Why should google grok your whole blog and what it is about especially as you are new user. This would seem real costly? Unless you deserve special treament?

Appealing to authority by grassing someone else up, d’oh, c’mon man – you called them on this and they are obligated to check it out, this is beyond obvious.

Seems like you got a lot of responses pretty quick that helped you deal with the issue at hand.

I will be intersted in your analysis when you have collated more data but this analysis strikes me as a little bit petulant, as they say: “get over yourself”.
I am only dissapointed in this article because of your usual excellence so keep up the good work.

Then you report someone else who was erring, and get upset when they say they will follow this up?

I am sorry, your emails and arguments to google appear at the level of a school yard argument. Google stated there rules – whether you like them or not, they make them and they are not that unreasonable. But you feel that they should change them for you?

I myself haven’t read your blog before, so I don’t know your site that well either – but unless you are a teenager, you really have no excuse for this mindless exchange.

There are plenty of things wrong with google, this is not one of them.

I feel that this is the way google does it with smalltime publishers

I had been running their contextual text links on a half dozen of my sites.. after I had earned about $400, they sent me an “invalid clicks” email which looked like it wasn’t even written by a human. I had no idea what they were talking about, and I promptly asked what was up, and nicely offered to fix the problem..

They ignored my responses and I never did see the money.

I would suggest that folks avoid AdSense like the plague. I searched around about this “invalid clicks” issue, and it seems to happen to a lot of people, and it always seems to happen when it’s getting close to payout time. Maybe this is part of a plan to increase their margins?

I’ve since swapped out all my CPC Google AdSense ads with CPA ads from AzoogleAds. I’m making WAY more money with them, and the checks show up on time every month when they’re supposed to. No lame excuses or reps hiding under their desks.

I have earned over $200,000 USD lifetime with them, and I’ve been paid on time every time. I would strongly suggest that folks check them out, and stop running Google AdSense ads on your sites before you get burned too. It seems to be standard protocol. It’s quite unpleasant to drive in thousands of legitimate clicks over the course of a few months for an advertiser, and then get screwed by them when it comes time for them to square up.

I’d also like to mention that I’m NOT an employee of AzoogleAds, nor am I trying to just spam their name out. I have had great personal experiences with them, and I think they’re a rock solid Internet marketing agency.

…and they’ve never burned me like Google AdSense did.. even on 5 figure checks.

Two Thumbs Up!
Whammy

The only thing I can figure out that happened is that I clicked on some of the links. I mean my site is about something that interests me. So if Adsense works correctly the ads should interest me as well? Am I not a legitimate consumer? I certainly understand if one click on links just to get revenue , but because one has a legitimate interest? Come on. I e-mailed them several times and all I get are canned responses.

In my personal opinion Adsense is a great technolgy that is very poorly administered. They are making too much money from it to care one bit about customer service…to the publishers. Try any other service possible and avoid adsense at all costs!! I am trying CrispAds right now and the nice thing is that I have e-mailed a real person with a real e-mail address.