20 Tips to Avoid Being Banned From Adsense
By Josh Fuller on Aug 1, 2009 in Adsense, Google Adsense
Google Adsense is a wonderful way to monetize your site, however Google has zero tolerance for violation of their terms of service. I should know, I was banned from Google Adsense.
Shortly after 50 articles were published on my site www.billionairebythirty.com, I was getting a consistent two hundred visitors a day. I decided this was a good time to monetize my site and add advertisements to my pages. Since Google Adsense is the biggest and best, they were the logical choice.
The first day I added Adsense to www.billionairebythirty.com I made $1.04. Not a huge amount of money, but if you can make $1.00 with 200 daily visitors, you can make $10.00 with 2,000 daily visitors, $100.00 with 20,000 daily visitors, you get the picture. The process was exciting, the more articles published the more I made. My hard work was finally paying off, however it was short lived.
One of my clients, who I helped create his blog, called and asked if I would help him add Google Adsense to his blog. I showed him how step by step and he too started earning. He called me after a week with Adsense and was delighted to have made a whopping $0.75!
As a token of his gratitude for my help, he decided to click on a “few” of the Adsense ads on my site www.billionairebythirty.com. A “few” ads turned out to be 45. RED FLAG, RED FLAG, RED FLAG! A couple days later, I received an email from Google basically banning me for life and terminating my current account, which had just over $2,000 in it.
Here is the email Google sent:
Please learn from my experience any way you can. While life is not always fair, you can arm yourself with knowledge to even the playing field as much as possible. Here is a list of the top 20 tips to avoid being banned from Adsense.
1. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER click on your own ads. If you accidently click 1, not a big deal, but “accidently” clicking 20 is.
2. Don’t tell your friends and family members about your Adsense account. Keep it a secret. That way they won’t try to “help” you by clicking a couple hundred ads.
3. Watch your click through rate (CTR). While every industry is different, a CTR of 1-4% is average. If your CTR is 20%, your account is screaming “Click Fraud!”
4. Don’t be guilty of keyword stuffing or adding too many keywords to your site. Keywords are important, but an “excessive” amount will hurt you with Google.
5. Don’t create a site just to make money. It takes a lot of hard work to make earn with Adsense. If you are passionate about your site, then your income will reflect that.
6. Never label your ads “Click Here” or “Check This Out,” instead write “Advertisements” or “Sponsors.”
7. Once the Adsense code is created don’t change it. Copy and paste it directly to your site. Even the slightest change will cause problems.
8. Don’t get “Ad Happy.” You are not allowed to place more than 3 ad units, 3 ad links or 2 Adsense boxes on any page.
9. Never show your account information. Don’t show pictures of your checks, your CTR, CPM, etc.
10. Don’t have your Adsense ads open in a new page. Make sure they open in the same page.
11. Never send emails with Adsense code in it.
12. Don’t make the ad look too much like an ad. The more you can make an ad look like part of the content, the higher the click through rate (CRT).
13. Don’t have more ads than content. First have valuable content for the visitors, then add ads, not the other way around.
14. Don’t hide the ad elements. While we want our ads to blend well with our pages, we don’t want to make elements of the ad the exact same color as the background. Hiding relevant elements components isn’t allowed.
15. Avoid the use of click robots, which are used to inflate page views and clicks.
16. Don’t put too many fancy graphics on your site. This can distract visitors from your content and ads.
17. Avoid the “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine.” Google can tell if there are two (or more) IP addresses consistently clicking on each other’s ads.
18. Don’t log into your Adsense account from a shared computer. Google records every IP address used to access your account. If someone else looks at ads on your site from the computer you used to log into your Adsense account, Google will view this as click fraud.
19. Never log into your Adsense account from a work computer. Most companies use a proxy server, which have one IP address for all computers. If someone else looks at ads from any of the work computers, Google could view this as click fraud.
20. Monitor your Adsense account as much as possible. If there is fishy activity, email Google immediately and explain your concern. Once Google bans you, it’s a ban for life.
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2 Comment(s)
By Riley Lindsay on Aug 1, 2009 | Reply
This makes it money on a roulette table to play. The fourth one does pique my experience, so I click the picture. It is based on the probability that losing That way of times in every industry is not possible.
By Jon Jon on Sep 13, 2009 | Reply
What a shame. I had the same thing happen to me, Google can do whatever they want and they close people accounts who are making too much money. This is my first time on your site, you have a lot useful info, - Jon Jon