adsense warning

[funguru]

It has come to our attention that invalid clicks or impressions have
been generated on the Google ads on your site(s) through users of
third-party programs paid or provided with other incentives to visit
your site. Such programs include, but are not limited to auto-surf,
pay-to-surf, pay-to-read, or pay-to-click sites.

Please bear in mind that if we continue to detect invalid clicks or
impressions from these services on your ads, we may disable your
account to protect our advertisers. In addition, we may adjust your
future payments for any days during which invalid clicks occurred in
order to properly credit advertisers for any invalid activity.

We understand that you may wish to receive specific information
regarding the invalid activity we observed on your account. However,
due to the proprietary nature of our algorithm, we cannot disclose any
details about how our monitoring technology works or what specifics we
found on your account.

As a reminder, any method of generating invalid clicks or impressions
is strictly prohibited by our Terms and Conditions and program policies:

https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US
https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US

For your reference, you can find tips and guidelines for keeping your
account in good standing by visiting our Help Center at
https://www.google.com/support/adsen...23921&hl=en_US.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

[funguru]

and i did not even do anything...wtf

[glenfadly]

don't used any traffic exchange with your site that have google ads. I hope nobody will try to sabotage my site by doing this invalid click..my friend site had be banned because of invalid click but he never involved with third-party programs. I think google should disclose the invalid click for those who site had be banned.

[bobchrist]

Yep, I think there is only way out that you should monitor your average clicks and trends regularly, if you notice suddenly rise on numbers of click you should suspicious and inform google about it.

[funguru]

I am getting good traffic but almost all from google... it sucks that they dont disclose the websites... this is absurd..

[Webfu]

Did you email them back to let them know you don't know how that happened?

You should ask them if they can block the IP's that the trouble is coming from. At the very least they will have an email record of you asking for help.

[funguru]

this is the reply i got for my email
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Thanks for your response. As you know, Google treats instances of invalid
click and impression activity very seriously. As a reminder, we cannot
disclose any details about how our monitoring technology works or what
specifics we found on your account. However, we can assure you that we
have thoroughly re-reviewed your account, and have confirmed that your
account violated our program's Terms and Conditions.

For your reference, we are including some guidelines to help prevent
future invalid clicks and impressions:

It is against our program policies for website publishers to click on the
ads on their own web pages, or to encourage others to do so. Note that
some programs including, but not limited to, auto-surf, pay-to-surf,
pay-to-read, or pay-to-click services may provide incentives for
generating traffic resulting in invalid clicks or impressions.

You can also find tips and guidelines for keeping your account in good
standing by visiting our Help Center at
https://www.google.com/support/adsen...y?answer=23921.

In addition, please be sure to review and remain in compliance with our
Terms and Conditions and program policies:

https://www.google.com/adsense/terms
https://www.google.com/adsense/policies

Please bear in mind that we have these policies in place to help ensure
the effectiveness of Google ads for our publishers as well as our
advertisers. As mentioned, if we continue to detect traffic to the Google
Ads that violate the Terms and Conditions and program policies, we may
disable your account to protect our advertisers.

We appreciate your understanding.

Sincerely,

[sniperhiga]

Nothing new, just regular policy and every webmaster should be familiar with it.

[Govind]

Im so sure they must ve banned u when u must ve reached the $100 mark....payment time that is.

Atleast thts what everyone's telling me..what google does!

[funguru]

i hope not govind.. that would really suck

[sniperhiga]

Originally Posted by Govind

Im so sure they must ve banned u when u must ve reached the $100 mark....payment time that is.

Atleast thts what everyone's telling me..what google does!

It is not Google. Beware Clicksor and Bidvertiser... they always do that.

[Govind]

Well Adsense did tht to me!.....so i wrote tht about it! It told me i had made multiple clicks on my own ads.....which...i wonder why anyone in a sane mind wil do!

Nyways...i'd now signed up with bidvertiser...but now tht u tell me that...guess al of these ppc's are only thr to fool th webmasters!

[Sadaf]

One of my google adsense account had been banned because of invalid clicks but at that time it was my fault because I was clicking on my own ads just to see how adsense works

But when I started knowing and understanding it the next day I got email from google that my account has been banned

Now I am using my second google account and I am not clicking on my own ads, and I hope no one will do so with my ads

~Sadaf~

[Govind]

All the best Sadaf...i tried making another adsense account...after i got banned once...but could not..as my application was rejected!!!

[Sadaf]

Yes Govind, Your application will be rejected but if you use the SAME payee name and all other information which was enter before...

but I entered different information this time

I didn't enter MY home address there, but entered my relative's address

and this way they didn't find my address in their database and considered me as a fresh entry.

BTW! Are you from india?

[webtech]

Always monitor clickthrough rates ... if abnormal increase .. report to google before thay notice...
do not log in to your account through public computers (cyber cafe etc...)

[mhmdkhamis]

i listen something google will change some rules in adsence

[Julie]

If you honestly did not do anything, there is always the possibility of competitors trying to sabotage your site by clicking excessively on your ads to get you kicked out of AdSense. But like someone else said, you'd probably best to monitor your click-throughs and report abnormalities to Google before they contact you about them.

[maldives]

Just follow the guidelines. Nothing will happen!

[egroethel]

Originally Posted by sniperhiga

It is not Google. Beware Clicksor and Bidvertiser... they always do that.

How about Adbrite?