Lost Over $2 million from Google Adsense
Greetings everyone,
I would like to share my little story with you. In fact this happened a couple of weeks before but only now I'm posting since there is no more hope getting the accounts back.
Long story short, I had 3 different accounts (2 different LLC's in USA) and one in Europe under my brother's name. The accounts were in no way connected with each other (different servers for the sites too). After finding a goldmine on January 2013, I was able to generate more than $30,000 per day for 2 consecutive months however when the payday came, all the accounts were banned in the exact same time (exact same email too)
I cannot reveal the niche for obvious reasons but all my competitors ranked below me have still their Adsense. The niche itself is very popular and there was nothing against Google's TOS. When the accounts started making those unbelievable numbers I was a bit shocked however since everything was legit I wasn't worried.
I had more than 10 million impressions per day and a ctr of 0.25 % which I thought was good enough and wouldn't raise any flags, even if it raised, I was sure everything was cool. Something that I'm noticing now is that my main competitor is using Doubleclick and apparently he seems to be a premium publisher. I was expecting to become too but all I got was a ban at the end of the day.
I contacted with several Adsense guys, different attorneys, even some very good connections but no one could help me so I decided to give up. I'm now using other networks which are making me like 10-15 % of what Adsense was doing but still, better than nothing
I've been in the SEO / Internet Marketing industry for over 10 years now and I know whats allowed and whats not but I still can't understand how on earth all the accounts were banned in the exact same minute? (maybe a bot did it for sure). (Note that I was using proxies to login, but I verified with a Google employee that its not an issue because large publishers who have programmers / developers from across the world login from various places so)
In case someone thinks that can help me drop me a PM. I still have the traffic so we can for sure do something (at the moment we're speaking I have 600,000 unique visitors per day)
Many friends have told me to go on but I can't simply let it go when I see my competitors with crappy sites and copied content (from me) have Adsense still and make that kind of money
So what do you think might have happened? What am I supposed to do? Should I re-open a LLC and try again? I'm tired of trying and getting my accounts banned again and again ...
Once more I repeat that in no way I have ever clicked my own ads or have used any scripts to autorefresh or anything similar. 80 % of my traffic is from Google itself (how ironic) and most of it is from US / UK / AU.
I would like to share my little story with you. In fact this happened a couple of weeks before but only now I'm posting since there is no more hope getting the accounts back.
Long story short, I had 3 different accounts (2 different LLC's in USA) and one in Europe under my brother's name. The accounts were in no way connected with each other (different servers for the sites too). After finding a goldmine on January 2013, I was able to generate more than $30,000 per day for 2 consecutive months however when the payday came, all the accounts were banned in the exact same time (exact same email too)
I cannot reveal the niche for obvious reasons but all my competitors ranked below me have still their Adsense. The niche itself is very popular and there was nothing against Google's TOS. When the accounts started making those unbelievable numbers I was a bit shocked however since everything was legit I wasn't worried.
I had more than 10 million impressions per day and a ctr of 0.25 % which I thought was good enough and wouldn't raise any flags, even if it raised, I was sure everything was cool. Something that I'm noticing now is that my main competitor is using Doubleclick and apparently he seems to be a premium publisher. I was expecting to become too but all I got was a ban at the end of the day.
I contacted with several Adsense guys, different attorneys, even some very good connections but no one could help me so I decided to give up. I'm now using other networks which are making me like 10-15 % of what Adsense was doing but still, better than nothing
I've been in the SEO / Internet Marketing industry for over 10 years now and I know whats allowed and whats not but I still can't understand how on earth all the accounts were banned in the exact same minute? (maybe a bot did it for sure). (Note that I was using proxies to login, but I verified with a Google employee that its not an issue because large publishers who have programmers / developers from across the world login from various places so)
In case someone thinks that can help me drop me a PM. I still have the traffic so we can for sure do something (at the moment we're speaking I have 600,000 unique visitors per day)
Many friends have told me to go on but I can't simply let it go when I see my competitors with crappy sites and copied content (from me) have Adsense still and make that kind of money
So what do you think might have happened? What am I supposed to do? Should I re-open a LLC and try again? I'm tired of trying and getting my accounts banned again and again ...
Once more I repeat that in no way I have ever clicked my own ads or have used any scripts to autorefresh or anything similar. 80 % of my traffic is from Google itself (how ironic) and most of it is from US / UK / AU.
