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Adsense gives me the boot

November 10th, 2005 at 3:44pm | No Comments

Google AdsenseAfter about 4 months of generating legitimate leads for Google Adsense, they kicked me out of the program stating “invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s)” [1].

I am guessing that this happened because I added a Google search bar to Spydar Redirection Service accounts in an attempt to help offset the bandwidth cost. Unfortunately, I think the content of a lot of the sites that use the service is questionable. I’m guessing I’ll never find out exactly why I was booted.

I earned about $200 USD but haven’t seen a cent yet. I sent an appeal e-mail, but haven’t received a response yet, nor do I expect one. Maybe I will have to try out Yahoo!’s program.

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