Will Google Reinstate My AdSense Account?
A few days ago I noticed about 60 clicks to my AdSense account in a short time span that appeared to be invalid, so I notified Google to make sure they knew that it was some sort of fraud. I’ve heard horror stories of people having some random jerkoff have their account disabled, so I wanted to make sure I didn’t fall into the same trap.
Looks like it didn’t work.
A few hours ago I received the following e-mail from Google:
Hello Ryan Parker,
It has come to our attention that invalid clicks and/or impressions
have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have
therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that
this was a necessary step to protect the interests of AdWords
advertisers.As you may know, a publisher’s site may not have invalid clicks or
impressions on any ad(s), including but not limited to clicks and/or
impressions generated by:- a publisher on his own web pages
- a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads
- automated clicking or surfing programs, or any other deceptive
software
- a publisher altering any portion of the ad code or changing the
layout, behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads for any reason…
I run AdWords campaigns and obviously hate click fraud, which is why it’s unfortunate that Google has disabled my account.
So, what are the odds of Google reinstating my account?
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HMTKSteve said
on July 27 2007 @ 5:44 am
It all depends on how much they value your account and how high profile you are. I am now diversified enough that losing Google AdSense would hamper me but not kill me.
Ryan J. Parker said
on July 27 2007 @ 9:27 am
I’m a very small fish in their sea, I’m sure, so they might just blow me off.
Most of my money comes from other sources, but when you’ve got money coming your way in a few days it sucks when this happens.
HMTKSteve said
on July 27 2007 @ 12:33 pm
I think they time in that way on purpose.
Ryan J. Parker said
on July 27 2007 @ 12:36 pm
Agreed, but the activity I noticed was a few days ago so it doesn’t surprise me too much, even though I did notify them about it.
TechZilo said
on August 12 2007 @ 6:39 am
Notifying them alone does not work very often.
The best way would be to use AdLogger
John Bennett said
on August 13 2007 @ 1:36 pm
Does Google allow you to ask for reinstatement to Adsense? You would think they would be able to identify the type of fraud that was occuring if it wasn’t by that particular site, but I guess not.
Ryan J. Parker said
on August 13 2007 @ 1:39 pm
John, they allow you to “appeal”, but I think that it really means we closed your account because their was fraud and you’re too small for us to waste time on.
Tragic, but I guess that’s the price paid for being small.
Balinese said
on August 13 2007 @ 10:05 pm
Well you can appeal to Google but it’s all depend on them to decide. Just pray they didn’t ban you.
Webmaster marketplace said
on August 17 2007 @ 12:19 pm
There were cases of people getting their accounts back. However you are probably more likely to win the lottery. I wonder what happens with bigger companies when their users go crazy on the ads.
Word Hugger said
on September 4 2007 @ 6:37 pm
Some people have gotten their accounts back, but on the other hand, 98% haven’t. I would say try to find the best replacement, and send an appeal. Always expect the worst, and if the worst doesn’t come, all the better.
Ryan said
on September 5 2007 @ 7:06 pm
I got nailed for invalid clicks caused by sources unknown to me a year or so ago. I also tried appealing to get my account back but it didn’t work out. You could always try signing up with a new email and URL.
I buy and sell said
on September 8 2007 @ 11:23 am
I guess this also depends on the amount of invalid clicks compared to your total daily clicks. It won’t be logical for you to fake a few clicks when you are making enough anyway.
Johny Burneo said
on September 22 2007 @ 4:18 am
“Will Google Reinstate My AdSense Account?”
Yes, if you ask Google carefully.
Hoto said
on September 24 2007 @ 1:39 pm
this sounds realy hard. but i think goole will reinstate our adsense account after a while, if you ask them.
Word Hugger said
on October 1 2007 @ 4:16 pm
Any update from google?
Prometheus said
on November 6 2007 @ 7:29 am
Yea.. google disabled my adsense account too.
Appealed but it was rejected. Apparently i posed a risk to their advertisers.
I don’t think its really nice as they ban you for life. There is no suspension as such, but any offence will give you the maximum penalty of disablement of the adsense account. Capital Punishment. This is strange for a company which makes money and was from the support of all of us. I would rather prefer that they have a suspension period so as we can learn from our mistakes.
I’m sure google has made mistakes themselves in the past, but their company was not shut down!
The Zero tolerance concept advocated by google is truly special. Whats more, they actually get away with it very well.
Damn if google were the justice department, any small offence would mean the chair. Be it stealing a pack of gum or grabbing an ice cream from a kid.
adsense website said
on November 11 2007 @ 3:02 am
its usually take a while for them to reinstall the acount.not after you have sent tons of emails to them explaining your innocence.
Mahesh Pokhriyal said
on November 20 2007 @ 7:30 am
A few days ago I noticed about 50 clicks to my AdSense account in a short time span that appeared to be invalid, so I notified Google to make sure they knew that it was some sort of fraud. I’ve heard horror stories of people having some random jerkoff have their account disabled, so I wanted to make sure I didn’t fall into the same trap.
Looks like it didn’t work.
Mahesh Pokhriyal
soni said
on February 22 2008 @ 9:38 am
yesterday google disabled my account too!in 10 days my earnings were $70.I dont know but i never clicked and also didntask anyone toclick on my account.Yes i did my email marketing and sent my blog adress to many freinds overseas.How does it make me guilty.didnt google advise that increased traffic means more exposure!!well damm google.they speacilly do it.I think they have specail timings when their advertisers get enough exposure they disable theaccount and gulp down the money earned themselves.no wonder google has come out to be a cash rich company.Behind every fortune their s a crime!!
James Christnesen said
on March 5 2008 @ 12:00 am
to the increased traffic guy… you should alert google adsense when you expect to have increasing traffic
Srikanth said
on July 13 2008 @ 4:22 am
You odds are 0.
You’ll never get it back.
Google doesn’t have manners to respond to people, forget re-instating.
I plan to create a forum, where all banned users of AdSense can join in and voice their opinions.
Lance | Ryan Johnson said
on January 11 2009 @ 5:56 pm
I’ve heard of at least one person who got it back.
It just took quite a lot of time though, and repeated queries with Google.
bgmaster said
on February 2 2009 @ 5:35 am
Many people with the same problem. Create new accounts with the name of any friend or relative.
footie analyst said
on March 12 2009 @ 6:35 pm
I recently started a football (soccer to those in the USA)which generated some decent traffic which is mainly due to a free DVD give-away i had with a few friends….anyway my account was doing nicely and then suddenly, they send me an email telling me my account has been disabled. I’m still waiting for some sort of response…
So yes count me in for a forum…I hate Google adsense!
Ed said
on April 25 2009 @ 5:42 pm
It’s simple: Google has $100 threshold for making payments. As soon as your balance is getting closer to that threshold they disable your account to keep money that they collected from AdWords customers.
In other words, they get money from AdWords customers, and they suppose to share this money with their AdSense users, but they prefer not to share.
Otherwise… What happens with money collected by AdSense accounts, which were disabled? Do they return this money back to their AdWords customers? - I don’t think so! As a AdWords user I can confirm, that I never get refunds for my ads payments, though big number of those AdSence accounts, which displayed my ads, have been disabled.
Google Adsense is a Black Cobra said
on May 13 2009 @ 6:41 am
Never use Google Adsense how much luring it may be. It is like a black cobra which may hit you any time, hurting you and your business. Keep away from them today to save yourself from the danger of tomorrow. Amost 80% of my friends have lost their accounts and money though they followed Google policies.
ian stratton said
on May 25 2009 @ 5:05 pm
Its an absolute disgrace that these people behave the way they do and put a gun too your head. Google are far too powerful and deserve to be knocked down big time.
I was told my site threatened advertisers and i had invalid clicks. Half my site content went missing so i was checking.. Not enough for Google.. So this site will cease to exist…
Try to use other search engines and keep them down as they have done to me..
Ian
Hotels in Las Vegas said
on June 3 2009 @ 2:15 pm
How can I cancel my google adsense account and start all over with different name but the same web site? It’s all because I’ve had this google adsense account for more than 2 years and the traffic to my website is quite good, but I only earn US$0.00!! I suspect I’ve missed something at the registration process therefore I’d like to cancel it and start all over again. But how could I do that?
Mrdshadow said
on June 13 2009 @ 1:33 am
Yea Well I have to agree though for me it wasn’t nothin but 20 bucks though they love eating the hell out of my adwords account. I was following sure i checked the site as i built it but hey i was just making sure all the links where good since i have a few affiliate programs, my sites are only about 2 weeks old and i get on right before they where supposed to pay me they cut it off so I’m in the boat. I think this is bull!! I am looking for alturnitives to Adsense though they are very hard to find atleast that arent porn maybe you’ll might be able to help me there.. PS sorry bout my spelling.
Technology Slice said
on June 23 2009 @ 6:24 am
Most likely you will never be able to use adsense again.
The Launch Artist said
on July 7 2009 @ 10:32 pm
All..it is very difficult, short of impossible to get reinstated with adsense and adwords. If you are reinstated, OH BOY watch the restrictions fly. IF you have been banned for doing dirt, it is my hope you have learned from this experience! However, if you are ready to get reinstated and have an adsense account back in several days from now, just reach out to me so I can help you..But when I do…PLEASE DO RIGHT by Google!
Hotels in Las Vegas said
on August 1 2009 @ 2:48 pm
My google adsense account was desabled before a week by invalid click. But i have sure that i am not clicked in my own ads. how can i reinstate my account ?. I was appealed to google for this purpose, but i am not yet recived any reply.
Furniture said
on August 4 2009 @ 1:11 pm
You can check this article in ehow How to Get an Adsense Account Reinstated http://www.ehow.com/how_2053951_get-adsense-account-reinstated.html.
used tires said
on September 7 2009 @ 2:20 am
Sorry to hear about that Ryan
Till then,
Jean
ZXT said
on September 7 2009 @ 11:56 pm
I have a close friend earning between $40 to $120 a month from Google Adsense for more than 2 years and he already got paid for more than $1,000 but last month he got booted out. He appealed and it was rejected. He has $135 coming in too so he was disapointed because he lost that money from his hard work.
The problem is, there’s no good alternative for adsense. Adsense is so popular with advertisers and can be use for almost all countries.
used tires said
on September 8 2009 @ 8:27 pm
@ZXT, Yahoo might be an okay alternative, but you are right… Google Is KING.
Till then,
Jean
Metal Briefcases said
on September 9 2009 @ 7:40 pm
I think the odds are very low. When it comes to banned accounts, Google is very unforgiving. They don’t care what happened or why. They just care about removing any potentially risky publishers. They’ve dealt with serious click fraud that has damaged the reputation of their content network.
Wayene said
on September 18 2009 @ 11:14 pm
Getting your adsense account back is really impossible. I think those who gets banned should apply for new account with different name & address.
ATV for Sale said
on September 23 2009 @ 6:54 pm
Wayene you cannot simply go around the problem. I have tried this and Google somehow connected the dots between my banned account and the new account. If you do this you will still have to avoid connecting your name with the new account. So you still might not be able to run adsense on the website(s) associated with the banned account. If you do, you run the risk of Google eventually withholding a payment.
TV Spoilers said
on October 2 2009 @ 4:20 pm
Google is like the typical schoolyard bully.
If he likes you, you get to keep half of your lunch. If he doesn’t like you, you lose your lunch and get a broken nose.
It’s as if they are making up the rules as they go along… wait a minute - they are!
owny said
on October 5 2009 @ 9:10 am
hi to all i am owny on 3 sep 09 my account has beem disabled by google i work for google from the last 3 months till 14 hours daily google make policies who like itself and dosn,t support anyone. plesase don,t give your presion time these types of earning method beware of all mean things google is the largest company because of ourselfs we suppot google adwords google do nothing just watch ourself take the money from the adwords and just show $$ in our account after that disabled with any reason with they needs specailly for college students please dont give you time to these millone google earn daily millions of dollar dont give your time thanks.
Laptop Briefcases said
on October 5 2009 @ 5:22 pm
Yes it is too bad that Google is not willing to give people a second chance. This policy is seriously limiting the exposure of Google AdWords. They need to realize that people make mistakes. One mistake does not necessarily mean someone shouldn’t be trusted ever again. I’m sure every person with a banned account holds a grudge against Google that results in some bad PR.
ATV Auctions said
on October 5 2009 @ 5:24 pm
The worst part about this is how Google treats banned members. Sometimes you can’t even get a reply from their customer support. If you try asking why your account was banned, usually they just refer you to their terms & conditions.
Joshua said
on November 4 2009 @ 3:31 am
It scares me people do that.
This why i hate google they are just like our goverment they come up with these stupid rules and then we cant do anything about them. If someone comes in with a gun to kill me and i kill them i get sued you see how it works.
What alot of competitors will do is click an ad 1,000 times then google will ban them eliminating competition.
Google should pay you back and appologize there is nothing we as marketers can do about things like that.
Ralphp said
on November 6 2009 @ 9:42 pm
Here is the real problem for me, I have a business that works with a lot of people and the ad’s look good on my site. I had my absence account for years and then all of sudden I got a lot of clicks. At the risk of sounding paranoid anyone can be shut down by a competitor or enemy who dose a CLICK ATTACK, I don’t know if there is any defense for this type of attack….Over 4 years I made $105.83 so I was not using the ad’s to make money and you would think that Google would know that.
BullShirt said
on November 9 2009 @ 10:25 pm
There is only one reason Google bans sites. It’s an excuse not to pay them. I earned a lousy $100 over 6 months and they banned me. Other sites claim they make thousands per day (I saw a blog site that claims they make $2,000 per day and I thinks it’s total bs)and yet with all those clicks, there is no fraud. LOL!
Eventually, Google will have a serious challenger and they will pay for their sins. That day is coming sooner than you think my friends.
PressReleaseJoe said
on November 17 2009 @ 11:57 am
Just for a letter from Google “While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense
account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers….”
I didn’t do anything wrong! I don’t understand! I had this account with Google for over two years, and it just started making avg $20 per day about two months ago. I was so happy - I finally got a steady few dollars coming my way. didn’t cash it - waited for a nice sum to accumulate. Bam! “your AdSense
account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers…..”
Google Reps, I hope you are reading this. I was never involved in any type of fraudulent clicking activity! You took over $1000 from me. there is getting to be a lot of us - very unhappy publishers.
YOU ARE BEING UNFAIR! PROTECT US! WE ARE THE ONES MAKING YOU RICH!
ATV for Sale said
on November 19 2009 @ 5:00 pm
It almost seems like it is part of their business model to occasionally hold payments for some legit publishers. It seems like they are far too harsh with dealing with suspected problem accounts.
Metal Briefcases said
on November 19 2009 @ 5:03 pm
Yes, they really should take the time to properly investigate each case. They are just looking at automated triggers and making assumptions based on the click data. They don’t stop to think that there are plenty of times when suspicious activity either has a good explanation or there could be someone else causing that problem. Why punish innocent publishers just to save some money on the staff required to look into such issues?
Sam said
on November 19 2009 @ 9:20 pm
I lost my adsense account over a year ago and I still haven’t been able to get it back. I haven’t stopped trying though. I think something should be done about this, it’s really not fair. Maybe starting a petition would help…
Sam
kelowna real estate said
on December 2 2009 @ 10:58 pm
Yes it is just too bad that Google is not willing to give people a second chance. This policy is seriously limiting the exposure of Google AdWords.
Metal Briefcases said
on December 3 2009 @ 5:22 pm
Somehow I don’t think Google would care about a petition regarding this. In their eyes it would just be a bunch of spammers/scammers all grouping together. They would rather not take the risk of further damaging the reputation of AdWords. Sure a lot of those publishers might be better the 2nd time around, but a lot would still try to find a way to rip off Google as retribution.
Sam said
on December 8 2009 @ 12:19 am
I had an AdSense account for over 3 years and i was making around $20 a day. few days a go i got the “letter”. Use facebook and twiter to bring traffic to your website, then use affiliate programs to get some cash. Linkshare is one of the best one and with a 5k-50k traffic you can easily make around 30-40 bucks amount.
Metal Briefcases said
on December 14 2009 @ 5:24 pm
I agree that you can make better money with affiliate programs. Also check out networks like cj.com and clickbank.com
vektörel said
on December 18 2009 @ 11:42 pm
I think they time in that way on purpose.
Guildford said
on December 21 2009 @ 2:40 am
The same happen to me but my account has never been reinstated. I dont know why google has cancelled my account.
Andrew B. Painter said
on December 21 2009 @ 8:46 pm
I’m a professional freelance tech support agent, providing everything from help desk to custom software and web development for a diverse and international clientele.
In the last 7 days, after many inquiries about AdSense by various clients, in an effort to be able to answer their questions, I dedicated a whole page on my website to Google AdSense. I included both the Search and the Content elements in my page, along with a relevant disclaimer with regard to the content.
More than one client who reviewed the AdSense Content ads reported unwanted popups appearing on target pages, infinite page-loops, and ‘lock-in’ pages (the kind where you can’t get out of it without closing your browser completely) as consequences of following links that Google fed to my site. In short, every kind of questionable and undesirable practice that Google rabidly demands a publisher not exhibit is exactly what they feed to publishers in their ad links.
As I monitored my first 4 days of AdSense activity, I also noted that almost $1.00 USD per click on the first day trickled downward over the next three days, at a rate commensurate with the raise in traffic my page was seeing and the number of people who were actually clicking on Ads - meaning that when 24 people loaded the page and 4 clicked ads the first day I made $6.00 USD, but by the third day when over 180 had loaded the page and almost 50 had clicked Ads, Google was estimating my day’s earnings at less than $10.00 USD.
Then today a client who wanted to review AdSense for Content before they add it to their own site notified me that they couldn’t see anything under the SearchBar on my AdSense page (at http://www.painter-enterprises.com/google)… and 10 minutes later I got an email notification from Google that my account was suspended for invalid click activity. I also received my PIN today (the last item I needed before I’d be able to receive any payment from Google AdSense at all).
No reason has been given, just ‘invalid click activity.’ I filed an appeal, but after the amount of time it took me to get signed up and implement their Mickey-Mouse quality HTML and Javascript snippets (including 3 days revamping my whole site because their substandard crap can’t function inside an ASP.NET element that runs on the server side), I’m not about to give them more than 48 hours to put me back online.
In brief, I’ve been a rabid Google fan since its inception as a college project, I’ve had a Gmail account since invitations to the service were hard to come by, and from what I’ve seen in this brief interlude with Google AdSense I’m 100% prepared to switch my primary search provider over to Yahoo or Microsoft’s new Bing, and I’m going to start recommending the same to everyone who asks me for my professional opinion.
Oddly enough, a quick Google Search turns up dozens of these incidents, including a small claims victory against Google by another small web-business owner.
Designer Resources said
on December 22 2009 @ 9:24 pm
I dont think so. I hope it will
Antalya Turkey said
on December 25 2009 @ 1:23 am
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Boxing Bags said
on January 3 2010 @ 1:44 pm
That sucks man! _ personally am Looking for a decent alternative to Google ad words
Laptop Briefcases said
on January 7 2010 @ 7:05 pm
I think Google is overlooking the effects that these actions are having. Once they screw over an AdSense user, that person often becomes quite bitter towards Google. This can lead to all sorts of bad press.
ZXT said
on January 13 2010 @ 11:01 am
I have Google Adsense now on my blog. I hope Google won’t screw me up like what they did to my friend.
merbon said
on January 14 2010 @ 4:55 pm
I got the dreaded message today, after having adsense for less than 3 weeks. I appealed, but after reading this thread I am thinking the appeal is futile. The letter came one day after I told my friends on a message board that I had made money on it and they should add it to their blogs, and I specifically stated that you cannot click your own ads, nor can you encourage others to click.
Raz said
on January 15 2010 @ 6:59 pm
I totally agree with Andrew B. Painter. I closely monitored my adsense account along with my google analytics account. I had my site set up for a higher CTR so that I could make more. And my site was in a niche where I was making more per click.
About 2 weeks ago, before I started to super advertise my site, I was getting about $0.75-$3 per click. But about a week ago I would get a flood of traffic, get 50 clicks, and make $10 for the day. And just today I got the letter saying my account was disabled. If you think about it, If Google would have been giving me the $1-$3 per click I would have made $37.50-$150 for that day but they said $10. I was trying to convince myself that maybe people just clicked on the ads that weren’t paying much. But it happened twice in the last week…..
I guess Google doesn’t like it if you have a successful site along with traffic that is actually looking for what is on your site AND ON THE SITES THAT YOUR ADSENSE SHOWS!!!!
Raz said
on January 15 2010 @ 7:01 pm
*correction*
If Google would have been giving me the $0.75-$3 per click I would have made $37.50-$150 for that day but they said $10.
Evden eve nakliye said
on January 17 2010 @ 9:32 am
when you’ve got money coming your way in a few days it sucks when this happens.
Scrap Gold said
on January 20 2010 @ 11:14 am
Many people with the same problem.
Prashant kamble said
on January 23 2010 @ 2:42 am
My self prashant kamble…….
i like to search different web sites on google, my hobby is writting poems & small stories
oyun said
on January 26 2010 @ 11:34 am
if google were the justice department, any small offence would mean the chair. Be it stealing a pack of gum or grabbing an ice cream from a kid.
Scrap Gold said
on February 6 2010 @ 3:09 am
I wonder what happens with bigger companies when their users go crazy on the ads.
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