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A long time ago I tried using Google’s Adsense progam and for some unknown my account was cancelled. Google won’t tell me why. It’s their policy. Although Google has lost at least one lawsuit pertaining to Adsense account cancellations, they strictly follow it.
I attempted an appeal because I think I know why it was cancelled. I figured if that was the issue it was no fault of mine. Someone didn’t like my content so theymaliciously did something to my site that violates the Adsense ToS.
I must admit, I was rather disappointed when I got back a response to my appeal. Google again did not explain why but they responded back with a friendly Dear John letter stating that my one and only allowed appeal was denied.
Google’s Adsense is the best known program for revenue. People like ShoeMoney show pictures of themselves holding a six figure monthly payout from Google. Google’s Dear John letter means that no matter how hard I work at this, I can never ever be a ShoeMoney. I guess I could post a picture of me holding a print out of my Dear John email from Google, but that won’t pay my hosting or domain registration fees.
I’m not a fan of Adsense anyways. The links/ad units are an eye sore and they aren’t very practical. I myself have only clicked on maybe 6 Adsense ads (not mine of course). I’m sure most of you out there in internet land are the same. Maybe I’m wrong. I must be. How else would Adsense have grown so large if the model didn’t work. What have I done? WHY GOOGLE WHY!?
April 19th, 2009 at 8:40 am
I was kicked off adsense too. When I was learning affiliate advertising I fell for some satellite company’s lies. I signed up to hundreds of safe lists (my kids worked out before I did that everyone on the safelists was doing the same) and then I put some keywords into my template; I didn’t know anything in those days. When I tried to appeal (I thought it was because I was artificially generating views because I was a member of BlogExplosion and BlogMad) the form only held 500 characters and went off with only half of my explanation. Google are $30 richer because of me.
When I see the amount of adsense ads some people have on their blogs – google must be making a lot of money from cancelled accounts
April 19th, 2009 at 11:10 am
I only earned a whopping twenty or so dollars in like 8 months. I won’t even post what the person did to cause my site to have traffic in violation because there is pretty much nothing you can do about it once it happens and it requires no hacking of the site. I tried pulling my ads as soon as I noticed it but wasn’t fast enough.
As for google making barrels full of cash, they have to be. Something I read said that ShoeMoney was the 3rd highest earner on Adsense and he was pulling around 150,000 a month. Another site was making around a quarter of a million dollars a month. If Google can send you $3,000,000 a year for hosting their ads, I imagine they are keeping a nice chunk for themselves.