Banned From Adsense Because of Digg?
So if everyone can’t tell my Google Ads are not there anymore. Yes, I am as surprised as you. I thought to myself, how could this be? So after reading the email Google had sent me, they informed me that I had committed click fraud! No other details than that were given. I could not understand how this could have happened, so I started thinking. I had just started this blog not more than two weeks ago, and I really only had 1 day of a huge traffic spike because of this one article that made the front page of Digg. Could my getting banned from adsense have to do with the Digg effect? Maybe, but i’m not sure.
All I had to determine why they had banned me was one simple email stating that they think my site has committed click fraud. The only thing I could think of was that they were confused by the one day that I had 20,000 hits and then the next day I had just a few hundred. So I started this post to see if anyone else had an idea of what happened. Has this happened to anyone else?
The worst part of the whole situation is they took all the money I had earned away! All the money I earned from the one front page article is gone, and they had no second thoughts about stealing my money. I have appealed the ban and we will see what happens but it probably won’t be a good ending. Let me know if anyone has input on this situation.
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awwww Google shouldn’t do that, I’m not as much of a Google Fanboy as a Mac Fan boy, but that was harsh! Prob’s automatic and I’m sure Google being Google will give you your money back!
My Name is Jamie lol not Jamiee sorry
We had several thousand in our account before google decided it was click fraud. All it takes is one loyal user to click the same ad three timers and it is click fraud.
I had a similar run in with Google months ago, and they took over $500 from my account.
Basically, my website was linked by some major news networks, ad revenue shot through the roof for about 3 days, and a few days later they canceled our ads, and took the revenue, claiming we had click fraud.
In attempting to appeal the case with Google, they asked some really ridiculous questions that frankly I don’t know how anyone could answer, about various statistics on our websites visitors, IP addresses of users, blah blah, telling us to ‘prove’ that we didn’t commit click fraud.
So yes, Google likes to steal money on sites that suddenly get a ton of traffic. We ended up moving to Yahoo and AdBrite, we make less money but at least they aren’t accusing us of crimes we can’t prove we didn’t do.
Good luck with Google, I’m guessing you’ll switch to Publisher and AdBrite too though.
how has u got it again?