A Brush with Google Adsense

Just recently I received an email from Google Adsense. They informed me that there have been illegal clicks/impressions associated with my Adsense ID. Unfortunately, it is their policy not to give out any information on the source of the problem.

Like many of you, I welcome the little bit of earnings I can accumulate through Adsense ads in my blogs. I look forward to that day when I would actually reach payout and see some of those earnings. I would hate to lose this opportunity.

As I think about what, if anything, I am doing that could have caused this, there is one program that makes me stop and think. Webbizinsider is a program I recently started using. I think it is primarily a traffic exchange. When I look at other people's websites (ads) I earn credits which are used to get traffic to my blogs.

The Google email suggests it could be impressions and not clicks. Likewise the Adsense policy states that there can be no use of any automated system for viewing my ads. Makes me wonder if Webbizinsider is using some kind of automated system for this traffic exchange. It would make sense. I doubt they hire a 'clicking fool' like me to sit on the other end and look at my website.

This is the only program that is related to one of my blogsites. The pay-to-click, pay-to-read programs do not interface with my blogs.

Any ideas? Do you think I'm barking up the right tree? This program is definitely not worth risking my Adsense status.

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Thanks to Supermom in New York

Submitted by djbtol on Fri, 2007-06-22 06:17.

my suspicions about Webbizinsider have been confirmed.

She states more than once on her site:

DO NOT USE TRAFFIC EXCHANGES FOR YOUR BLOG/SITE IF IT IS MONETIZED WITH GOOGLE ADSENSE. GOOGLE WILL CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNT.

and Webbizinsider is a traffic exchange. I don't think they are worth keeping around.

To see the info on traffic exchanges, go to this link and look on the left for a link about increasing traffic.

http://www.freewebs.com/4wahms/

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I have adsense here and on many of my blogsites...

Submitted by huttriver12 on Fri, 2007-06-22 02:07.

but its slow earning unless you really get into it with adwords etc. Yes, you cant click your own ads. Webizinsider is one of my old traffic sites too. Rotator sites are not allowed, I believe.

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Thanks for the confirmation.

Submitted by djbtol on Fri, 2007-06-22 06:21.

Are there any 'traffic exchanges' that play well with Google Adsense?

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I have heard some problems

Submitted by arseniajoaquin on Thu, 2007-06-21 22:06.

I have heard some problems with adsense and the big problem there is that such problems they tell us are beyond our control so we cannot solve them. We don't know how to determine illegal clicks and the payout is $100 and perhaps before we reach payout, they may just say there are illegal clicks and so we do not deserve the payment or our accounts may be closed even without prior notice. I hope that this will not happen. Some are allegedly earning but some have that problem.

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Yes, I too

Submitted by djbtol on Fri, 2007-06-22 06:20.

have heard some concern about this. Obviously Google gains much if they can find one illegal click when you are at $99.00. Because we do not know all the ways a click and or impression can be perceived as illegal, we really have no way to prevent it.

Like a fool, until I get slapped down, I'll assume the best.

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