Google is Cheating me, and so it does to others
Google is one of the most successful stories of Internet. The best search engine, captured the online advertisement market with their popular AdSense program. Some really swear by AdSense while others hate it like anything. I am myself a big fan of Google and all the services they provide. As you may see this blog is moneytized only through Google AdSense. I was seeing a decrease in my earning from the last 2 weeks but I thought maybe people don’t just click on the ads on my blog. But then I checked my blog’s stats on MyBlogLog and what I observed left me shocked. It shows 199 people have clicked on the Ads yesterday and 183 have clicked on them the day before.
But the AdSense stats show that I have got only 5 clicks in the last 7 days. This can definitely not be the case of invalid clicks. If it would be, they should have banned my account by now. This keeps me thinking is Google so much hungry that they are cheating their AdSense Publishers. I have been hearing a lot about Google banning AdSense accounts just when they are about to reach the $100 mark. But I couldn’t trust till I saw I myself. Yesterday a friend of mine got banned who had $223 in his account was waiting for 15th of this month to get paid. Their are lot of people who swear by Google and will definitely not love to read anything like this but I am talking about my own experience with Google AdSense. While I still love Google and its other services, I am hating AdSense and will remove they once I get the payment this month. I will look for other ways to moneytize or I will not do it at all.
What is your experience with Google AdSense? Please let me know through comments.
I’d like to know what it is you would be switching to to monetize.
Maybe Text link ads or Azoogle
Hey dumb ass, it’s a violation of Google’s policy to post information about your account statistics. Maybe that’s why you’re not getting paid.
O…..I posted information yesterday and I am not getting paid from the last 2 months.
Wow. All I can say is wow. I need to look at my stats tonight to see if I experience the same thing. That is just frightening, the idea that Google’s system is selectively paying out people…
Your friend who had his account banned at $223, did they keep the money or still cut a check for him?
I noticed exactly the same thing a few months ago and I contacted them about it. They gave me the run around about possibly having invalid code, but then they checked into it and said it was ok. Their final word to me was that they don’t validate clicks against 3rd party stat tools (like MyBlogLog), their click tracking code is top notch, and that 3rd party click tracking is against the TOS. So basically every blog is violating the TOS by using MyBlogLog. My account is still active, but my patience is wearing out.
I had Adsense last year for about 4 months. Just as I was finally approaching the $100 mark, they banned my account and kept all the money. I will never use Adsense again and I never click on Adsense ads. The poor soul running the site with the ads probably won’t get paid even if I click on all the ads… very disappointing.
@ Anonymous
Ya! they kept all money. Isn’t this disappointing.
No, these trackers count mouseovers and not actual clicks. trust me. i never believe this junk…
I read this page with Firefox and there were no ads. Opened it in IE and there are lots of Ads. I clicked a couple for you.
There is only one reason why I hate google. But there are a couple of thousand reasons which compel me to love it. So, the ads on this blog are still from google.
May be funny today google diabled my account for nothing, i have 4500$ in my account and i followed each and every guidelines and TOS issued by Adsence. Shocking for me. i want raise a law suit against google adsence if they don’t give back my account, Lets see what happens it’s upto them
Anil Dora
please have a look at: http://nohumanrights.blogspot.com
it´s a german blog, but google is cheating me too and i can proof it and they give a fuck..
I love goodle adsense myself, its definately one of the best paying contextual advertisers out there.
I am not always sure why they ban people, and I hear most people get warnigns for actual content over a straight up ban.