Why is my AdSense account disabled (part 2)
If your “Google AdSense Account Disabled” email has the following content, you’ve violated another portion of the T&C of AdSense program.
Hello XXX YYY,
While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.
Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.
If you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve taken, please do not reply to this email. You can find more information by visiting https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153&hl=en_US.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
If you email content is different, please read Part 1.
When AdWords became very popular with advertisers, the bids for keywords got ever higher. People started gaming with AdSense. A technique commonly referred s “AdSense Arbitrage” or “Garbitrage” came into being. People created web pages for the purpose of showing AdSense ads (referred as MFA pages, “Made for AdSense”) and drive traffic to convert to AdSense revenue. This is called “Divert and Convert”. Some people claimed 6 digit annual revenue for doing AdSense Arbitrage.
It’s debatable whether the arbitragers bring value to the advertisers. However, Google decided to crack down on MFA sites in early 2007. Google AdSense Preprogram Policies stated:
- Publishers using online advertising to drive traffic to pages showing Google ads must comply with the spirit of Google’s Landing Page Quality Guidelines. For instance, if you advertise for sites participating in the AdSense program, the advertising should not be deceptive to users.
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- No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages.
- No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant.
Well, it is not difficult to make your MFA site to be fully compliant to AdSense policies. Google knows that too. It’s still unclear what the criteria are to identify and disable MFA sites. The wording of the notification email is “posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers.”
If you have any clue, please post it in the comments or the Forums.
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By Bob on April 2nd, 2008.
18 responses to “Why is my AdSense account disabled (part 2)”
Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Google wording is very poor, accusing me posing a risk!
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Says:
March 15th, 2009 at 8:33 am
my account disabled today while they have not send me a warning message and i click on ad only one or tow time. please tell me reason.
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Says:
March 25th, 2009 at 2:13 am
My account have been disabled too. And there are still US$200+ in my account unpaid. Google, why? why? why?
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Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 5:43 am
I think there will be always a way to get back your adsense account disabled. First thing to do is to contact the Google support team.
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Says:
April 25th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
It’s simple: Google has $100 threshold for making payments. As soon as your balance is getting closer to that threshold they disable your account to keep money that they collected from AdWords customers.
In other words, they get money from AdWords customers, and they suppose to share this money with their AdSense users, but they prefer not to share.
Otherwise… What happens with money collected by AdSense accounts, which were disabled? Do they return this money back to their AdWords customers? – I don’t think so! As a AdWords user I can confirm, that I never get refunds for my ads payments, though big number of those AdSence accounts, which displayed my ads, have been disabled.
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Says:
July 9th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Hi
My adsense a/c got disabled by google on7/7/2009.
I have 165$ balnce.
I got same message listed above?
Is there are any chances so that google can approv e my a/c again.
I also appeal for that and also contactes google support team.
But still i dont get any reply from google.
-Girish
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Says:
July 9th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Girish,
I had over $300 in my account before my adsense a/c was banned. There’s no way you can get it back. Period.
You’ll get the confirmation in a week. Don’t hold your breath when waiting.
You’d better starting thinking of alternatives, e.g. apply in your sister’s name, or forget adsense and go affiliate marketing.
Let us know if you get your account back.
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Says:
July 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
i received the worst email in my life today, and its from google telling me that my account have been disabled, i got that exact message above, and i cant imagine how can i be a posed a significant risk to them, i’ve follow their rules carefully and i dont know why they accusing me of invalid click that i never done. and also my account has only got 85 dollars in it and its below the threshold set by them, and its been 8 month now that i waited for that to reached the threshold and now that i am near the finish line of their threshold they disabled my account????
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Says:
September 9th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
I had $36 in my acct! Boy these guys are petty !!
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Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 1:06 am
I had just about $400 in my account than received the email above i have lost a lot of respect for Google now use Bing ha ha
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Hassan
November 21st, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Dear Bob, how u can earn using bing. Please send me complete detail
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Says:
November 13th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I had my account for a week, didn’t make any money and all of a sudden my account was banned? No one even clicked on the google adsense and neither did I, so it can’t be invalid click activity. Then why was my account banned? lol, this is so stupid. I didn’t even get a chance to glam up my site to direct traffic. But then again, I guess it would suck to get 100+ bucks and get banned.
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March 21st, 2010 at 3:04 am
I got mine disabled. Maybe because I did try out a domain I parked with google adsense for searching. Stupid.
But at least, there was only $13 in there 
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May 29th, 2010 at 8:25 am
I received same letter, I only had 0,07 euro cents so they talk craps, I never pressed on those links by myself.
Google ads is full of shit, I quit them for good.
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Says:
June 16th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
My AdSense account was running fine for more than a year, then suddenly today, totally out of the blue, it got disabled. I only hope I live long enough to see Google reap the rewards of what it is sowing. Police, jury and judge, it’s hardly the American Dream. Bah!
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Bob
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September 30th, 2009 at 9:14 am
sorry to hear that.
For AdSense affiliates, you should get the money out as soon as you can.
It’d be a lot of trouble for Google to get money back from you. And they won’t do it.
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