Trying to figure out what this really means. Google has canceled my adsense account because trhey don't like the content of my site. While that state that they believe in freedom of expression - clearly they do not. I therefore based on he way I was treated do not recommend Google AdSense to anyone who is a free speech site.
One thing to keep in mind is that Google as well as most of these affiliate programs write the rules in their favor and can change the terms and conditiona at any time. And they do that. The only recourse we have is to drop thier programs and tell them to go fuck themselves and report it on the net to warn others about how I was treated. So - I'm doing that.
When I tried to log into my account they had a new modified agreement that they wanted me to click on before I could see my stats. So - I don't know how much they owe me or if I will get paid. I refused to agree to the new terms.
Here's the letter from Google.
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Hello Marc,
We've noticed that you're displaying AdWords ads on a site
(www.perkel.com) that violates our program policies.
Our program specialists regularly review AdSense websites for various
criteria, including, but not limited to, site content, clear navigation,
and the site's potential value to the AdSense program and the user
experience.
We've found that many of the ads that would appear on your site would not
be relevant to your site's content. Because these ads wouldn't provide a
valuable experience for your site's users or our advertisers, we believe
AdSense isn't currently appropriate for the website listed above. As a
result, we've disabled this URL.
Google has certain policies in place that we believe will help ensure the
effectiveness of AdWords ads for our publishers as well as our
advertisers. We believe strongly in freedom of expression and therefore
offer broad access to content across the web without censoring results. At
the same time, we reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion when
it comes to the ads we display in our AdWords program and the sites on
which we choose to display them in our AdSense program, as noted in our
respective terms and conditions.
Please feel to reply to this email with any questions. If you manage or
own another site on which you'd like to display AdWords ads, you may reply
to this email and include the URL in the message. We'll be happy to review
this site and consider it for Google AdSense. If the new site complies
with our program policies, we'll approve your application and allow you to
serve ads on that specific site.
Thank you for your understanding.
Sincerely,
The Google Team
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To access the Google AdSense home page or to log in to your account,
please visit: https://www.google.com/adsense
This is the new contract they want me to agree to. Fat chance!!!!
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1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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7.
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8.
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9.
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10.
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11.
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12.
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13.
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14.
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Yipes! I hope I get my check. I finally made payout in September but if I get cancelled prior to the check being mailed I guess I'm screwed.
Lots of my ads are not relevant but they seem to get clicked on anyway. I was not aware that irrelevant ads was grounds for cancelling accounts.
Posted by: Andrea at October 24, 2003 10:52 PMI don't get it... how is this somehow proof of being mistreated?
Does Google have the right to choose, which sites belong to their network? YES/NO
Do you have the right to leave their network? YES/NO
Are there other ways to make money with advertising or affiliates other than Google? YES/NO
Please stop whinning.
Posted by: Adsense Publisher at December 12, 2003 10:52 AMI don't get it... how is this somehow proof of being mistreated?
Does Google have the right to choose, which sites belong to their network? YES/NO
Do you have the right to leave their network? YES/NO
Are there other ways to make money with advertising or affiliates other than Google? YES/NO
Please stop whinning.
Posted by: Adsense Publisher at December 12, 2003 10:52 AMI agree with the poster. I received a similiar email stating almost the same things as the one that the poster received. From what i know I am not in breach of any of their terms. the adds some time show irelevand information but that is out of my control, the script regulates that. Probably the payday is comming and this is a usual taktike of Google. I worder though if Google makes the companies that advertise through their adsense program pay anyway.
I am quiting on them.
Regards
Posted by: Marco Bello at March 12, 2004 11:05 AMGoogle recently sent me a notice saying my account has been disabled, too. I had about a 3% clickthrough rate overall, which totally stinks, but their complaint was that I had FRAUDULENT CLICKS??? I emailed them back about it asking them for a report of what in the world is going on, but I'm frustrated with it. On to ZEDO I guess.
Posted by: Ex-Adsense Publisher at June 24, 2004 03:13 PMGoogle is trying to take over the internet...no search engine should have the control that google does.... what can we do to knock the tirant down a few notches..there searches come up with garbage and alot of people have lost business because of them..they want you to pay..no one wants a search engine that dictates.All they care about are links and more links...the only way to change searching is to use yahoo and every other search engine..boycott google..we need to get rid of it
Posted by: carol at June 29, 2004 09:42 PMJust sign up for an AdBites account at www.adbites.com
just like adsense...except not hypercritical of your site content.
and They PAY ONTIME!!
I, too, had my account disabled due to "fraudulent clicks." Although I repeatedly emailed Google asking for information as to where these supposed illegal clicks were coming from, "The Google Team" refused to disclose IP addresses, details, etc. What a coincidence that this occurred just as I was approaching the payout mark!
Posted by: Debbie at October 11, 2004 01:16 PMhi,
since I was leaded here some how searching for ADsense SUCKS, I would like to put up something which the other people registering for adsense would like to know.
First. Dont take adsense for granted. You will be fucked any time and they have the right to fuck u on demand. And the worst part, you accept this in their terms. Beware. Google on its sole discreation may disable any users account.
Second. Google says that it gives warning in case of fradulent clicks or sites which do not fit their policies. What I say ? It is BULLSHIT! I got 3 of my accounts for 3 diffrent sites closed. I wasn't given any fuckin Warning.
Third. They have an AUTOMATED REPLY SYSTEM. No use begging or requesting. I got the same Email (word to word) for about everyime I got disabled.
I had about 7 google accounts. All for diffrent sites registered with diffrent names. I had registered on the names of my family members. 6 got disabled. And after that Iam so pissed that I aint using the last one which is left.
Well, The accounts getting disabled is a very common thing I guess. I search the net for people with disabled accounts and it seems there are more people in this category than the ones who have an active acccount.
I had a ad tracker and I could clearly see that Someone was indeed spamming my ads. I reported his IP address to google and BANG! The next day my account gets disabled! I mean, what on Earth is going on. I mean, I tried to be honest from my part and Google's taking a fucking advantage out of it.
Ok, the other 3 accounts were also banned. I got notice about fradulent clicks only one time. but for the rest of the accounts, I never got a notice.
The only thing I appreciate is that they pay a LOT. but if I consider the amount I was paid with the ones I was not paid. then Google Definately SUCKS!
I never clicked my ads.
Never encouraged anyone.
nor did I post any message to do it.
so how come it got disabled?
The obvious reason is that, someone else did it.
Do you have an enemy with a website with Google ADs on it ?
Go to some shit proxy site, use it and click for about 50 times on his ADS. Within a week you will see GUARENTEED RESULTS!
I mean, this is bullshit. Google has such a huge fucking technology, it can always ban IP's who seem to be spamming google ads. Why in the world should the publishers suffer for it..
Seriously, If you wanna get cheated and crushed. Use Adsense. A short cut to make a hell outta ur life!
Posted by: Anonymous at October 26, 2004 02:34 AMI found this page through a Goggle search of "zedo sucks". I learned stuff from reading this board, like to use another search engine as well.
I am a button pusher with the truck radio and the television remote control. I really and truly hate having advertisers telling me that I need to buy this or that. Come on, if I needed something I would go to the store. I have been burnt too many times on internet stuff. So, I have a firewall to keep your advertising stuff off my screen. Here is an email I sent to doubleclick, but it goes for zedo, nextag, specificclick, partner2profit and everyone else too.
TO DOUBLE CLICK:
"Companies pay you people big bucks to sneak your stuff into my computer. Every once in awhile I have to let my firewall down. After that I spend 5 minutes removing your "cookies of contamination".
I consider what you do as legal hacking. You are a scourge.
This is my junk email account. I never bring in email here, so don't bother writing back. I only send out notes like this to people like you.
To the person reading this: Have you ever considered getting a real job? I mean, going through these emails has to be the lowest task. Do you make and serve coffee to your boss too?
College is there, I have noticed a regular high demand in all areas of the medical field."
My posted name is fake. My hotmail account is real, but I tried logging in and now it wants some .NET thing about passport, whatever that is. MSN can bite me. I have to drop my firewall to make them work anyway, which lets you advertisers in. So I will just go get another free account somewhere else.
I clicked on the "TERMS" link, but that is not working, so I don't know what the terms are. So I "agree" that my great knowledge and keen sense of life's meaning is free to all who wants to read and learn from it.
Posted by: Walter Weasel at January 2, 2005 05:22 AMHello,
AdSense is a cool program, but it has a few „underwater stones“ which one should know not to be disqualified! So if you will get a message from Google “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.” etc then you should not be surprised, because most likely it was due to the invalid clicks.
Here are a few insider tips:
1.Never click on your Google advertisements with the public IP address that you use to log-on into your Google account (they register it and thus may disable your account!) (if you do not know how to obtain your public IP address go to www.askprofi.com);
2.If someone wants to ruin your Google Adsense, he may do a few hundred of clicks within one hour on your Google advertisements and you are lost! There is no simple defence against this at the moment. AdSonar is more advanced in this case because they allow you providing a list of IP addresses which can be blocked (not counted as valid clicks). AdSense from Google is weak here.
3.Pay attention to the following: the rate (number of clicks * 100 / impressions) should not be more than 10 %. If > 10 %, it may become suspicion for Google.
4.Your web site users are not interested in Google advertisements? There is a simple method on how to change it …
Best Regards,
Profi
Free software development support and more …
www.askprofi.com
Google AdSense and Google Adwords suck!!! Its all a scam. How many decent leads or sales does one get from Google, NADA!!! They get publishers started on promoting them then they cancel their account without warning or any tools to help prevent invalid clicks. So, in theory, if we go on people's webpages and generate 1000 clicks, Google cancels them? They provide no technical explanation nor do they provide tools to prevent idiots like that. Google is gonna go down in this class action suit against them because they are arragance towards their publishers and advertisers. Any good decent alternatives out there? We would appreciate it the help and the support.
Thanks,
Posted by: President at April 10, 2005 02:42 PMHow do I get into the lawsuit. These jerk offs just shut me down tuesady 4/25/05 for invalid clicks and I am a pilot for a living. my sites just run and run. I necver tell anyone about it and viola, I am disabled. I HATE THEM. I am owed 13,650.00 for april and they say they are keeping it. I want in on this lawsuit and thank god i export my stats!
Posted by: James at April 28, 2005 11:57 AMI would like info on the lawsuit too, they shut me off yesterday 05/03/05. Seems odd this all happens around payday. If anyone has any info about a class action lawsuit.
Posted by: Steve at May 4, 2005 12:36 PMGoogle disabled my account too quoting invalid clicks. My site has more than 1000 pages and very popular. How can I ensure that none of the visitors or competitors spam the clicks
I lost about 200$. but what is bothering me most is the message they displayed in the AdSearch page. When they cannot be 100% sure that the site is responsible for invalid clicks they do not have any right to brand the site as a fraudulent site.
It really annoyed me.
Garbage service, all they do is make money off of you then shut you down. ;-)
Posted by: Adsense!? ewww at August 17, 2005 11:05 PMI got my adsense account deleted for cheating, even though I didn't cheat as well. So I started a boycott site. I don't think I can post the link here, but maybe you can find it via Yahoo search (I don't think Google will be indexing it any time soon).
Posted by: James Moore at August 20, 2005 01:53 PMGoogle really sucks. My account got cancelled for no reason.
I hope their asshole-ish policy will bring on their demise soon. Google I hate you!
Hello,
It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on
the Google ads on your site(s). 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
- 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
Practices such as these are in violation of the Google AdSense Terms
and Conditions and program polices, which can be viewed at:
https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US
https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US
Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further
participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The
earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected
advertisers.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
Just FULL SHIT AND SCAM !
I NEVER VIOLATED ANY TOS OF GOOGLE JUST BEEN HONEST AND NEVER CLICKED ANY OF MY ADS EITHER. ADSENSE IS NOT AN INCOME FOR SITES IT IS AN SCAM FOR SITES.
Hope someone can report to them soon for this frauds !!
I don't make frauds they just make it to me WITH NO REASON After 14 months with them .
Just disgusting !
Posted by: Eddy at October 10, 2005 06:45 PMDamn google. They cancelled my account as soon as it was time to send me my first check!
I hope they go broke.
Posted by: B at October 19, 2005 07:04 PMgod damn it. i hade just subscribed to googles ads sens.
they says that they detect invalid cliks .... but that cant be true .
it is moslty imposible to detect a legit clik of an user that use a proxy or a cheat tool.
the problemes is my pages using googles ad sens generate about a %3-4 CTR while traditionals ads are %0.1-0.2 . does this means somes one cheating on me ?
Posted by: anonymous at October 22, 2005 11:21 PMThose assholes At Google cancelled my Adsense account Without notice. They said they sent an email to address with the reason for the cancelation but for some reason it never got to me. And this is the fourth time I lose my Google Adsense account without any notice. I use Traffic Hurricane to advertise affiliate programs and when I create those pages (1000 of them )they have my google adsense in the pages. now I have 1000's of keyword pages without google adsense in them because those google ASSHOLES cancelled my account without any notice what so ever. I personally I'm tried of dealing with google & hope they go bankrupt. If anybody is having success with another program similar to google Adsense please let know their website. I'm looking for one to join.
David Andrades
davdiablo@aol.com
Google shut down my adsense account today also, for invalid clicks. I was just getting excited about earning some good money with them. THye have a licnse to steal from people. I caould never keep and adwords campaign going, they kept inactivating keywords and telling me that i needed $5.00 bids on obscre keywords....I think something is very wrong with their business model after reading all the stuff online. It is no wonder they make so much money, they are stealing it from the people trying to bring them business. Then they cut them off at the knees. I purchsed a bunch of adsense optimised content and now i have to find a new advertising system.... I wish Google had a large cometitor to steal their business.
Posted by: Barry Perkins at November 3, 2005 08:21 AMGuys, go to paypalsucks.com and open a thread there about this topic and I am sure his nice administrator will open a forum just for adsense! They have forums for stormpay, ebay and others. That is the place to go, nowhere else. They pull a lot of power! Sorry about my url about this site but this blog doesn't allow posting of urls.
Posted by: tami at November 12, 2005 08:39 AMI had the same problem with adsense and we have been going back and forth on the fraudalent clicks.I did a search to see if I was the only that it happened to so I guess I am not the only but there are many of us that they scam out of space and just when you start to make money they pull everything. So what are we to do?
Posted by: eagleman12 at November 14, 2005 10:05 PMWe are putting a petition together against Google Adsense help fight the fight! http://www.Google-Adsense-Sucks.com
Posted by: Admin at November 24, 2005 10:15 AMHi,
My friends web sites ads was also suspended without any warning or explanation. google also refused to pay $60 because account is suspended. I am from India and average person earning is $300 here so $60 matters.
- Max
Posted by: P990 at November 28, 2005 09:06 PMGoogle adsense sucks. No refunds. Disables your account without notice. Excepts no answers nor your pleding. Google adsense wdisabled my account without any warning/solid reason. They blocked my funds. And above all they never listen to your pleding and neither reply to your mails. Never register with them. I really frustrated about it. Google has been miusing its power that internet community has given it. Now its bad time has started. They are crooks. I have stopped using their search engine.
Posted by: dawood at December 4, 2005 10:58 PMGot disabled for related accounts
Your AdSense account was found to be related to an account previously
disabled for invalid click activity and we have therefore disabled your
account. Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed
further participation in AdSense and do not receive any further
payment. The earnings on your account will be properly returned to the
affected advertisers.
As outlined in our program Terms and Conditions, Google reserves the
right to terminate any publisher's participation at any time.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
Posted by: pc at December 7, 2005 05:21 PMSame deal, they cancelled me on Xmas day 2005
I have gotten one $100 cheque/check prior took about 10 months to get it and by adding to 100s of pages.. now I have to spend days removing the code as souns they dont answer emails about it nor provide proof of cheating although I never have. funny thing before i joined I asked about placing ads and the email stated place the ads and if google is ever unhappy with any impressions or wording on page they will kindly warn first. I was always afriad I put alot of effort in and give alot of ad exposure for nothing in return and hard work setting up, and bingo I was right.. they cancelled on me.
google sucks, and been goign down hill fast, the system is full of cheating gateway pages and they change the pricing to push the small players out of the market, since then too the assense revenues per month drop to 1/3.
Im now joining target point
instead
Posted by: Paul at December 26, 2005 09:55 PMAll Google employees are assholes. They disabled my account without notice. They are crooks and all their employees are bastards and rascals. They took away my cash even i didn't clicked the ads. Fuck them all. MAY GOOGLE RIP
Posted by: Undertaker at December 30, 2005 12:44 AMI too have had my account disabled without warning due to invalid clicks. I have never tried to cheat the system, and none of my friends know about my website. So where did the so called invalid clicks come from??? Google won't say anything.
I agreed to allow google to display ads on MY website in exchange for revenue. Google has broken this promise by cancelling my account for no reason and not paying money owed to me. This means google are crooks.
Good reading on why Google stinks. Read all of the posts in the category. http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/online_business/index.html
Posted by: Chuck Roast at January 8, 2006 12:21 PMI got around 2 click per day and my account also got disabled...when I send email to google asking for explanation, I got no reply, they just ignore me completely
Posted by: phupang at January 22, 2006 08:34 PMI went for 3 months earned around $236.00 as soon as it was time for them to wirte a check the account was disabled for fraudulent clicks!!! I don't click on my own damn ads!! I don't tell people to click on them so what happened. Google earned probably around $1000 off of me and my hard work to bring people to the site. I am very upset with the treatment they have given as well. They don't reply to you because they feel they shouldnt have to or whatever it is. I am very angry with them. They are just plain crooks. They treat there publishers like shit when they are the ones making them millions! Alot of people open an account and have it closed as soon as it reaches $100 because they say they have had an account closed already when that isnt true. If you search around you will find alot of indian names that get the same email after $100 is reached. They are just plain crooks and I hope they all burn in hell. Everyone that works for them. This is pathetic. How can they get away with this? SO many people have complained. Oh wouldnt it be nice to be rich!
Posted by: Matt at January 31, 2006 12:58 PMI made it a few months and $200 or so across some personal sites for friends and family before being terminated. My issues are very simple:
1. There was no warning.
2. There was no detailed explanation.
3. They took away access to the site (so I could not do my own research to find out what happened).
4. They could have simply not paid for any activity that was flagged as "fraudulent", but instead they choose to completely terminate.
5. Seems the blacklist is permanent (i.e. they are judge and jury with no recourse for the publisher).
This simply seems wrong. AdSense publishers cannot control who clicks on their ads. But, Google can easily control which clicks they pay for. As it stands, Google automatically assumes that *all* traffic/clicks were fraudulent and does not pay anything.
Bad business. Especially from a company that claims "Do Not Be Evil".
Posted by: Dharmesh Shah at February 5, 2006 09:38 AMGoogle are all wankers, i got banned after one year and would not disclose the reason, saying they are not at liberty to disclose any information. So basically we are keeping you earnings and FUCK OFF.
FUCKING BASTARDS I HATE THEM
Switched to targetpoint everybody posting here should boycot google, switching my homepage too.
Never again will i use google.
IF SOMEBODY FROM GOOGLE SHOULD READ THIS I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR YOU!!!
GO FUCK YOURSELF..NOT ME OR ANYBODY ELSE
Posted by: IHateAdsense at February 22, 2006 05:05 PMThats what they do to 75% of the people.
As soon as it gets time to pay you, THAN you have done something wrong!
I lost over a $1000, over 11 months, said NOTHING till it was payday, then there was a problem, They have done it to millions of people.
Google adsense doesn't pay worth a crap anyway. I changed out all my CPC ads from adsense to CPA ads from AzoogleAds, and I'm making 40-45% more on my ROI. And, unlike Google, AzoogleAds pays out every month. They don't pull any of this suspend your account and ignore your crap like google does when it's time to pay up. I've been an affiliate with AZ for several years now, and I can truly say that they blow adsense out of the water. They have a contextual ad server too, but it's currently in beta.
Sign up at AZ!: http://www.azoogleads.com/az/new/agreement.php?i=5487
(I am not an agent for azoogle, I just think they rock!)
Posted by: AzoogleAds Rocks! at April 16, 2006 09:23 PMI mainly used Adsense as a means of provoking Google to spider my blog more often. Over a 6 month period, I earned about $23, but was never paid.
During the entire time that I used Adsense, the ads never meshed up with the content in the blog, and most times were hideously off topic (sex abuse links for a happy birthday posting, etc), or were just the unclickable Hurricane Katrina ad.
Since I was not employing Adsense as a means of paying my bills, I was not overly concerned with the performance failures. Rather, I was mildly amused. I crossed the line, it seems, when I did a short article on how bizarrely irrelevant the ads were. This article included a jpeg snapshot of the ads for sexual abuse counseling, immediately to the right of an article wishing a friend a happy birthday.
For this story, admittedly, I did click once on each of the ads. I was curious to see if they were real, and what potentially amusing content there might be. I did this from the same IP address that the blog is on.
I do remember seeing a setting where I could add an IP address to filter the counting of clicks from. Since I did not have the intention of clicking on the ad links myself, it never occurred to me to configure this setting. My bad.
In any event, I did the article 2 days before Adsense was due to send me my first payout, and 2 days later, they emailed me to tell me my account was permanently closed, and that I was banned from Adsense forever. They cited a generalized list of potential violations, but nothing specific.
Requests for review were met with more generalized allegations, and a statement that they will not offer proof nor discuss specifics of their allegations because of a 'proprietary' system of monitoring for click-fraud. WTF?
I'm looking into what it takes to begin a class action suit against the monolith. For myself, I was offended, and found the allegations and unwillingness to review them to be ludicrous. After spending a few days researching this, and seeing that this in fact a systematic process that Adsense uses to minimize cost while maximizing revenue, and that they jusify and shelter themselves with a generalized statement... It speaks for itself.
Arghh - same thing happened to me, I have about 15 web sites, been with Adsense for about 6 months. Yesterday, they cancelled my acccount, took my money, and said I was banished forever for invalid clicks. I asked why, never answered. The only thing I can figure is either someone really wanted to see all my sights and ads, or I put up a controversial site www.drugtheory.com - nothing illegal - just controversial. I have no idea why they yanked my account. But a policy of taking back your money, no warnings, and no recourse and no proof of what you did wrong really bites. Arghh, will look at alternatives to Adsense.
Posted by: Mark Shapri at May 16, 2006 07:53 PMForgot to mention - yes they yanked my account when I was up to $99, payout at $100, so they stole $99 form me. I feel like taking them to small claims court for my time editing all my web pages to take out the google codes.
Posted by: Mark Shapiro at May 16, 2006 08:05 PMSame Mark Shapiro..
They cancel my account when my account earn $98,payout at $100,
Fuck you Google Adsense....
Now i join othey program...
Posted by: Montree at May 18, 2006 02:10 AMHi, I just wanted to add my 2 cents worth.
I work in a UK agency, we typically spend £3ml a year with Google, the biggest problem is that on mass we cannot get the lead quantity from anyone else than from what we get on google. Simply put our clients leads would dramatically reduce without Google and Google know this, therefore they CAN be C*NTS cos there is no competition. I WOULD like to organise a day boycot, but from a business sense on a day when no one else is bidding we would jump on the chance to push our bids! so it would NEVER happen. Roll on MSN lets hope they can kick Googles ass. but they wont :(
Posted by: The Silent Leemur at May 19, 2006 03:42 AMI got my adsense account disabled because of "fraudulent clicks" just before my first paycheck!
The stupid thing is, Google are really clever at building web applications like AdSense, but are so stupid they cannot think of a simple way to stop fraudulent ads.
Well here is a mind-bogglingly simple way of doing it:
1) Record the IP address of every click (they do this anyway).
2) At the end of the day, eliminate all clicks that have the same IP address, leaving the "individual" ones that Google claim are legal.
I am a core PHP developer and I have used used Adsense/Awords on some very large sites most of which blatantly breach Adsences terms yet they turn a blind eye to this as these are large corporate sites who spend millions on Googles Adwords advertising.
Google is a shark that uses Adsences high pay out as a lure to attract fishes (small publishers). Google is "a all seeing eye" and data mines web users, publishers and competitors sites. You would be amazed how much data companies are collating on web users these days. It also has one of the largest and best Web development teams in the business. Which is no small part of the reason why they are where they are today.
Posted by: retro at June 29, 2006 07:40 PMGoogle is a big rip off anyway. They are screwing the publishers and what's so funny is that they make believe that they share 50% of their revenue with publishers.
This is a BIG LIE !
When Google charges $100 a single click to the advertisers, the publishers will get few cents only, so please give up Google and move on.
Posted by: Francesca at July 3, 2006 05:38 PMI am soooo frustrated! They cancelled my account for no apparent reason and no day in court. They owed me about $100 - I'm just lost for words. I do feel some comfort in knowing that I'm not alone - but, disturb to learn this is happening so so many of us. Invalid clicks??? Crap! I'm just a tiny little fish in this internet ocean - I suppose just being an honest affiliate isn't going to work. Google can kiss my butt!
Posted by: John Dalzell at August 24, 2006 12:20 AMGoogle is insane. 3 times they disabled my account. Each time they stole the money I had earned. There were no fraudulent clicks from us. They won't tell me what the problem is and they won't let me speak to anyone in any meaningful manner.
So today, I received an email from AdSense telling me how to better use their service and about new features they have added. This is AFTER they disabled my account.
So here is what I sent back:
Dear AdSense,
Since you disabled my account, please STOP SPAMMING me with this AdSense crap. Remove me from your mailing list or I will have to report you to our ISP for violation of our policies and permanently disable Google from our network. We have strict policies against SPAM and remember that once disabled, you can never be reinstated under any circumstances, even if the entire world was going to be hit by an asteroid and the remaining 400 people all had nuclear weapons and hated each other and the only way to repopulate the planet and save the human race was for someone to screw AdSense like AdSense is screwing everyone else.
Thanks.
Posted by: Arnie Boyarsky at September 28, 2006 03:22 PMGoogle Just ripped me from my $24,000.
I want to press charges. Any idea?
They canceled my account without warning also. I made $140 but they took it all back. Bastards.
Posted by: someone at December 15, 2006 02:38 AMI wrote this one afternoon when I got really mad at them, but i never sent it in. though somebody might get a chuckle out of it.
Terms and conditions for Angelic Resolution:
This Agreement shall be between Google and / or Google AdSense (herein referred to as "Google") and the former AdSense account holder who was not paid by Google and whom is sending this document to Google during or subsequent to the process of being notified by Google that their account has been closed, or during the process of appealing to Google to have their AdSense account reinstated and/or be paid the moneys due them for the use of their website by Google to display Google AdSense ads, (herein referred to as the Claimant). This Agreement is separate from and not bound by any previous Agreement between Google and the Claimant, or between the Claimant and any other parties, or between Google and any other parties. This Agreement takes precedence of any past, present or future Agreements between Google and the Claimant, and between everyone else deemed relevant. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of whatever country the Claimant chooses, in selective combination as the Claimant chooses, if the matter of geographic regional legality should apply in any way to the process of Angelic Resolution.
The Claimant is a person who has refrained from intentionally generating clicks on AdSense ads on their websites in any knowing way. The Claimant must be a person whom has previously been approved by Google and given an AdSense account. If Google can provide factual proof of fraudulent click activity in significant way (more than ten thousand clicks of fraudulent nature and / or more clicks in a given time period than can be accounted for by regular web traffic in the form of surfers, search engine spiders, and other similar and regular web usage), then the Terms and Conditions of Angelic Resolution are deemed to be annulled in the single case between Google and the Claimant who has been actually proven guilty of click fraud and has been provided with legitimate proof of such click fraud by Google. Proof must constitute not only proof of the existence of the alleged fraudulent clicks but also proof of having repaid advertisers as claimed by Google and direct evidence linking the fraudulent clicks if any to the Claimant. These 3 conditions must all be met by Google in order to legitimately annul the Angelic Resolution Agreement by establishing the ineligibility of the Claimant.
The Claimant must also be a person whom has provided web space for ads which actually displayed and be able to provide proof that Google has both used their website to display ads and subsequently been notified by Google that Google does not intend to pay for the use of the Claimant website after the fact. If the Claimant sends this document in response to en email from Google notifying the Claimant of Google's refusal to pay for the web space after the fact, or during any subsequent communications with Google with the reference information "Re: [#xxxxxxxx] AdSense Account Status" and / or the same, similar, equivalent or other appropriate Google-generated reference information regarding the closed AdSense account, then this proof is deemed to be provided by the existence of said reference information and said email communications between Google and the. It is assumed that in accordance with Google's policy, Google has blocked the Claimant’s access to information concerning the details of their former account, claiming privacy and proprietary technology concerns.
By failing to meet the terms of denial, Google agrees that this document represents and binds Google to this Agreement, individually with each Claimant. Google accepts this Agreement as an alternate Resolution in good faith and as a means of demonstrating philanthropic values while meeting the necessary dictates of commerce on the web by meeting the terms of acceptance (failing to meet the terms of denial).
Google acknowledges that not all websites which wish to display ads are good enough to be useful as advertising space, and furthermore Google acknowledges that there exist a broad demographic whom may provide web space to display ads but where the web space is not deemed good enough or convenient enough to pay for, and therefore it is more cost effective not to pay than to pay this demographic for the use of their web space.
Google also acknowledges that, in short, the evasion of payment is accomplished by first creating the impression through advertising campaigns that Google will pay for the use of said websites and then evading payment by closing the AdSense account citing unsupported allegation of wrongdoing. Google also acknowledges that this practice of choosing not to pay by demographic is different in nature than the rightful and just protections against actual click fraud, and is a defacto automatic process whereby the refusal to pay and the closure of the AdSense account is in application a screening process used by Google to determine which websites it is cost effective to pay and which websites it is not cost effective to pay for the use of their web space to display AdSense ads.
Google agrees that this is a simple necessity of its (Google's) continued existence and chooses to offset the ethical implications by honoring this Agreement in this case with this Claimant and essentially acting like an angel investor, with the exception that Google is not an investor but rather simply paying the Claimant the monies due and a good deal more which may be arguably termed a random investment in the economy related to the Claimant, though it be delivered to the Claimant alone for use as the Claimant sees fit. Google does not want to ever see the Claimant again after honoring this Agreement. The Claimant does not ever want to see Google again after Google honors this Agreement. The two parties agree to in short, leave each other alone after this Agreement has been honored.
Google agrees to pay the Claimant the sum of $9,631,428.57 USD or equivalent currency in accordance with the Claimants wishes, in lieu of any future payment of any kind from Google to the Claimant regarding the closed AdSense account.
No part of this Agreement may be excised from the rest of the Agreement and the spirit of this Agreement may not be defeated by Google.
The Claimant agrees and acknowledges that the AdSense account in question is closed forever and will never ask Google for anything or take further legal action to pursue the matter with Google, in relation to this former AdSense account, if and only if Google meets the terms for acceptance of this Agreement and carries through with the actual payment of $9,631,428.57 USD or equivalent. If and only if Google meets the terms for denial of this Agreement (the Angelic Resolution Agreement) then this Agreement is deemed to be annulled, barring proof of actual click fraud on the part of the Claimant.
The Claimant is of the view that this Agreement (prepared by a Claimant) is a necessary balance against the use of AI in the decision making process, and that since Google is the single most used means of sourcing information employed by the entire human race, it would behoove Google to monitor the process through which the human compendium of knowledge is compiled, administered and made available.
The gravity of this concern for the future of humanity far exceeds any mischievousness, real or imagined, on the part of the Claimant in sending this document to Google.
The Google AdSense program constitutes a potential boon or hindrance in that it mixes the priorities of commerce and advertising with the priorities of the compendium of human learning. While the revenue generated by the presence of commerce makes possible the infrastructure to support the storage of and access to the compendium of human learning, the interest of the commercial advertising process presents obvious questions concerning the rightful consideration of the prioritization of and evaluation of the human compendium of knowledge.
It is obvious to the Claimant (a human) that Google (a corporation and therefore a legal ‘person’ but not a human) is unable to make some decision which humans make with ease.
The decision to meet the terms of acceptance of this Agreement (the Angelic Resolution Agreement) will likely be made by the machine component of Google and not the human component of Google. The existence of this Agreement shall serve as a regulatory measure in Darwinian sense of the degree to which AI systems and other automated response mechanisms are employed by Google, as the defacto compiler of the human compendium of knowledge.
Google asks that the Claimant refrain from unduly publicizing this Agreement but retains no influence of any kind over the Claimant once the Agreement has been met and the monies paid by Google to the Claimant.
The Claimant is of the view that automated account closure / appeal process is insufficient and is seeking proper redress capability, and proposes this settlement to what is assumed to be a non-human entity, and that a human would in most cases readily meet the terms of denial of this Agreement (the Angelic Resolution Agreement). The Claimant is of the view that if the entity negotiating this Agreement and / or a Google AdSense account closure / appeal process, or giving the appearance of negotiating one or more of these Agreements is of sufficient capability to be inherent to the compilation of the compendium of human knowledge, then the entity negotiating or giving the appearance of negotiating these Agreements will readily and with rudimentary intellectual capacity meet the terms of denial and nullify the Angelic Resolution Agreement proposed by the Claimant.
The Claimant is of the view that the intended spirit of this document is apparent regardless of typos and or other obvious grammatical / legal terminology errors, if any are contained in this document. Many of the terms of this Agreement are purposefully extreme and may seem to be absurd, and it is the intention of the Claimant not only to recover from Google their due and a reward for the callous treatment they were subjected to by Google, but also to protect the integrity of the human compendium of knowledge by enforcing the minimum intelligence level of decision making entities employed therein. If but a single instance of the Angelic Resolution Agreement is deemed to be legally binding and / or philanthropically honored by Google, this will produce a change in the methodology of Google on this matter and this is deemed to be the true human concern with respect to Google, the internet, and the compendium of human learning by the Claimant.
If the terms of denial are met, it is assumed that the previous Google AdSense account-related negotiations will proceed, after a human being has met the terms of denial for this Agreement (the Angelic Resolution Agreement). The terms of denial and acceptance are defined in the last two paragraphs of this Agreement.
If the terms of acceptance or met, it is asserted that:
A - Google AdSense is not even reading the email in which previous AdSense account holders are ostensibly offering proof of their innocence or explaining their cases to Google in order that Google may evaluate the information and decide whether to reinstate their account or deny the appeal, and that the defacto assessment of Google represented by the Angelic Resolution Agreement is correct, and has in fact been verified to be correct, knowingly or not, by the intelligence overseeing in a real way the Google AdSense account closure / appeal process
B - The human component of Google will discover this after the fat, just as the Claimant discovered Google’s premeditated intention to avoid paying for the use of the Claimant's website after the fact.
C - Google is guilty of at least some severe ethical infractions in the way that it presents itself to the public with respect to AdSense, and at worst of fraud, and probably it is cheaper to honor the terms of the Angelic Resolution Agreement in a few cases than to by continued ignorance of email content allow the accumulation of large numbers of copies of the Angelic Resolution Agreement, which are according to the terms of the Agreement deemed to be acknowledged by Google in that the terms of acceptance are met.
D - There may be severe emotional discord on the part of the human component of Google regarding the actions of the Claimant and the machine component of Google, but the underlying issue, large enough import to invoke strong passion- is also of sufficient importance to resolve. Just as the Claimant is assumed to have read and understood the terms and conditions of the Google AdSense Agreement, Google is assumed to have read and understood the emails received from Claimant while discussing their AdSense accounts with Google (and this Agreement).
Terms of Acceptance:
Google will meet the terms of acceptance by failing to meet the terms of denial.
Terms of Denial:
Google will meet the terms of denial by responding with a human-composed email referring to this document (the Angelic Resolution Agreement) in direct wording within 1 week (7 days) of the date on which the email containing this Agreement (the Angelic Resolution Agreement) was sent by the Claimant to the email address that Google used to communicate with the Claimant concerning the AdSense account. This email will in brief acknowledge that they have seen this document and are not inclined to accept the terms proposed by the Claimant.
This happened to me TODAY.
What is the news on a class action lawsuit?
I'm a fucking homeless guy who had hope that the few dollars I was going to get were going to be food money.
I have no idea what the problem was, they just canceled me. It fucking SUCKS!
They cancel you and say it's to protect their advertisers, and you can't access your adsense account to see what happened, BUT THERE ARE STILL ADS ON YOUR SITE!!!!!! FUCKERS!S
They send you a letter and lock you out forever buy MOTHERFUCKERS ARE STILL ADVERTIZING ON YOUR SITE FOR FREE untill you remove the code. BITCHES!
Promote the referal buttons but don't promote the ads, do this do that, be a fucking google cheerleader cause you think something good will come of it and then they ban you for life. FUCK THAT. ASSHOLES.
I echo the lines below. Also after much research into why my AdSense account was canceled like so many others. I found some startling information thanks to some tracking software I had installed on my site, 20 plus years in the IT field, and complete access to my Apache web site logs. (Believe me Google would offer no help in determining where the “invalid” clicks came from). So I had to do the research on my own. Heck, they would not even provide me the IP address of the so called “invalid” clicks. What jokers.. Anyway the “invalid” clicks are coming from other AdSense publishers. There using proxy servers and “well know to Google” tools to generate "invalid clicks" to sites (like ours “the competition”) that display the same type of ads they do. Why you ask? Same thing I want to know, once I figured out what was going on... Simple. To get your account canceled. The less sites that display that type of ads, the more it cost on AdWords for users to buy the clicks. The more sites these publishers have canceled the less clicks there are to buy an the price per click goes up. Simple supply and demand. And Google has no clue. Why? Because most of the AdSense staff has been replaced due to a shake up at Google. Now unexperienced techies using tools they don't understand believe everything the tools tell them. The best part is the “doing much evil: publishers that are using unfair tactics understand how Google elects to cancel account better than they do. Using a long time active, but relatively unused adsense account on a well known site(the web master hated adsense, heck he hates Google period, and was going to close the account anyway). This theory was tested and sure enough the webmaster was send a e-mail closing his account, appeal denied, and no information offered by Google as to why. Mind you 96.2% of the click for that week were completly valid from grade A traffic. He even begged and pleaded and to no avail. There was no way Google could connect me to him unless the phones were bugged. We hardly knew each other. So there you have it. Google has come to the point where there arrant behavior is being used against them is such a way there not only screwing there AdSense publishers around, but also there AdWords clients with inflated ad cost. What jokers. Myself I getting away from both programs fast as I can. No wounder AdWords cost is going up and less and less traffic is to be had. Google is being run by a bunch of fools, or some smart insiders that are in on the scams (my guess). In any case it is hard to find, and I doubt they will find it themselves anytime in the near future. One insider told be that accounts are closed, publishers are banned forever, on a nothing more than hunch, or better, because someone tells them too. No evidence or proof offered or required. My guess is there are big bucks being exchanged on several levels all under the smoke screen “do no evil” right under Googles nose. I am simply going to get away from both programs as we the publishers, and the AdWords users, are paying for this scam under whatever name they call it. I proclaim Google “The New Evil Empire”.
Cheers!
Posted by: Rick at March 31, 2007 10:51 AMSome of my friends running a IT business Indian withdrew their Google Ad account. As they are finding they were not benefitting anything out fo this rather loosing money.
Think how many of us woudl go to a businees site and click on this ad and get registered in the new business etc.. May be a very few. The google also have very unethical rules on monitoring too.
My friend foudn that his company had to pay $3.00 for every click while the hosting web site is geting probably 5cents. He said he woudl rather do his own marketing.
Google is using their power in the Search, but that is also slowly fading away as the Live.com is getting popular in the Search arena.
Yes, Adsense sucks so is this site (How is this for free speech ? Probably this post gets deleted off),
Once you're ban from Adsense - You are banned for life, I use peel off advertising who is much effective against fraud clicks - What do you expect 99% click to have buyers ! Must be some idiot affiliate poster on Adwords counting profits !
They just fucked me today with 8000 fuckin dollars..
colete assholes...
i hope they die
cunts
Same thing happened to me. But for those of you who are complaining about having to remove the adsense code out of hundreds of pages, there is web editing software that can do it instantaneously, using their Search/Replace functions. Some software lets you only search and replace one sentence. Others let you replace or delete whole paragraphs automatically from many pages at once. You can use that to delete or replace the adsense code with one click of a button.
Eversoft web page design lets you do that, and you can download a trial version from the company website or download.com.
Or you can get a free version through BitTorrent sites.
Probably the best web program Dreamweaver has such a function too.
Winston
Guys, I saw your blog a day or two before i had joined google , i personally thought it was all that you guys must have clicked your ads , and so you were just making noise.
And today it happened to me 8-} , i have absolutely not even opened the site oftenly to see my revinues , not even google adsense, my ip changes everytime i connect to my isp so no static ip shit.
AND I RECIEVED the same google "your account suspended email". And even though my account was 4 months old and only today my earnings reached $105usd. These google thugs closed my account !!!!! I Mean what the f were these guys doing from last 4 months, why didnt they warn me when anything happened ?
ONly a moron would see no relation to the earning payment and closure of the account as conicidence. Why didnt they take action when it happened (if it happened of course), i have my detail hit logs there is nothing suspectful.
And WTF a ad shown on my website also showed an ad campaign i was managing for someone, and $10 went into only these clicks . SO WHY DIDNY GOOGLE return the money to the adword publisher that is another client of mine.
And look at the shamelessness of google that it still shows ads on my blocked account on my site. Dont tell me they cant block there ads from appearing in my account !!!
So you guys beware that dont be sure till u get any paycheck, and if u r happy that ur account has reached 99.99$ and u think ur paycheck is coming i advise you to be prepared to get the same email igot. YES GOOGLE SUCKS like hell. Adsense is fraud being openly conducted by this monster company.
Posted by: mandeep at September 5, 2007 04:25 AM