Comments on: Google Adsense – what a waste of bloody time

By: samiha esha

samiha esha — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:11:25 +0000

well nice piece of article….thanks i got some clear idea about google Advertise…:)

Regards,
Samiha Esha

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:28:44 +0000

Google.com and maps.google are the only good things by google so far, they make all there extra money from the free advertising that they make from canceling peoples accounts, this also happened to me, i was due about $120 but i am guessing that some people may have spammed it, and google canceled my account.
Ever since this i have lots lots of trust in google.
I would rather google deduct the spam money then cancel the account all together.

By: Darren Straight

Darren Straight — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:26:48 +0000

Damn, why did it have to happen to you as well!

Were not alone though as you can see, and theres plenty of other peeps out there with the same problem.

By: Andre Nogueira

Andre Nogueira — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:51:27 +0000

That’s the problem with Google Ads – it’s VERY easy to cancel a competitor’s account. And from what I’ve seen on the web, it’s very hard to dispute them.

Go the route everyone seems to be going these days: create a blog about your problem, where you post everything you’ve done to get your problem solved, and put the blog on Digg

By: Patrick S

Patrick S — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:42:12 +0000

We had the same problem from the begining… google cancelled out account-we didnt really have “lots” of money in there but the fact of the matter is we were wrongly shutdown… It really annoys me…we are back with google adsense however but it sitll annoys me I/We could have had several “payouts” by now if we had that money.

I can see where everybody is coming from.
Abuse them Zack and show them this post… it may sway things-they are gtting a bad rep

Regards,
Patrik

By: Cristi

Cristi — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:10:27 +0000

Ok, I didn’t like Google from the beggining…except their search engine. In rest.. it sucks! And this is another clear example.
But one question – if you were rejected, why is their ads still present on this site?

By: Yosef

Yosef — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:10:57 +0000

I got rid of my google ads. The space they take up and the ugliness of the design didn’t justify the pennies I was receiving every day. Plus all of the ads were totally off base – nothing my users would be interested in.

By: Jason Cox

Jason Cox — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:10:08 +0000

Thats just another reason why I refuse to use Google ads on any of the websites I operate.

By: John

John — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:08:20 +0000

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By: Patrick Elliott [MS]

Patrick Elliott [MS] — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:11:20 +0000

Frederic – That’s too funny. Guess we rank #1 in the search listings and it’s re-directing

By: Frederic MENI

Frederic MENI — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:02:36 +0000

Hi Zack,

Well it doesn’t surprise me coming from Google…

To forget about that: go to Google.com homepage, type “search” and click “I’m Feeling Lucky” ^^

Try to have a nice day,

Fred

By: Daryl Nicholas

Daryl Nicholas — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:02:38 +0000

Use Yahoo Publisher ads. They pay better, espacially if your ‘spammers’ are from the US.

By: Juan Carlos Pazos

Juan Carlos Pazos — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:44:07 +0000

This seems to be a common practice of Google. My wife and me have multiple web sites, and many of the was in Adsense program. As you and your friend, one day exactly the same letter.

That was sometime ago (more than a year), my wife was near $300.00 and me about $100.00. As we are from latinamerica, thought that this happen only with people like us that can not demand Google for do this to us.

Hope you can find some war to take this too courts, Google can not says just “you violated our policies”. There has to be a better explaneation that this because this always happen when the account is with near to 100 or more.

Kindest regards (hope Microsoft could have a better advertiser programa than Google).