Google Adsense Account Disabled, How to get it reinstalled.
Google Adsense Account Disabled:
I logged in my Google Adsense Account this morning just to find that it is disabled. The reason cited by Google is “Invalid Activity”. Below is the letter from Adsense,
Hello,
After reviewing our records, we’ve determined that your AdSense account
poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a
responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due
to invalid activity, we’ve found it necessary to disable your AdSense
account. Your outstanding balance and Google’s share of the revenue will
both be fully refunded back to the affected advertisers.Please understand that we need to take such steps to maintain the
effectiveness of Google’s advertising system, particularly the
advertiser-publisher relationship. We understand the inconvenience that
this may cause you, and we thank you in advance for your understanding and
cooperation.If you have any questions or concerns about the actions we’ve taken, how
you can appeal this decision, or invalid activity in general, you can find
more information by visitinghttp://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
Roaming through famous forums such as Digiatal Forum or Google Adsense help forum, such messages are everywhere. It seems Google use the machine to send the emails to Adsense account holders with predefined codes for each types of violations.
It is really a headache situation for any blogger or publisher as named by Google. Not only loosing the money, bloggers who are ousted by Google have no chance to reapply for the program.
How to appeal?
Following the link provided, I filled in 32 fields in the Invalid Activity Appeal Form. It is a lengthy form with a lot of details you have to provide. There is no guarantee, however, I do hope to receive their final judgement in a few days to come.
Traffic Quality:
Personally, I believe I did not do anything wrong. I terms of traffic quality, I do not participate in any traffic exchanges or paid for traffic program. Over the last 30 days, I have a decent numbers of visits. What is more, 72% of the visits are from search engines.
Over the last 30 days, I have 73 thousands visits, 72% from SE
Possible Reasons:
Reasons for Your Google Adsense Account got Disabled for invalid activities? Quite a few;
- You click on your own ads (this I never do in whichever circumstances);
- Your friends click on your ad (maybe, but not in this case, I believe);
- Your rivals click on your ads to get your account banned (this is quite possible but not in my case);
- You are reported by a Internet surfer for violations of TOU (maybe).
- You are reported by an Adword advertiser (this is the most possible theory in my case since my CTR is extremely low and I am trying to optimize to get more clicks).
More details will be updated when I receive the reply from Adsense.
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