions you would take. For example, IP/cookie banning the user, terminating their account, or reporting the incident to authorities.

Privacy policy defines what personally identifying (or potentially identifying) information you collect about your visitors, how you collect it, and what you will do with it. I.E. who you will share it with and under what circumstances.

[Andrew2]

so do i need totally seperate pages, can I combine the two or should I just label it as Privacy Policy and cover both subjects?

[ajarchibald3]

sorry did not give a full explaination.

Step 1. Buy a new domain name
Step 2. Copy content from old site to new making whatever changes you deem necessary. Removing offending content, adding privacy policy , whatever.
step 3. do a 301 redirect from the old site to the new site.

Read: http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/blue-hat-technique-11-last-resort-self-unbanning/

[Nora]

sorry did not give a full explaination.

Step 1. Buy a new domain name
Step 2. Copy content from old site to new making whatever changes you deem necessary. Removing offending content, adding privacy policy , whatever.
step 3. do a 301 redirect from the old site to the new site.

Read: http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/blue-hat-technique-11-last-resort-self-unbanning/
Don't ever try to fool Google.. They're not stupid.

Just work on improving your site, write a decent email to them (don't bring up how being banned makes you feel). Ask them to review the things you've improved, stay friendly and they'll be friendly enough to review your site again. :)

[neds75]

Hmm, I think that problem might be due to inline ads from adbrite, as in google terms, it say that you can use content ads from other provides on same page with google ads.
Please check this, I think I read somewhere that inline ads from adbrite with google ads on same page are against google tos. At least I thought so, so I removed adbrite inline ads about one month ago.

Anyway, contact google and ask them for reasons, and if it is your mistake, remove it, and ask them to enable your account again. ANd please keep us informed too.

Good Luck!

[Andrew2]

If there's a lesson to be learned here it's that websites have a Terms issued for a reason, and it's your responsibility when you Agree to these Terms that you follow them or pay the consiquences. Hopefully you guys can contact Google after you've made some changes to your sites & get this resolved.

[JazzyJazzdotnet]

I dont wanna resolve it, too much of a hassle for me, I am too lazy (for just an extra $100/mnth) LOL but thank you anyways for all the great advice, everyone.

Vanessa on the other hand Im sure will work towards fixing her's.... good luck :)

[msbooya]

Did you get the # off caller ID by any chance lol.... and try to call them back and see what they wanted. Thats interesting that they would call you.... hmmmm has anyone else got a call from them? Mybe they are checking recent phone #s.....:helpsmilie:


I tried calling the number and nobody answered.

[Graphic Addict]

So whats new today.... anyone else get banned. Sorry felicity, and no google bans people, not sites. I asked that ? already lol. What a nightmare. I just woke up, and turns out I wasnt dreaming.....

[Graphic Addict]

http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help-guidelines/browse_thread/thread/2b9a79fc2d776a1c/5014f09249dae9d9#5014f09249dae9d9

here is the link to the thread i started in the help forum. You can see ALOT of people were banned as well.... and you see their veiws on why.

[Connections]

i noticed that you don't have a privacy policy either. i wonder if that has something to do with it.. and from connection's signature links he doesn't seem to use them either.. hmm very weird.

nah mine was for a different situation,

I was making a privacy policy yesterday I will have to upload it to a bunch of different sites today.

______________

here is a email the google team sent me -

_____________

While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying Google ads in a way that does not comply with our policies. For instance, we found violations of AdSense policies on pages such as http://____________.

As stated in our programme policies, AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on pages with adult or mature content.

As a result, we have disabled ad serving to the site.

Your AdSense account remains active. However, we strongly suggest that you take the time to review our programme policies (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies) to ensure that all your remaining pages comply with these policies.

Please note that we may disable your account if further violations are found in the future.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team


__________

the funny thing was the images that were been displayed on this site were more then G rated to say the least.

if you look at the top ten search terms for this site in google all 10 are using google and all 10 have worse images.

the rules in this are are quite ambiguous to say the least.

[Graphic Addict]

I agree connections, but I guess you were LUCKY that they warned you... thats odd that they did that, but thats better than your entire acct being terminated. I just signed up for clicksor..... I am just gonna wait out a response from G. If they re-instate me I will remove clicksor. But I cannot go for broke until I hear a response. I guess that the good part about me being banned was that I got to post this RIGHT after I was banned, and hopefully everyone caught wind about the banning spree and had time to change their ad placements, content etc... hope they dont ban anyone else, but I doubt it from the way its looking over on their side. LOTS OF UNHAPPY FOLKS in the google forums. What a shame....what a shame. They are even disableling ADVERTISERS from adwords who also had Adsense. Tis an aweful thing. Doomsday brought to you by Google lol..

[Jazzylee77]

I wonder if we need to put privacy policies up on blogspot pages?

[Graphic Addict]

i would think so. Because google is displayed there as well. BUT then again, I am prolly not a good one to answer this seeming as if I am the BIG BAD BANNED lol

[Aleisha]

Time to read those new terms again it seems :p

[Jen]

Well for awhile there you were running your fotline site as a mfa (made for adsense site) so it doesn't surprise me that they banned you. Most of those $xx,xxx earnings are probably from that.

Rule of thumb. Don't mess with Google.

i was just banned by adsense

they owe me XX,XXX

no kidding

and i did not really " violate " anything in purpose

[Aleisha]

Wow, what is your site ituhitam?

Is it just a myspace resource site?

This is SO scary!

[Jen]

3 hours too long...tsk tsk

[JazzyJazzdotnet]

Ituhitam, You PMed me during the week saying that the way my ads were set up were violating Google's terms, but they werent..... lol

and it turns out I got banned for other reasons :(

[ituhitam]

Ituhitam, You PMed me during the week saying that the way my ads were set up were violating Google's terms, but they werent..... lol

and it turns out I got banned for other reasons :(
what i can say is good luck:) i'm sure we can find other good source, let's just hope so!:punk:

[George]

Yeah get out of the myspace niche now!! Run noobs run!!

You All Gonnah DAHHH!!

EDIT: Wait wtf happened to my signature??? Which one of you edited my sig???

[JazzyJazzdotnet]

I never got into web design and the 'Myspace Niche' for the money.

I was doing it a year - a year & a half way before I started making money.

So as long as I am interested in something; myspace- web design- graphic design, etc... Ill stick it out no matter what happens ;)

Plus if I got out of this 'Niche' as you say George then I would get out of this forum, and then where would all you webmasters be without me & my cool designs, hehe!!

[Andrew2]

if i got banned i'd lose 2.00 a day...its not even worth 2.00 to have the ads there :P

[JazzyJazzdotnet]

I feel the same way. Well, I was making like $25 a week between both my sites. But same difference.

[SamOwen]

Did you have any questionable graphics? Borderline nudy pics, etc...? Like the kind found here (http://myspacepros.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16334).

[Graphic Addict]

noppers nothing very adult

[gowanstl24]

I'm really sorry that so many of you got banned! I've been wary of Adsense for years now - they could care less about the little people. It seems selfish IMHO because, well, how many billions of $$ have they generated over the years? I've heard from tons of people who have reached that $100 milestone just to have their payments denied for this and that, whether legit or seemingly not/petty.

I haven't been banned yet, but I'm sure my time is coming soon. In fact I'm shocked that I wasn't banned before the rest of you, what with my whopping pagerank of 1.

"Google reserves the right to terminate without notice any account that has not generated a sufficient number of valid clicks on Ads or Referral Buttons or valid impressions of Ads (in each case as measured by Google) for a period of two (2) months or more. Upon termination of participation of any Property in the Program or termination of this Agreement for any reason, Sections 3, 6 through 10, and 14 through 17 shall survive termination." <---ya, there's no way I'm making that quota, whatever that is.

Like Felicity, I'm not in it for the money - never was, but adsense was one of those, "I have nothing to lose," deals. Some people get into MySpace graphics specifically for the money, and a select few in that group snort on others and accuse them of hopping on the MySpace bandwagon, or sniff at them for having crappy websites, but I got into it (about 4 years before I made my website) for the love of glitter graphics, and nothing more. Noooothing.

In fact, something could be said about people who are oh-so-not-into glitter graphics but get into that for the $$, but I digress. Finishing that thought would be just as snobby lol. So to adsense, da man, and those who have a superiority complex regarding this niche, all I can say is whatever, and with a great amount of indifference at that despite this lengthy post.

If and when I do get banned, I'll keep my website indefinitely - almost defiantly. I'm addicted to glitter on the interweb [sic] and real life. What can I say - If you all could see what's laid out on my vanity you would understand my obsession! :P

I really hope you all can get reinstated. While I'm indifferent about my site's affiliation with adsense, my heart really does break for the rest of you. :_( If I had put as much work into my site regarding content, seo and whatnot, I would be devastated too.

Good luck! :)

[Nora]

they could care less about the little people. It seems selfish IMHO because, well, how many billions of $$ have they generated over the years? I've heard from tons of people who have reached that $100 milestone just to have their payments denied for this and that, whether legit or seemingly not/petty.
I disagree.. The money paid out by Adsense was paid for by advertisers looking for quality traffic, most sites that run ads will probably get a few accidental clicks but are not the kind of traffic advertisers are looking for so its only right that they return that money to the advertisers :)

I do think its unfair that some sites get banned from Google but looking at the sites of people who complain about their site being banned at DP, I know I wouldn't want my ads to be appearing on a site like that even if it didn't violate any terms. Google is just protecting their advertisers and I think that's a very good thing. I know that at the moment I won't advertise using Adwords because there are just too many money hungry people out there looking for a way to cheat the system. I don't think this is the case of Graphic Addict but if you look at the way people do everything to earn money from Adsense on DP without thinking about the advertisers, it doesn't surprise me that Google is trying to clean up a bit.

[gowanstl24]

I guess I can see your point. If I was an advertiser, I would want my money to be used in the best way possible. With that said, if I was some random graphics site who hooked up with adsense or adwords, I would want my ads to reach as many graphics websites as possible for diversity of clickers.

If Google lowered their price for placing ads a bit, I suspect this wouldn't be a problem. I totally see what you mean, but I still feel like Google=greedy - okay whether they are or not, saying it makes me feel better lol. ;)

[Nora]

I guess I can see your point. If I was an advertiser, I would want my money to be used in the best way possible. With that said, if I was some random graphics site who hooked up with adsense or adwords, I would want my ads to reach as many graphics websites as possible for diversity of clickers.

If Google lowered their price for placing ads a bit, I suspect this wouldn't be a problem. I totally see what you mean, but I still feel like Google=greedy - okay whether they are or not, saying it makes me feel better lol. ;)
I thought it was pretty cheap because you can start advertising for 0,01 per click.. I don't really understand how it works but I'll try it out sometime just to see what it's like :)

[Cyclops]

I don't understand why Google are banning accounts. They can ban individual URL's so if one of our sites is against the TOS it shouldn't affect the whole account.

Also as has been said before, 10 different Adsense reps can hold 10 differing views on what is correct and what isn't.

A few months ago they were banning sites with images next to adsense ad's, that seemed to impact on a lot of people from this forum but not so much people elsewhere, in fact there are thousands of sites out there that still have images next to ads.
On other forums such as DP no one seems to be experiencing this latest round of account banning .... it begs the question, are we at MSP's being singled out.

[Nora]

I don't understand why Google are banning accounts. They can ban individual URL's so if one of our sites is against the TOS it shouldn't affect the whole account.

Also as has been said before, 10 different Adsense reps can hold 10 differing views on what is correct and what isn't.

A few months ago they were banning sites with images next to adsense ad's, that seemed to impact on a lot of people from this forum but not so much people elsewhere, in fact there are thousands of sites out there that still have images next to ads.
On other forums such as DP no one seems to be experiencing this latest round of account banning .... it begs the question, are we at MSP's being singled out.
I guess what Sergio (or whoever else) said about Myspace sites not being quality sites is right. Copyright infringement and adult content could also be causing this. Most Myspace sites are filled with copyrighted material and adult comments/graphics.. even though things may not seem adult to some people, girls in bikini's and sexy texts will probably be considered adult by Adsense.

[NYCBORN]

Google's stock has dropped over less earnings per click. Investors have slammed them for decreasing the click window. Advertisers have been advertising less.

[Cyclops]

Check out this link, http://www.sellingppp.com/a.cgi?ppp=1200887931 I was pretty sceptical about this program for awhile but have been keeping a close on it as it rolls out. Now I'm sold on it, it's looking very good and should pay out more than we were receiving from Adsense.

The good thing is that they are automatically accepting all sites except for porn and warez so that isn't an issue for us. (no site is too small)
If you have lost your adsense account you don't have anything to lose .... if you still have your adsense account it's insurance against losing it and is fully compatible with adsense anyway.

[thplooy]

It could have been the Adbrite ads.

Adbrite is serving ads for drivecleaner.*** errorsafe.***, errclean.***, these are the kind of ads that are trying to install software on your computer.
And that's against the Adsense TOS

I would remove all ads from the website, and wait for an answer from Google.

[fntastik]

Pay-per-play has a long way to go, I made 4.77 on a site I earned over 400.00 from google. I you have the traffic try mediajump they pay well.

[Ajay]

Yup, I still see numerous sites, especially photoshop tutorial sites, which still put images next to ads. And they have been doing it for more than just a few weeks.



A few months ago they were banning sites with images next to adsense ad's, that seemed to impact on a lot of people from this forum but not so much people elsewhere, in fact there are thousands of sites out there that still have images next to ads.

[nina]

Um, alternatives?

http://myseoblog.net/2008/02/29/lists-of-advertising-networks/
http://www.johnchow.com/other-advertising-networks-besides-google-adsense/


=\ Good luck

[HPA]

I got this my self :(

[cm_reloader]

this clearly shows Google don't like myspace resources very much. they are taking the actions slowly on some of the sites...

[minnseoelite]

google don't care if its a myspace site, they make money from myspace sites like any other niche and thats all they care about. there are thousands of myspace sites out there so eliminating a few hundred of them is nothing to them.

[Cyclops]

Pay-per-play has a long way to go, I made 4.77 on a site I earned over 400.00 from google.
That doesn't surprise me, you are lucky as Pay-per-play have only been running 100k ads per day while they have been doing an audit. They found a few players were trying to game the system using bots so at the moment they are closing down the loopholes they were using.

Here's a few quotes from their website.
We are running about 100,000 ads a day, spread randomly across member sites
as we check out all of our reporting and financial processes.
Because the network is so large, the likelihood of you receiving paid ads (at the moment) is slim. We have to wait for the robot to finish this final crawl before the BPA audit before 200+ million paid ads start playing in our network. For now patience, don't watch stats yet.

- Charles (admin)

Initial results from the BPA audit has shown that we need more coverage in the United States. This is good news because NetAudioAds has indicated that we have more demand than ad plays... Interesting & exciting.

We have advertisers that would glady buy more coverage from us in the United States if we had it. Now we are answering the demand and re-opening the opportunity.
To explain that quote a bit more. On the 1st of Feburary they stopped accepting new sites to the program. They thought they had enough to take up all the advertisers that they had signed up. Now they are finding that the pool is growing so fast they need more sites onboard to keep up with the demand.

Political Ads...

We have several political ads coming up in large volumes.

If you want political ads on your pages you must authorize it from your back office.

You will be very surprised when you see what we have pending if we have enough publishers approved.

Sorry to be so short... The big update including many other items is coming very soon. Keep an eye on your email inbox.

Thank you,

Charles (admin)


I just learned from Larry Host that in larger metropolitan areas we can target down to a few city blocks. This is perfect for small businesses in big cities to gain exposure from the millions of possible ad plays in those regions... This is an easy way to make more money from this network. More targeted than TV and radio. Luigi's Pizza (fictitious) in New York City can run an ad only to his delivery area. Because our network is so big, Luigi can reach his target audience that is surfing the internet in his delivery area at a time that Luigi specifies.

The same is true in any major city in "any" country in the world.


They might close the doors again when they feel they have enough sites on board so now's the time to get involved, at least sign up, even if you don't place the code on your sites.
You can then sit back and see how it works out for the rest of us then if your happy with what you see then you can jump in.

Heres the link again :biggrin: http://www.sellingppp.com/a.cgi?ppp=1200887931

[SamOwen]

... even though things may not seem adult to some people, girls in bikini's and sexy texts will probably be considered adult by Adsense.They are. I've read so many ban stories due to images like this. Anything where the pic is mostly nudy and in a suggestive pose is considered adult. Even those graphics of weed, drugs and guns can get you banned.

[Connections]

I would strongly advise that any one that had any think even a girl in a bikini or a short skirt.

just remove all these images, also if you are running adult friend finder or something along these lines remove it.

this is the image google all most banned me over -

http://codylane.us/Cody%20Lane%206.jpg

quite suttle but they deemed it to be mature content.

I mean you see more on a celb blog.

google is really getting tuff..

hope this helps people.

[GREGO]

this really sucks!! not that I'm even good enough to have a site successful enough to be effected... but, some of this has to do with myspace related sites taking a lot of negative hits advertising wise lately.. I think maybe, just maybe if we make our websites not strictly myspace graphic related then this could change. I mean Graphics are used similarly on not just myspace or even social networks but also blogs, forums, personal websites and all sorts of other popular web based fads/niches. If designers use their raw graphic design skills ( and believe me I see plenty of it around here) to hit up more than a few niches, that this could maybe make a huge difference in SEO and advertising. I mean even when it comes to social networking, myspace isn't all that's out there..

just the opinion of an unsuccessful webmaster but OK graphic designer

[Nora]

Another important thing to remember is to never put VC ads on a page with Google ads.
VC shows these half porn ads on Myspace sites from time to time. I know Google considers that pornography.

[Andrew2]

vc as in vcm? I always have my vcm ads up... You can check off the ads you dont want displayed anyways ive never seen any mature ads from vcm.

[Nora]

vc as in vcm? I always have my vcm ads up... You can check off the ads you dont want displayed anyways ive never seen any mature ads from vcm.
I've seen them once on my site while I was in another country. It shocked me to see all these half nude pictures of women.
Not sure if blocking certain ads is possible because I never tried to but I think its important to do that before Google sees it.

[Ajay]

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/gallery/naked-paris-hilton-photo/

rank 9k on alexa... so the site gets a decent amount of traffic. And for a blog, that a really good alexa rank, since most blogs don't get a lot of pageviews.

i think that pic of paris hilton is 10x worse than yours. I think they are just weeding out small sites, and sites with very little content, by being very picky.

oh well, what can you do... it was nice of them to give you a warning.


I would strongly advise that any one that had any think even a girl in a bikini or a short skirt.

just remove all these images, also if you are running adult friend finder or something along these lines remove it.

this is the image google all most banned me over -

http://codylane.us/Cody%20Lane%206.jpg

quite suttle but they deemed it to be mature content.

I mean you see more on a celb blog.

google is really getting tuff..

hope this helps people.

[Nora]

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/gallery/naked-paris-hilton-photo/

rank 9k on alexa... so the site gets a decent amount of traffic. And for a blog, that a really good alexa rank, since most blogs don't get a lot of pageviews.

i think that pic of paris hilton is 10x worse than yours. I think they are just weeding out small sites, and sites with very little content, by being very picky.

oh well, what can you do... it was nice of them to give you a warning.
I don't think they're weeding out small sites. Paris Hilton is a celebrity so unless she's completely nude it won't be looked at as pornography. Having images like Connections posted on your site on sexy texts or in comments will be considered adult. I think its better for sites to just get rid of images like that than to risk losing their Adsense account..

Oh yea.. wasn't having pop-ups on a site with Adsense not allowed? I've seen many Myspace resource sites do so.. maybe that's why people are getting banned :S

[rizza]

I would strongly advise that any one that had any think even a girl in a bikini or a short skirt.

just remove all these images, also if you are running adult friend finder or something along these lines remove it.

this is the image google all most banned me over -

http://codylane.us/Cody%20Lane%206.jpg

quite suttle but they deemed it to be mature content.

I mean you see more on a celb blog.

google is really getting tuff..

hope this helps people.

You have to remember Google is a US based company, in the US a picture like that would offend a lot of people. While in Australia you guys run around naked lol I don't find it offensive, but a lot of people would. For other people with images like that they will eventually get caught, they are just slipping by.

As for not being allowed to have Value Click with Adsense that is false.

and for being allowed to have pop ups with Adsense that is also false.

Something is happening internally at Google. They are coming under a lot of fire right now, so they are trying to clean up their reputation.

[Nora]

As for not being allowed to have Value Click with Adsense that is false.

and for being allowed to have pop ups with Adsense that is also false.
Well not all Valueclick ads but I've seen two ads way more offensive than the picture that was posted in the thread. If I ever come across them again I'll take a screenshot and post the url of the site that's advertised. I even took vc off my site for a while when I saw that, its definitely not what I want visitors to see..

Most popups also come with spyware and automatic downloaders (at least that's what I experience) and that's what Adsense doesn't allow..

[Ajay]

I dont know if celebrity has anything to do with it. mature content is mature content... anyway another example from the same site, http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/categories/jenna-jameson/page/2/

she is a d-list celebrity at best, but an a-list pornstar. the last image on page 2 is 100x worse than the cody lane pic connections posted.

but also, after reviewing his site, umm it was probably not a good idea to put adsense on a site featuring a pornstar, even if you don't show full nude pics/videos on it.

I haven't seen any big sites get hit with the ban. And, doesn't look like many other smaller sites have been banned either... so now i doubt they are weeding out small sites. I checked on dp, and today some guy was complaining about getting banned... but he was basically promoting through a huge email list which google might have thought was spammy. Other than that, don't see a whole lot of sites getting banned.

It was probably some reviewer at google, who had a bad day and decided to be real anal.

I don't think they're weeding out small sites. Paris Hilton is a celebrity so unless she's completely nude it won't be looked at as pornography. Having images like Connections posted on your site on sexy texts or in comments will be considered adult. I think its better for sites to just get rid of images like that than to risk losing their Adsense account..

Oh yea.. wasn't having pop-ups on a site with Adsense not allowed? I've seen many Myspace resource sites do so.. maybe that's why people are getting banned :S

[Nora]

I dont know if celebrity has anything to do with it. mature content is mature content... anyway another example from the same site, http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/categories/jenna-jameson/page/2/

she is a d-list celebrity at best, but an a-list pornstar. the last image on page 2 is 100x worse than the cody lane pic connections posted.

but also, after reviewing his site, umm it was probably not a good idea to put adsense on a site featuring a pornstar, even if you don't show full nude pics/videos on it.

I haven't seen any big sites get hit with the ban. And, doesn't look like many other smaller sites have been banned either... so now i doubt they are weeding out small sites. I checked on dp, and today some guy was complaining about getting banned... but he was basically promoting through a huge email list which google might have thought was spammy. Other than that, don't see a whole lot of sites getting banned.

It was probably some reviewer at google, who had a bad day and decided to be real anal.
Actually a lot of sites are getting banned..
http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help

Anyway, for those of you with content that some people might consider adult, its easier to just delete it than to get your account approved again after it has been banned.

[Ajay]

hmm, what's the exact link to the threads of people being banned. The one thread that graphics-addict started had 27 posts in it, but there were only 4 people banned. also, i did a search in the groups for banned and it doesn't show a lot, and the ones that does show are not recently dated.

http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help/search?q=banned&start=0&

weird.


Actually a lot of sites are getting banned..
http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help

Anyway, for those of you with content that some people might consider adult, its easier to just delete it than to get your account approved again after it has been banned.

[Nora]

http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help-guidelines/browse_thread/thread/14a0d52f9f43f7e2/5dccd3c08d8b7708
http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help-guidelines/browse_thread/thread/90477e43ff9b897a/bde16e3e540965d6
http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help-basics/browse_thread/thread/372b76b5ebd5b4f3/b5519873c044f708

There are plenty of others too, just browse through the different categories because they're all over the place :)

[Graphic Addict]

Mmm hmm, there are ALOT! And no one knows why. I just set here patiently waiting to hear from Google. Which I doublt will be any time soon lol.

[Connections]

In refrence to my question about mature content here is my reply from google.

This is a pretty pathetic reply if you ask me, i asked them to simply review 3 sites that have around 15k page views a day combined as i was worried about if they class they as mature or not, andhere is their reply.

Hello James,

Thank you for your email. I'll be happy to provide clarification of our
policy regarding adult/mature content.

Our policy regarding adult/mature content may include any material that is
not appropriate for all audiences. While this obviously includes full
nudity or sexual activity, it may also include textually explicit sexual
content, some treatments of topics such as sexual health and sex tips, and
image or video content containing lewd or provocative poses, strategically
covered nudity, see-through or sheer clothing, and close-ups of breasts,
butts, or crotches.

While it's not a sure test, we sometimes suggest that publishers ask
themselves the following questions to determine if content is family-safe:
Would I be comfortable viewing this content with my parents or children in
the same room? Would I feel comfortable viewing this content if my boss
walked up behind me while I had this content on my screen? If the answer
to either of these questions is no, then it is likely that some
advertisers would not be comfortable showing their ads on such content and
we might consider it mature.

Regarding your question about the other 3 sites, you're welcome to place
Google ads or an AdSense for search box on any website that complies with
our program policies ( http://www.google.com/adsense/policies).

While we're happy to clarify questions about our policies, we encourage
you to review the policies and use your best judgment to determine your
site's compliance. If you suspect that an implementation may violate the
spirit of one of our policies, we'd recommend you err on the side of
caution and modify the implementation.

Please also be aware that due to the large volume of emails we receive, we
can't accommodate individual requests to review publishers' sites.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

The AdSense Policy Enforcement Team


well if i ask myself this content is ok, yet if i ask some womans liberationish she might have another point of view on this subject.

when you have publishers making $xx,xxx a year this this not a reply you would want to recieve.

I want to know if these sites are ok, they seem to have time to look at sites and block urls yet no time to tell me whats ok and what is not ok i cant form these dicisons on my own judgement.

Yet they have stated these to be on the BANNED list.

sexual health
sex tips,
image or video content containing lewd or provocative poses,
strategically
covered nudity,
see-through or
sheer clothing,
and close-ups of breasts,
butts,
crotches

[Graphic Addict]

I cannot beleive you got a reply outta them. I am still waiting =( But I guess thats good to know what they definatley dont wanna see.

[minnseoelite]

or provocative poses

my guess would be they consider a woman with her legs open holding her breasts as provocative and not family friendly. being a parent i can see that.

[Benahue]

google don't care if its a myspace site, they make money from myspace sites like any other niche and thats all they care about.
I don't know about that Jason. The traffic quality of myspace resource sites is probably the lowest on the Internet. That's why they're all smart-priced. I think if Google was going to finger a niche that was hurting their advertising program, ms resource sites would be at the top of the list, probably #1 actually.

Google ultimately doesn't want to have to smart-price sites (or in this case smart-price an entire niche); they want publishers who are delivering quality traffic that pleases people using adwords.

Yea, I wonder if this round of account terminations has anything to do with their tumbling stock price and 3 consecutive quarters of declining PPC revenue. No, no, that's crazytalk......

[minnseoelite]

I don't know about that Jason. The traffic quality of myspace resource sites is probably the lowest on the Internet. That's why they're all smart-priced.

yes the quality of traffic is low, but they get paid for all the clicks generated whether or not they convert. besides most myspace sites show ads for other myspace sites unlike YPN and its sucky targeting, so i'm sure the quality of traffic is fine for adsense.

i agree most of the sites are smart priced but that mainly effects the amount the site owner gets paid per click, advertisers are still having to pay the full price and with all these sites smart priced that leaves a bigger share of the earnings for Google.

a large myspace site generates a few hundred a day from adsense earning only 2 cents per click. from what i heard people are still paying 5 cents or more per click in adwords for myspace related terms, so google is earning 1.5 - 2 times more then all myspace sites combined per day.

[celcius83]

i think it is maybe related to google's stock dropping down recently...?

[Jazzylee77]

i think it is maybe related to google's stock dropping down recently...?
Why would that make any difference? I suppose it could be a wakeup call, but I'm sure Google has teams of people analyzing the profitability of every proposed major move. And I doubt they look at the stock price and think..."ooh we better do our job right this quarter" or "hey, the stock prices are good, lets try some dumb ideas that look like they are sure to fail." But I've never worked for a large corporation, so maybe they can be more whimsical than I imagine.

[SamOwen]

i think it is maybe related to google's stock dropping down recently...?Probably. G seems to be cleaning house lately.

[tacoX]

Probably because of all the links to the adult comments. Thats just my opinion...

[JazzyJazzdotnet]

OMG!!!

So google cancelled my account (supposably) the same day that they cancelled Vanessa.

So I am on one of my sites today and I notice a google ad working, I must have missed that one while removing them (after I was cancelled)

So I sign into Google and it gives me the new terms to accept, I do that, then I check my account and it seems to be WORKING!?

And under the payment history it says that the $121 that I made was ADJUSTED due to invalid clicks. Which is bull, cuz I dont click ANYTHING, Im not that dumb.

So it seems that they took my $121, but they are still allowing me to use google now? I am wicked confused.

I just dont want to put up Google ads AGAIN, make another $100, and have them take that from me too, and continue this annoying cycle.

What do YOU think, what would you do?

[SamOwen]

That's great that you're back in. Put your domain names under your own name now. Get rid of the adult stuff. AdSense can be a real blessing if you get enough good quality traffic.

Invalid clicks doesn't only mean you clicked your ads. It can also be clicks from others. I once had 100+ clicks from some moron who click bombed my site, needless to say those were invalid.

[Graphic Addict]

I Was Re-instated To Google Today!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!

Whiped out my balance, but I still have an account...

[peanut]

I Was Re-instated To Google Today!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!

Whiped out my balance, but I still have an account...

Glad it worked out for you but sucks they took your money.

[Graphic Addict]

Thanks. It was weird. The first email they sent that cancelled my account was the one I posted, and didnt say anything about invalid clicks, cause I would NEVER click my own ads.... THEN the email re-instating me said we are NOT tolerate of invalid clicks, but we have reviewed your case, and have re-instated your account.

So, I guess I will never know WHY I was cancelled, because it sure as HECK wouldnt be invalid clicks on my end, but AT LEAST its back up and going again. whew.........

[Andrew2]

Woah yeah that sucks you lost your balance, at least you can get money in the future.

Did it effect Felicity's adsense account?

[Graphic Addict]

I have no clue. My guess is that since we are on the same server, and get alot of the same visitors (linked on each others sites) that maybe a visitor clicked our ads ALOT not knowing what they were doing, or purposley doing it for some weird reason. Thats all that I can gather, but none the less, I am GLAD to see that BOTH of us got back into this. It was quite depressing for a while.

EDIT:// I am out of town atm, and will post the email that they sent to re-instate me once I get home since I used my blackberry to get the email.

[misterproline]

Exact same thing happened to Nando too. Reinstated. Must have been some internal error.

[Graphic Addict]

mmmhmmmm, but youd think they would have been kind enough to notice that error, and leave the $ in our accounts lol, but beggers cannot be chosers

[Ajay]

That was pretty fast. If you are too suspicious of google, then you shouldn't use them... otherwise just pretend like this never happend and keep on trucking :D

[Graphic Addict]

Thats what Im going to do. I meen I was a member for over a year with no flaws, not even a late payment... one mess up isnt THAT bad I dont guess

[Nora]

Congrats :D

You don't have to be the one to click ads to make them invalid, if a user comes along and just clicks them for fun or to hurt your site they'll be looked as as invalid.

Anyway, I'm glad you can use them again :)

[MKInfo]

Supid question but you guys who were "banned" ....did you agree to the new T & C's before the deadline as it did say that if you didn't accept by a certain date (can't rem what it was) then your account would be terminated.

[JazzyJazzdotnet]

I didnt get a new Terms & Conditions thing before I was banned.

Just saw it after & I accepted it :) So not sure MKINFO.
That could be possible for me because I dont regularly sign into google, so I just might have missed the date.