Myths Behind Adsense Bans

[guy]

We've all heard of how Google has banned this persons Adsense account, and that persons Adsense account for some reason or another, or no reason at all.

Now if your account was banned for lets say, ethically questionable activity, then hey, you got what was coming to you (you should have been smarter about it). But we hear more and more people claim their adsense accounts were banned for 'no reason', which in itself seems to have become a reason in Googles eyes. Yeah, truth is Google doesn't really need a reason to slam your Adsense account with a BAN, why? They're above the law of course, and if you don't believe that then you've been sleeping under a rock.

All that aside, how do you avoid getting banned by Google, ever, either for doing nothing wrong or for being an unethical cookie, and how do you get your Adsense account unbanned? Here are some pointers:

• Google can't ban what it can't see!
  What do I mean by this? Well, simple, if You don't exist as a blip on Google's radar, it wont torpedo your butt with a baneedo! (ha, see what i did there? funny stuff.) But really, what I mean by don't pop up on Googles radar is that even if you are Google Adsense's love child, you should never ever have all your sites under the same Adsense account, that's a must. By using the same adsense account you'll be leaving the biggest bigfoot footprint, more like a mutated bigfoot footprint, yes, godzilla like, THAT big. May as well send Google an email and ask then to ban you, over and over again, every day...
  
  Think about it for a second, say you have 200 sites in your network, and you want to do some internal linking to boost your site, hey, nothing too wrong with that...if you have adsense on all, same adsense account, then, instead of having 200backlinks to say one of ur sites you'll have something that equates to not even one backlink...Google will find ya. Footprints, make sure you don't leave footprints!!! Write it down and pin it up somewhere!
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• Adsense isn't the only solution
  You probably know that I like equations to tackle problems, so here's one for you;
  Multiple Adsense Accounts + other PPC Engines + Affiliate Revenue = less chance of getting sunk by a single Google torpedo. That should make sense as it's self explanatory, really.
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• To get Unbanned
  You have to suck up to Google. Yeah, most times, simply email them over and over, with friendly reminders when a week goes by without an answer, state you're very sorry this happened and that you're going to do everything you can to make it right. Explain how you didn't really read the Adsense TOS first time round and did now, and that you've learned a lot more about what they allow and don't allow as a result. You get where this is going, that's really the only way to get a banned adsense account reinstated.

Now, just to make something clear for all those who were ready to jump in and yodel how Google only allows one account per user, stop. There are MANY ways to setup more than one adsense account, both legitimate and not so legitimate.

I may discuss both on my blog in a future post but for now, if you have any questions (other than how to setup multiple accounts) then fire away!

Would love to hear any input you guys might have on this topic?

[turf]

i'd like to hear about multiple accounts too.as of now i'm using someone else adsense account

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by turf

i'd like to hear about multiple accounts too.as of now i'm using someone else adsense account

Turf, please go back and read what he said. He would answer any question OTHER THAN how to set up multiple accounts.

[chikva]

my friend have 3 accounts with his family as payee name. Is it possible?

[nightcrawler]

I wonder if multiple accounts are allowed by adsense, I read the TOS few days back we cannot have multiple accounts(I remember I guess).

When you get banned by adsense they don't directly ban you until you have done some serious Adsense TOS breach. What I have experienced lets say you have 200 websites they will just disable ad serving to those websites which have broken the TOS. Rest will work normally.

There are alternatives, but none is as good as Google adsense, IMO

[aceseo]

Originally Posted by guy

We've all heard of how Google has banned this persons Adsense account, and that persons Adsense account for some reason or another, or no reason at all.

Would love to hear any input you guys might have on this topic? [/B]

Google stopped serving ads to one of my sites - costing me about $250 a month in lost adsense

What did I do wrong? - using PHP, I searched for and placed a related youtube video on the page

A portuguese video with some bad words in it was shown on the page - and the site's adsense ads were terminated

I'm currently programming 450 bad words into a bad words filter - then I'll tell google about the changes

Although google did not ban my account, they did warn me that if my other sites did the same (many probably do) then my account may be banned

So be warned - one of google's own badly regulated sites may cause you to lose your adsense account

PS. forgot to say, my site is in finance niche - nothing at all on the site is "bad" - just that something "foreign" got included from youtube

[guy]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

I wonder if multiple accounts are allowed by adsense, I read the TOS few days back we cannot have multiple accounts(I remember I guess).

There are workarounds as I mentioned, LEGIT ones as well as shady ones, that I may blog about later today.

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

When you get banned by adsense they don't directly ban you until you have done some serious Adsense TOS breach. What I have experienced lets say you have 200 websites they will just disable ad serving to those websites which have broken the TOS. Rest will work normally.

Not true, in some cases adsense will ban you, just because. Remember, they don't just manually ban sites, its also their little freakish ban hammer bot that equates some variables that determine Adsense Abuse, and in some cases, these variables have multiple instances and at times are not as B/W as they seem. As with the example aceseo shared.

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

There are alternatives, but none is as good as Google adsense, IMO

AdBrite, Bidvertiser, Infolinks, Chitika, Clicksor, AdToll, Exit Junction, YPN, TP, FastClick and way more, many of which have potential, a few which imo and by my experience do just as well

[rEbO0tz]

Google disable ad serving to one of my sites saying I was in breach of their terms. They referenced some fight videos - all of which are on Youtube and happily displaying adsense.

Still, I'm not going to argue with them. I had written out a (polite) email pointing out that why should I get banned for these videos when YouTube was allowed display the very same ones with adsense plastered all over them? Then I thought feck it, why bother. If they don't want to serve ads to one of my sites that's their choice - I'm on their boat so do as the captain says

At least they didn't ban my account... Yet. Either way, I don't trust Google - They've gotten too big and are dominating the ads sector of the internet - which cannot be a good thing for consumers or publishers.

[webmasterforums]

Nice share.
But I think multiple adsense accounts is against adsene TOS.
So having multiple accounts will get us banned instead of preventing us from getting banned.
Isn't it?

[Bizarro]

Didn't think that there were any legitimate ways of getting multiple adsense accounts. All ways are not allowed as far as google is concerned.

As for actually getting them, yes agreed there are reasonable 'safer' ways of setting up multiple accounts and more unscrupulous ways of setting up adsense accounts.

Nice article though about the myths behind getting banned from adsense.