Hey, I Said Don’t Click My Ads!
08 August 2006 | By Ian in Google, Rants
Once again, I have irritated the giant that is Google. It seems that I just can’t get on their good side. I just got this email from Scott in Google’s AdSense team:
Hello Ian,
While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our policies. For instance, we found violations of AdSense policies on pages such as dontclickmyads.com.
Publishers are not permitted to bring unnatural attention to the ads on their sites in any way. We found that the site’s URL and page content directs unnatural attention to these ads.
As a result, we have disabled ad serving to the site.
Your AdSense account remains active. However, we strongly suggest that you take the time to review our program policies (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies) to ensure that all of your remaining pages are in compliance.
Please note that we may disable your account if further violations are found in the future.
Sincerely,
Scott
The Google AdSense Team
As it turns out, the website that I made in jest and then promptly forgot about after a prior AdSense policy reminder has once again gotten me in hot (or at least luke warm) water with Google.
I’m not out to fleece Google by funneling mass traffic to that one-joke site. I’m not even out to make a particularly bold statement about being kept down by the Google man. It sure would be nice if they got the joke, though. I doubt anyone made or lost much money off of the 108 visits I’ve had so far this month. Especially so considering two of the top four user agents were googlebot.
Oh well, I’ll just switch to AdBrite. It doesn’t matter that I’ll earn less per click. A lower percentage of zero doesn’t affect my bottom line much.
Just for the record, I do not condone any clicking of my ads. Don’t click them, don’t click near them, don’t look at them, and don’t think about them. I don’t even have ads!
So there.
10 August 2006 | spencer Said:
Man, that is an example of the bots working at Google just _not_ getting it. The page they reference is sooooo obviously an installation — and silly me, I thought they were spending all their time censoring the web in China.
18 January 2007 | Spamadol Said:
Have you ever noticed? Each time when people deal with money, they lose the sense of humor completely. Not everybody, but almost.
The same story with your AdSense trial. Surely, Scott doesn’t have anything personally to bring you down. He’s just doing his job. If he’ll provide a sense of humor in your case, he’ll take the risk at his own — because somewhere in the time exists the moment when Scott’s manager checks Scott’s job. So Manager can find out that Scott is not pretty responsible from the AdSense Policy point of view. Hm…. Manager could have the sense of humor too… but in real life he seems to not have it. At least virtually. Things become rigid when contact with money.
BTW, the idea is brilliant! I consider it as an First in The World AdSense Art, and true art always used to be accepted with troubles.
Keep going!
20 February 2007 | Ses Said:
Hey,
I had a similar notice from google today. What I am wondering is, when they say they have disabled ad serving for this domain, does it mean that the domain can no longer have any google ads.. ? I mean, not just from my but from somebody else’s account ?
What if you still want to continue with google ? Do you have to change the domain name ? or it okay to just ask one of your family members to signup for a new account ?
Please write back to skirank@gmail.com
Ses
25 April 2007 | WECMS » Archive » dont click my ads.com Said:
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