Why is my AdSense account disabled (part 1)
If you received an email from Google entitled “Google AdSense Account Disabled”, you’re not alone. Everyday, an estimated tens or hundreds webmasters receive such an email. Only Google knows the exact number.
The following is the most common content of the email.
Hello XXX YYY,
It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that this step was taken in an effort to protect the interest of the AdWords advertisers.
A publisher’s site may not have invalid clicks on any ad(s), including but not limited to clicks generated by:
- a publisher on his own web pages
- a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads
- automated clicking programs or any other deceptive software
- a publisher altering any portion of the ad code or changing the layout, behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads for any reason
Practices such as these are in violation of the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions and program polices, which can be viewed at:
https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US
https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US
Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected advertisers.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
What this email means is that your website had received excessive invalid clicks. See Google’s definition.
In the early days (2004~2005) which click fraud became a serious concerns to advertisers, Google enforced the invalid click policy with zero tolerance. Reports indicated that clicking the ads on your own website from your admin IP address (either by you, wife, dog or colleague) will immediately cause your account being disabled. Later Google implemented invalid click detection. Clicking ads on your site from admin IP address will result in a non-revenue generating click.
If you get this email, it means that Google’s invalid click system detected massive click frauds, such as recurring clicks then log-in to admin account.
One word of warning, since the infomous email is available on the net, it could be a practical joke pulled by your good friend. An email return path can easily be faked. Your AdSense account is only banned if you cannot log on to your AdSense account and no ads are shown on your web site.
If you didn’t get this email, please read the Part 2.
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By Bob on April 1st, 2008.
17 responses to “Why is my AdSense account disabled (part 1)”
Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Hey, my adsense earns less $5 a month in the last 8 month. and my account was disabled. I read a few more people reproted running adsense nearly a year but never received a dime got disabled too. it seems to me that if you dont’ generate enough clicks, google disable your account.
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Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Hi,
Your last statement [below] really removed my many misconceptions.
“Your AdSense account is only banned if you cannot log on to your AdSense account and no ads are shown on your web site”,
I can log into my adsense account, my adds are shown too on my blog, moreover I never received an email from google saying that my adsense account is disabled…………………but…………………….why does the “Monetize” link on my blogger layout section is showing this message,
“Your AdSense account has been disabled for a Terms and Conditions violation. View the AdSense Terms of Service.”
Plz tell me whats wrong, is this just a faulty message? Plz help………………….plz plz plz
Regards,
Mo|-|D_____
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Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Mustafa, if I understand what you’re saying, Do you have “Monetize” on top of AdSense ads? This is no different from having “Click here” as title. It’s definitely in violation of the T&C.
Rename “Monetize” right now, otherwise you’ll lose your Adsense account very soon.
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Says:
March 4th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
As far as I know there are some reasons why google banned your adsense account. First by misclick or by the people who report your site to google.
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Says:
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:42 am
After reading through this article, I feel that I really need more information on the topic. Could you suggest some resources please?
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Says:
September 9th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
My adsense has been disabled, but Google still has their ads on my Hubpages, what should I do ?
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Says:
April 13th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
I’ve been using AdSense for 6 weeks. After generating a wopping $15 in revenue, my account was disabled. Clearly, there must have been many fraudulent clicks to my account if I’ve made this much money.
Of course, I haven’t actually made it, because Google is keeping it. Or refunding it to the advertises, as their e-mail says. I’m happy for the advertisers, who got free advertising, but I’m very angry at Google.
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Says:
June 6th, 2010 at 1:23 am
Now what can i do to reactive my adsens account, i am received this mail
After reviewing our records, we’ve determined that your AdSense account
poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a
responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due
to invalid activity, we’ve found it necessary to disable your AdSense
account. Your outstanding balance and Google’s share of the revenue will
both be fully refunded back to the affected advertisers.
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Says:
March 27th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
I’ve been using AdSense for 6 weeks. After generating a wopping 27$ in revenue, my account was disabled. Clearly, there must have been many fraudulent clicks to my account if I’ve made this much money.
Of course, I haven’t actually made it, because Google is keeping it. Or refunding it to the advertises, as their e-mail says. I’m happy for the advertisers, who got free advertising, but I’m very angry at Google
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Says:
April 29th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Advise: if your asense was disabled… cruze on over to adwords and create a campaign. Run up the amount google owed you and block google from charging your card.
When you get an email from them asking for their money. Email them back with the same bs generalized response they use. Tell them “You feel they have put your website at risk and because of this, all of your advertising should be refunded”..
I know there are a lot of dumbasses out there who click their own ads but, google treats us all like shit because… well. because they can. when we as a group stop enabling them to treat us like this, only then, they will stop…
They are deciding what the internet should be,, and like a buinch of retards, we are handing them the keys and turning our heads.
They are banging our wives and we are cleaning them up and getting her ready for google’s next go’round..
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Says:
April 30th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Dammit they got me to i made a giant $22 and they disabled me wtf i been busting my a$$ for them with time i do not have is this a bad joke or somthing!
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Bob
October 3rd, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Got a response from a reader.
When I got my account disabled I was in complete shock! I later traced the dates back to what I wrote about a specific company in my blog about scams! That company didn’t like what I said so much. They sabotaged my blog, sent me an email that my account in their website was removed removed and God knows what else. In the end, I laughed! I was only making a couple of bucks a month anyway!
Sorry to hear yours went south too!
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Says:
June 13th, 2011 at 11:47 am
This is one of my 7 blogger sites. I’ve been blogging since Jan 2009. I my adSense acct was just now disabled. I have never clicked on one of my ads. adSense doesn’t care. While I am trying to sleuth out what went wrong I have two questions. How many is excessive? This would explain a lot. Does excessive mean 3?, 6? 11? Maybe I clicked on my site from a search engine listing. Who knew my sites would be ever on the first page of a search engine listing! If excessive is 800 it could be from a manual traffic exchange I used for a while that produced in effect, nothing. If it’s thousands I wouldn’t have a clue how that happened. My second question is why does adSense solely on the T & C to keep everyone on the up and up? It’s not very explanatory. It is purely a legal disclaimer and reads as convolutedly as a legal disclaimer. It seems strange that there is nothing on the net that provides any coaching. Googles adSence does not provide a coaching atmosphere at all! By looking at my adSence revinue it should prove in itself my first goal is not to make money but to help struggling at home workers to find honest work at home opportunities, disabled, ill, and elderly with a fixed income. If this paints a picture of someone who is crooked I feel sorry for them. They may hide behind their big company’s name saying “It’s just policy” but one day they will meet God and you know what he’s going to say? “It’s nothing personal, it just policy (a very warm policy).
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Says:
November 15th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
The same thing here. Account was disabled weeks after they send a paycheck. In addition they refused to give me the money from that paycheck too. This is very convenient to Google. The “do no evil” is not effective in AdSense department. The worst thing is that bank charged me for the check Google refused to pay. Google AdSense sucks.
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Says:
December 17th, 2011 at 1:34 am
Yep, my AdSense account was disabled after earning almost $50. What huge money. About $1 a day too, nothing for Google.
So stupid, I don’t get it, if they have such good Fraud detection, why not NOT COUNT THE CLICKS AS THEY COME? Instead of banning a bunch of people for (sometimes, and in my case) false reasons.
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Says:
December 17th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
I was banned from adsence too. My bipolar site that helps other bipolar people isn’t as much help to them any more but I have another blog that is a whistle blower site. I ticked off a company just before it happened. They used bait and switch tactics to attract people to sell their knives, wasting peoples time telling them it was hourly employment.
I’ve since avoided Google every chance I can. Bing is now my primary search engine.
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Miserere
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April 1st, 2011 at 10:15 am
It’s coming up on a year that this happened, and I’m still angry…and still haven’t received a valid, reasonable, logical, backed-by-proof response from Google. Even if my click numbers hadn’t increased in this year (which is unlikely because my readership HAS increased during this time) I would have made $130.
True, it’s not a huge pile of money, but it would have added to my other streams of income. As it is, I feel like Google owes me $130. Of course, they don’t.
Yep, still pissed off at them.
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