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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Banned from AdSense

Apparently Google thinks I’ve been clicking my own ads. They not only banned the account in question but also banned a second one in my name that actually belongs to a company I work for.

I checked my account last week an noticed I was earning way more than usual. Upon cross-referencing my analytics I saw that I was getting 4 day spikes of 800 visitors a day directly navigating to my site for the last couple days. On a crummy domain and a site that doesn’t rank, something was up. Clearly this was some kind of click attack. I have no idea why anyone would want to click attack one of my crappy MFA (made-for-adsense) sites though - thats the baffling part of the whole equation.

I used my appeal and declared that I can’t know someone’s motives for a click attack, I have no idea why this happened to me, and that Google should know better than I would because they are the “CLICK FRAUD DETECTIVES”. That appeal was summarily denied.

Anyway, what a joke! I guess I can never have another Adsense account in my name. So I’d like to say, “Thanks for the screw job, Google!”

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Brian Thibault is an internet marketing guru specializing in E-commerce, SEO, and usability. He is originally from Columbus, Ohio, and enjoys his work, ice hockey, and exercise. Brian's blog can be found at http://www.convertup.com

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