We appealed against the closure of our Adsense account on the basis that it was completely unjustified.  Seems like Google’s policy is to imply that you’ve done something bad but "for security reasons" they won’t tell you what it is.

Our appeal was met with Google’s automated response of …

Thanks for providing us with additional information. However, after thoroughly reviewing your account data and taking your feedback into consideration, we’ve re-confirmed that your account poses a significant risk to our advertisers. For this reason, we’re unable to reinstate your account. Thank you for your understanding.

As a reminder, if you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve taken, please do not reply to this email. You can find more information by visiting https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense team

Again we’ve responded but, after much research online it seems that the simplest thing to do is just to look for other revenue earners.  Our monthly income from Adsesne has never been more than $200 and we’ve only ever used it on site’s that we are lazy to update.

As an experiment though we applied and were accepted for a new Adsense account in our business name.  We’ve listed exactly the same websites as with our previous account and got approved within 24 hours.

Whilst it will be impossible to trust Google Adsense again we’re going to replace our now-expired adsense codes with our new codes.  We are curious as to whether Google will acknowledge that our sites are legitimate and adhere to their terms now that we are presenting them with a corporate face instead of a personal one.  Over the next few months we’ll likely phase-out Google Adsense and replace it with advertisements from other providers.