A letter to Google

[malcolm]

Copy of e-mail sent today....

Please help me out here. I'm a BIG Google supporter. It's my default search, I'm a Adwords customer, an Adsense publisher (sort of), a Froogle applicant and I offer Google search in many of my sites.

A few months ago I was booted out of Adsense. The reason given was "spurious clicks". I don't get it. I didn't publish adsense on my sites for the money, I published Adsense to provide depth of content to my visitors. I was owed $80 at the time which had taken quite a long time to build up, I lost that but that doesn't matter. The point is I was hardly screwing the system with a balance of $80 and yet I'm told "It's all over pal, you have been trying to rip off our advertisers, and you lost your 80 bucks too".

I may have clicked on the odd published ad in my sites out of genuine interest but It has never crossed my mind to sit at the computer clicking away to make a few cents, I haven't got the time (and I always assumed you'd have systems in place to track such behaviour anyway). Clearly I was right BUT I have been wrongly accused.

Now I don't know how all of your products link up but I must make an interesting observation. You are perfectly happy for me to spend money with you via my Adwords account and I continue to publish your search box on some of my sites thereby displaying my support and preference for Google. It seems however to have become a one way street. I'm not allowed to publish Adsense and I can't seem to get my products from ampalian.com listed on Froogle, I just get ignored.

Please help me out here, I don't understand what I'm supposed to have done and I LOVE GOOGLE ! Please review my Adsense status and please allow me some response from repeated Froogle support requests.

I look forward to your reply.

Kind regards

Malcolm

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[blankout]

Why don't you call the Adsense customer support team on the phone and get to the bottom of it?

The phone number is: 1-866-2GOOGLE

[Sanjo]

Yes, you should call, but just an aside note is that you should not ever click on any of the ads on your site whether you are curious or not.

You should click on the link that says, "Ads by Gooooogle".

Then copy and paste the URL of the landing page into your address bar, and travel to the site that interests you.

[cricketsodafloat]

Sanjo, you make my life better.

There have been so many sites I wanted to go visit but didn't want to get booted from the program.

[sfowler]

If you do it, then from a differnet computer on a different IP address.