Tis Halloween! What's your biggest Adsense scare?

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Tis Halloween! What's your biggest Adsense scare?

andrewshim

1:19 am on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

Mine was when I re-designed my site a year ago. Uploaded everything and got a shock two days later when my page impressions / clicks / earnings showed ZERO!

Problem : I cut and pasted an IMAGE of my adsense ads as a placeholder while testing my site and forgot to replace them with the actual scripts.

Duhhhhhhh.

greatstart

2:57 am on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

Mine is after getting smart-priced, averaging less than 4 cents per click!

david_uk

7:51 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

I think that would be when I mistyped my own url into the browser, only to find a different site with different adsense ads! I had a major panic only to find I'd landed on a domain parked site that had a horrifiyingly similar name to my site!

After a period of many years, I've now made my site one of my favourites! Seems safer somehow.

europeforvisitors

8:02 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

It wasn't a scare, really, but more of a jolt:

A couple of autumns ago, I had an extra $1,300's worth of clicks in a single day for no apparent reason. I drew Google's attention to the obvious clickbot attack, they said "thanks," and that was that.

Bddmed

8:18 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

Having to post "I'm banned from Google and I didn't anything wrong".

Mohamed

8:59 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

[ Having to post "I'm banned from Google and I didn't anything wrong".

me too!

[edited by: Mohamed at 9:01 pm (utc) on Oct. 31, 2006]

bhartzer

9:10 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

Biggest AdSense scare?

The last time I went to log in and it said "username and password do not match".

I was scared because I thought they had disabled my account...and turned out that I had mistyped my email address.

level80

10:06 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

The way when you give feedback to report another site outrageously breaching the T&Cs or Programme Policies and they send you an email confirming receipt of your message with the subject line:-

"Adsense Policy Violation"

which makes you automatically start thinking they have an issue with your site, not somebody else's. I don't think Google fully appreciates the panic an email with that subject line can cause to an Adsense publisher.

sailorjwd

10:16 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

My scariest thought has been that the stress from adsense decline would cause me to start hearing voices again.

Speaking to me about evil doers...

shhhhhh...

did you hear that?

LifeinAsia

10:18 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

I don't think Google fully appreciates the panic an email with that subject line can cause to an Adsense publisher.

Quite the opposite- I think Googlers (Googlites? Googlians? Googligans?) have a perverted sense of humor and they know EXACTLY what type of panic it can cause.

andrewshim

10:26 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

I was scared because I thought they had disabled my account...and turned out that I had mistyped my email address.

yeah... first thing that crosses every adsenser's mind when that happens me thinks!

level80

10:36 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

Yeah but if they do that they email you about it, from what I've read of the "ahh, I've been banned from Adsense" threads.