It seems a lost battle

January 17th, 2007 by gaurav | Filed under , , , .

The title of post might seem depressing to you but that is what I currently feel. I had appealed against closing of adsense account and within 24 hours I got a reply from Google Adsense Team :

After receiving your response, we re-reviewed your account data thoroughly. We have reconfirmed that invalid clicks were generated on the ads on your site in violation of our Terms and Conditions and program policies.

While searching on net I found few links where few people have got their accounts enabled after putting a second appeal. Though not guilty but convicted by Google for no fault of mine is little disturbing. I wrote back to them and appealing against the closure of my account and stating :

I had noticed on 29th December 2006 that my there was a sudden increase in my earnings and clicks and it was not matching with the sum of all my channels earnings & clicks. I got suspicion that someone is doing something wrong and I immediately wrote to Adsense Team and got a reply with subject Re: [#97566290] Earning with AdSense that my data is being recorded accurately.

If you go through my records you will find that prior to 28th Dec. 2006 or so, the total of my channel earnings always matched up with my total earnings on each day and since the time I notified you and the day my adsense was disabled my total earnings was always greater than channel earnings. I reckon that some one has played a trick and try to put my adsense code onto some other website and started clicking the ads from thereon. If you check the records I am sure you would find that the clicks were generated from some other website and not from my sites.

I have never encouraged anyone to click on ads nor I have clicked ever on my ads to generate illegal revenue. I have worked very hard over a period of time to generate whatever revenue that I have been able to generate.

I have read about similar cases on web about Adsense accounts getting disabled and it seems like trying to build income from Adsense is very unsafe bet - since anyone can go to any website that features Google ads and start clicking on ads non-stop for a few hours and will have their AdSense account disbaled. So any malicious user can make bring someone’s source of legitimate revenue down. Can you please let me know how one can deal with such issue? Do you have any tips on how to avoid such cases happen in the future? As far as I can see, there is nothing a publisher can do about protecting themselves from this evil. Can you?

Please help me to prove my innocence - let me know if I can assist with providing you with information, logs or whatever you ask for.

I am not at all interested in the amount of money that was earned via the illegal activity /clicks of some individual, you can deduct whatever amount you find was done through that way and please consider my appeal for enabling adsense account.

Thank you for your consideration.

Two days have passed since I sent an email to adsense-adclicks-appeal@google.com but I have got no response from them. I have tried my best to convince them but I guess to take care of click fraud, Google will sometime make mistake of banning/penalising innocent people. I know one can’t fight Google and can’t enforce anything on them as they have kind of become next to God on web.

At the moment it seems that I may have lost this battle but War is still on to keep my sites up and running and survive without Adsense.

2 Responses to “It seems a lost battle”

  1. Hari | 18/03/07

    Hi Gaurav
    If you are pretty sure that you are still receiving legal traffic, then i suggest you can apply for Konter Content Links. If your traffic is less than 50,000 page views per month then you can join only thru http://www.joelcomm.com/breaking_news_for_all_site_pub.html remember i am not promoting anything to you, i just wanted to help you because joining Adsense again is an impossible task.
    Regards
    Hari

  2. srmv | 21/03/07

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