Micheal Savoie

I received a lame email from Google telling me that my account was terminated for click fraud.

I have been earning an average of 3 cents per day, and I am committing click fraud?  I think if I were going to do some fraud, I would run up the clicks a little higher than 18 cents in one day, and then not touch it for a week…

The email states that the termination can be from any of the following reasons:

“A publisher’s site may not have invalid clicks or impressions on any
ad(s), including but not limited to clicks and/or impressions 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

These or any other such activities that violate Google AdSense Terms
and Conditions and program polices may have led us to disable your
account. The Terms and Conditions and program polices can be viewed at:

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

https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US “

Now I have over 90 websites hosted on my servers.  The 404 pages on many of these websites have my ads on them.   I also have ads running on a banner exchange.  A banner exchange is nothing more than a delivery method for the adsense ads.  It still does not mean that I am clicking on my own ads.  I don’t have time for it anyway!

I did remember hearing (or reading) that Google does not like Adsense ads on traffic exchanges.  That is something I do not agree with.  As long as nobody is told or encouraged to click on the Adsense ads, a traffic exchange should be allowed, because it shows an awful lot of ads.

I am confused by one thing in the above statement, which is probably the reason my account was terminated: the word impressions is included.

So that means that by looking at the Adsense ads on your website by refreshing the page you are violating their terms.

While most of the other advertising websites do not pay as much as Adsense, I suppose I will use this as a lesson.  Do not place too high a value on any income from any one source, especially one that is growing too fast for its own brain.  While I am in the process of appealing their decision, which will no doubt be like talking to a brick, since they could provide me with no specific information as to what I was doing wrong.  Come on, at least when the police take you to court, you are given the facts.  I get a generic letter that basically tells me that the $88 I had accumulated since I started the account in May of this year is going to be divided up among the advertisers that were supposedly “wronged” by my supposed “violations.”

Any comments are appreciated to help me sort this out.  I know that I will be using Bettertextads in the meantime.