Nervous about AdSense account termination?

[weblaunch]

Hi,

I'm spending several hundred dollars a month to promote a few new sites with Adwords and am using AdSense revenues to offset the Adwords bill. After having read so many horror stories about people having their Adsense accounts unjustifiably terminated (e.g. due to inadvertent clicks), I must say that I am a bit apprehensive about having my AdSense account unjustly terminated as well.

I had made a few inadvertent clicks on my own sites by switching between windows while editing my webpages and had immediately emailed Google about the clicks, informing them of my IP and asking them to remove all credits generated from my IP. They thanked me for informing them and suggested a tool to avoid clicking on my own ads.

Google's Adsense site mentions a willingness to hear appeals from publishers who have had accounts terminated. However, I have not heard of anyone being able to have their account reinstated after getting terminated. So far, the Google AdSense team seems to be very responsive and courteous to my questions and concerns. But the anecdotes from terminated publishers offer a completely different picture of them.

[Polykranopalous]

well in my opinion I don't think you have anything to worry about, hell you emailed them and told them you had clicked the link and you do not want the clicks for it...that right there scores big points with them because if they made a note for future references they will know you are trustworthy, honest and not out just to screw them. Like if your getting that many clicks on those banners to worry about them terminating the account you are bringing in a lot of business to those links in which google succeeds with profit. If I were you I would not have any worries about it!

[Decker]

I'd love to get the link for the appeals part, as we had ours terminated with lose of revenue with no explaination at all. E-mailed them to be told about fraudulent clicks and asked for details so we could effectively find out what happened and again told nothing they can do to help.

It wasn't massive income but it actually helped us offer free hosting and some quite large free packages to those deserving as it covered it for us.

[RangerOfFire]

I'm worried because I only just found out that you have to be over 18 to use it!

I've already paid a check in a few days ago.

[Decker]

Right - quiet!!!!!

[RangerOfFire]

What does that mean?

[jiehao85]

Appeal? Just email them and they should get back to you in 2-3 days.

[Dan]

Well, I never had any issues with them. When I plan on doing things that would involve the scripts for the ads I tell them. They always get back to me within a couple hours and tell me yes or no. And they always thank me for contacting them about stuff like that.