Comments on: What to do if Suspended from Adsense

By: Manjunath

Manjunath — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:05:39 +0000

I also do the same type the url in the browser window and look at advertisers.

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:10:48 +0000

I was suspended for about a day because I had stuck my code in a server side included header file that was inadvertently displaying my code on an error page. They sent me a warning email and I didn’t get it because, get this…Gmail classified it as spam. So, moral to my story is to make sure that Adsense is whitelisted in your email program. Of course, if you’re being suspended for fraudulent clicks you probably won’t get a warning email.

As far as that whole click thing goes, I very occasionally get an ad on The Barter Blog for a Yahoo Group related to barter. The URL listed on the ad is just “Yahoo.com”, so that is pretty much useless and the ad is so intermittent that it may only come up once in 50 impressions. Obviously if it’s a group I don’t belong to, it’s something I would join in a flash. Frankly as an advertiser I’d be a little miffed that a publisher with a clear interest in my product was prohibited from visiting my site to make a legitimate purchase. How hard is it to distinguish 1 click from multiple clicks to the same ad?

By: Teli

Teli — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:31:55 +0000

I do the same thing Dominic,
I’ll type the URL into my browser and try to search around for whatever they were advertising, or, you could always go to the Digital Point AdSense Sandbox, type in your URL and hope you get the same ad…

that’s all I’ve got :D

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:25:36 +0000

Dominic, get the Adsense preview tool [by google]. It allows you to right click a page [even your own] and view the ads from that page and then you can click on those ones without fear of penalty. It is good for optimizing your pages and selecting ads you’d like to filter.

To the original question, if all else fails: Incorporate a company and reapply for a new Adsense account and then put the ads back onto your sites from the new account. In extreme cases you may need to transfer your domain names.

By: Dominic Foster

Dominic Foster — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:02:16 +0000

He-he.. That’s very funny Alex :)

One thing I’ve always wondered is what to do if there is an advert that appears on your website that you are genuinely interested in?
My best answer is having to type the URL into the browser. Any other suggestions?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:56:17 +0000

It beats me why so many people think that bluster and bravado are going to achieve anything.

An honest and polite approach is far more likely to produce a win/win outcome than launching a vitriolic attack on someone to try and camouflage your own stupidity.

By: Alex Brooks

Alex Brooks — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:46:35 +0000

*Removes nodding bird from mouse button*