Today I found that I couldn’t login to Google Adsense to check on my earnings. I found an email from Google informing me that my account has been disabled.
It has come to our attention that invalid clicks and/or impressions have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that this was a necessary step to protect the interests of AdWords advertisers.
I have heard horror stories about accounts getting disabled and cutting off the main source of revenue for many business owners. At Google’s whim, their businesses suffer a huge setback.
There’s competition, though, so I’m not worried. It isn’t as if Google is the only way for me to earn money, and in fact I hope that actually selling games becomes a bigger part of it.
I’m appealing this decision, but I’m not holding my breath. I’m not freaking out about it since it isn’t as if I make that much money from it anyway, but I definitely need to look into quality alternatives.
As a side note, if you are trying to be helpful to me and click on an ad, please don’t. Google will see it as invalid click activity.
What constitutes “illegal clicking activity” ?
Left by Keith Weatherby II on October 2nd, 2007