Who Else???
Did you got tossed off Google's Adsense?? Did they owe you money?? Were you told that they were returning the money for advertising clicks back to the advertisers? I am starting to think that there are a lot of us. If you are one, please leave a note on this post. If there are a lot of us, this is surely FRAUD. Please let me know!! Maybe there is something we can do together!!
What happened? I have not had any problems. what was their reasoning behind tossing you off adSense? Just curious. I've been paid by them once so far, so I'm curious what they said.
Posted by: Kimberly | October 03, 2005 at 08:51 PM
It happened to many of us.
Google is garbage.
You do not have to do anything bad to get kicked.
Mostly it is a "competitor" that clicks your ads hundreds of times, and then SELF reports YOU as the bad guy.
Absolutely nothing to do. Google has covered their back in their TOS.
Posted by: | October 04, 2005 at 10:45 AM
Yep me to, I made the mistake of searching from the search box on my site once, they promptly reminded me that wasn't allowed and booted me (right before the end of the month coincidentially)
Posted by: Chris | October 04, 2005 at 06:32 PM
Problems? According to Google, nobody clicks on my adsense ads. I don't know what to do to get someone to click. It amazes me at how ineffective this is as a revenue source.
RGH
www.rghsblog.blogspot.com
Posted by: RGH | October 06, 2005 at 11:58 PM
It happened to me as well. They *still* won't tell me why it happened.
Incidentally, I switched to chitika.com.
Posted by: rx400 | October 07, 2005 at 07:34 PM
to be honest i have not earned a dime from it and am at a bit of a loss to see what the fuss is about how good it is supposed to be. im tempted to bin it.
Posted by: The Guvnor | October 10, 2005 at 07:42 AM
they didnt click on mine as well. and until now i did not earn a single cent so far as i started it :(
Posted by: sk | October 10, 2005 at 10:04 PM
I better be careful what I say, since I have gmail and a blogspot.... what the heck....
Yeah I got stiffed by adsense..... but then wotcha gonna do?
I mean for all the talk google is just another rip-off corporation.
I'm more annoyed that I allowed them temporarily to spam my site.
And I console myself with the thought that I aint ever going to buy anything from anyone that advertises with them. Plus I no longer have my blogs cluttered up by this bunch of schiesters....
Posted by: jeremy | October 10, 2005 at 10:38 PM
I am glad I read this before doing it.
Posted by: shyloh | October 11, 2005 at 06:51 PM
Google shuting down your account and saying they are refunding the $$ to advertisers is just what they do when someone has violated their TOS.
It was probably your participation in googlepex that gotted you kicked out.
surf thru googlepex exchange and note how many pages are shown that have non-working adsense on the page (shows up as an area that says 'you are not allowed to view this...')... and you will get an idea as to how many peoples adsense accounts are getting shut down when they participate in the click exchange ... which is what it is.. not really a traffic exchange .. members are supposed to click on each others adsense ads.
you can still participate in the fraud but you have to change who you show ads for ... bidvertisor, clicksor, knoodle, and several others don't care if you use that system to defraud advertisors ... after all, they "get theirs".
Posted by: redhead | October 12, 2005 at 08:48 PM