That would be a better list.

About 12 months ago I started to build a blog with medical ebooks, when visitors shares their books
and download free (from rapidshare) medical books. My purpose was to help people who hadn’t possibility
to buy those books, and other to view books before buy. On this blog I put my google ads, and I earned 300 $
a month but after 2 months google adsense banned me, because my blog has
copyright infragments. Ok I agree with their email, and I stoped to work on this blog.

But my answer is: WHY ONLY MY BLOG?
on net are more same older sites who weren’t banned from google adsense
http://www.medicalheaven.com/
http://www.flazx.com/
http://www.gigapedia.org/

Darren can you explain this ?

Adsense didn’t tell me anything about why I was banned except for invalid clicks, which seems very vague. I haven’t joined any weird clicking clubs. I don’t click on my own ads. I told my family and friends not to click unless then intended to actually buy something from the advertiser. My target is students of theater and people working community theater. Many of my friends are theater people…. some theater teachers who have encouraged their students to visit my site.

At this point, I am confused and a little angry. How can I be trying so hard to do everything right and end up banned? I’m waiting to see how Google responds to my plea. It does seem to me that if they have to tools to detect fraud, they should have the tools to funnel out fraud and that would certainly be saving me a headache right now.

Is there an ad revenue program that is easier to not offend? Perhaps someone that DOES filter out IP addresses that seem to be excessive or something…. That would still have ads associated with theater? Even if I am cleared of wrongdoing, I think I may shut down adsense for a while on my site until I figure out how I offended in the first place and am able to better control it… even though it feels out of my control. I don’t want to be on anyone’s “bad” list, and if I can end up on the adsnese bad list without knowing I did anything wrong, that makes me very nervous about continuing to use them. I’m not looking to make millions. I’m mostly looking to cover my hosting costs and maybe a few extra dollars on the side.

Perhaps I did something wrong without realizing it. If so, I hope they will tell me what I did and give me a chance to make things right. From what I’ve seen on other forums, I don’t have a lot of hope. It seems that most people who are banned are not reinstated. I do find it a bit extreme that one day they just cut me off and I’m left stunned and clueless.

If there is any advice about what I can do, or another revenue option out there that I will find more friendly to my needs, I am very open to suggestions. I seriously never thought I would have this problem, but people here seem to mostly think that adsense has legit reasons when they shut someone down… and I tend to trust the people on this site. SO, I’m asking for any advice that any of you more experienced technical types have to offer… I’m just a freelance theatrical artist with a blog as a hobby, so perhaps I’m missing something really simple.
Thanks,
Laura

What I (as a publisher) can do to prevent my AdSense code? – nothing!

Recently I’ve got a warning message from Google with info, that my ads were on porno site.

In fact none of my adsense ads shouldn’t be displayed on not my pages, but unfortunatelly I’m not able to ask bad guys “Please do not take my adsense ad code, please do not put it on porno site”.

It’s stupid, but I do really afraid of being suspended for someone doing something completely out of my control!!!

The only way I can really protect myself is to remove all adsense ads from all of my sites and inform Google about it.

And wait, wait and wait, maybe some day Google make something to really protect AdSense publishers.

I have about 600.000 impressions of my site and it’s not easy to screw myself out of AdSense earnings.

I have read the same advice in one of the adsense forums. Last week, I was surprised when I found out that one of my websites has CTR above normal (it was 80%). I quickly emailed google and reported it. Here is the reply:

“Thanks for letting us know about this situation. I understand that you’re
concerned about the recent activity you’ve noticed on your site.

Unfortunately, due to the proprietary nature of our technology, we’re not
able to disclose any specific details about the clicks on the Google ads
on your site. I can assure you, however, that we’ve noted your input and
we’ll continue to monitor your situation closely.”

Just want to share an experience.

http://www.adsense-xchange.com
http://adsurfplus.com
http://www.mutualhits.com

can make my account get suspended by Google ???

and are Autosurf Traffic exchange disallowed by adsense ??

I agree with pcunix – I ALSO want to click my ads, and now I have to copy & paste the links. That’s simply annoying. To prevent accidental click or fraud scheme, I think there should be these options:
1) Disable clicks from certain IP (the one you use for google account) – that would be relatively easy to do.
2) Let authors to ban certain IPs (to avoid fraud) and automatically remove the revenue generated from these IPs.

Guess what? Google is not all-knowing. They make a best effort against click fraud, but the entire infrastructure of the Internet was not set up to defend against this sort of thing. If you think their system is flawless, you’re hopelessly deluded (or just nontechnical).

Bottom line is that Google profits from click fraud. Their growth is spurred by click fraud. It’s not in their interest to reveal their click fraud percentage, as that would lower their revenue and drive away customers. Google’s entire super secretive NSA-type PR strategy is driven by the fact that they don’t want people to know their entire revenue model is built on a “pretty good, not great” ad system.

I’m continually dumbfounded by how much faith people put in Big Brother. Get a clue.

But I think Google might know what’s going on when my extra 1,000 visitors are coming from Google search. ;-)

I find it odd that a traffic slump was restored last month, but earnings were the same as the prior, very weak, month. Any thoughts?

When I first read the tip for e-mailing Google when I accidentally click an ad, I suddenly clicked on white space in my site—oh! No! NOT white space! Adsense!

I readjusted my layout a bit so there would be less white space, but Adsense has very clickable white space in itself. So when I wrote, I also explained that, and suggested that this abundant white space is a problem. Now that I read this about Google, I got nervous at first, but I remember how friendly they were.

(But what happens if two clicks occur near each other? Will e-mailing both times only help?)

Still, Stas, I’d be nervous to publish your article on clicking ads and even clicking so frequently on those sites you like. I think that’s unusually high responsiveness.

I tend to avoid the ads, knowing what they are, unless it’s a site I strongly favor. I never look for them, but sometimes do notice them.

Mauro, I don’t see how traffic exchanges could cause invalid clicks, but it could effect the impression-based ads.

I once read that people could check URLs for filtering purposes by copying the URL. Then I noticed it wasn’t the real URL. I did this many, many times before then, though, and never got in trouble, so I don’t think it counts for payment. They didn’t even have the IE toolbar until recently. Although now I always just switch to IE to check every time I have those annoying unrelated ads.

(It’s so annoying that 5 days after a post, all the main ads are about key words that aren’t related, but were in the post (and misinterpreted). MAYBE when the post is on top. Oh sigh.)

Since I pay more attention to ads on my own site, I too often want to click, but now we have that new IE toolbar. (I even sent an e-mail suggesting they make one for Firefox, they were appreciative.)