http://www.stuffbysarah.net/2007/09/04/adsense-warning/ PHP, WordPress and Business Ramblings Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:44:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.stuffbysarah.net/2007/09/04/adsense-warning/#comment-15531 Sarah Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:01:00 +0000 http://www.stuffbysarah.net/2007/09/04/adsense-warning/#comment-15531 Google used to say to blend your ads in, make them look like part of the site. Clearly they've realised that was not a good idea now. But, as you say, they can be awkward if they want, it's their system and business. It's a shame they don't make things a little more black and white though.nnHowever, despite all that, AdSense does continue to be the best earner for us. Not intentionally mind. At least we don't rely on our AIS earnings to live. Just to pay for our holiday instead! ;) Google used to say to blend your ads in, make them look like part of the site. Clearly they've realised that was not a good idea now. But, as you say, they can be awkward if they want, it's their system and business. It's a shame they don't make things a little more black and white though.nnHowever, despite all that, AdSense does continue to be the best earner for us. Not intentionally mind. At least we don't rely on our AIS earnings to live. Just to pay for our holiday instead!

]]> http://www.stuffbysarah.net/2007/09/04/adsense-warning/#comment-15530 Slee Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:56:35 +0000 http://www.stuffbysarah.net/2007/09/04/adsense-warning/#comment-15530 yes they aren't very nice when things go wrong. i had the same problem a couple of years ago and they weren't very helpful.nni got into the debate about blending in recently on a forum and many seemed so sue they could blend their ads in but as you say Sarah it is such a Grey area it needs to be highlighted to everyone to be careful. if Google decide to be awkward then they can and there isn't much we can do about it. yes they aren't very nice when things go wrong. i had the same problem a couple of years ago and they weren't very helpful.nni got into the debate about blending in recently on a forum and many seemed so sue they could blend their ads in but as you say Sarah it is such a Grey area it needs to be highlighted to everyone to be careful. if Google decide to be awkward then they can and there isn't much we can do about it.

]]> http://www.stuffbysarah.net/2007/09/04/adsense-warning/#comment-15529 Sarah Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:54:46 +0000 http://www.stuffbysarah.net/2007/09/04/adsense-warning/#comment-15529 Luckily neither of us have ever had that dreaded email however our ex-housemate did. He had his account suspended for a week, he emailed Google on a daily basis offering his server logs, access to his site stats, details on his IP and computer details etc. After a week they just reactivated his account and he'd only lost the earnings he would have made had his account been running.nnAlso, of course, anyone can copy your AdSense code and place it on any site, so it's now a good idea to add the allowed sites to use AdSense into your account (it's a new option), just to give you that little extra protection. Luckily neither of us have ever had that dreaded email however our ex-housemate did. He had his account suspended for a week, he emailed Google on a daily basis offering his server logs, access to his site stats, details on his IP and computer details etc. After a week they just reactivated his account and he'd only lost the earnings he would have made had his account been running.nnAlso, of course, anyone can copy your AdSense code and place it on any site, so it's now a good idea to add the allowed sites to use AdSense into your account (it's a new option), just to give you that little extra protection.

]]> http://www.stuffbysarah.net/2007/09/04/adsense-warning/#comment-15528 sara Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:41:19 +0000 http://www.stuffbysarah.net/2007/09/04/adsense-warning/#comment-15528 what a pita. A few months back we were sent an email saying they had detected invalid clicks on ONE of our sites. When we have 20 sites running I immediately replied and asked if they could tell us which one so I could check IPs etc and do what I could to make sure it didn't happen again. They replied saying they couldn't give us anymore info and basically that we had to repay them in our future earnings. So we did. but it's just hard when you don't know why or what or how to proceed! what a pita. A few months back we were sent an email saying they had detected invalid clicks on ONE of our sites. When we have 20 sites running I immediately replied and asked if they could tell us which one so I could check IPs etc and do what I could to make sure it didn't happen again. They replied saying they couldn't give us anymore info and basically that we had to repay them in our future earnings. So we did. but it's just hard when you don't know why or what or how to proceed!

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