From: MutiNY
To: Miscellaneous
Subject: Re: Adsense unreasonable in terminating an Account
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:10:37 -0700

I am also extremely disappointed that after three years of being loyal
to google, being a champion, in fact of google, advising my community
of users to watch the content in their posts so we wouldn't get
associated with 'bad sites'.

even after 3 years, of good placement, and lots of effort in marinating
the account I rarely got over 100 a month (had it on more than one
site, the search seemed to be the most effective BTW).

I got the door shut in my face: slammed on my face and accused of
,basically dishonesty.

The site this program benefited was a non-profit, volunteer driven site
that promoted the arts.

I was floored at both the accusation and the refusal to further look
into the matter.
------------------I guess that's not what google is anymore, google
has
changed...

--we as publishers should not be permanently banned
--We SHOULD be warned...
---The Clicks in questions should not be applied...and publisher should
be warned...3 strikes and your out
-better yet we should track down where they are coming from.
--------------------

Some bitter truths

And folks, I also work for an SEO company (completely unrelated to my
volunteer work with the non-profit sector) and I gotta tell
you...Google already skims a percentage based on an average of what
they think might be fraud. So you always get less...no big deal...until
they accuse YOU of being dishonest.

-Someone mentioned competitors clicking on your site to get you
banned.
This is a very real scenario unfortunately. However, it mostly occurs
when a competitor of a particular business clicks on another
business in order to use up their account so that they can bump them
from display).
(if you buy adwords you have a base amount of 'clicks' purchased, once
those clicks are used up, you don't show up) Got that?

-There seems to be no understanding or comprehension in Googles part
given to the use of firewall IP's in schools, institutions or even the
small towns of many ISPs.

--Something Should be done:

If, Google keeps forgetting about the little guy (who built google
really and made it where it is today? ) Then they will lose our
confidence.

With Yahoo/MSN and a slew of new adword programs across the web now. It
seems that Google not only is pushing its people and original followers
OUT but challenging
them to do so.

--fine, challenge accepted.