Just got the email - "Your Google AdSense account has been disabled"

prince said:
What's the overall CTR of your account?
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May be around 20%

I have some sites getting 30-40% CTR as the sites are EMDs like "free software download" and most of the people enter site end up clicking on ads as thy came there to download something and likely to click on a related ad.

Could this be a problem too (too much CTR)?
 


faceblogger said:
May be around 20%
Could this be a problem too (too much CTR)?
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Yes - I've heard stories of account being suspended due to high CTR

I don't know this for a fact but I wouldn't be surprised if Google had an automatic trigger for disabling high CTR accounts to "help" identify click fraud(not accusing you of this).

Let's not forget, Google is corporate. When policies/decisions are made in the Corporate world they rarely make a lot of sense to the people it affects in the end.

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Sorry about that. I wish they would, at least, give a warning.

True Story:

I actually had a small violation on my best performing sites - but when I want to the Adsense in your City thing. The rep told me to fix it promptly as he would not like to see me banned. I pointed out I had gotten the idea from somebody who makes $5k plus a month on Adsense (I did not mention it was a former WF member, or who that person was).

The rep said that just because they had not caught (or wanted to catch) that guy, did not mean I was free to violate T/C. I went home that afternoon, and fixed it, and I guess it was forgotten. (phew).

But I just checked, and the guy I got the idea from - has removed the viloation, and he still runs Adsense prominently on a very big site.

It seems like a double standard - I mean - at least some get a warning from a real human being - but some don't.
 
I also have one page, on my best performing adsense site that is about a totally NOT porno, SEMI-nude calendar that a local group had produced to raise money for a local community group. That page gets a lot of daily traffic too. It is all done in (my opinion) good taste and good fun.

Andsese has blocked ads on that page. I was going to complain about it at the event, but after the rep spotted my violation, I decided to leave well enough alone.
 
faceblogger said:
May be around 20%

I have some sites getting 30-40% CTR as the sites are EMDs like "free software download" and most of the people enter site end up clicking on ads as thy came there to download something and likely to click on a related ad.

Could this be a problem too (too much CTR)?
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200 clicks per 1000 impressions is very high bro... I'm sure it will raise a red flag somehow.

and does your site actually provide the free software for the visitors to download?
 
prince said:
200 clicks per 1000 impressions is very high bro... I'm sure it will raise a red flag somehow.

and does your site actually provide the free software for the visitors to download?
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I post only an article about that product and then ads. No download links to the software or ets.

If my article is about downloading an anti virus, it only has an article about that anti virus with no download link. I guss this doubled the CTR and sites have been fine for more than 1 year with this technique, CTR
 
Google is clearly cracking down on MFAs...

I personally only have a handful of websites generating "beer money" with Adsense. I've never counted on this as "Revenue". I know that any day Google can bitchslap me, although I've put a lot of thought in designing the sites (nice professional logos, nice premium themes from TF, 2000+ words of relevant content). I often find that a lot of marketers don't put any thought in their MFAs... the moment you land on their homepage you know you're on a useless site trying to force you to click on ads.

faceblogger said:
(one link unit on top, one square block on right, one at lift slide bar and one square block at the bottom
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That's 4 ad units if I'm counting correctly? Pretty sure Google allows a maximum of 3 ad units per page.
 
So at this point I'm not sure if OP is serious or just trolling.

No privacy/terms, no contact page, one page sites, no valuable content (no links to downloads, etc), shitty CTR theme, maxed out ads on a crap page... there's probably more.

All of your problems could have been avoided by paying $90 for like 30 extra articles and putting up auto generated contact/policy pages.

Sorry you lost your account. But come on...
 
Adsense is fucking mental. I was banned a few months ago for filing an invalid click report (as they fucking tell you to do) when some asshole click bombed my ads.

My account was disabled for "irregular activity" or something like that, unbelievable.
 
sorry to hear that! got an e-mail from google last year but luckily I had planned in advance and got it sorted

seems a bit harsh with what they're doing to be honest
 
Once you've changed to a less aggressive theme and added content, the simplest way to get a new Adsense account is to form a Corporation (C or S), or an LCC + IRS FORM 8832.

Either of those three options will get you an EIN instead of a Social Security Number, and you can then open a new AdSense account under the Corporate name. Figure $100-$200 to form a corporation, less for an LLC, but then you'll have to file the 8832.

Don't form a C-Corp unless you really know what it means in terms of taxation. On the C or S-Corp, you'll have to do a bit of fun paperwork every year (minutes, taxes, etc). The LLC is simpler from a paperwork perspective.

Best part? You can form an additional one anytime :)
 
Incorporate? For an EIN???

Just...Apply for an EIN.

You need one anyway for CJ, and it's a great way to not have to share your SSN all over the internet (not that we actually have identities anymore, which, if you think about it, is kind of nice. you name isn't you name, your number isn't actually your number, everyone's using your IP).

It's dumb when Adsense gets in a tiffy when someone else clicks your ad a bunch from one IP, but that in itself isn't usually what will get you banned. They just stop giving you credit for it; the system isn't THAT dumb to keep crediting you.

What will get you banned is doing exactly what you think you shouldn't be. It is so FUCKing simple to not get banned, it's an insult to our intelligence when someone asks "what did I do wrong?" You know exactly what you did wrong; you backlinked like an idiot, you posted spun content, your site's links were anywhere and everywhere it shouldn't have been, your content was against TOS, you stole or used copyrighted material.

Or someone hates you and sent in your site as a spam site or DMCA complaint.

I haven't had one day of trouble with adsense. I'm not the cleanest guy around, but I don't make schemes to game the system. There are so many ways to win while adhering to the TOS, so many ways....It's almost a wonder why people insist on trying to trick an ever evolving algorithm? Use it to your advantage: follow the rules, have unique content, fuck up those that steal your content.

CTR isn't the biggest issue that will screw you over. If you're getting sudden spikes in CTR that are crazy unusual, you KNOW it's because you bought traffic/likes/followers/bullshit links. 20% CTR is NOT insane, especially if your site is relatively shitty, but readable, and leads as a gateway to another site, like making a site with a stock's ticker symbol in the URL and having adsense ads to the actual business's site (*yes, this was a hint on how to use trademark without violating trademark*)
 
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Same thing happened to my friend...

He had a proper theme, not MFA theme
He had a privacy policy

Each one of his sites he made money from (2) were thin content though, he had about 10-15 pages indexed. About 10 articles, privacy policy, disclosure, contact etc.
 
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