10 Months Ad Restriction AdSense Account

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10 Months Ad Restriction AdSense Account

ClaxMan

8:00 am on Sep 13, 2021 (gmt 0)

I have a website with6500 unique visitors daily. Since about January my AdSense account has been restricted for invalid traffic. Ads appear for 3-5 days in 1-2 months. It is then restricted again. I've had this problem for about 10 months.

When I look at the analytical statistics,61% Direct, 18% Organic Search, 13% Social and 9% Referral logins are provided to my site within 1 month. There are also entries from 200 different countries.

There are referenced entries on 686 different sites during the month. I made a lot of edits to get rid of the ad restriction. But I didn't get any solution. Looking forward to your suggestions on this.

[edited by: martinibuster at 4:49 pm (utc) on Sep 13, 2021]
[edit reason] Screenshots unnecessary [/edit]

not2easy

2:37 pm on Sep 13, 2021 (gmt 0)

Hello ClaxMan and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

What messages do you see when you visit the AdSense Policy Center, is there any actionable information shown? Or is that what the editing you mention has been about?

NickMNS

3:09 pm on Sep 13, 2021 (gmt 0)

It looks pretty straight forward. Much of your traffic and clicks are coming from Iran, Nigeria, Thailand and Indonesia much more than would be expected normally, this is likely causing the invalid click activity. More so that the traffic is coming in direct or through SM, which is spurious. Block these countries, and you should resolve the problem, you will also cut your traffic by half.

ClaxMan

5:46 pm on Sep 14, 2021 (gmt 0)

Ad serving has been limited

The number of ads you can show has been limited
Details
Ad serving on your account is currently being limited due to invalid traffic concerns. We�ll automatically review and update this limit as we continue to monitor your traffic. Learn more about ad serving limits.

What you can do
Make sure you understand your ad traffic and site visitors. Never click on your own ads, and avoid partnering with untrusted or low-quality parties. Learn more about preventing invalid traffic. While this ad serving limit typically impacts publishers for less than 30 days, it may take longer in some cases.

not2easy

7:39 pm on Sep 14, 2021 (gmt 0)

And have you followed through the links to "Learn more about preventing invalid traffic"? You could limit the countries if you are using a CDN service such as cloudflare. If you do not take any preventive steps, AdSense may decide to limit ad serving more.

A recent case with similar traffic patterns here: [webmasterworld.com...] had their AdSense account closed for continued high clawbacks on invalid traffic and their traffic sources were some of the same you showed.