Beware of Click Fraud. Even the tiniest appearance of click fraud can get you banned from the AdSense program. Reading this article titled “The nonsense about AdSense” from the TimesOnline website is enough to make any AdSense publisher nervous.
Benjamin Cohen, the former teenaged dot.com millionaire, has run into a problem as he tries to make his next million: Google won’t pay him for ads run on his website
He has signed up a couple of times, even after being told he won’t be allowed to sign up again, and each time he has been banned due to click fraud. The fact that Google won’t tell him why they believe he (or someone else) is committing click fraud on his site is quite frustrating:
After a number of e-mails to Google without replies and no response from their press office, I decided to cut my losses and concentrate on selling advertising direct to clients, thereby bypassing Google’s system.
So, what do you do in a situation like this, when Google doesn’t respond to your queries, or, if your duspute is not resolved in your favour (which, I believe, does actually happen)? You could always do what this author and EX-AdSense-Publisher did:
In the end, I decided not to bother chasing Google any more for the couple of hundred pounds they owed my company or the cheques (totalling a further £1,500) I received well after the six-month deadline for banking a cheque. Instead, I decided to sign PinkNews up to Yahoo!’s pay per click programme, carefully noting the right to speak to a real human being, 24/7, if we were unhappy with the figures they provided