I got banned from Google AdSense back in November 2007. I was banned probably because I was hosting my site at a free hosting service Geocities and although I used to generate some amount of traffic from ads on local newspaper and distributing flyers, I could never generate a huge traffic and majority of my AdSense clicks came from a small locality in my country Nepal and the sad thing is that all ISPs in Nepal use a proxy server. Here’s my old site at http://www.geocities.com/onjochi which got me banned from Google Adsense.
In fact, there are a lot of factors that can get you banned from Google Adsense. Even if you think you have done everything right, sometimes, if you don’t know how to play the game, you will get banned. If you are earning something out of Google Adsense, however small it might be, and you live in constant fear everyday that when you wake up the other day, you will get that "Google Adsense Account Disabled" email, I am going to tell you something from my experience. The following is not a complete list of things to follow to not get yourself banned from Google Adsense, it’s completely based on my personal experience.
1) Do not log into your Google Adsense account from a public computer for if someone has clicked a Google Adsense ad on your site from that PC, you will get banned.
2) Read the TOS carefully and keep up to date with the changes.
3) Don’t distribute flyers about your website only in a particular area and never in an area near you home. I am telling this from my personal experience because if you are a small publisher and Google finds out that majority of your clicks are coming from a certain locality then Big G is going to ban you. The same applies with advertising in a local newspaper if you are a small publisher.
4) If you are earning a living online and is dependent on it, install something like Asrep ASAP. Asrep is a click monitoring program that can find out click frauds and has the capability of sending you emails whenever ads on your site get continuously clicked for more than certain times on a day. And whenever you see any click fraud activity on your site tracked by this program, write an email to Google to tell them about it.
5) And never make a mistake of clicking on your own Ad. If you cannot make people click on your ads, then you probably have bad content that is not useful to anyone else other than you, so try new things, and if you yet don’t succeed, leave it and stop wasting your time maintaining you website or blog or whatever you call it and go on do something else on the Internet that can fetch you money. There are a hell lot of other things that you can do on the Internet to make money other than earning from PPC Ad networks like Google Adsense. Here is a list of making money online programs that you might want to take a look at.
I regretted a lot after Google banned me. But I have not lost hope either. When I started with my old site, I knew nothing about the online world and different money making opportunities that exist over the Internet. By the time Google banned me, I was starting to get an idea. If Google hadn’t banned me, I would have been generating a lot more revenue from this blog. Although, I have put PPC ads from other companies on my blog here, I believe, I am earning far less than the revenue the same clicks would have generated had I been using Google Adsense Ads. I still believe Google Adsense is the easiest monetization method open to almost everyone right now. If you do not learn how to make money with Adsense, you’ll find the other methods to be even more difficult. And when you get banned by Google, it’s a life ban. Hence, don’t commit any mistake and take no chances, follow the Google Adsense TOS with enough faith as you follow your religion if you want to make money online. Remember, Google is not just Google, it’s Lord Google.
Here’s a copy of the email that Google sent me after it banned me:
Hello XXXXXX,
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 reasonThese or any other such activities that violate Google AdSense Terms
and Conditions and program polices may have led us to disable your
account. The Terms and Conditions and program polices can be viewed at:https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US
https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_USIf you have any questions about invalid activity or the action taken on
your account, please do not reply to this email. You can find more
information by visiting
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=xxxxx.Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
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Guys, play safe, there’s a lot of money that you can make from Google Adsense if you play the game following their rules.
