The single most dreaded mail for people making serious money with AdSense is the one from Google Adsense and which goes like :
“Hello,
While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account….”
In simpler words, AdSense account holders are told their actions do not follow AdSense Terms and Conditions.
OR
Their site does not meet Google’s Landing page requirements.
Many are taken aback by this sudden death of their major source of online income. Some people make their bread and butter income online and to them it’s like a shock. To many other it’s not as shocking. People who have tried to outsmart Google and find loopholes in Adsense often make a quick few bucks but Big G always catches up and how! Although a book could be written on how people without any quality website or with third world traffic (from North Africa, India, China) make thousand dollars every day in Adsense, this article will just highlight prominent reasons why AdSense accounts are disabled.
MFA – Made For Adsense : Yes, sounds right, this is the biggest reason nowadays why Google disables Adsense accounts. People with no intention of building a quality website often create websites with content copy-pasted from Wikipedia or Other websites. They are not interested in providing any ORIGINAL content. MFA sites are usually 5 – 10 posts long and with Adsense codes pasted all over the pages. Whenever someone opens such a site, all one sees is clickable Adsense ads with little or no content. Such sites have very CTR (click through rate), often 5 or 7 out of every 10 visitors click on an Ad. If you have cheap or free traffic, you can make Serious Money that way. Google knows this and disables every MFA site it comes across.
Click Fraud : This is the dumbest way to get your Adsense account disabled. Google tracks every click made on every ad across its network. It knows if Ads are being clicked intentionally or normally. Clicking on your ads at home or taking a trip to your local cafe to do the same is the sure shot way to Disablement.
Also, joining Adsense click exchange groups (I click your ads, you click mine) is not the way to earn money online. Asking your friends to click on your ads or paying them money to do it is only going to get your Adsense account in danger. Google has developed algorithms far too sophisticated to be outsmarted by any of these monkey-business strategies. Your best bet is the hard way of making money.
Original content + Great site = Traffic = $$$
Arbitrage : Until recently this technique made millions for people doing it. People buy traffic from Adwords or YSM or MSN Ad central and guide it to pages laden with Adsense. They bid on cheap words like wallpapers, video etc with every click costing them a few cents. Keeping content to a minimal usually is the key ingredient here as more irrelevant or lesser the content, higher will be the CTR. This model works only with high CTR, usually no less than 20 % is what makes you money in Arbitrage.
An example – For every click Cost = 2 cents, income from every click = 50 cents to a dollar. With CTR of just 20% and 50 cents income, figure for 10,000 visitors are
Income on 2000 clicks @50 cents = $1000.00
Cost of 10,000 visitors @2 cents = $200.00
Net profit = $ 800.00
Google also knows this and has quite clearly said in its program policies that Arbitrage sites are not acceptable. There is quite a risk here as you might end up paying for your traffic and then get your account disabled without getting any unpaid income.
Violation of Terms and Conditions : Your AdSense account is the danger of being disabled if you have altered the AdSense codes so that Ads are placed in pop-ups, emails or software, Ads open up in a new window.
If you buy traffic, your landing page should be in compliance with Google’s Landing Page Guidelines. Any violation could get your account disabled. Also, if your site is found out to contain Malware or virus or initiates download automatically, your AdSense account is in danger.
Guest Writer : Rohit Sablok is the Affiliate Marketer who writes at www.superindianaffiliate.com
really great post for us bloggers
Hello amit,
i want to ask one thing i.e. is google providing new adsense accounts to new users or it had stopped giving accounts. Because each and every time when i apply for account they are mailing me that “Unacceptable site content”.
the same am too getting.. !! whats the actual prob ??
Actually this is happening because many Indians have started selling the Google Adsense Accounts, hence the Adsense team has become strict in Google Adsense Account Approvals. I would recommend you to have a excellent website with lot of content & traffic , and then apply for adsense account which would then be approved easily. A new blog with almost no content would be hard for approval.
I agree, just do a google search with “adsense” and you will see couple of ads selling adsense accounts for 400 INR
Stay away from those Fake Accounts which are Illegal and also get disabled instantly
Hi friend i would like to know one thing that as previously i applied for the adsense but in response they gave me that there is no site content ,so i preferred other ads services in my site now my site has great traffic so if now i apply the site for the adsense will it accepts and do i need to remove my other ads like adbrite or bidvertiser.
Abosolutely Rohit, Getting back a banned Account from Google is tough, so its always better to go by the rules instead of trying to bend them with Google, and if your only source of income / traffic is via Google. It better to play safe.
that is right but can we make any other website if our blog has been banned by our mistakes and apply for adsence with other content than the bolg which was banned
useful post.. !! Grt work
Is there a way to revive the disabled accounts? Or once disabled, would the accounts stay disabled?
you will see dozens of ads in classifieds section that promise you regular Google AdSense income.
Its good post, do not starts blogs for adsense, if you are getting some traffic put ad codes, you cann’t cheat google.
Hi Amit,
I appreciate your hard work and good job that you have shown through this huge blog.It is a good site which has multiple blog and good contents as well.
I want to know from you , could you put some more light on Bounce Rate of landing Page.
How can I decrease a bounce rate and which percentage is considered as a good in terms of bounce rate.
One more thing – I need to ask that for the India , Is it required to provide the Tax information to get First 100$ income.
Thanks,
Yogesh
Since both of your questions are different would recommend you to ask them at http://www.amitbhawani.com/help/ where we can discuss on them in detail.
loved it… my account has been banned… just because i gave one of my friend an access to it… and he got it banned and i dont have any source of income from adsense ! 🙁
This is a very good post which remind people to abide by Google’s rules. Focus on writing good content and increase organic traffic through proper SEO methods.
From this site i get the more usefull information,,,,for this thanks
excellent and informative post…thanks for such useful informations..i do got banned from Google once and trying for a new account which i seem to be so hard because the Google authorities been strict…any ways thanks for your valuable informations buddy…keep posting
regards
Som-Kerala
Is there a way to revive the disabled accounts? Or once disabled, would the accounts stay disabled?
Before you try to revive the disabled account, please know why exactly it has been done. Was it a fraud click, arbitrage? or other reason which have violated Google Adsense Terms & Conditions. It is better to leave the disabled account and start with a new niche. Start up with a fresh Niche (Topic) do the research with keyword research tool. let your blog/website be popular (Remember – for any website “content is the king” then re-apply. Remember, a blog/website is like a baby, you have to take extreme care, and let the baby to grow. Once it does, it will give you immense happiness. All the best.
MFA sites are the most frequently banned ones, with the least content and most of the site area covered with ads.
Thanks for clarifying the Google Adsense TOS. This will be really useful for many newbie bloggers.
You have write here that google may ban your adsense account also for Arbitrage . i could not understand Arbitrage fully . I would like to say to describe it more and write a post about this topic and let me know
sir, Is there any specific threshold for blog traffic for getting adsense approval?
Not any which is disclosed by Google
yes sir, I have almost reviewed all of these articles regarding adsense. But I have a doubt that If I use USB modem to check my adsense and website then it will ban my adsense account. USB Changes IPs all the time right? But I am not going for any fraud clicks.