For the last 6 months i started to make a decent 300-400 euros a month from adsense all from organic traffic to a few of my microniche sites.
All was good and always got paid until today when i received the damn email "Hello,

After reviewing our records, we've determined that your AdSense account
poses a risk of generating invalid activity."
ok , but why do they paid me for the 6 months and now they banned me .

I'm really fucked , this was my only revenue

All the sites i own have unique content on them and they all all ranked on 1st page so the traffic was coming from google.

The CTR was a bit high like 30 % in some days but not over 40 % , i was thinking that the traffic converts for the advertiser thats why they agree with such big CTR.

Anyways now i have to take it back from 0 again .

To be honest this really blown me , second time when i get fucked like this working in IM .


And for those of you who think that if you are doing whitehat stuff with adsense you'll be allright , think again !

That sucks. Were you using any special adsense theme on your sites?

Originally Posted by pokerjk

That sucks. Were you using any special adsense theme on your sites?

CTR theme

Originally Posted by Razvan

For the last 6 months i started to make a decent 300-400 euros a month from adsense all from organic traffic to a few of my microniche sites.
All was good and always got paid until today when i received the damn email "Hello,

After reviewing our records, we've determined that your AdSense account
poses a risk of generating invalid activity."
ok , but why do they paid me for the 6 months and now they banned me .

I'm really fucked , this was my only revenue

All the sites i own have unique content on them and they all all ranked on 1st page so the traffic was coming from google.

The CTR was a bit high like 30 % in some days but not over 40 % , i was thinking that the traffic converts for the advertiser thats why they agree with such big CTR.

Anyways now i have to take it back from 0 again .

To be honest this really blown me , second time when i get fucked like this working in IM .


And for those of you who think that if you are doing whitehat stuff with adsense you'll be allright , think again !

Okay well replace your adsense with an alternative. There should be no reason that you are screwed after adsense bans you.

Think out of the box bro and you will most likely produce an even better income than before.

Originally Posted by dankerman666

Okay well replace your adsense with an alternative. There should be no reason that you are screwed after adsense bans you.

Think out of the box bro and you will most likely produce an even better income than before.

thanks man , i really appreciate your kind words!

Here's a adsense alternative thread

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackha...ernatives.html

don't they send a warning first? Fuck Google. I'm really sick of these retarded Scumbags.

Originally Posted by Razvan

CTR theme

Beginning to think its best to not use CTR theme anymore. I don't think Google like it, as it's against there terms to influence people to click on your ads which is what CTR theme does.

In future I would suggest using a theme not sold on the blackhat market. Yes it produces sick CTR but ultimately Google will ban you if you start earning a lot and have really high CTR.

My adsense acc was disable today too! I still have nearly $900 in my account that is expected to receive soon! I don't do any fraud clicks. My blogs have contents from yahoo answers and i suppose that may be the reason for banning.
It is very strange that when I was making nearly 3k a month with adsene and I don't get banned, now I'm only making few hundreds /month after the Panda and G banned me!
2 days ago, my hosting acc in Hostgator got temporaly disable due to high consuming resoure and they told me to put this text: "Crawl-delay: 20" in the robot.txt
Do you think putting this text in the robot.txt may lead to my adsense acc disable?

Thanks.


Can anyboy give me some advices to do now? Should I appeal Google to get my acc back or should I apply for a new acc?
Thanks.

Originally Posted by pokerjk

Beginning to think its best to not use CTR theme anymore. I don't think Google like it, as it's against there terms to influence people to click on your ads which is what CTR theme does.

In future I would suggest using a theme not sold on the blackhat market. Yes it produces sick CTR but ultimately Google will ban you if you start earning a lot and have really high CTR.

oops one of the sites have CTR theme installed.... so do you think, I should replace with another theme? Any other alternative?

Originally Posted by habanerolex

don't they send a warning first? Fuck Google. I'm really sick of these retarded Scumbags.

no warning , just simple ban !

Originally Posted by Razvan

The CTR was a bit high like 30 % in some days but not over 40 % , i was thinking that the traffic converts for the advertiser thats why they agree with such big CTR.

Wow, that's high. Maybe that is what trigger a manual review.

Originally Posted by Razvan

no warning , just simple ban !

You ever clicked on your ads?

Originally Posted by raghav

oops one of the sites have CTR theme installed.... so do you think, I should replace with another theme? Any other alternative?

IMO yes. I have had bad experience with CTR theme and I know others have as well.

Best choice is to use a normal standard theme and add adsense to the top and bottom of your post with easy adsense plugin.

Originally Posted by hotpassion

My adsense acc was disable today too! I still have nearly $900 in my account that is expected to receive soon! I don't do any fraud clicks. My blogs have contents from yahoo answers and i suppose that may be the reason for banning.
It is very strange that when I was making nearly 3k a month with adsene and I don't get banned, now I'm only making few hundreds /month after the Panda and G banned me!
2 days ago, my hosting acc in Hostgator got temporaly disable due to high consuming resoure and they told me to put this text: "Crawl-delay: 20" in the robot.txt
Do you think putting this text in the robot.txt may lead to my adsense acc disable?

Thanks.


Can anyboy give me some advices to do now? Should I appeal Google to get my acc back or should I apply for a new acc?
Thanks.

I'm really sorry you got the ban hammer too buddy , its a fucking pain in the chest right now but this is the life , get up and keep going.
I filled an appeal too but im 90 % sure i wont get my account back , anyways time to start working on CPA now, i had it with adsense...

Welcome to the club

Originally Posted by Reelnetwork

You ever clicked on your ads?

nope , all the traffic is from google , bing and yahoo as i rank high

CTR 30 is verry big and whats why google baned you.

Originally Posted by Razvan

no warning , just simple ban !

Google nevers warns you it just bans you straightaway...

If you use CTR Theme, make sure the above the fold ads is not more than the contents. And I think it's good to not use the "road block" ad units... I mean the two 336x280 side-by-side above the fold that would push down the contents further down below leaving almost all ads shown above the fold.

Code:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=26fd0852b42c7390&hl=en

My adsense account got banned today as well for the same reason the OP gave. All my traffic is 100% organic and my site is one you will consider as fully white hat. Not a MNS. Have had it for about 7 years now. Never involved it in any illegal or invalid clicking activity.

I was waiting to be paid about $2000 in two weeks. This is my only source of revenue also. Now I'm totally broken and don't know what to do. Funny thing is I got banned just a day after posting here on some other thread that if you do nothing wrong, your account will not be banned. How can google just screw people over like this?

i know, i was banned to some months ago and for me was money sorce, but this is life.. i try tu find alternatives, but adsense is adsense, you cannot convert a website maded for adsense to other... i understant you.... but this is not the end...
just change template and submit to adsense under other domain (you must to have a lot)
i'm sure you was banned just for one site, not for entire network. look on "dangerous"site an modify it. After accepting, put again adsense and this it.
make another account with your name but different phone number and adress (parents friends, family members, to can receive adress confirmation,
succes. - da-i bataie!

There are alternatives to adsense but adsense is really hard nut to crack.

Really bad man... 30% is extremely high CTR... you can try to open an account for someone of your famili and change this theme...

Originally Posted by pokerjk

That sucks. Were you using any special adsense theme on your sites?

No, it doesn't. Having a ctr of 30% is like "please ban me google".

Originally Posted by mrobeng

My adsense account got banned today as well for the same reason the OP gave. All my traffic is 100% organic and my site is one you will consider as fully white hat. Not a MNS. Have had it for about 7 years now. Never involved it in any illegal or invalid clicking activity.

I was waiting to be paid about $2000 in two weeks. This is my only source of revenue also. Now I'm totally broken and don't know what to do. Funny thing is I got banned just a day after posting here on some other thread that if you do nothing wrong, your account will not be banned. How can google just screw people over like this?

We are in the same boat, mate! I'm very sorry to hear G disabled your acc, too. I have been receiving money from G for nearly 5 years now when G suddently banned my account today. Let's get up and try every things from begining. Life doesn't end up here, mate! There are still other options for us: affiliate marketing, CPA, website flliping,...

I suppose as long as we know how to create a website/blog that attracts much traffics, we will still earn a good income online.

Goood luck,

Same here, I got my adsense account disabled today too. 400 euro finalized earnings for last month disappeared. Traffic was organic, site wasn't micro niche, it was user friendly. No click bomb attacks, no invalid clicks, but account got banned.

Hello guys..
Just read this thread and i am sorry for the OP.

I ve been started some micro niches (ten) recently, hoping to get a small amount of extra income every month and until now it goes ok!

I am using CTR theme on every niche, ive changed the theme folder name in order to avoid being on a list that will give google the reason to ban me directly, but i dont thing G. is stupid.. They review manually all websites so they can easily ban me..

I ve got unique content written by writers in every niche, but not too much content.

Am i supposed to change the CTR theme?

I really dont understand why google will ban its publisers like that. They earn money from us ....

Originally Posted by punkstar69

Hello guys..
Just read this thread and i am sorry for the OP.

I ve been started some micro niches (ten) recently, hoping to get a small amount of extra income every month and until now it goes ok!

I am using CTR theme on every niche, ive changed the theme folder name in order to avoid being on a list that will give google the reason to ban me directly, but i dont thing G. is stupid.. They review manually all websites so they can easily ban me..

I ve got unique content written by writers in every niche, but not too much content.

Am i supposed to change the CTR theme?

I really don't know mate .
Maybe in some day a google employee is constipated and angry and his gonna bann you account just for that... just sayn , don't rely only on adsense.

as for the guys who got their accounts banned today , im very sorry , it was 13 january , a date with bad luck for all of us

Originally Posted by Razvan

I really don't know mate .
Maybe in some day a google employee is constipated and angry and his gonna bann you account just for that... just sayn , don't rely only on adsense.

as for the guys who got their accounts banned today , im very sorry , it was 13 january , a date with bad luck for all of us

How can a professional company like big G. acts like that?
I feel pissed about that and i dont even still got banned

Razvan, stai linistit

There are numerous other sites doing exactly the same thing as what adsense does, find 'em and replace the codes. The payment (profit) might be slightly different, but that doesn't mean you still can't bank anymore.

The CTR was a bit high like 30 % in some days but not over 40 % , i was thinking that the traffic converts for the advertiser thats why they agree with such big CTR.

lol. Anything above 5% is a red flag to google.

Originally Posted by Madruga

Razvan, stai linistit

There are numerous other sites doing exactly the same thing as what adsense does, find 'em and replace the codes. The payment (profit) might be slightly different, but that doesn't mean you still can't bank anymore.

ms fratica

i hope i will recover soon ,
thanks guys for the support !

Nothing is safe with adsense. There is too much pressure knowing one morning you wake up and get THE e-mail. And there are no good alternatives to adsense - they pay the most. But in the long term it is not worth it. Moving to CPA maybe ?

OMG! I am using CTR themes for my adsense sites is this reflects that same as you encountered?

Originally Posted by nanexo

OMG! I am using CTR themes for my adsense sites is this reflects that same as you encountered?

Maybe not, just disable the roadblock units(the 2 336x280 side-by-side) which pushes contents down and leaving only almost all ads above the fold. Adsense don't like that.

Originally Posted by ezines

Maybe not, just disable the roadblock units(the 2 336x280 side-by-side) which pushes contents down and leaving only almost all ads above the fold. Adsense don't like that.

Are you sure about that? I push content down by using my own images of 336x280, not ads. But i use those side by side 336 ads within the content by wrapping the content right and left. Does this looks the same bad to G. eyes?

Your best alternative for Adsense is Flippa. If you've found away to build sites quickly, get them ranking and earning money then start flipping them. Throw any ad network on it to show it generates an income, or even CPA offers then after a couple of months earning money, flip them.

Your other alternative is what for a couple of months, change the registration on the websites to someone else and then reopen a new Adsense with the help of a family member. Then you'll be good to go again.

Oh and just real quick.....CTR theme will get you banned. Your not the first nor will you be the last person whose been stung using this theme.

If I was you, I'd try CPA Offers on sites where you can. The CTR's might be lower but even a few sales a month can get you a better income than adsense. Then get a new adsense account and try not linking it with your old account.

Were your microniche sites laid out like this?
TITLE
AD
CONTENT

And content was below the fold?

Originally Posted by punkstar69

Are you sure about that? I push content down by using my own images of 336x280, not ads. But i use those side by side 336 ads within the content by wrapping the content right and left. Does this looks the same bad to G. eyes?

Google said that ads should not be more than the unique contents above the fold. It's kind confusing, have a look at the link below;

Code:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=26fd0852b42c7390&hl=en

Originally Posted by Corrupt

If I was you, I'd try CPA Offers on sites where you can. The CTR's might be lower but even a few sales a month can get you a better income than adsense. Then get a new adsense account and try not linking it with your old account.

Were your microniche sites laid out like this?
TITLE
AD
CONTENT

And content was below the fold?

yep,

title

adsense link units

content

and 2 : 336 x 280 ads

I had an account banned the other day that wasn't being clickjacked. Only had traffic from facebook. Look at your stats see if you had same IPS coming in and clicking alot. i think thats what my problem was some ass from UK came in and clicked 8 times over a couple days.

funny as all my cjing accounts are fine lol

Originally Posted by Razvan

yep,

title

adsense link units

content

and 2 : 336 x 280 ads

There's the reason for your ban. The content needs to be above the adsense units.
It should be like:
Title
4-5 lines of content
AD
Rest of content.

It was being discussed here about a month back, search through my old posts. The thread was titled "New Adsense safe layout" or something similar

I guess Google calcualtes its own value per publisher and if you surpass it, it bans you