Small fansites and blogs beware Google are thieves

By Steve on Sep 18, 2007 | In The News as it happens, General Information | 6 feedbacks »

Having been a subscriber to Google Adsense to create some revenue to cover the cost of the blog web hosting, after about 2 years I reached enough to claim a payment of about $75.

As my claim went through they decided I had generated "invalid click activity" anyone who knows me knows that I am about as honest as you can get and always stick by the rules, in Runescape, in life and Google.

Its funny how they didn't tell me until they had received 2 years of free advertising on many of my popular sites.

How many companies do you know who can say thanks for your services but we have decided not to pay you, sorry case is close go away?

They say it is a way to protect their adword advertisers, >:XX I use adwords and there are phrases I and other businesses in the same sector have stopped using bacause of click fraud and Google didnt mind taking £300 a month off of me for that.

They are not allowed to tell me what was wrong where the invalid click activity came from or anything, If I knew I would rectify it immediatly if I could, so with Google you get 1 shot at adsense if they decide not to pay you for their web presence on your site they have the right.

I guess I will lose my ranking in Google search engine now for saying this, I dont think they believe in civil rights and free speach, well they dont believe in accountability.

I will be adding another search engine to our blog shortly and some more accountable and selected sponsers adverts, please use them and enjoy their benefits to help keep this blog going.


Comment from: Chris [Visitor] · http://www.rshaven.com
Google have been known to close AdSense accounts especially before the first payout. I have no doubt that innocent webmasters have been booted from their system as a result of their fairly abrupt and without warning bans.

That said if you are potentially looking for some related adverting to put on your site to help pay the bills I could be interested in advertising some of my Runescape sites on your blog. Feel free to email me or PM me on RS Boards - www.rsboards.com - my username is Chris.
18/09/07 @ 14:56
Comment from: vaskor [Member] Email · http://runescapereader.blogspot.com/
That's really discouraging. Is it a final answer from Google?
19/09/07 @ 03:24
Comment from: Steve [Member] · http://www.mflshop.co.uk
Yep you have one shot at an appeal, and if its rejected that is it, no reason, no proof, no nothing.

And after the appeal you must never contact them again.

At one stage I was spending £300 a month on adwords on my business website, I bet they don't refuse to take payment for that.

I suggest you contact them before you give them free advertising for years to see if they will pay you or not.

If any other business did this it would be against the law.
19/09/07 @ 08:57
Comment from: Dube [Visitor] Email · http://www.dube.wordpress.com
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Wow, that is sad! Maybe I should reconsider using Google Adsense.
12/02/08 @ 22:17
Comment from: Chris [Visitor]
Google are in fact thieves.
I am a Google Adwords advertiser. A year ago I closed my account and asked for a refund. This is a regular arrangement in the Adwords agreement, so nothing unusual. I have asked them for about 20 times now but they don't pay me back my money. And they don't allow me to use the money to advertise again. So Google also steals money from their advertisers. I would certainly advise no one to invest any money in Adwords, beacuase in the end, they will steal it from you. To hell with them, they are just thieves.
28/02/08 @ 21:35
Comment from: dawn early [Visitor] · http://www.runescapeblog.co.uk/
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for want you want on runescape and more, plz send what you want and ammount of coins you want to [removed]@hotmail.com in the form of a email. name subject of email (runescape help) and be sure to include name and password of account. NOT trying to hack you, just want to help fellow runescape players.
14/06/08 @ 06:22

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