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If Google wants to help small businesses, they should start by stopping their practice of defrauding it's Adsense publishers. $30k MRR gone overnight alongside
by hienyimba 7y ago
If Google wants to help small businesses, they should start by stopping their practice of defrauding it's Adsense publishers.
$30k MRR gone overnight alongside $40k already earned in Adsense income siezed by Google. All this happened early this month of March, effectively crippling our ability to take care of employees and survive the Covid-19 crisis.
Such hypocrisy.
- judge2020 7y agoIn an attempt to cut its own cost, Google effectively automates everything, even in terms of detecting abuse (eg. clickjacking or click fraud) and advertisements that go against their rules (I think even in terms of mentioning Covid-19 in ads since I haven't seen any ads mentioning anything about "virus"/"covid"/etc at all this month). I wouldn't doubt you got hit by this automated system. Maybe you should write a blog on this.
- hienyimba 7y agoYou would think that by making them so much money (they take 40% of income), you would be entitled to speak to a human. We have always followed their guidelines and just appealed to them but from researching others who have had similar issues, I'm assured that is a big black hole.
- londons_explore 7y agoEven if you could talk to them, they wouldn't be able to tell you what you did wrong. If they did tell you what you did wrong, you could figure out what the rules in their spam detecton system was and game the system, and their losses from you or anyone gaming their adspam detection system are far greater than loosing a few false positive customers. Sux for you, but works great for them.