Thread: Warning Letter from Adsense: Very Important - Please Read!

Recently, a number of people have received warning letters from Adsense (see below). At least one person have had his account terminated after receiving multiple warnings. I have received a couple of these warnings as well but they were to domains that have expired. However, when they were active, they hosted typical cookie cutter MFA (Made for advertisement) sites. Typically, the sites would have been already de-indexed by Google

Examples of banned sites include

ellipticaltrainertreadmill . com

This appears to be an obvious MFA site

Harmedia . com

This is not so obvious although the author used a lot of unrelated articles. I would imagine that proxy sites would certainly fit in as well.

It seems that Google is really tightening its standards for Adsense publishers. This is a very common practice for many companies when times are tough.

Unfortunately, I have got lots of sites like those. So far, I have removed Adsense codes from 30 sites. However, since most of my adsense earnings do come from a few quality sites, I hope that they will be left alone.



Hello,

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 xxxxx.com

Publishers may not place Google ads on pages that violate Google’s webmaster quality guidelines (Webmaster Guidelines - Webmaster Help Center). While we've included the following excerpts from these guidelines, we recommend that you take the time to review them in their entirety.

* Make pages for users, not for search engines.
* Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
* Don't load pages with irrelevant words.
* Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
* Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank.
* Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
* Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
* If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.

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 (Moved Temporarily ) 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,

The Google AdSense Team

At least they are sending letters to tell you how to fix up the problem, google just messes with my mind so much at times. Just find it really hard to know exactly what they want from a site.

I think Google is worse than having a Nagging Mother in Law or Wife. Damn you Google. Thanks for sharing zxpro168

I have just got my third warning letter so this is looking rather serious. I have already removed Adsense ads from all my active sites using the same template.

No, it is not clear at all which Adsense TOS did the sites contravened. People who have written back to them were simply asked to read the TOS again.

I hope that everything gets sorted out soon for you zxpro168.

This is nothing new. They do not like sites that are made for adsense. I can not speak for your sites but there most be a problem. Look at the rules carefully and see that you are follow all of their policies. It might help to show some URLs and maybe we would be able to see something you are not.

Google is a pain in the rear. However, you have to look at both sides. As an advertiser, would you like to pay for clicks that are fraud or misleading ads?

I am not saying you are doing anything wrong but it clear that they are seeing something.

Well, at least they warn you...

It could be worse

That's what google is famous for nowadays. Just recently one of my friend had her account terminated and cheque canceled due to an alleged breach of their TOS.

Thank god you got the email warning you. Now, take some time to check everything (code included) and don't place ads before you do that.

May I ask what was the problem with ellipticaltrainertreadmill? Which of these does it contavene?

* Make pages for users, not for search engines.
* Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
* Don't load pages with irrelevant words.
* Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
* Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank.
* Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
* Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
* If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.

I think you have to be careful with the ratio of ads to content. As long as your pages are not overloaded with ads it should keep them happy.

Hope it works out ok.

How many people i know that have been banned and now cannot earn from either adsense or adwords?

Don't mess Big G.

Julie

Originally Posted by Autumn

May I ask what was the problem with ellipticaltrainertreadmill? Which of these does it contavene?

He could have contravened a number of guidelines there, but I would think the main one is

* Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

The sites for which I was warned were bought from a turnkey adsense websites provider and there are obvious MFA sites. There is no getting away from that and I have removed Adsense from 40 sites so far. However, I have more than 500 other sites that may be construed as MFA and there is no way I can deal with them. It would take me at least a whole month and even then I would not be sure.

Adsense now only account for a small proportion of my earnings and it is not going to make much difference to me if I were banned.

Originally Posted by zxpro168

He could have contravened a number of guidelines there, but I would think the main one is

* Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

Thanks, the reason I asked is that I bought a site that looks a bit like that setup, mainly for the domain, but since it already had half decent content on it, I let it run until I had a chance to work on it. Maybe I should make that my next priority huh?

As long as I meet Google TOS, I have nothing to fear right? I feel like Google is watching me soooo closely and can cut off my oxygen line at anytime for any reason and I don't have a way to provide evidence why they are not right. I don't earn much on Google right now. Only about $25/day but its significant enough that losing it would stress me out. Not only that but being banned forever is something that keeps me up late at a night, sort of.

Take Care,

-Adam (AKA "The Traffic Guru")

Now a days its very difficult to get approved from adsense . So , we all webmasters should adhere to their policies ...

Originally Posted by techknowl

Now a days its very difficult to get approved from adsense . So , we all webmasters should adhere to their policies ...

It's not so much that it's difficult to get approved. Its staying within the T&C that's the problems. There are a lot of rules with adsense.

I have just received my 4th warning letter and so it seems that my days with Adsense ar numbered. Moreover, it involves a site that I bought from niche mania that was commonly regarded as the Rolls-Royce of PLR sites. Its owner is regarded as an Adsense guru. Sites bought there are restricted to a distribution of 30 copies. An example of such a site would be disability-resource. com