Google adsense id has been hijacked
September 14, 2007
Stumble it!This can happen to anyone and there is no solution for google adsense publishers in preventing this issue. Let’s convert my mind to an evil one. I want my competitor adsense to be banned and he can’t make a cent from adsense. I add his adsense code into my page and start doing what google don’t like: Click many times per day, use autosurfs and pay per click programs to get traffic from there, etc.. After a few days my competitor adsense is banned and guess who is the winner?
This is not recommended just giving you what low-mind people do usually with other sites who is success in adsense. So the question now what to do if you are in this position?
- Google adsense added a new feature called: Allowed site feature which you can allow any of your domain name to display adsense. This is a MUST to prevent future issues like mentioned above.
- If you are in this situation already and did not get banned. Email google as soon as possible so you can prevent to be banned.
- Google should allow adsense publisher to check from where exactly the clicks are coming. For example yoursite.com/sss/ so like this publishers can know before getting an “Invalid clicks” emails and report it to google.
As an addon I would like to share this story of one of the members in webmasterworld: WallyWord
About a year ago I started receiving hundreds of clicks that my tracking software wasn’t showing coming from my websites. At first I was elated that someone had copied one or more of my pages to a high traffic URL. Then, the realization set in that this probably wasn’t legit clicks and I emailed Google explaining that I had this huge increase in clicks and my tracking software wasn’t indicating it was coming from any of my websites.
Google replied with a bunch of questions including what website URLs I controlled. They wouldn’t tell me what domain(s) other than those I controlled that any clicks where coming from. This went on for about 2 weeks and I emailed Google every day I noticed a large number of unaccounted for clicks. Eventually Google must have banned the offending domain. The extra income was also adjusted out of my account. I expressed concern that I could lose my account over this episode and Google reassured me that my account was still “in good standing”.
I guess the moral of the story is, if you suspect your ads have been copied and/or there may be invalid clicks, email Google early and often as long as it persists.
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September 14th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
This is good advise. But unfortunately, not many people as lucky as the person you mention above. I have a friend who have the same situation, but end of the day, still get ban so sometime it’s best to use a company to register a adsense account rather then personal account if you are serious about using adsense advertising business.
Anyway, googlelady, I notice you have a new theme design. I’m in the process to getting one too:) Too bad you no longer give out top commentator link love:(
September 14th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Hey blog expert,
I am in the process of top comentator. It seems that the plugin doesn’t work with this theme. Contacted the owner of the plugin and ask for some help let’s see when it will be done and re-added here.
September 14th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Hey blog expert, I have good news for you. I have playing around to make this thing works and figured out how to make this work. The problem was that this top commentators doesn’t work when you add the code with a widget version of the blog.