I've heard of people being banned by AdSense for no reason and now I've joined their ranks.

Last week I received the dreaded "invalid clicks" email from the Google Team.

I combed over the log files for all of my websites and found that in the beginning of September, one of my sites received 28,000 clicks in one day from the same IP address.

I've reported this to the Google Team, but they don't seem to want to have a dialog.

Now, I'm busy putting up alternative ads on my sites.

Has anyone actually been reinstated after being banned?

We discussed this at TalkAdsense.com and we found that while some people were able to get round the ban by deception of some kind, we did not hear of anyone being reinstated.
Google is clearly banning the wrong people most of the time and yahoo will gain from this imo

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Thanks, I will check out your referal to see how others are handling this.

I've been in email discussions with the Adsense team since my personal account got shutdown - at the beginning of September -

My hope is to wear them down with persistance in making them prove to me that there was something fishy going on.

On average, they reply to my inquiries about once every three days...

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well, at the very least you are giving someone a job and helping the economy ;)

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Well, at least they are talking with you. It's been 1 1/2 weeks and not a word from the G-Team (and perhaps this is why they are the G-Team and not the A-Team).

haha very good point, I pity the fool that calls himself the g-team, i pity the fool!!!

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Just keep on hammering away at them - eventually they'll reply to you.

One thing about persistance - While it may make you appear to be a pain in the arse, it does get results.

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Like many others our company is having a lot of problem with adsense
and being banned unfairly. Several months ago, we have decided to
start testing adsense on one of our amazon affiliate sites. I signed
up using my personal account for my company and gave it to one of our
programmers to implement it into the website. For a while we were
getting irrelavant ads and also a shortage of ads on the page. My
programmer somehow decided to click on the ads to see why the ads are
showing up on our pages that is not suppose to be there. After reading
other forums it seems like google adsense has similar problems on some
accounts. Regardless after a couple of months, when i logged into my
adsense account, it asked me to agree to the TOS and right after i
click yes i agreed and submit, they sent a cancellation email regarding
the invalid clicks. Needless to say that programmer was fired.

I then tried to setup another account on the site under a different
email address and after 10 days they rejected. the email says "Thank
you for your interest in Google AdSense. After reviewing your
application, our specialists have found that it does not meet our
program criteria. Therefore, we are unable to accept you into our
program. "

Its funny because the site was approved previously and nothing about
the site had changed. I then used a totally different email address
and used my wife who has never had an account and they emailed back
after 10 days with the same email.

Then it gets better, I had one of my other employees sign up another
account from his email address using my real first and last name as i
originally registered. We registered for the same exact site and it
got approved! We implemented and I made sure noone touches the ads in
case they cancel us for invalid clicks. We went 3 weeks into the
adsense account, built up about $150 worth of credit. I even received
the pin in the mail and entered it to and it says pin is correct and
now you are setup to receive payments. This morning i found out this
account is disabled by google. This is just plain ridiculous.

Also, i forgot to mention recently i purchased a website that was
previously approved for adsense and i used the web email address from
the newly acquired website and they sent the same generic reply "Thank
you for your interest in Google AdSense. After reviewing your
application, our specialists have found that it does not meet our
program criteria. Therefore, we are unable to accept you into our
program. "

During this last couple of months, i have been trying to email google
adsense and they never reply. I explained to them the situation and
how to recitfy it. Surely our entire company and my entire family can
not be held liable for something stupid that one of my previous
employees did in the past. Worse, my personal account is banned
forever because I setup the original account for them to use. Has
anyone ever had success in getting their disabled account reactivated?
Or is the google adsense program designed this way? to blacklist family
members of one individual, or to ban entire companys and its employees
if one email address within the company is banned? We are in a project
to create about 100 websites with served ads, luckily we have no
problem with yahoo publisher network even though it is in beta and have
bugs. I tried repeatly to email google to ask to speak to someone in
person and noone have bothered to reply. We are a CA corporation with
offices in CA and Russia and I explained to them we do not need to
ripoff a hundred dollars from anyone when we have much more at stake.
Seems like google is not interested in listening or does not have the
courtesy to even make a manager or supervisor available on the phone to
chat. They may be the leader in this business but with yahoo's version
of adsense in beta, can google really continue to stay so arrogant and
unreasonable?

Ted

to follow up -

We had our adsense account banned, then re-activated, then 3 months later banned again, and just last week, re-activated again.

They are clearly confused at the Adsense team - I don't understand why they don't do what Yahoo does: If they suspect click fraud/invalid clicks, they just won't pay you for them.

What a concept, eh Google?

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I agree with this Yahoo is gaining with this also Yahoo has less ads than Google but paid more per click.

Don't keep all eggs in one basket is the key even if you loose one account you will still be gaining from the other.

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I just had my account banned today. I TOTALLY agree w/the comment, just DONT PAY for the @#$#@$ bad clicks!
wtf google?

The more I read about google, keeping in mind the 'don't be evil' motto, is that their over inflated share price has gone to their head and they are starting to implement little bits of shadiness to try and keep it up.

Here's the problem: you have an adwords account with 'invalid' clicks but you get banned and ALL funds forfeitted. This rings too close to home to some casino revshares I have dealth with in the past. It does not bode well for google to be on par with companies such as this. I read the long post about about being inactivated, then activated under another name, then nixed again, that's some CRAP for sure.

I do like google's search engine the best but unfortunately this wierdness may cause problems for them down the road.

My google ad sense has been banned on march 22 stating we also had invalid clicks, If they were smart they would made an script to which would blocked the IP if it was accidently clicked on by you,

i have the same issues :( and when i re-apply a new account..the same message like your website is not suitable bla bla..

i dont know what to do then :(

anybody ? i wonder why, i did a new website and apply for a new one also cancelled.

argg!!!

what about Yahoo adsense? is it good? how to apply?