Clickity Clicks
June 20, 2008 by moneypenny
Filed under Personal Finance
Weve been discussing clicks on adsense today, and in seeking some clarity for our readers, I posted the link to the adsense help site for site-owners. However this portion of an article taken from TheTimes on line, explains adsense’s policy rather well. The link appears below if you want to read the full article.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/united_states/article703023.ece?token=null&offset=24
“a publisher on his own web pages; a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads; automated clicking programs or any other deceptive software; a publisher altering any portion of the ad code or changing the layout, behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads for any reason.
“Practices such as these are in violation of the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions and program polices.
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“Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected advertisers.”
Now let’s be clear: I informed staff not to click on the Google ads, or indeed any other adverts on our site. We do not encourage others to click on the adverts, we do not run automated clicking programs nor had we altered any portion of the advertising code.
So seeking some sort of clarification from Google of which particular heinous offence our site was accused of committing, I wrote to the AdSense team asking them to explain what had happened.
In what I believe to be an automated reply, I was informed: “As you know, Google treats instances of invalid clicks very seriously. By disabling your account, we feel that we have taken the necessary measures to ensure that invalid clicks will not continue to occur on your site. Due to the proprietary nature of our monitoring system, we’re not able to disclose any specific details of these clicks.” I was also given the opportunity to appeal this decision but reminded that, “Google reserves sole discretion in considering whether to take any action on an appeal”.
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