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.

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.

For no discerible reason our Google Adsense accout was suspended today.

The only explanation we could possibly think of was that since registering for a US VPN perhaps Google believes us to be deliberately trying to hide our IP address when registering with them.

Fortunately we are not dependent on Google at all with any of our sites however, whilst the issue remains, a lot of these sites have gaping holes in them where adsense no longer is displayed.

Apparently we should have received notifiction from Google explaining the suspension but we certainly never received anything.

We are 100% certain that we’ve not done anything in breach of Google’s terms because all the sites that use adsense have been left dormant for many months as they’re not our big earners at all.

Now it’s a case of waiting a few days to be contacted by either a Google representative or (more likely) some automated email service to tell us what’s happened.

Our first instinct is to replace all adsense from our sites.  Google Adsense have twice now suspended accounts of ours without providing a reason and both times have been when the sites in question have not been modified in any way.

This is a follow up to my post entitled A 40% Return on Investment In 1 Week?

Ok, this idea didn’t work and in hindsight I smell a rat.

For $20 Mr Taylor Glickman provided me with the name of a website which he advertised on, and told me of a particular product that consistently made him about 50% more money than the cost of the advertising. Read the rest of this entry »