According to Shaun, he has able to get is account activated by simply sending a appeal to the AdSense team. In his case his site had decent content rich site and he did not make any invalid clicks intentionally.
What can we learn from this? How can we keep our AdSense Account safe? Most of you even I am having this problem. How to protect our AdSense account from invalid clicks done by other to make your account banned.
1. Always stick to and keep on updating with Google AdSense TOS.
2. If you notice any sort of funny activities take necessary actions to correct it.
- If you notice you are getting invalid click best option is to report it to Google AdSense.
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=invalid_clicks_contact - If you come cross any layout oriented violations correct it before it is too late.
In any case if your account get banned it is worth keep on appealing for it and get it back. Sometimes you might have to talk to couple of people. More than anything it is really important that you are not trying to cheat their system. In any case your account got banned you can activate it again.
I appealed several times to them and they still would not reactivate my acct.
ReplyDeleteIt's been years, I've learned more about how the online stuff works and what not to click (even when it's of interest)
Plus not letting some people see the ads is better than allowing everyone to see them. It keeps newbies from clicking on things and messing up accts.
But still I'm not able to use my Adsense - so I'm going to Facebook instead.