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Google Adsense - Don't Lose Your Account

Written by: Hamish Hayward

Article Overview: Every day webmasters and bloggers lose their Google Adsense accounts because of an unwitting infraction. Don't become one of them.

Google Adsense - Don't Lose Your Account

Adsense is great - yeah? Thanks to our chums at Google, lots of bloggers and webmasters finally have the opportunity to earn real money online. There's nothing spammy or scammy involved, you just host ads on your site or blog and get paid whenever someone clicks on them.

However, it seems that everytime you visit a forum where Adsense is discussed, there is nearly always someone posting that they lost their Google Adsense account - and the opportunity to earn money online - for no good reason.

No doubt about it - Google can seem a bit high handed at times - and I'm sure a lot of people have had their accounts terminated who have not, knowingly at least, violated Googles terms and conditions.

By the way, if you haven't read through Google's Terms and Conditions then you should definitely do this as soon as you can.

There are some parts where you may feel the need to enlist the help of a lawyer, or possibly a team of lawyers, but you never know, it might stop you getting your account terminated due to some accidental infraction on your part. Like the majority of legal systems, Google operates on the principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse.

One of the most common breach of Google's Ts & Cs, which can be seen almost every day, is people who are advertising their blogs or sites on traffic exchanges. This is a big no-no for Google - it comes under the category of encouraging a third party to generate invalid impressions.

Note that there is no necessity for any clicks to be generated by this method. The very act of putting your site, with Adsense code, into rotation on a traffic exchange is enough to get you banned.

So, if you are one of the many webmasters or bloggers who are using exchanges to drive traffic to your site then either stop it now, or remove the Adsense ads from the page you are advertising. Otherwise you run the risk of losing your Adsense account.

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Adsense question...Evan? Anybody? - Many people contribute to my various webzines because I promise them renumeration in the form of revenue from anyone who clicks on the Google Adsense ads on the pages where their articles appear. I've been doing this by creating a separate channel for each contributor, so I can keep track of each person's income, and it works fine. What I'd like to do for a new project, however, is have my contributors give me the code for [i:2vwhwtl0]their [/i:2vwhwtl0]Google Adsense account, so that when they check their account, the clicks show up there and the money goes immediately into their account. This way they *know* what they're getting, and don't have to take me on trust. And it also saves time, moneywise, of course, since they get it right away instead of waiting for me to disburse it every 3 months or so. So my question is, would it violate Google Adsense guidelines for me to have other people's AdSense codes on my site? Evan, I know you've done something like this, where we get a *percentage* of any clicks on threads we started (and I've gotten a wee bit, by the way) ... did you work a special deal with Google or is it something they allow with no fuss? I hate reading small print, which is why I'm asking here instead of trying to read Google's TOS...
Re: Poll: Blogger or Wordpress Blog? - One of the advantages of having a blogger blog is a fast approval for adsense. If you want to start earning with Google Adsense open a new blog and add Adsense to it and get approved immediately.
Re: From $0.30 to $300 / Day on Google AdSense Part 1 - How To M - Evan, Do you find that you earn a higher CPM when you replace Google Adsense with 3rd party advertising? Or do you find that Google Adsense still provides more revenue? Do you have any advice for website owners (myself included) on what level of traffic a company needs to pull in to attract 3rd party advertisers? Also, have you had any success on selling your advertising space to 3rd party companies who handle the sales for you? Jeff
Re: From $0.30 to $300 / Day on Google AdSense Part 1 - How To M - Most of my traffic, around 80%, comes from Google for my niche site. The clicks are decent, but the EPC is terrible. I never started the site hoping to make it big with Adsense anyway. I promote various Clickbank products and CPA ads and have already made two sales through Clickbank. To me, that's a much better alternative rather than focusing purely on Adsense. I also picked up an advertiser for the site, just out of the blue. I'll make much more from selling ad space versus Adsense. It's a hot niche, but for some reason the Adsense ads just don't bring in much. Traffic is very good, so for anyone else that might be in a similar situation, I recommend finding targeted products you can sell through Clickbank or another affiliate network. Also try to find third party advertisers if possible.
Re: Search Engine Engineer Needed! - Hi dtmpower, I guess you can start with free option - Using Google Search. You can find it in your Google Adsense account. If you have the budget you can post on different forums and ask people for help.


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