Google Adsense, not for the entrepreneur
Posted: November 16th, 2009 | Author: Henrie Media Inc. | Filed under: Online Marketing | No Comments »
I have recently found out, from personal experience, that Google does not like the entrepreneur and they especially hate someone who follows proper development standards to use Adsense. Let me explain. Recently I applied for membership in Google’s Adsense and was approved. I was looking forward to making a few bucks each month from Adsense. I put up my links, checked everything to make sure it was working and then began to watch the stats. After the first three days I made a whopping $3.60! I was on my way … until it happened … I was suspended from Adsense.
Confused and very irritated, I read the email that Google sent telling me that I MAY have been suspended due to click fraud. What? Are you kidding me! Google aledges that I tried to create revenue by clicking on the links that displayed on my website. This was totally not true! In fact, there was no clicks from my website. The only thing I can figure is that they saw a lot of impressions from the same IP address. The reasons for all of the impressions was because we follow a simple rule of development, we test our code before and after deployment. With this testing, from the same IP address, Google MAY have decided that I was a threat to their system.
I tried to explain my situation to Google via their disabled account reinstatement form. They say they will contact you in the next 7 days about reinstatement or they won’t. They tell you they may let you know if your account is reinstated or maybe they won’t. They don’t guarantee anything – and they delivered! No response, no one to talk to, no way to find out what happened! Google is so big they don’t care about the entrepreneur just trying to make a little extra money.
What happened to customer service? What happened to communication? What happened to simple courtesy? I guess if you are an Internet giant making money hand over fist, none of this matters. So this is my salute to Google – the global giant that hates entrepreneurs. Keep crushing us down so you can keep growing bigger.
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