Google Adsense Account Disabled?
It’s a sinking feeling, to open up your Adsense account and see the message that your Google Adsense Account was disabled.
Many people who receive this message know exactly why it’s happened, by abusing the Google terms of service. Doing things like clicking your own ads, or engaging in asking people to click your ads can definitely get you in trouble.
It’s easy to say, well anyone who gets their account disabled probably deserved it.
However, I’ve become aware of an alarming trend. Google is frequently disabling the accounts of people who do not know how it happened, or what they did wrong.
How do I know this? Well, I’ve heard from people on my internet marketing forum, in email comments and from customers I’ve coached over the years. One of the most recent examples happened just this week.
I was instructing a good friend on how to set up a Hubpage to create an online presence and drive traffic to her website. One of the benefits of Hubpages is you can make money from Ebay, Amazon, and you guessed it… Adsense.
Well, lo and behold not three days after she had put up her hub (which was doing quite well), and with no explanation, her Adsense account was disabled.
Here’s the message she received…
“While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.
Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.
If you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve taken, please do not reply to this email. You can find more information by visiting https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153&hl=en_US.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team”
Gotta love that last part, don’t call us we’ll call you. I instructed her to contact Google and ask what she could do to get back in good standing, and to tell them that she values the relationship with them and she will continue to do everything possible to comply with their TOS. I told her to explain her situation and appeal for help with re-instating her account.
Unfortunately in 99% of the cases I’ve heard of an Adsense account that’s terminated is not reinstated and a canned response is given. Not a great way to treat people. Here’s a link to a post I wrote titled, Banned from Adsense what do I do?
As more and more people hear that using Google’s AdSense program, could be here today gone tomorrow, more are turning to Adsense alternatives. Luckily, there are many alternatives to AdSense which can turn this bad situation around.
Here is a list of some of the best Alternatives to Adense:
Clicksor - http://www.clicksor.com
Clicksor will earn you as much as 60% from the amount of money your website produces. What you get is about the same as AdSense, there are targeted text ads, you can view the revenues from your website in real time. You can receive money via PayPal or through a check every two weeks, provided that you have earned more then $50. If you haven’t made that much, your earning roll over to the next period
Yahoo Publisher Network - http://publisher.yahoo.com/
By displaying ads relevant to the content of your site you earn money from qualified clicks-throughs. Much like the Google Adsense Network, YPN pays you per click of advertisements featured on your site.
Chitika - http://chitika.com/
Chikita bills itself as being #1 for making bloggers money. With Chikita you can make money from impresions, clicks and sales. You can create your own mini-mall or shopping links. They also offer something called RLU, which means related products unit. Using this feature you can add advertisers links right into the content of your site.
AffiliateSensor - http://www.affiliatesensor.com/
AffiliateSensor has highly customizable ad blocks, which you can make for yourself with an easy to use on-line interface. You also get realtime reporting with clicks-by-domain, page and refferer. There’s integration with Google AdSense as well, through the google_alternate_ad_url so AffiliateSensor can be used as a substitute for Google PSA’s (Public Service Ads).
Bidvertiser - http://www.bidvertiser.com/
When you display the BidVertiser text ads you make money for every click and the payments are sent to your PayPal account.
TargetPoint - https://publisher.targetpoint.com/default.aspx
TargetPoint is oriented more towards content publishers. It offers full control over the look the ads, statistics over your site’s overall performance and better revenue. It’s free to register and you earn a guaranteed 60% of the total revenue. You can get payed with Paypal of Bank checks and (most times) wire transfers as well.
Kanoodle Ads - http://www.kanoodle.com/
Kanoodle’s offering allows publishers to get ads related to topics or segments, and not the traditional keyword oriented ads. The site also groups publisher sites with advertisers by hand to ensure high-revenue generating ads. And speaking of revenue, the amount of money you receive is a clear 50% share of the amount of money Kanoodle recieves for an advertiser.
If you’ve been banned from Adsense and then had your account reinstated, let us know how you did it.
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January 31st, 2008 at 6:28 am
Gotta love the Google response of “Please don’t reply to this email” after they’ve taken away your hard earned money. Although Yahoo! isn’t much better with customer service, my vote is to go with Clicksor if you have to make a switch from Adsense, they’ve got a great system.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:55 am
Adsense has a nasty habit of just doing what ever they please without even confronting a user to see if its a mistake or not.. I agree some people do try to game google all day, though there are others who just happen to get flagged by google for whatever reason about a violating tos issues that are un-true. I recently spoke to someone who said adsense did the same to her. Just shut her down!
The worse part about dealing with google on issue resolution I recall from my early days of buying search clicks. Its having to deal with Googles robot army of faq’s and those ridiculous canned letters that always say Don’t Reply to This Email..lol
A really simple thing could take weeks to get done with googles style of communication…
January 31st, 2008 at 10:16 am
Interwebhunt,
The “please don’t reply to this email,” really gets me fired up. Here’s a girl just starting out online and right away gets banned for no apparent reason. And to make things worse, will not tell her what happened. It’s stories like this that really get under my skin.
I’ve used Cliksor and find them to be a favorable alternative. You may not make as much per click, but it’s a good alternative.
TheMobiBlog,
I have a suspicion that it might have been someone in the Hubpages community clicking on her ads. The sick thing is they never plan on saying how it happened.
I received a letter from Google last year stating that some of my Adsense clicks were coming from illegal methods. Without any idea what they were talking about and under the threat of deletion, I ended up just taking the Adsense off my page.
I’d say that Google is sorely lacking in the customer service department for their publishers.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:19 am
I think that Google Adsense team should first warn the webmasters who have invalid clicks and if the webmaster continues to have invalid clicks than Google should disable their account.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I was dumped today for invalid clicks. I have used your blog in my blog and I’m not sure if I did the trackback correctly. Please let me know. I’m fairly new and have not used the trackback yet. I love the photo of the kitty freaking out. I felt the same way this morning. Thanks for a great article.
Linda
March 4th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Hey Linda,
Sorry to hear you fell victim to having your account dumped, it’s a rotten feeling I’m sure. Before you throw in the towel on them, I recommend you attempt to send a letter to rectify the issue.
On occasion it’s possible to get your Adsense account back if you tell them:
1. You value the relationship.
2. That you’ll do everything possible to comply with their terms of service
3. That the invalid clicks they detected on your ads were not due to your actions or negligence
Send your Adsense appeal at this link:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact=invalid_clicks_appeal
March 10th, 2008 at 4:56 am
I did see and read several testimonies in the past that their Adsense account being reinstated. Mostly, they email google explaining their side and sort of challenging them that you can prove you did not do anything like fraudulent clicks or illegal clicks.