Man that is terrible news, over the last 12 months I have been targeting google adsense and have seen steady increase in income over that time. Once in a blue moon I have "accidentally" clicked my own ads for various reasons, once in a while I am generally interested in the ad and have hit it.

Another time I remember wanting to check out the "code" and accidentally clicked the ad. I have never run into problems as my sites drive enough traffic where these clicks are few and far between. None the less it is just terrible to hear that publishers can get the boot with little help from google when things go wrong.

Great blog, keep up the good work.

Brian

over the last 2 years I have been kicked from Adsense twice…

First they accused me of click-fraud…

Then after reinstating my account almost a year later, it worked for 2-3 months until they kicked me a second time for accusing me to “be in relation with an account that they kicked for click-fraud” …

Obviously that was the first instance of my account…

I do however believe that Google does not really care about single publishers… it’s the overall mass of traffic they are interested in – and I’m sure if I had like 100 or so Adsense spam sites to generate traffic from, they would have kept me in the program…

oh well… what a pity…

It’s just sad to hear that all this happens over and over again… and it’s Google that we are sending mails to for asking for answers… like “don’t be evil… don’t even try to answer those mails in an evil manner…”

best regards
christoph