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We have done this in past. At one point we had 4 LLCs with 4 adsense accounts each making $30K per day. There was nothing fishy here it was perfectly legal and

We have done this in past. At one point we had 4 LLCs with 4 adsense accounts each making $30K per day. There was nothing fishy here it was perfectly legal and 100% legitimate traffic. Over time we even split our large website into multiple domains under these 4 accounts to make them profitable. Google eventually banned all 4 over time without ever telling us why. We shut down out company eventually.

anoncow 5y ago
Why were the accounts banned?
- kevingadd 5y ago
  "without ever telling us why" indicates that they do not know.
  - strogonoff 5y ago
    Sometimes one may be able to take a good guess at where one did not comply with the letter or the spirit of a certain rule, but still not be told which specific violation was detected and triggered a ban. Both are useful information and the question could have referred to either.
- KorematsuFred 5y ago
  We do not know. I am sure the banning email must have mentioned something but it was far too vague and non-actionable for us.
pudmaidai 5y ago
There was a Reddit thread just yesterday asking if the bullying stops once you become an adult. Evidently not. And sadly there’s no teacher to refer to, unless you can afford to shell some real cash.
philliphaydon 5y ago
I had several domains once for a couple of ideas I was working on, due to them taking about a year to do as it was just personal thing I did in spare time in between playing games and attempting to have a life, I decided to domain park them with Adsense. I set them up. Clicked on each one once to make sure it worked. Closed it. Didn’t open the domains again. Week later banned from Adsense for click fraud… I don’t get it. But I really hate Google now.
- atat7024 5y ago
  "make sure it worked" is when the ads are displayed — unless you've accidentally disabled clicks or something..?
  - philliphaydon 5y ago
    This was like in 2005. I didn’t really know what I was doing because it wasn’t adding JS to the page. And when updating the NS records it wasn’t rendering properly. So yes I clicked on the ad. It linked me to the site. And I deemed it working. I also even added my (static) ip to the list for ignored clicks.

anoncow 5y ago

Why were the accounts banned?

kevingadd 5y ago
"without ever telling us why" indicates that they do not know.
- strogonoff 5y ago
  Sometimes one may be able to take a good guess at where one did not comply with the letter or the spirit of a certain rule, but still not be told which specific violation was detected and triggered a ban. Both are useful information and the question could have referred to either.
KorematsuFred 5y ago
We do not know. I am sure the banning email must have mentioned something but it was far too vague and non-actionable for us.

pudmaidai 5y ago

There was a Reddit thread just yesterday asking if the bullying stops once you become an adult. Evidently not. And sadly there’s no teacher to refer to, unless you can afford to shell some real cash.

philliphaydon 5y ago

I had several domains once for a couple of ideas I was working on, due to them taking about a year to do as it was just personal thing I did in spare time in between playing games and attempting to have a life, I decided to domain park them with Adsense. I set them up. Clicked on each one once to make sure it worked. Closed it. Didn’t open the domains again. Week later banned from Adsense for click fraud… I don’t get it. But I really hate Google now.

atat7024 5y ago
"make sure it worked" is when the ads are displayed — unless you've accidentally disabled clicks or something..?
- philliphaydon 5y ago
  This was like in 2005. I didn’t really know what I was doing because it wasn’t adding JS to the page. And when updating the NS records it wasn’t rendering properly. So yes I clicked on the ad. It linked me to the site. And I deemed it working. I also even added my (static) ip to the list for ignored clicks.