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• At 12 March '06 - 14:39 Birgit wrote:

  

  Can they simply deny payment of those 200$ to you? That’s why I never thought of using AdSense for my site, because it annoys me on most sites I see and you won’t be paid out the money until it amounts to a certain sum (so most smaller sites will eventually host the ads “for free”).
  You seem in a rather negative mood lately?!
  
  But anyway, like your blog!

  
  

• At 12 March '06 - 14:43 Bram wrote:

  

  Too bad for the 200 bucks, but at least that’s more what I’ve currently ‘earned’... a lousy $ 23,-
  
  What’s with all the rants this weekend, bit of DD stress

  
  

• At 12 March '06 - 14:44 Simon wrote:

  

  Like I told you earlier today: you should contact them asking what is going on. Normally you should have received an e-mail explaining click fraud was detected. But I think it’s worth a shot, AdSense NL is the only division of Google that actually answers your e-mails.
  
  And yes, I also dislike Google more and more… They are getting a little bit too powerful, and they’re abusing this power. I have seen too many AdSense accounts being banned because some idiots needed to click too often. I’m glad I still have an active account, by the way… :}

  
  

• At 12 March '06 - 15:26 Stoyan wrote:

  

  Hmm, weird. Now that you mention it, I remember something. I was showing the Google Firefox ads for some time on my blog. I didn’t earn anything, but did check the stats from time to time to see how many times the banner was displayed. At some point the counter simply stopped updating, I was still displaying the ads, but the counter was not incrementing. I just removed the banner code, didn’t really tried to investigate why. Maybe another case of click fraud? Oh, well…
  
  But your $200 is $200, you should send them a (flame ;) ) email or two.

  
  

• At 12 March '06 - 20:48 Chantal wrote:

  

  They cancelled my account some months ago. According to Google I clicked on banners myself. Actually I have done this 5 times (just to test if they are working)...
  
  Google has an attitute problem I think…

  
  

• At 12 March '06 - 22:40 Marco wrote:

  

  @Chantal, supposedly this reason is used for anyone who got cancelled. They indeed have an attitude problem. I strongly believe the majority of sites that got cancelled are run by people like you and me who never clicked on any of our own ads. It’s sad really…

  
  

• At 12 March '06 - 23:43 localhost wrote:

  

  Not sure if they have an attitude problem. But I sure think they are too popular to handle all the illegal use of their products and as a result of this also mistread those who use their products in a decent manner like you do.
  
  Hope you can make up the lost money with you other ads.

  
  

• At 13 March '06 - 09:45 Bakkel wrote:

  

  breath in, breath out….
  
  I received one cheque from these guys and then my visitors stopped clicking I suppose. Didn’t mind what kind of banner I put up, I didn’t get any hits according to adsense. Yeah right!

  
  

• At 05 April '06 - 23:21 Storm wrote:

  

  Back to good old Microsoft. Just discovered a new search engine. It’s called msn.com. Pretty neat one :)

  
  

• At 08 April '06 - 02:17 V. Nieuws wrote:

  Mijn Google adsense account is uitgeschakeld.
  Ik zou clickfraude hebben gepleegd.
  Terwijl ik net het volgende op de website van Tros radar lees :………
  
  Klikfraude
  Klikfraude ontstaat doordat zoekmachines de advertenties die ze verkopen ook op andere websites laten plaatsen, legt de Volkskrant uit. Deze websites delen mee in de omzet, wat sommigen ertoe verleidt software aan het werk te zetten die de advertenties aanklikt.
  Daarnaast gebruiken bedrijven klikfraude ook om een concurrent op kosten te jagen. In India en China zouden er bedrijven die hun geld verdienen door personeel handmatig op advertenties te laten klikken………….
  
  Bij navraag over wat de vermeende fraude is , krijg je een standaard e-mailtje terug, Zonder enige uitleg :
  We begrijpen dat u graag specifieke informatie wilt ontvangen over de
  ongeldige klikken die we hebben geconstateerd voor uw account. Gezien de
  aard van ons algoritme kunnen we echter geen informatie geven over de
  manier waarop we uw account of de gegevens van uw account controleren.
  
  Voorlopig heb ik dus 150 euro verlies, en 1 dag werk om al die advertenties van mijn sites te verwijderen. En ik word door Google beschuldigd van Fraude !
  Terwijl hun advertenties dus maanden op mijn websites hebben gestaan ( Gratis )
  
  Doen ze deze “ truc“nu bij een paar miljoen mensen , begint het lekker in de cijfers te lopen.
  Immers er zijn miljoenen webloggers en webmasters die “ads from google” op hun websites of weblogs hebben !
  Deze advertentie ruimte word door Google adsense gestolen, ze laten het bedrag eerst flink oplopen, en dan word de account uitgeschakeld .
  En dit terwijl er mensen in India en China op advertenties zitten te klikken , en er dus ook al software op het internet zit wat hun advertenties aan klikt ??
  En is het dus ook mogelijk om iemands Adsense account “ Weg te Klikken “
  Zij beschermen zogenaamd hun adverteerders, maar hun publishers dus duidelijk niet .
  
  Wilt U er meer over weten ? zoek dan met Google : adsense account uitgeschakeld
  
  Het Nederlandse Programma http://www.tradetracker.nl/ betaald alleen de UNIEKE kliks
  Zou Google adsense dit dan niet kunnen ??
  Dit is Internet Fraude van de eerste orde, Gepleegd door Google !!

  
  

• At 07 May '06 - 20:51 Jeriko One wrote:

  

  Well, you’re not the only one disliking Google more and more. In fact, there seems to be a complete wave against it from the EU. France for example is creating a new search engine since Google announced their project regarding the digitalisation of popular libraries.
  
  If you do have the chance (and understand german), get the latest issue of germans c’t, there’s an excellent article just about this problem. A preview is available here.

  
  

• At 22 July '06 - 05:43 Timmermans wrote:

  

  Een ietwat late reactie, maar goed.
  
  Ik had op een enkele pagina gedurende twee jaar twee reclamevaksjes staan… bij een laatste controle eerder dit jaar had ik 96 dollar, nog 4 en ik zou worden uitbetaald. Schandaal troef. Om het geld gaat het me minder dan om het feit dat Google en andere bedrijven GRATIS van die pagina misbruik hebben gemaakt.
  
  Google, never again!

  
  

• At 10 February '07 - 03:46 Steven Fawcett wrote:

  

  I know what you mean, they just did the same thing to me only two days ago, I received the same thing (informing me that I had committed click fraud and that my account was now closed, I sent an email back asking them of which website it was that this apparent click fraud had taken place, at what time and for how much,, bear in mind ours is a quite site and we only made $81 in the 12 months period up to this date, which makes me the worse click fraudsters around, they replied with no answers other than that they have looked into it and yes I committed click fraud, two days later my wife received an email saying that because her account was associated with mine, only by postcode they deemed it necessary to close her account as well, so they diddled us out of a total of $144.00 which isnt a lot for Google but click fraud? i’ve lost more running for the flipping ice cream van.
  
  Maybe time for a Google Free logo for people to put on there sites to support the demise of the ones who think they are god.
  
  We had google ads running on 12 sites, but as they where all new, they didnt really get much traffic, one of my sites which I think must have been the one they are talking about just disappeared off the Google search records, considering it was on page one of Google for all the keywords for the site, they punish you in more ways than one.

  
  

• At 20 August '07 - 11:30 BigG wrote:

  

  Man,
  
  As u say u hate adsense then how i m able to see adsense on ur site????
  with publisher id –
  
  google_ad_client = “pub-0125313666513262”;
  
  I think u want to get banned again
  =))

  
  

• At 12 January '08 - 22:40 irv wrote:

  

  I have 3 adsense acct, which now only one left active.
  the rest were banned. And I lost 2k’s from it
  Seems like adsense can not be my only source
  never know my last acct will be the same tomorrow

  
  

• At 03 February '08 - 09:26 Andy wrote:

  

  I agree with you mate. I am starting to really despise Google..and thinking of following the guy who made a stand and banned Google from his site!
  
  IF (and most people are too weak or greedy) the masses joined into protest at Googles lack of rules, complete and total disregard for ‘the little guy’ by banned them in robots.txt
  
  I think Google may come round a bit :)
  
  As it is, they close MANy adsense accounts claiming ‘fraud’...they keep the funds in there saying they ‘will be returned’...yeah, course they will….
  
  I wish someone with power would investigate them. Fraudsters.
  
  Think about it..100,000 small paying adsense sites a month.
  keep an average balance of $200 (some more some less)= $2,200,000
  
  A MONTH in pure easy profit.

  
  

• At 11 June '08 - 12:47 Mark wrote:

  

  Hi Guys,
  
  Just had the same happen to me today. Account cancelled but no reason given as to why.
  
  Forget google. There are other advertisers out there who dont rip you off.
  
  Mark

  
  

• At 02 July '08 - 03:27 deef wrote:

  

  yeah google is the new Microsoft.

  
  

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