Houston, We Have A Problem

Post by **WHiZZi** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:11 am

I just received this in my mailbox,

Hello Bart,

It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on
the ads on your web pages. 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,
clicks generated through the use of robots, automated clicking tools, or
any other deceptive software.

Does anyone use those robots in order to support WOWAY or is clicking extremely on the banner (like 100s of clicks at the same time ? ). If so, please report in order to get my account back.

No google banners simply means, no WOWAY anymore. I'll receive the bill end of July and it will be approx $700 next year (yes, that's more than past year). I don't want to get rich of WOWAY, I don't want to make money with WOWAY.. but I also don't want to pay $700 for running a website... I hope you understand.

I already mailed google about this mail, I DO NOT AGREE with blocking my account without any warning or evidence.

To be continued.....

Post by **WHiZZi** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:47 am

UPDATE:

Today 03:28:12

Hello Bart,

In order to protect your interests as well as those of our advertisers,
Google monitors clicks on Google ads to prevent any abuse of the AdSense
program. Google's proprietary technology analyzes all ad clicks for any
invalid click activity that is intended to artificially drive up an
advertiser's clicks or a publisher's earnings.

By disabling your account, we feel that we have taken the necessary
measures to ensure that invalid clicks will not continue to occur on your
site.

We understand that you wish to receive specific information regarding the
invalid clicks we have observed. Due to the proprietary nature of our
monitoring system, we cannot disclose any specific details of these
clicks. We would like to reassure you, however, that we have thoroughly
re-reviewed your account data upon receipt of your response and have
reconfirmed that invalid clicks were generated on the ads on your site.
Accordingly, we are unable to reinstate your account.

Don't worry, I have some money left. WOWAY will survive. I will pay for the next year, allthough I cannot tell if I will able to see Weird Al in august anymore

Anyway, I work something out. Google won't return my account and I lost appprox $250. So I guess I have to look what to do now ...

Maybe I'll just create another account on Google. Perhaps it's better to look for a company who would like to sponsor WOWAY, any ideas --> Mail or PM me..