Google adsense account disabled?

This person just received a "Google adsense account disabled" notification.

It's true. Such a message is prone to swing someone into rampant anger and furious chaos, causing them to throw chairs and scream "armageddon is here! Save Yourselves!"

Well, perhaps not quite. But I've known several people who have had their adsense accounts disabled, and it is not fun. Some of them were earning $1000 per month in revenue from adsense and having those earnings terminated and halted caused an instant and sudden stop of their passive income flow.

If you've had this happen to you, do not fear. Take a deep breath and continue reading.

Reasons adsense accounts get disabled

There are hundreds of reasons a Google adsense account disabled message can appear. Two of the more common ones are:
1. Someone abusing your website. In other words, refreshing the page all day long and clicking your ads like there's no tomorrow. This causes your adsense stats to be inflated and is a form of fraud.
2. Your account undergoes a drastic change in ad impressions. I mean it has to be a huge change. I once had a change from 1,000 impressions per day to 15,000 the next and this caused no problems. But say for example you have been receiving 300 impressions per day growing at a steady pace for 6 months up to 1,000 impressions, then the following hour you receive 50,000 impressions in one hour. This can cause your adsense account to be "flagged" and disabled.

"But it's not my fault" I hear people saying

Your Google adsense account disabled? It's not the end of the world, because as is clear above, it's not always our fault that this happens. In fact sometimes we have no control over it at all.

How to get your account back

"Google adsense account disabled" does not mean that the account has been terminated for good. It also does not mean that Google hates you. You'll still be able to use GMail and other Google services, and it IS possible to re-instate your account.

1. E-mail Google.
2. E-mail Google again.
3. E-mail Google again after 1 month if there is still no response.

I have gotten through to Google Support on a number of occasions and I know from personal experience that people have gotten their account re-enabled after contacting Google and explaining the situation (with evidence and stats to back it up).
It might take 2 months or longer, but if it wasn't your fault (if you didn't breach the adsense TOS) the chances are you will get your account back.

Personal advice

Here is the Number 1 piece of personal advice I have to offer on this subject -
"Diversification of Passive Income"

1. Never depend on just a single source of passive income online. This is just not a good idea. Google adsense is not the single site that disables accounts for reasons such as the above. CJ, AdBrite, and almost all other ad serving companies have similar policies.
2. Create more income streams to minimise potential losses. Have at least 5 streams of income. If one goes down for a short or long period the losses are just 20% of the full income flow.
3. Have a back-up plan.

Why Google Adsense Works

Google Adsense works because of relevance. The ads that Google shows on a website is relevant to the website's content. This ensures that more clicks come from the website's audience. For example, you have a website or page about 'plasma television sets'. The ads that Google will place on your page would be about 'plasma television sets' or something that matches very closely. Of course, your visitor will be interested in these ads and click, earning you and your website a few pennies and sometimes up to a few dollars.
This is known as Google Adsense for content and Google will pay for each click. Google will also pay 'per-thousand-impressions' (CPM). This is particularly useful if your site has lots of visitors. It means that every thousand unique visits your site gets as long as it has Adsense ads on it you will get paid.

Getting the Most Out Of Google Adsense.

So how do you make more money with Google Adsense?

• Adsense Blocks - The better the adsense ads blend in with your page theme the more natural it would look and the more clicks they would get since people wont see them as ads but rather a part of your page.
• More Traffic - The more visitors you get the more clicks you are likely to get. Always stive to write quality content that people would want to read and use keywords in the title of your pages so that they would get higher in the search engines where more people will see your site or page.
• Do Not Click - Don't be tempted to click on your own ads. Google will ban your account if they find out. How will they find out? Trust me, they will.

How does Google Adsense work?

One of the most popular questions about Google Adsense is 'How does it work?' Many users of blogspot making money with Google Adsense but do they really know how it works? I guess some do and the others probably don't care. As long as they are making some money, right?

Adsense is one of Google's advertising programs. Another one of Google's advertising programs is Adwords which is the source of the ads used for the Adsense program. Adwords users would pay money to run these ads so that they themselves can generate money by sending people to their websites.

Website owners known as publishers can sign up with Google Adsense free of cost and get to place these ads on their websites. When an ad is clicked on, Google will pay the publisher about half of what the Adwords advertiser is paying to run the ad. Google gets the other half.