The company disables AdSense accounts

May 21, 2007 21:06 GMT  ·  By

Numerous AdSense members are now sustaining that they received some "friendly" notifications from Google concerning their advertising accounts. It seems that the Mountain View company is now aiming to remove AdSense arbitrageurs that are using AdWords and other advertising solutions to boost their site's traffic and enhance their revenues with AdSense. Although there is no official reason for these notifications, a considerable number of users received the email sustaining that their account will be removed on June 1.

"I to got the "friendly account disablement" email today, May 18. It came out of the blue. It says my business model is not a good fit for AdSense and that the account goes down on June 1. Payment will be made normally though. I am a UPS club+ size publisher. I will be the first to admit that I have been running substantial arbitrage and MFA sites. They have just grown exponentially lately due to all the efficient AdWords tools. Yet, MFA and arbritage is not a breach of TOS in and of itself right?" a WebmasterWorld member sustained today.

The Google advertising platform is quite important for most publishers, as the product is more than a simple solution for most of them. As you might know, the AdSense advertising platform allows users to earn money with ease by placing adverts on their websites. Every time a visitors clicks on the adverts, a certain amount of money is transferred to the users? accounts. When a certain target is reached, the search giant sends a check to the user.

"I admit that they are not the greatest user experience out there. Yet I do believe they do comply with the specifics of the TOS, there are no blatant breaches. I run dozens of sites/domains with AdSense and I have been careful to abide with the specifics in the letters of the TOS," the user added.