Affiliate Programs Banned from AdSense, need recommendation

[kritter]

Hi all,

I am relatively new to this. I just started this year.

I bought a few adsense tutorials and followed some advice. One thing i did was follow a suggestion by Ryan Deiss (not sure about the spelling) and added this "....." at the end of a paragraph that was followed by adsense ads to increase CTR. He plainly stated that it is an aggressive technique that he uses, and that he was sent letters in the past from google asking him to change his sites, and that he has never been banned from adsense.

I was testing the procedure, and google banned me. It's my fault, I took the risk and lost. Nobody to blame but myself.

I mentioned my adsense experience to my boyfriend (a builder) and he developed an interest in adsense, opened and account, and added adsense adds to his real estate/construction site. He was doing well (8% ctr for the month of June) and was really looking at this seriously. Just this evening, he received an email from google stating that his account has been banned because it is related to a previous account that has been banned.

His accounts and my accounts are completely separate, but he would occasionally check his google account at my house when he was over, so it would be easy for google to know that he is using my computer via ip address. He is upset with me.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how he can resolve the situation with google, or a replacement program that is as good?

When I got banned i started using adbrite, but the revenue is far, far less than google. For my situation, this is because adbrite just doesn't have the advertiser base to deliver such highly targeted ads to my site that google has.

I am in a pickle and would appreciate any help/advice you can share.

Thank you all.

 

[snicksnack]

I doubt that google banned the account based on the IP. I assume that you do not have a fixed IP anyway. So there reason might be that he used the same address to sign up?

 

[DomainDame]

Have you tried YPN?

 

[cursal]

If your in the USA you can sign up for YPN!
Yahoo Publishers Network. It is still in beta and it takes anywhere from 1-6 weeks to get the invite. I've seen them for sale here at DNF too.

But your builder/boyfriend should give G a call and see if they are sympathic to his situation.

Good luck.

 

[acronym007]

Google does not care. They banned me for no reason. I requested information on they ban and they refuse to assist in any way. They are making too much money, they are just steamrolling the little guys. The only option is YPN. Cheers,

Acro

 

[kritter]

Hi all,

Thanks for the comments. No, he signed up to adsense on his computer, a different ip address.

I tried YPN over a month ago, but haven't heard from them. I told him to give it a try, but it seems like forever waiting for ypn to respond.

Are ther any others?

Thanks again for taking the time to respond.

 

[DomainDame]

I just read your post again. I'm familar with that strategy by Ryan.

How about...

searchfeed.com
revenuepilot.com

 

[LeeRyder]

They most certainly do ID people via IP addy. I know of a guy, banned for unknown reasons by adsense... who resigned up under a new site, email addy..etc. and they banned him a couple of days later. only thing that linked him with his old adsense id was his IP addy.

Best of Luck.

 

[VioxxLawyers]

Google is using hidden cookies. The only way to get rid of it is formatting your HD and avoid Google search engine.

When a computer infected with a Google cookie is banned from a Google program (Adwords, Adsense.... whatever), every user acessing his acc. through that computer can get banned. It's cruel and can lead to unjustified bans, but Google doesn't care. It's only hurting little guys. Companies and geeks bypass their advanced anti-fraud system.

Are you 100% sure that your friend didn't use any info shared with you?

Get a more understanding boyfriend.

... like you eace:

 

[kritter]

Thanks again for your comments.

Applications have been sent to searchfeed and revenuepilot.

I appreciate everyone taking the time to repsond.

VioxxLawyers, I'm positive nothing of mine was used. We've talked at length about it, and he knew beforehand that I was banned, and was careful not to use any info that I had previously used.

He really thought that google wouldn't ban him just because he checked his account at my computer. He (rightfully so) said that ip addresses change, are shared, and that just because he checked his account from my place that it wouldn't prove to google that the accounts are related.

Actually, the accounts are somewhat related because I am in a great relationship with him, but does that mean our accounts are related to? Maybe our accounts don't even like each other....haven't really asked my computer what it thinks of his!

Anyway, he is really upset with google, but not with me.

It appears from some of the most recent comments that cookies might be to blame.

Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge.

 

[POLiSH]

Google is using hidden cookies.

I don't think their is anything hidden about them. :drum:

 

[nikaksa]

Same here, google banned me ... <edited>

 

[nts]

I don't think their is anything hidden about them. :drum:

A cookie can't be hidden like that. All cookies are created by your browser when your browser receives a header or javascript message to create it. Your browser puts it in a folder, and all browsers have an option to delete the cookies they make.

Google uses tracking cookies to track their adsense users, but they can certainly be easily deleted.

 

[iPlox]

YPN is probably the only service that matches if not betters adsense.

 

[NavySeals91]

A cookie can't be hidden like that. All cookies are created by your browser when your browser receives a header or javascript message to create it. Your browser puts it in a folder, and all browsers have an option to delete the cookies they make.

Google uses tracking cookies to track their adsense users, but they can certainly be easily deleted.

Actually a cookie can have maliscous code in it. I don't know if you heard of this, but sony was so mad about downloading that they encrypted a virus into the music that would monitor computers and get all the info on what the user was doing and it would spread if downloaded and sent to another computer. It was highly illegal of them but they did it. They were also sued (class action) and they came out with a fix for the "anomaly" and that made windows more suseptable to viruses. So really multi-billion dollar corporations don't care about our security. I wouldn't doubt a permanent cookie/virus type thing being stored in the computer.

 

[March2005]

http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/Sony-BMG/

 

[mikesherov]

Actually a cookie can have maliscous code in it. I don't know if you heard of this, but sony was so mad about downloading that they encrypted a virus into the music that would monitor computers and get all the info on what the user was doing and it would spread if downloaded and sent to another computer. It was highly illegal of them but they did it.

A cookie is completely different than a virus in an MP3. How is a story about sony putting viruses in MP3's proff that cookies can be malicious.

Cookies are not viruses and can be easily deleted, and even turned off.

Even if cookies could have viruses and never be deleted, no company would actively give ever one of their users a virus.

Just because adaware turns up some cookies as "spyware" does not mean that they are viruses or can harm your computer or are unremovable.

 

[nts]

Sony put what's called a "root-kit", a type of virus, encoded in it's music on user's computers. This is not a cookie. The only thing cookies are, are text files, created by your browser, containing a small amount of information, which a site that made it can read at a later date.

Cookies have had a lot of bad/incorrect information spread about them in the past, but really they are quite harmless. Without them most sites on the internet would not work. The worst thing a cookies can do if keep track if you've visited a site before, and only the site that made the cookie can read it.

 

[NavySeals91]

That was not the point I was trying to get accross, it may have been misguided but really it was that companies do not care if they invade privacy, whats a few million when they're raking in about a trillion in profits.

 

[GoPC]

Does adsense BAN and then send the nasty-gram or do they mail you a warning first?

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