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Posted by Abdul on July 2, 2009

google-invalid-clicksI’ll start off with the facts about Google and their policy for no forgiveness on suspension of Google accounts whatsoever. Please note that the values given below are taken from the account suspension issue since January 2009.

  • More than 100 Google accounts are disabled every month for no reason.
  • Less than 1% of them are lucky enough to get their accounts enabled again.
  • The longest duration of suspension of a Google account that I found was 4 years. Which means: It’s been 4 years since the account was disabled, and Google still doesn’t forgive.
  • In my encounter only 1 out of 200 people was satisfied with Google’s official support for Google accounts and their suspension.
  • Surprisingly, around 20% of the blogs that had their accounts disabled were about Google or one of it’s product and their hacks, news, etc.
  • None of the people who had their accounts’ suspended received a notification from Google.

Now that I built the grounds for the talk let’s get on with the topic. If you’re a regular reader here then you must be familiar with my bad experience with Google in the past. There weren’t many, but one that was devastating enough for me when blogger disabled my account and of course blogger is a part of Google.

What I haven’t shared earlier was that the first Adsense account that I used was shared by me and my friend. We started off with it in 2007 and like a typical greedy teenager my friend clicked his ads a few times.

We got hit on the head with a stone that read, “Your account is disabled”. While  I was taking in charge I thought that it might be a small suspension and I would be re-accepted back. But as I speak of today, it has been 28 weeks since we got suspended from Adsense. We tried re-applying more than 50 times, but no luck.

Turned out that I wasn’t the only one who was bashed by Google on Adsense and Blogger. I mean I would do the same thing if I was in their shoes, but if a guy comes after 2 years and asks for re-instating his account then he might be serious.

What enforced me to write this article was that I recently happened to have a look at the stats for my article about blogger disabling my account and saw that it was gaining increasing visitors from search engines although it has been on top for those keywords for almost 6 months now.

Then, I happened to check on the blogger.com’s official forum and several other webmaster forums and I was surprised to find that there were more than 150 bloggers claiming that their accounts had been disabled for no reason. I had a good laugh when I read this reply by some person:

Ouch! I can see the red rash on your face from the hard slap from blogger. Don’t lose hope and create a new blog elsewhere or on blogger again if you still have a slice of trust for blogger and google. No need to rant about the disabled account. I’ve been roaming on the forums and Google’s contact forms like a wandering dog for a year and a half now to get my 15 blogs back and the dog’s brain tells me that it is as hopeless as a twilight obsessed girl. So please move on…

Another person wrote:

Don’t waste your time expecting a Google worker to come through this. They won’t help you – they don’t help anyone.

Those folks sure don’t sound too happy with Blogger’s support with their responses.

Since I’ve been getting quite a lot of people coming from search phrases like “Blogger Disabled Account”, I was fortunate enough to have a word with a few of those who left comments.

Around 60% switched to WordPress while the rest just quit blogging! I’ll tell you the most funny part of the whole story, I know spammers inside out. If Google deletes a Gmail account for spam, the spammer will create a new one.

If Google deletes one of their Adsense accounts for click fraud, they’ll have 10 other accounts running in no time. They’re professionals and in my opinion Google tries to take the frustration off by disabling the accounts of innocent users.

The bottom line is, Google thinks that it is acting very smart with it’s account suspension policy but I suppose they would also not know the shocking facts that I listed out here. In case they did, it’s not very nice of them to overlook that.

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Filed Under: Blogging, Internet - Comments: 22 Comments to Read


  • Make Money Online said,

    I agree with you dude, you know why? Because I’m one of the Adsense user who get banned for almost 2 years. Now I’m using my sister Adsense account, I’ve cashed out for 2times. Recently I write another letter to Google to ask for reconsideration. I hope they will read and consider it again. But just as you say, the % might be as low as 0..=.=”
    Anyway, Google is really strict when comes to reinstate banned adsense account.

    Regards,
    Lee

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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:
    July 3rd, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    It’s either that they are really strict or they don’t want to re-instate them. Recently, a few of people like us sued google and google lost for recovering the money they had in their adsense accounts when their account got disabled. Google’s attorney was really laid off.

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    Make Money Online Reply:
    July 3rd, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    Yea, sometimes Google banned people for no reason and the Adsense user might lose all their hard core cash. End up everyone hates Google Adsense. I won’t hate them because I did some naughty action, click fraud. I done it when I didn’t know about the potential of making money with Adsense. But it’s too late to know and I have no longer getting back my Adsense account. I think Google just lazy to do reconsideration process, it may takes them some times to complete, that’s why people who get banned will never have the 2nd chance.

    Regards,
    Lee

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  • Hendrik said,

    Great news for me. I don’t want to blame anyone here. Yet, I am sure that google has a reason to do it for you or might be they got worried about their system because of lot of people use the facility from blogger. Yet, I will also complain the same thing as you if I get the problem as you are. It’s very disappointing for us to be blamed with no reason at all.

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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:
    July 11th, 2009 at 1:11 am

    Yeah, all we can do is wonder that what that reason would be.

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    Jg Reply:
    July 26th, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    i tried to start a blog with blogger and use adsense. registered. and the next day it says account disabled. never even clicked on anything. i thought google is a “dont be evil” kind of company. lol

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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:
    July 27th, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    So you learned your google lesson. :lol:

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  • BingoLive said,

    Google is really very strict against their user. Your way to aware the Google users is very impressive and easy to understand. I will keep it in mind.

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    wow,nice blog!!!!keep it up,,,,,,,.

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  • Ridiculous blogger said,

    I believe that you are referring to Adsense and not the whole Google company.

    I still believe that Google will bring back your lost pr if you are going to abide to their rules.

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  • negosyanteako.com said,

    my friends account was also banned for no reason. his question is? is his site banned or his name? or both? because he created a new account and submitted the same website to googe but his application is denied.

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    Pretty catchy title you’ve got there. You must have conducted some research on that stuff. Nice work! :D

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    Abdulrehman Agha Reply:
    July 15th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    You bet. I searched a lot about it, especially on forums

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  • ubieranki said,

    I didn’t know that google is so opressive and (sometimes) unfair force. But I think that could be because of it’s size… Every giant doesn’t feel his legs…

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  • Earn money said,

    Awesome article, not to mention that I have also had a bad experience with blogger.

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  • Koncerty said,

    Cool article. Thanks for sharing.

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  • Kushagra said,

    I also got my adsense account disabled but now I use chitika premium and earning a lot with it.:)
    Thanks for informing that they do not enable it again (I appealed more than 5 times for this issue and they didn’t even replied):(

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  • social phobia said,

    This is what makes me distrust google’s adsense.

    If they don’t like something I’m doing, which could be something I know absolutely nothing about, they could just ban me for life, just like that.

    and I hear they don’t even let you make a new account under the same name. You have to use your sister’s name instead or something.

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  • blogger7777 said,

    i’m sick with this disabled thing. i have no ads yet to touch and all my posts are written by me. so why the hell do they so no? i am thinking of quitting blogging to if thats how it is…and what are the paid to click websites for…i dont get them. how do i start with them?

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