Comments on: New Google Adsense cheque record reached!

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:54:46 +0000

Damn that’s annoying, sheesh, can’t believe they won’t look into it!

By: Marius de Beer

Marius de Beer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:54:00 +0000

I have. I appealed the suspension. They replied (very formally, as usual) that they suspect click fraud (no shit, right?) and their decision is final.

So it’s done.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:33:47 +0000

@Marius – Have you tried contacting Google and asking them for an explanation? I worry about this sort of thing more often than I should as well..

By: Marius de Beer

Marius de Beer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:31:16 +0000

Which reminds me: I miss the good old days when you could track down someone’s home address if you knew his IP.

Now (almost) everything runs through proxies, which makes it much more difficult.

I will find this obsessive compulsive clicking idiot though. Watch for me in the news…

By: Marius de Beer

Marius de Beer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:27:28 +0000

Some idiot went and clicked 69 times (!!!!!!!!!) on the same ad on one of my sites…
Google has now suspended my adsense account, and I lost something like $145 in the process. They have now also banned 4 of my domains (which are now worthless to me)

Who knows why someone would go and do something as stupid and vindictive (imo) like that.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:23:25 +0000

My pleasure Bret :)

By: bretdugmore

bretdugmore — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:07:09 +0000

Fantastic!

Will follow up on those.

Thank’s for the great blog Chris.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:42:31 +0000

I will have a think about it for you, the other two that I use are OfferForge & TrafficSynergy. I have written about them in the past, so you could try doing a search on my website, alternatively, take a peak into my Forum, there's an online marketing section.

By: bretdugmore

bretdugmore — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:25:16 +0000

Yeah that must be a great feeling :D. Nice work!

Chris, please write us an article: “Working alternatives to Adsense, for South Africans”

Would go down a treat, and be much appreciated by myself and many others.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:54:33 +0000

Bret, it’s a great feeling isn’t it! I’ve received over 20 cheques from them and I still get a smile on my face when I receive one, not because it’s money, but simply because it’s from Google ;)