Google AdSense… What a Rip Off!
Did you read all those the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions? Are you aware that your AdSense account can be shut down at any given moment without notice? Are you aware that if your Google AdSense account gets disabled all the money you have earned over the past month will be forfeited?
This happened to a friend and it shocked me, actually freaked me out. I blogged about this incident on Friday when it happened, see the post Repercussions of Google AdSense Banning here. It’s pretty sad that publishers are not given a chance to dispute the accusations and all the money their sites generated in clicks from Google ads for that month is gone, Google just keeps it. How fair is that? What a RIP OFF!
I had no idea this was the case did you? Double check that your complying with those Terms and Conditions here: https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms
This has always been Google’s policy in regards to Adsense. I am surprised it took you this long to figure it out. Its unfair but what can we do. Google rules the world - either play by their rules or dont play at all.
“Do no evil” - Google
The problem is that I do not know what rules were broken.
Thanks for the comment Shamim.
I knew your account would be shut down, but I didnt realize publishers would not get notice to dispute the accusations and I didn’t realize the money you are owed for that month is never paid.
Well you are using their system. They built the infrastructure to do it, made it easy to setup. Play by the rules and you don’t get kicked out. I think this is simple enough; if you follow all of the rules then you won’t get booted for anything, why should you need to get notice if you haven’t broken any rules?
Leafy, are you missing the point that I did not intentionally break any rules? To my knowledge I have done nothing wrong to deserve being shut down.
Regardless, I should be notified of what they think I have done wrong.
I’m not a fan of Google Adsense at all. I’ve been using them for a couple months now, and I’ve I’ve made is $1.58. You can make more from Smorty.com. I don’t know what I’d do without Blogads.
I developed an iPhone game, posted it on apple.com’s webapps page, and soon it was the number 2 most popular game and stayed in the top 10 for a few weeks. My bandwidth went through the roof. I was happy about that, so I threw some Adsense code at the bottom of it to cover those costs and make a buck or two. In 4 short weeks, I had racked up over $350 and was about to receive my first payment of $183 when I got “the letter” from google. I never got a dime. I appealed, stating that my game was very popular and that I was not playing foul.
Too bad, said google. And F**k You, we’re not ever letting you use our adsense program again. (This seems to be pretty common)
But I read their terms. And I didn’t click my own ads. And I didn’t write a bot or use bots to click the ads. I just wanted some of the American Pie like everyone else. But when I got it, I google at the pie for me. F**kers.
I am 43 years old, married, and a mom. I have been working on several
blogs for the last 7 months and had adsense on each one. After 7
MONTHS OF DEDICATION and HARD WORK, I had finally reached the 100 $
mark and was due to get my first check from adsense. Low and behold ,
I look in my email and I had a letter from adsense saying I was
disabled for invalid click activity. I WILL STATE HERE CLEARLY THAT I
DID NOTHING TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN! A person would have to be almost nuts
to work at something for 7 MONTHS to earn 100 dollars anyhow but I
did, work that is. I promoted my blogs through a chat program that I
hang in by just taking people there myself to show it to them. People
from all over the world were visiting and commenting on my blogs. It
wasn’t easy and like i said it took 7 MONTHS to get to just the 100
dollar point. I have filled out and submitted the form for adsense to
reconsider me but 8 DAYS after being shut out and submitting forms , I
still haven’t recieved anything back from them. It seems to me that
Adsense got an awful lot of time and energy and HARD WORK from me all
for nothing. If Adsense doesn’t re-enstate my account and pay me, THIS
IS A TOTAL SCAM AND RIPOFF !! And Yes, I have read the rules and sure
enough they have it all written out legal and everything that they can
cut you off for any reason they choose - AGAIN, I DID NOTHING WRONG SO
IF THEY DONT PAY , THIS IS JUST AN ABSOLUTE SCAM !
********** THEY NEVER PAID AND ALL I GOT WAS A FORM LETTER SAYING THAT I’D NEVER BE PAID ****************
Same thing happened to me. I was making big money with Adesnes. $1000s I have very busy sites. Bent over backwards to obey their terms. Believe me I did not want to blow it. Then I got the email. They said there was click fraud on my account and shut it down and kept about 4 grand.
I have no idea why it was shut down. I NEVER clicked my own links. If they would have even have given me a hint to what the problem was I would jumped to correct it. The bottom line is that a webmaster working in good faith can be cut off without warning and without recourse. And on top of that they keep all the money for the previous month. It is good paying program but the message is that you cannot rely on them. Use them if you want but my suggestion is to only have them be a small part of your income. They are simply not serious about working with real webmasters. You are not safe obeying all their rules. If you do nothing wrong you DO have something to worry about with Adsense. Very arrogant and dishonest. Too bad. I would not be surprised that the income they receive by not paying for legitimate clicks is part of their financial planning.