How To Get Absolutely Anyone Banned From Adsense

Use the same type of verification they do sitemaps/webmaster central for any domain before you start showing adsense ads, problem solved.

Right, but AdSense isn't tied to just one domain. Even if they didn't verify, but just allowed you to specify which domains you wanted to have your clicks counted on it would make it a non issue.

Thing is, since they won't give you any information about why you're banned, or have any sort of appeal process, you'll never know if someone did this to you.

neither is webmaster central you can submit as many domains as you want and you have to verify each of them individually before you get the stats. No verification, no adsense.

the click fraud issue, of course.

Sensationalist nonsense. Sure you can get an account into trouble, but that's not the same as claiming this works every time for anyone, no-questions-asked.

I have had Google emails asking about a domain, on an AdSense account with multiple domains and fairly dynamic placement. No sitemaps or other "verification" in place, and whois data in need of adjustment. They warned of problems, yes, but they threatened the domain and not the account. When I pursued it further, they looked into it, and banned the domain from the account because it wasn't mine.

ANY company can "fire" it's customers if they get too costly, for whatever reason. In my experience Best Buy does this to people wo do nothing worse than "shop wisely". They don't need my business.

Try getting a life insurance policy if your a public figure with a ton of vocal haters after your kneck. Maybe you did nothing wrong, but nobody will do business with you unless the premium is good enough.

...I guess it had to be discussed.

I think they should use a hash of the publisher ID combined with a few other items (of their choosing) but could include:

- Date/time of ad being shown (as logged in their database)
- URL where ad was shown
- Client side item maybe

Or something thereabouts. Then it would be quite difficult to manufacture and pull this trick.

SB

...you should be able to discuss with the AdSense folks which site and/or URL got you banned and then show you were framed but then the AdSense folks would just require you to prove that it wasn't your site/URL!! Not worth the hassle to them unless, maybe, you were a great earner.

SB

There is no reason that you can't put up a system that has Google verify a domain before ads can be legitimately shown on them. Not only would it protect the publisher, but advertisers from being shown on bad sites. The fact they don't have anything like this in place shows that they have little regard for click fraud and their advertisers.

Even if you don't verify each domain on Google's end, putting something in the publishers account where they have to list their domains would be fine. Heck, you can make it optional if you want. It's just ridiculous that after all this time there isn't something to protect publishers and advertisers. Goes to show who they are looking out for.

...that my account hasn't been banned yet (given the recent banning spree), but then again it only has 24 bux in it so I guess it's not worth it :rolleyes:*

* yeah I know that TW doesn't do smilies

... to check what sites are using the same Adsense publisher ID?

That would be one line of defense against some of the problems mentioned but if there's a way to search for that I can't figure it out.