Banned...and bummed about it.

[silverdom]

The same thing happened to my Adsense account about a week ago.

Google disabled my account without any reason.
The funny thing is - i had this account since 2004 and never actually used it.
Since last 2 months i put my adsense code into few sites with unique content
and average traffic numbers - earned around few hunderds and got account disabled.

Ofcourse, i have nothing to do , but to trick their famous system for the few bucks.
Well, flick them.
Lessons learned:
- never use Google adsense.
- the same thing may happen with Affiliate programs as well.
- NO intermediates between my sites and Advertisers.

[grace5]

sorry about your accts.
Iwould be inrested in the response from Google,in another forum they guy had his disabled wrote them and then they re-instated his acct...(but not really anytype of expl.)
I am sure you have tried to email them ,but I would email them again,

maybe you will get a G reader thats not so pissed off and just hits the delete button...

[nubhost]

really sad to hear this bud, you should try some other venue ie YPN, good luck...

[jdk]

really sad to hear this bud, you should try some other venue ie YPN, good luck...

YPN is notorious for doing the same. This is a first for me to hear Adsense doing it.

[onlinetv]

I had a similar experience a couple years ago. When I brought my NYCTV.com site up and it started to pull over 300 a month on 39percent click through and when they owed me 580 they canned me with the same bull. Who knows what goes on because it is all secret? They do not do more in explanation than what is stated in this thread and they probably do not return the money to advertisers. The problem with the Google advertising method is they tie too many things together where abuse happens both by users, competition, site owners and advertisers too.

I went to Yahoo and do ok, but the best is to just ask sites direct to advertise. I find the Yahoo and Adbrite servers slow my sites down and cause a lot of reloads as they place themselves. Bad user experience. I have started to pull my ad revenue into the direct advertising mode and stick with niche content to provide a nice bed for advertising.

I feel for you but Google is not your nice search engine anymore as it morphed into a giant advertising affiliate farm whose homogenized adsense sites you no longer fit into. In fact Google results only contain those sites that adhere to and carry the adsense codes and rules others are in the backend (Wiki the exception to that rule).

Yahoo is feeding a lot more adverts these days since Tim Nye's giant adsense arbitrage company closed, so you can get reasonable returns and make the rest up with selling text and display directly to clients.

[Keyboard Cowboy]

In fact Google results only contain those sites that adhere to and carry the adsense codes and rules others are in the backend (Wiki the exception to that rule).

If you're saying that the organic SERPs only shows sites with adsense, you are just plain wrong.

[Banned: broe-foe]

I hate to say it, but those of us who depend on Google, Parked.com, and other companies for PPC revenue are little more than turkeys at a turkey-shoot. Banned from Google's Adsense? What - they also kept the $$$ you accrued? What - how convenient that a company can say your names had bogus traffic, not show the proof, and keep your earned income?

These companies reserve the right to cancel your names for just about any reason, and keep the revenue earned, all under the 'guise of keeping their systems pure.

[harleyx]

If your blogs relate to local places, I would suggest looking into acquiring some local advertisers. I knew a guy who setup a website for college kids attending the University where I live, and he made inroads with alot of local businesses (bars, restaurants catering to the college crowd, etc). Made good money with totally local advertising, no middle-man to deal with or worry about.