Andreas Viklundcom » The AdSense trap posts about getting trapped by some guy telling him to review his adsense clicks…

He did and found a lot of adsense spam sites to block…

a bit later his account was closed for illegal click activity…

hmmm – I wonder if the owner of the spam sites and the one who "trapped" him was just the same guy?

Anyway, Andreas is just publisher #100000 or so that gets booted from Google adsense for illegal clicks without a real good way to get back into the program.

With the Adsense program being live for 3 years now Google

• still does not filter fraudulent traffic
• still does not support publishers in filter fraudulent traffic but punishes them for accusing them to be the only source of fraud traffic
• still has no means to alert publishers of fraud traffic upfront, before their accounts get closed

That's the real pity…

Update 2006/08/08: at the Google Dance 2006 and Advisor from Google told me about the Appeal process where you have a clear and formal way to re-appeal for your account and bring in more information and data… I never heard of that before and just checked out if I could get a human response from there vs. all the automated responsed I had in the last month