I am a new member as well as newbie in this webmaster world. Actually I am a seasonal programmer and recently I am moving to web application development. I didn't know about Google Ads until one of my friend told me about it few months ago. To give it a try, I started to blog about programming topics (not interesting stuffs though) about three months ago. I told about it to my friends. So far so good it was going well. To my surprise, I got a warning message from Adsense stating that I got invalid clicks and might get banned from program just after two weeks I started blogging. It was automated message. What surprised me is that how did I get clicks while my topics are so boring. I suspected that some of my friend did that on purpose either to impress me or to mess with me. I asked (whom I used to call) my friends about it but they denied. I checked my account and found out that I didn't get banned however I earned few bucks (about $10) after a month of blogging and I have no idea how did it happened.

Recently I came up with an new idea, developed an simple application and just starting to host via hosting company (shared hosting). My site is online for about 3 weeks and of course with Google Ads. During this time I am still fixing minor issues regarding the design and other stuffs. I am planning to advertise my site with AdWords but before that I wanted to tell locals about it so they can spread a word. Currently I am informing various internet cafe's around my area. On the process my friends knew about my new site also. Again two days ago, I got a mail from Adsense informing that my adsense account have been disabled.

The exact cause was not revealed but the message was

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Now I don't know what to do. I am screwed up even before I started. The letter doesn't mention what was the cause unlike the letter I received before. I suspect again somebody is jealous and tried to mess it up.

What I remember is while I was bug fixing the site after it has been hosted, I looked at my own pages to confirm its right but never clicked on my own ads. I don't think it will cause the termination like this. Currently I cannot blame anybody since I don't have any proof of who did that but biggest problem is how to convince the Google that I am innocent? I guess I am guilty as charged but not with my own doing but because of somebody I don't know.

I've read the FAQ on Disabled Account and appealed to reinstate my account using the appeal form the same day I got mail stating that it was not my fault but I couldn't provide the raw log file because when I downloaded the copy of log file from my hosting server, it showed my only the log of that day (not day before). I guess it is lost forever. Only today I found out that I can enable an option to achieve the raw log files daily in my cpanel. I guess this makes me more guilty. However, I can still check the IP addresses which accessed my pages via AwStats that my hosting company provides but it is not informative as raw log files.

I have searched about this and read few posting here in webmaster world dated 2005 with similar cases but I don't know how to explain my situation to Google or will they even believe this situation? Its been two days I haven't got any answer. Is it a good idea to re-appeal? Can I re-appeal with the copy of my AwStats log again? or how long should I wait before re-appealing again?

I considered Google for my long term plan. I was just getting started with my first ever web project. I had few other ideas which I might work it out in future but I am already out even before I got started.

I think my greatest mistake is:

1. All the things I did is from the nearest internet cafe I have access to. My blog and this new website. I uploaded the contents from the cafe. The cafe owner knows about my blogs and projects. Could he have done that to ruin my work?

Currently money is not the priority. I am willing to give back all the money which was not earned genuinely. What I want is my account back. How can I explain this to Google?

Any expert suggestion is greatly appreciated.

[edited by: martinibuster at 7:51 am (utc) on April 16, 2009]
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