I received an email with the subject "Your AdSense Publisher Policy Violation Report" which at first was a bit concerning. The report stated:
In the last 24 hours
New violations were detected. As a result, ad serving has been restricted or disabled on pages where these violations of the AdSense Program Policies were found.
For anyone using Adsense to generate income this type of report is a concern. I visited my adsense account to find someone had visit one of my sites using a proxy server at my-addr.org.
I checked my site and it was still serving ads. Things didn't make sense.
I checked the raw site logs and it appears someone with an IP address based in France visited my site. Based on the time involved (around three minutes) and their queries (information entered into the form) it looks like it may have been a real person. They were using Firefox as their browser.
Google Adsense reported six violations, which equates to one violation per each page the person visited. Google Adsense also reported it was a malware violation.
My best guess is the person's computer is infected with malware and when they visit a page, in the background the malware is effectively clicking on ads.
All of this is outside of my control and it would be a concern if Google Adsense suspended sites based on this. However, in this case Google Adsense appears to have suspended the pages using the proxy site address and not the actual site. That makes sense. At least they've not suspended my actual site.
In the back of my mind I always have this very unsettling feeling that Google will terminate my Adsense account for something that happens outside of my control. The lack of being able to contact Google directly in the past when their systems incorrectly disabled my blogs due to a technical issue, showed me how exposed I can be.
At least for the moment Google adsense continues to work and I don't have a problem. Even though I'd received the email for a violation and my Adsense account contains violation alerts. Google Adsense has apparently suspended pages, but they're not actually my pages and thus have no affect on me.
I share this story in the hope it helps to explain what happened to me and that might help someone else.
Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
IT support.
In the last 24 hours
New violations were detected. As a result, ad serving has been restricted or disabled on pages where these violations of the AdSense Program Policies were found.
For anyone using Adsense to generate income this type of report is a concern. I visited my adsense account to find someone had visit one of my sites using a proxy server at my-addr.org.
I checked my site and it was still serving ads. Things didn't make sense.
I checked the raw site logs and it appears someone with an IP address based in France visited my site. Based on the time involved (around three minutes) and their queries (information entered into the form) it looks like it may have been a real person. They were using Firefox as their browser.
Google Adsense reported six violations, which equates to one violation per each page the person visited. Google Adsense also reported it was a malware violation.
My best guess is the person's computer is infected with malware and when they visit a page, in the background the malware is effectively clicking on ads.
All of this is outside of my control and it would be a concern if Google Adsense suspended sites based on this. However, in this case Google Adsense appears to have suspended the pages using the proxy site address and not the actual site. That makes sense. At least they've not suspended my actual site.
In the back of my mind I always have this very unsettling feeling that Google will terminate my Adsense account for something that happens outside of my control. The lack of being able to contact Google directly in the past when their systems incorrectly disabled my blogs due to a technical issue, showed me how exposed I can be.
At least for the moment Google adsense continues to work and I don't have a problem. Even though I'd received the email for a violation and my Adsense account contains violation alerts. Google Adsense has apparently suspended pages, but they're not actually my pages and thus have no affect on me.
I share this story in the hope it helps to explain what happened to me and that might help someone else.
Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
IT support.
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