AdSense Disabling Arbitrage Accounts by June 1st

May 21, 2007

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Have been reading a lot of bloggers, saying that they are excited about a “new” e-book that shows how you can earn money with Adsense Arbitrage. But it seems that Google Adsense will kill them all.

Adsense staff have been contacting some google adsense members:

They told me my account will be disabled at 1st June, and also added that I’ll receive payment for all outstanding earnings in accordance with the standard AdSense payment schedule.

For this day (17 May), does it mean that they will pay for April 1-30 earnings, or for May (1-18) also?

and here is another one:

I know of two associates who were doing arbitrage and yes they got the same email on the 15th…..their accounts will be disabled June 1st. These guys were sending adwords traffic to their landing pages. From what I saw their landing pages had good content but were a MFA site with two blocks of adsense code at the top and one at the bottom. No other external links on the page.

I think there must be some type of automation involved because several people last month got the axe as well all on the same day….but those accounts were canceld within 24 hours from what I understand…..not given a two week notice.

Perhaps they are finally looking at conversion rates for advertisers and kicking out sites based on data they collect….. or perhaps they are just looking at landing pages and saying “This page stinks” Two adsense blocks on top of each other ……

or perhaps if your CTR rate is very high…..above 30% you get canceled……

It does indeed look like they are doing something about arbitrage….

heyday

I to got the “friendly account disablement” email today, May 18. It came out of the blue. It says my business model is not a good fit for AdSense and that the account goes down on June 1. Payment will be made normally though. I am a UPS club+ size publisher.

I will be the first to admit that I have been running substantial arbitrage and MAF sites. They have just grown exponentially lately due to all the efficient AdWords tools. Yet, MAF and arbritage is not a breach of TOS in and of itself right?
I admit that they are not the greatest user experience out there. Yet I do believe they do comply with the specifics of the TOS, there are no blatant breaches. I run dozens of sites/domains with AdSense and I have been careful to abide with the specifics in the letters of the TOS.

I have now begun changing my business model to comply, what else to do? I am closing down anything I assume could be the trigger of this. I will scale down my efforts to a comply-safe fraction of the current system. I will then plead and beg the AdSense team to please reconsider.
I am also closing down my UPS club sized AdWords campaigns (someone must be missing this cash I assume).

Please AdSense team. Please give honest (at least non-breaching) webmasters a chance to straighten things up and stay in the program. I for one have gotten the message that a redo is needed, I urge for a fair chance to fix things. Thanks.

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