I know that I am innocent, but Google can’t really know that, and they certainly can’t be expected to believe that all of our fans are innocent, too. If these supportive clicks went unchecked, AdSense would be basically worthless.ĪdSense is a basically good program from which innocent webmasters must be banned, before their overenthusiastic supporters tear down the system. When ordinary people click on ads to “support” webmasters, they undermine the value of AdSense to advertisers. But AdSense’s value to writers and developers comes from the advertisers that pay for ads those advertisers are paying for potential customers. I’ve heard more than one Googler describe an AdSense appeal as a “kangaroo court.” Where else can you be required to testify in absentia, without access to the evidence against you? Where a single autocratic judge decides whether or not you’ll be banned for life?īut despite how ridiculous this appeals process is, I understand its purpose if I were in Google’s position, I’d probably do the same thing.ĪdSense has done a lot of good for a lot of writers and developers whom I very much respect. Google’s AdSense appeals process seems completely ridiculous on its face, and it is. On the face of it, you’d think I’d be more upset with Google. In this blog post, I discuss my personal feelings about this turn of events. In the first post, I explained how Google has banned us from AdSense in the second post, I wrote about our best guess as to why they banned us. This is the third blog post in a series of posts on Google AdSense.
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