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Google Can Eat My Shorts!
By admin | May 31, 2007
-Looking at my logs it seems a lot of people missed my announcement of a new blog I openened, dedicated to the Google Adsense victims. Here’s a repost of my story. Everyone that had problems with Adsense can register on the blog and post their story. Use your freedom of speech..-
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I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Googlestolemymoney.com, a blog dedicated to the victims of the world-wide Google Adsense Scam.
You probably ended up here because you were looking for answers why your Google Adsense account got banned and why Google stole your money. If it’s any relief; You’re not alone and I’m offering you the opportunity to be heard.
I will tell you my story.
Ignorance is bliss.
After I started blogging in March this year I soon came to realize that there was money to be made on the internet by making use of advertising on your site. One of the first things you will find on your quest for advertisers is Google Adsense and it seemed to be a socially accepted way of earning some money on the side with your blog. As Google is a well known company which carries the “You can make money without doing evil” slogan I figured that this was the way to go.
Time is money. 
After signing up I received an email stating my site was currently under review to see if it met the Google standards. 2 days later I got the green light and could log in to my Adsense account. How exciting! It seemed my time to make money online had come and eagerly I started setting up my stuff. I spent hours learning and discovering how the Adsense mechanics worked and set out to create and tweak banners and adblocks for my blog. Creating and trying the ads isn’t the only time consuming work. After all, you need to start placing them in strategical places on your blog to try and maximize your ad revenue. What did I learn? I now know how to create ads with the Adsense engine. Wonder if I can put that on my resume.
The pot calling the kettle black.
Fast-forward 2,5 months. My “employer”, Google Adsense, sent me another email. This time the content was not as positive as their letter of acceptance;“It has come to our attention that invalid clicks and/or impressions have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that this was a necessary step to protect the interests of AdWords advertisers.”
So what about the interests of Adwords publishers? I adhered to all the rules of the Program’s Policies and generated over 70,000 legal ad impressions for your advertisers and this is how you thank me? Calling me a cheater and stealing $110,98 USD I earned? The ban extends to all sites I own, I can’t put adsense up anywhere for life!
No satisfactory explanation is given, my willingness to fully cooperate in an investigation, handing over any server logs you might want to have a look at, is ignored and the only excuse you come up with is;”Due to the proprietary nature of our algorithm, we cannot disclose any details about how our monitoring technology works or what specifics we found on your account.”
I am very disappointed in you and your system Google and hope that someday in the future you will find a way to make all your wrong-doing right again for the people that made you who you are today. us.
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November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am
June 1st, 2007 at 2:37 am
Hi Bob
Your graphic of the burnt Google logo was AWESOME!! Uber-Cool……….
June 1st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
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June 1st, 2007 at 3:33 pm
This whole Google AdSense thing is really disturbing. I don’t mind them shutting down the bad guys, but their unwillingness to work with folks that might have mistakenly accused is atrocious.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I’ve posted an update on Google stole my money. Hoping to get more people to post their story so Google will hear us.