why google disabled my account?

[victornewman]

hello everyone:

i am new here, today google google disabled my account and told me they found some invalid clicks in my website.

but i do nothing against the Google AdSense Program Policies. could you tell me what i should do?

i have about 2000$ in my account.

is there someone has the same problem? and how to avoid someone attacks my web site.

thanks so much

[Chris]

Google doesn't usually kick people out if there are just invalid clicks. Generally the invalid clicks need to be traced back to you. One thing Google does is check your IP when you login to visit your stats, and then if you, or someone with the same or similar IP, starts clicking away, Google might investigate further. I suspect that CTR also matters. For instance if your CTR is normally 2% and one day spikes to 50%.

[Cutter]

Have you been logging onto Adsense from different computers? Also, how long have you been using Adsense?

[victornewman]

Here is my account data, in my opinion, maybe someone else delibrately click my ads. Can anyone tell me how to avoid this?
Thanks.


Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM [?] Earnings
2,178 12 0.6% $0.87 $1.90
6,582 15 0.2% $1.07 $7.07
10,080 160 1.6% $5.55 $55.94
13,402 144 1.1% $5.18 $69.37
22,454 419 1.9% $1.20 $26.88
43,227 836 1.9% $3.15 $136.31
29,594 5,383 18.2% $3.22 $95.39
21,731 6,185 28.5% $3.06 $66.59
43,550 7,688 17.7% $2.00 $86.93
55,404 312 0.6% $0.96 $53.46
58,612 280 0.5% $1.05 $61.81
77,185 324 0.4% $0.76 $58.49
113,177 522 0.5% $0.90 $101.45
101,036 383 0.4% $0.90 $90.72
42,965 123 0.3% $0.80 $34.22

[Cutter]

That looks very suspicious. Can you access your logs and see where that traffic has been coming from?

[victornewman]

Suppose, I put the Google AdSense in my website, I never do anything in violation of the Google AdSense Terms, if my competitor or someone who want to destroy my web site copy my google adsense code into his personal website or her website, then he or she uses automated clicking programs or any other deceptive software to click the ads

then Google AdSense, will disabled my account , no matter what I explained.

so could anyone tell me what i should do at this situation? how to avoid this trouble?

thanks so much

[James]

Google's responsibility isn't to you as much as it is to making sure that their service isn't tainted by false clickthroughs. This is why they disable an account if it has a lot of invalid clicks.

As for getting back in, there's some good information in a Geek/Village thread from a few months ago (namely Larwee's 2nd post):
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28523

[Cutter]

You didn't answer my question, where did that traffic come from?

[victornewman]

could you recommend me some software to check my traffic and which IP clicks my ads?

thanks so much

i check my account just in my home, and my website is about three months

[Doug]

Have you been logging onto Adsense from different computers?

Is it not a good idea to do this because I move my computer between my dad's and my mom's which would change the IP address. I also check it at college from time to time.

[Cutter]

Doug, I wouldn't let any one at your college know what you are doing and how you make money. I've told people what I've done before, and they suddenly get the idea they'd like to help me out by clicking my ads (as soon as they say that, they don't get told my URLs)

You can only make so much money by clicking your own ads. I've invested a huge amount of time into my sites to build high quality content and generate revenue for myself for years, may be even decades to come. An extra $100, or even $1000 to risk getting banned is an absolute joke.

I'm pretty suspicious, because all of the complaints I've heard about getting booted from Adsense (mostly on Sitepoint) come from people who just happened to find the board. No one has ever heard of them before.

I watch my stats closely. I've even alerted Google on occasion when things look strange, only to recieve a generic message. If I saw the stats that Victor had, from 2,000 pageviews with half a percentage clickthrough rate, to 21,000 with a 28% clickthrough rate, I would keep contacting Google until I was on the phone speaking to someone.

I've heard Google is pretty leniant when it comes to TOS violations. When it comes to click fraud, I've never heard of any one getting their account re-activated.

So, to answer your question Victor, you needed the software a week ago, not tommorow. I suspect that most of those pageviews came from one or two IPs, which would be easily viewable in something like AWstats.

[victornewman]

thanks Cutter,

according to you, for me it is so late, even i install the AWstats now, it can't tell me which IPs click my website during that period.

so could you give me some suggestion to make up for my present situation or i have no any choice.

thanks so much

[moonshield]

look at your raw logs and that should give you some information.

[victornewman]

thank moonshield,

do you think it is so late for me ?

[moonshield]

I have no clue.

[chromate]

I have actually heard of people getting their accounts reinstated. Unfortunately, I can't remember the specifics, but I think they were a couple of people over on sitepoint. These people may have had a long running clean history with Google AdSense. How long did you have your account for before you got banned?

Not a lot you can do really apart from look into it, then explain what you found to Google, including the measures you've taken to try and prevent it happening again in the future, and beg for them to let you back in.

Failing that - there's always YPN which many people have been doing much better with anyway. ;)

[James]

Doug, I wouldn't let any one at your college know what you are doing and how you make money. I've told people what I've done before, and they suddenly get the idea they'd like to help me out by clicking my ads (as soon as they say that, they don't get told my URLs)
Haha I told the kids in my class a few months ago, and they did the exact same thing. They hear I get money per click, and don't realize that it's not something that Google or the advertisers would really benifit from and is therefore not condoned.

I've heard of one or two people being let into AdSense after they had someone trying to get them booted from the program, once they took care of the problem causers.

[Cutter]

In the beginning I was very cautious. Now that my click volume is above 1,000 a day, I'm more comfortable telling people about what I do.

[Doug]

When Strange-Facts was still both mine and my friends, he tried clicking on the ads at school and telling other people to do so until I read the TOS and told him not to. It still didn't register any money though, and its lucky the account didn't get banned. No one has offered to "help" me at college though but usually people don't see me checking the stats anyway, and if they do, they don't really pay any mind to it.

[victornewman]

hello cutter,

I had checked my raw log information and didn't find anything suspicious.

You know I found there were some abnormal click in my google adsense account since the 15/November, then I take my google adsense code out of my website, that means there are no any ads click in my google adsense account. Unfortunately, everyday I still found there are about 300 click ads, even the number of impression is zero.
So I think it is my competitor copy my google adsense code to somewhere, not in my server, then he uses some illegal ways to click it. In other word, his aim is to disabled my google adsense account.

I wish someone could tell me what I should do,facing this disgusting situation? Or there is no way to avoid my google adsense disabled.

Finally, I want to know can I hide my google adsense code to prevent someone copy it from my website? Is there someone trying it?

Thanks so much

[Cutter]

If you are getting clicks with no page impressions on your server I would contact Google and tell them this. Its ultimately them them that chose what to do, not us.

[victornewman]

I found several ip with thousands of hits after furtherly analyzing my access log file, but my friend told me that apache log can only record proxy ip if some use a proxy.

Can you tell me how to record real ip in my access log file?
Thanks.

[r2d2]

I believe one of the points of using a proxy is to hide your real IP, so I don't think there is anyway of accessing a real IP from a proxy user - certainly not in your logs, that will just record where the request came from i.e., the proxy.

[Nintendo]

When you went from

22,454 419 1.9% $1.20 $26.88
43,227 836 1.9% $3.15 $136.31

to

29,594 5,383 18.2% $3.22 $95.39
21,731 6,185 28.5% $3.06 $66.59
43,550 7,688 17.7% $2.00 $86.93

you should of E-mailed Google, instead of leting them contact you!!! You had a atleast a week to let them know!! Then you could of used the E-mail and there reply to throw in there face if they dumped you!!!

[victornewman]

is there someone who can help me analyse the following data that i get from my raw log, this is just one day data.
218.174.161.187 15431 2 232211972
218.169.239.154 2853 1 46583784
211.75.91.3 2655 11 68989264
211.22.33.18 2520 5 80387168
218.88.76.218 2478 1 28385490
211.22.33.3 2429 7 64803263
202.156.6.62 2268 6 46324405
82.83.212.146 1933 2 31493802
211.22.33.2 1747 6 45812409
211.75.91.18 1738 4 60280221
218.164.226.9 1421 1 23202088
211.75.91.2 1378 5 48023465
211.76.97.249 1350 8 66854436
211.76.97.247 1286 7 32264834
211.75.91.19 1284 7 36091620
211.76.97.250 1226 11 31258132
211.76.97.246 1220 7 68006815
220.61.252.40 1062 2 17309422
125.233.7.131 947 1 12121600
202.156.6.51 639 3 17005508
202.156.6.60 585 4 17076480
211.22.33.19 578 5 15494176
24.225.198.15 520 1 6656000
67.15.183.6 407 6 12276314
59.114.221.120 355 1 4066525
67.15.100.200 292 6 6880851
142.163.168.144 290 1 3712000
67.15.100.210 284 7 7445589
67.15.183.2 276 6 6505184
67.15.183.3 273 5 7487145
67.15.183.5 271 6 7999998
61.131.60.106 270 1 3092850
67.15.151.110 252 6 7421189
203.144.160.247 240 7 1561504
60.209.110.188 232 1 2661571
67.15.183.4 209 5 5832157
217.69.255.69 208 1 2382640
60.56.133.178 202 5 7004099
69.41.173.145 202 6 5028832
67.15.151.80 200 4 5741471
211.115.69.146 193 5 4833275
221.202.237.243 192 1 3134976
67.15.151.100 189 4 4632905
129.234.4.1 181 1 2193060
66.32.84.81 180 4 6201239
203.144.160.246 178 6 169814239
218.28.13.50 175 1 2086670
220.135.124.37 167 4 5517170
202.156.6.53 167 3 102546733
80.195.5.4 161 4 5223810
203.144.143.6 159 5 1435591
24.83.97.94 158 1 1814788
61.254.101.228 157 4 6101868
67.15.151.90 154 6 3764272
202.180.83.7 146 4 3914138
67.180.247.217 141 4 3395680
62.252.64.30 141 7 3447772
67.15.183.8 141 5 3160307
222.78.19.144 139 1 2269592
210.158.49.186 139 4 4345155
203.144.160.245 136 5 1221149
203.144.143.2 134 5 1758019
61.18.170.5 132 4 6965897
61.18.186.130 131 4 6867305
203.155.1.245 131 2 37712
128.138.41.148 131 4 4321695
142.167.186.22 128 1 1466240
140.119.88.1 127 6 2743003
137.132.3.7 125 4 3946965
163.28.81.2 119 5 1948784
220.245.178.141 114 5 3280338
70.246.60.37 113 2 5441306
155.69.5.234 113 4 4135254
211.134.42.146 111 4 3832122
203.144.160.244 110 5 1653365
218.57.243.34 110 6 2403979
203.168.222.35 107 4 5228881


which iPs are suspicious?

thanks so much.