Banned from Google AdSense

30 minutes ago, I received this email from Google AdSense:

Hello,

We continually review all publishers according to our Terms and Conditions and program policies, and we reserve the right to disable publishers or sites that are not in compliance with our policies.

Our specialists have found that your account is not in compliance with these program policies. As a result, we have disabled your account.

Google has certain policies in place that we believe will help ensure the effectiveness of Google ads for our publishers as well as our advertisers. We believe strongly in freedom of expression and therefore
offer broad access to content across the web without censoring results. At the same time, we reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion when it comes to the ads we display in our AdWords program and the sites on which we choose to display them in our AdSense program, as noted in our respective Terms and Conditions.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

I immediately filled out an appeal, but I don’t even know why I was banned. The email doesn’t say. Is Google trying to cheat me out of the $570 they owe me? I earned $430 last month and $140 this month I have not yet received, and my AdSense account says they are not going to pay me until “issues” with my account are resolved. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN???

If you use my Tweet This plugin, DO NOT enable “Insert Google AdSense ads to support Tweet This” anymore. Unless my account is restored, Google will just keep the money. It won’t help me at all.

UPDATED 2010-11-11 20:45 GMT: Here are some details of my AdSense usage I posted on this forum:

I’ve been doing the same thing for the past 8 months and receiving Google checks every month, so it’s really surprising that they would ban me now considering I haven’t changed anything!

I display ads on my personal website. I also run a URL shortener called Th8.us and I display Google AdSense in an iFrame above the redirect page with a link to hide the ads. The service has over 21 million short URLs and makes about $150 per month from AdSense. I got the idea from About.com which does the same thing using Google AdSense ads.

I develop a WordPress plugin called Tweet This which includes the option “Insert Google AdSense ads to support Tweet This.” If checked, this inserts ads with my publisher ID on the plugin user’s blog. Last month, this made $143.

However, I have been doing both of these things for a long time. Tweet This has had the AdSense option since Feb. 2009, and it hasn’t changed a bit. Why would they ban me now?

UPDATED 2010-11-22 05:45 GMT: I have been restored to the Google AdSense program, but I can no longer display ads on other peoples websites. This will reduce my income by 75%, but AdSense still generates more revenue than any other program.

5 thoughts on “Banned from Google AdSense

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  2. It seems that Google have no hesitations on banning people. You’re not the first person I’ve read about getting this treatment. Another person simply talked about something sex related, in terms of just using some words that Google didn’t like and bang, banned for life.

    At least that guy was told why he was banned =/ I wonder what banned you in the first place.

    A little thought thou’. Google Ads isn’t the most effective form I’ve seen out there though. The blogger at http://www.johnchow.com/ who blogs about making money online doesn’t use Google Ads and I believe he also mentioned somewhere why.

    • Google says I can appeal not through their invalid clicks form, but through a different form. However, it’s been over 8 hours and they haven’t responded… obviously I am not a priority anymore.

      Google is definitely the best for PPC ads, but I’m going to look into John Chow’s advice too. My websites cost $115 per month to run. I need to find a replacement income source.

      • Us ordinal users is probably never was a priority in the first place. Even though we’re probably more important than they realize.

        I hope you get it sorted out, and at least get an answer to what banned you.

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