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Well, I got the dreaded email from Google notifying me that my Adsense account has been permanently disabled…  And here's the thing, I have no idea why this happened.  I didn't do anything shady, just happened to have some articles that went viral.  

Have any of you had this happen to your blogs?  Seems like this happens to a lot of people out there.  Once you get close to the $100 mark, Google goes ahead and shuts down your account, so frustrating!

I'd love advice and/or encouragement going Adsense free from now on.  All the big blogs have it, I just don't get why mine was disabled.  Do you guys even think Adsense is a good source of revenue anyways?  Thoughts would be appreciated.

Hmm…

You have a privacy policy, so it isn't that.

Did you:

1. Have numerous clicks from people in the same area (nearly identical IP) as you?

2. Purchase pop-under, or pop-up traffic?

3. Purchase Get paid to, autosurf, or other low quality traffic?

4. Have a lot of adblocks per page?  Were they blended too well with your content?

Social media traffic is usually considered low-quality, and can be a reason for getting banned.  It is believed that upon reaching the first payout, a Google employee manually checks bot-flagged accounts.  After that, the quality team uses algorithms before further investigating.

Thanks for the insight guys.  Yes, Google said that I had invalid clicks which is absolutely ridiculous!  I did have tons of social media traffic, especially family and friends reading my posts from FB.  So maybe that was it.  Also, I setup my ads the same format as all the big time bloggers, so my ad format shouldn't have been the issue.  

Yes, Suba I'd love to chat.  There are much better ways to make money, Adsense was just one of my income streams.  In reality, it might be a good thing to not have ads up for a while who knows.  

This seems to be happening to more people than I would have expected. I'm really sorry to hear about this… It does seem to happen more often for those reaching the first payout. Even a good friend of mine had his account banned, but in his case the reason was that his friends were trying to "help" him.

Since you guys are in the U.S., couldn't you spin off a LLC and try to start fresh? I've heard this is a much less expensive route than forming a corp which is the only possibility in Canada.

Post edited 7:58 am – May 16, 2011 by Wojo

Sorry to hear! I always worry when I get a large spike of search traffic, especially from certain keywords as my CTR can easily go into double digits. I wonder if I'm on the Google watch list somewhere as a suspect account. :) Have you tried Chitika?

My Personal Finance Journey said:

Question – when your Adsense account is disabled, do they allow you to ever sign up again? Or, are you banned for life, even if you sign up with a different email address?

I don't see them bothering to track that, but it's possible. Invest it Wisely suggested setting up an LLC which would set up a business AdSense account (separate from personal)–that might work to free you from the ban.

That stinks for both you and Suba! When they banned me, they never gave me an explanation!

It may work for you to use another account, but if the problem (or what they call a problem) still persists, they'll just banned your new account as well.

Invest It Wisely said:

This seems to be happening to more people than I would have expected. I'm really sorry to hear about this… It does seem to happen more often for those reaching the first payout. Even a good friend of mine had his account banned, but in his case the reason was that his friends were trying to "help" him.

Since you guys are in the U.S., couldn't you spin off a LLC and try to start fresh? I've heard this is a much less expensive route than forming a corp which is the only possibility in Canada.

The first payout only means that it's when they run their checks on your account for the first time. They don't bother doing it until they really have to pay you.

Invalid clicks is practically impossible to get out of … You need to really follow who clicks on your adds and report them. There is a certain threshold that Google believes are valid clicks based on all the data they have. I have a feeling that friends and family trying to help you out actually did the opposite … That's unfortunate.

As Kevin points out, I believe you next chance is with a business entity as they believe you mean business due to the cost of starting it.