Your Adsense Account Banned for Fraud

Adsense is great money making scheme and it is very popular to webmasters. Google’s Adsense fame has reached a point where it became a great target for fraud. Because of this Google is now very strict in monitoring their Adsense accounts. If you’re doing a legitimate business with Adsense and you do not want your site banned, be careful not to commit any mistakes that might change Google’s mind.

The Ways by Which You May be Committing Fraud

There are certain criteria that Google sets to identify whether a site is committing fraud. Since Adsense is a Pay-Per-Click scheme, money for partner sites comes from the number of clicks coming form respective websites and pages. Google checks certain aspects of the click that come through a certain Adsense account to check that a site is not guilty of click fraud. The simplest of which is by monitoring the IP address of the computer that do the clicking. Multiple clicks from the same IP address will ban your account immediately.

It is advised that you do not check your Google Adsense account on any public terminals including your office PC. Google takes notes of the IP addresses that you use when you access your account. If one of these terminals is used to click your ad, your account will likely be banned. Using your office computer to access your account has a bad effect aside form receiving a memo from your software property management department. Your whole company uses a proxy address that points to only one IP address. So if one of the hundreds of personnel in your company clicks your ad, Google will basically flag this as a click fraud.

To avoid having your site banned for click fraud, never ever try on clicking on your own site. Also never click your site from public computers. If a certain IP address appears to many times on the click monitoring software, say goodbye to your Adsense account. Aside from clicking on your own site do not ask your friends and relatives to do this. Again every computer is identified by a single IP address so if one of your friends or nephews went into a clicking spree you would not have an Adsense account the next day. If you can’t avoid telling them about this earning opportunity on the net, explain to them the rules that are involved as to avoid anybody doing a clicking spree on your ads.

To Avoid Getting a Closed Account Message

If you want to go to sites advertised by your site do not do so by clicking the link. Take note of the URL by pointing the mouse on the link but don’t click it. Copy the URL to your browser to see your advertiser’s site. If in case you clicked one of your ads accidentally report the occurrence to Google immediately as to avoid your account being banned.

Also take note that there are certain entities that are not allowed but Google to be sources of clicks. Google has a list of these entities always check them up as to avoid getting clicks from this so called illegal traffic.

And always monitor Adsense account. Aside from the fact that somebody might try to have your accounts banned by clicking on your ad links again and again, always take note of your click through ratio (CTR). Google has criteria for acceptable CTR as to avoid having sites that are only receiving traffic for taking advantage of the Adsense PPC scheme.

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