Competitor ruining my AdSense website

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I have a website that is #12 and jumping closer to page 1 each day for a decent high volume term. Someone in the industry has paid users to click ads on my website (at least im pretty sure.)

I recieved this email from Google this morning at 1am :\

Hello,

This is a warning email to alert you that there is action required to bring your AdSense account into compliance with our AdSense program policies. We’ve provided additional details below, along with the actions to be taken on your part.

Issue ID#: ******

Affected website: ***********.com

Example page where violation occurred: http://***********.com/

Action required: Please make changes to your site within 72 hours.

Current account status: Active

Violation explanation


Publishers are not permitted to encourage users to click on Google ads in any way. For example, publishers may not draw attention to a website displaying Google ads through unsolicited mass emails, advertisements on third-party websites, or excessive referrer requests (commonly known as referrer spam).

How to resolve:

If you received a notification in regards to page content, please either remove the content from your site or remove ads from the violating pages. If you received a notification in regards to the way ads are implemented on your site, please make the necessary changes to your implementation. We will automatically review the site again after 72 hours. You do not need to contact us if you make changes. Please be aware that if changes are not made within the required time frame, ad serving will be disabled to the affected website listed above.

Additionally, please be aware that the URL above is just an example and that the same violations may exist on other pages of this website or other sites that you own. To reduce the likelihood of future warnings from us, we suggest that you review all your sites for compliance. For more information regarding our policy warning notifications, visit our Help Center: https://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1378153&ctx=topic.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team
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Has any AdSense user or website own had an email like this before?

I have removed all the AdSense ads off my website until the 72 hour review is over and hoping I can just put them back and it return to normal.

I have scoured the internet and blackhat/skiddie forums for my URL looking for any posts asking for users to click on my ads or etc. Have found nothing. Really sucks that there is nothing I can do about this.

Any suggestions or users w previous experience resolving this ? I really wish there was a phone # I could call and talk to an AdSense rep directly. I would pay $200/m for such things....grrr

Cheers!
 


IceToEskimos said:
Have you blocked ads for anyone who doesn't arrive from a SERP yet? If your competitors aren't too smart, that might solve the problem.
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Ads displayed to everyone.

I have removed all AdSense banners on the website until the 72 hour review is over. I do not want to lose being able to serve AdSense on this website as it generates decent income.

Its just really shitty greed and competition drives others to do this. Thats life of a webmaster I guess...



Andrew Scherer said:
time to block some ips/countries?
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I have checked my analytics, I have not noticed any 'odd' traffic patterns so the 'bad' traffic was coming from the normal places US/CAN/AUS/UK...
 
Block every IP in your logs (that isn't you).

Stop running Adsense.

Block non-US sources of traffic (increase his costs to harass you).

Stop running Adsense.

Hire Jon's Security Guys.

Stop running Adsense.
 
so far I have:

Removed all AdSense ads

+

Added this to my .htaccess file
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from .ap
deny from .ar
deny from .at
deny from .br
deny from .ba
deny from .cl
deny from .cz
deny from .fi
deny from .fr
deny from .ir
deny from .it
deny from .jp
deny from .lu
deny from .nl
deny from .nz
deny from .pl
deny from .ro
deny from .ru
deny from .cs
deny from .sc
deny from .se
deny from .sl
deny from .tv
deny from .tk
deny from .vu
allow from all
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Your post reminds me of why my ass got booted by adsense last year.
It was a 4 year old account. Nothing happened till that one morning I got the love letter from adsense. I had one site which was on page one for a 4 million searches volume keywords. After getting my ass booted I was checking the awstats one day of that site and in traffic sources I saw paid to click traffic. I had never purchased such traffic and noone from the forums and anywhere knew that I owned this site so it could only have been my SE competitors.
The sad part is that with adsense there is no way to stop this from happening. After the ban I spent some time on adsense forum. Adsense says its your job to keep an eye on such things. If you are getting paid to click traffic you are responsible for this. To safeguard our advertisers we have to disable your account. That's all we can do.
 
well fuck my life. this aint looking good from the posts here.

I will keep you gents updated. Lets fucking do this Google you fucking asshole.

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With ptc traffic u can ruin any adsense account.

Good luck with the review.
 
There are programs that help with this problem for the ebay program, those same makers might have something for adsense.

How many clicks are we talking about? Is it high $$ clicks before hand? Wondering if its one person, or someone buying really cheap traffic?

How many ip hits you getting per 24 hours? Years ago i had a problem that lasted for a few weeks i think it was.
 
I love how everyone is telling him to not run adsense after he's stated he makes some decent coin running it. Why don't you offer him an alternative, or give him some actual advice that is going to help him out.
 
chimp said:
I love how everyone is telling him to not run adsense after he's stated he makes some decent coin running it. Why don't you offer him an alternative, or give him some actual advice that is going to help him out.
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what is this nonsense of helping someone that you speak of?
 
You should definitely send them an email (even if they may not read it or may not care) saying you aren't doing it and suspect that it is a competitor.
 
Are you sure it's not just someting simple like you using wrong words to tag your ads?

I got the exact same email, which in my case was because I switched a widget from showing an affiliate ad to adsense without changing the call to action headline.

That is what the email says, not that they suspect clickfraud. I would double check your site for phrasing or similar which violates policies.

I changed my text and kept my account.
 
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