Icy Phoenix

Hi all,
I have a great news for you... I have been banned from AdSense project, so no more Google Ads on this site.

The reason? Well... I would like to know it as well. They have just said that my site "could damage publishers"... nothing more.

I tried also to appeal, but they just copied and pasted again the same email... my site "could damage publishers"!

I guess the real reason is that this month I doubled the revenues (because of the new release of Icy Phoenix and because of the extra traffic due to phpbb3 themes I released) and they just don't want to pay that. No matter if I didn't click the banners...


I guess that if you hate someone and he is having AdSense you can just visit his site and start to click on his banner, so you will get him banned...


I'm really sad for what happened and now I have to look for an alternative way to earn something to keep the whole thing up. I didn't earn too much (less than 400 euros last year), but at least enough to repay all expenses for the domains I own and related to this project.


Anyway... life goes on... I will find an alternative way, hopefully something not invasive, because I don't like too many ads... :sad:


EDIT
I want to stress that I'm not writing this because I need money... I don't want you to make donations because of this. I just want you to know what happened, maybe this can be useful for some of you and you can avoid being banned... Anyway I will go further into this with extra actions and I let you know...

I have read a lot of other sites, which passes the same. :evil:

the same thing happened to me... when the time of billing was near, account closed :S

I'm sad to hear this :(
I've also been banned from AdSense nearly 2 years ago and 2 months ago I obtained readmission... I hope they don't ban me anymore... :roll:

Mighty Gorgon wrote: [View Post]

I guess that if you hate someone and he is having AdSense you can just visit his site and start to click on his banner, so you will get him banned...

Yes. Maybe that's what happened to me two years ago... I got banned because of invalid clicks or something like that. Very strange because I wouldn't ever mess up with Google -.-

Anyway, don't waste your time getting angry, this happened to a lot of people appearently with no reason at all.

I knew I was not that AdSense very good thing...
Good, are plus sites such. Here are several, but are in Spanish: http://tuarroba.com/index.php?id=ganar_dinero
And the same page translated into English: http://translate.google.com/transla...n&hl=es&ie=UTF8

I'm on the same situation of Buldo... I was banned too 2 years ago for invalid clicks and I lost about 100$. Now I'm there again. Don't waste your time to try to contact the staff.... they answer only by automatic reply.

andrea75 wrote: [View Post]

I'm on the same situation of Buldo... I was banned too 2 years ago for invalid clicks and I lost about 100$. Now I'm there again. Don't waste your time to try to contact the staff.... they answer only by automatic reply.

Yes, I'was banned too some months ago because of supossedly invalid clicks and try to talk to them is like try to talk to a wall.

Andrea75 and Buldo:
how did you know that you were not banned anymore? Did they emailed you?

Some alternatives to the AdSense dictatorship:
Oxado
ValueClick Media
ADSDAQ
AdEngage
AdBrite

hal9000 wrote: [View Post]

how did you know that you were not banned anymore? Did they emailed you?

:LOL: :LOL:

No... Simply I've tried to subscribe again but they refused my subscription, then I've created another AdSense account and I've explained my point of view about previous ban reasons, after 2 weeks they have activated my new account.

I don't want to think that "invalid clicks" or "could damage publishers" expressions are just the simpler way to get money from their customers and don't pay the publishers... :roll:

To me the same thing happened Luca, reason: automatic generator clicks :shock:
Incredible and false!!! :twisted:

Test one month this Luca:
http://www.iw-advertising.com/

Greest

You know, perhaps this is all my fault for actually taking an interest in some of the adverts and clicking on them :oops:

- They must be so surprised that anybody paid attention to the adverts, that they thought I was a bot!!

This was one site which was advertised and made me have a peak: http://www.eibs.co.uk/clients/
I was drawn to it because it said "easysite" which I had already considered as a good name for a future phpbb3 based cms project...
As you can see from the link - they like to boast high-flying contracts with government, NHS etc, yet they can't stop a rogue "if" appearing on that page ;)

I got banned from adsense just a week ago. No particular reason either. All they said is that my "account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers". No reply from them yet on my appeal, but I'm guessing that I'll end up the way 90% of the appeals get answered.

usually, that's how they cut their budget and put more in their pockets. MG no worries, you have a whole group here supporting you. Just let me know.

Also I already had my way to the sum of 180 dollars and put me on the blacklist lost everything.

But I play to begin again. :mrviolet:

Thanks all.

I'm now testing some of the links you provided... I have created a simple block for random ads rotating and I'm testing it as well.

I think diversification is the best solution for me. I will get less money and less frequently... but I guess I cannot be banned from all networks. :mricy:

I will keep you updated when I have tested new services.