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Internet Cafe Owner Receives Google AdSense Ban

A WebmasterWorld thread tells a story of a Google AdSense publisher who used his "60 internet kiosks and cafes around Las Vegas," as a means of generating some more side cash for those kiosks.

What he did was default the kiosks to a page which had AdSense on it and a Google search feature, powered by AdSense for Search.

Technically, doing that is just fine. But I suspect the suspicious high volume of clicks from the same IP blocks, over time, raised a red flag.

He explained he made about $10 to $20 per day, mostly from the search side. He said, "People from the kiosk did about 150 searches per day and check out my Vegas website." He emailed Google early telling them about his situation, which they cleared. But then soon after, he found himself banned from AdSense.

He is obviously frustrated.

Google is suppossed to be this great green company. I've done business with many people over the years. Nobody has ever treated me this bad and ripped me off like this before.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.



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posted rustybrick in Google AdSense at August 13, 2007 8:08 AM Comments (5)

Comments

Good idea. How about doing this at college labs stations?

 

On a good day I can make $3 on Adsense on 50 unique visits. Google would not be Google if they did stamp out grey-areas. I pay out much on Google Adwords and I expect Goolge to give me quality clicks back and police their system so.

I’m frustrated that he actually got away with it for a while.

 

Think I will tell all my kiosk customers of this idea, its one great idea and hey its not like Google cant afford it so our we feeling sorry for them i dont think so.

 

"I’m frustrated that he actually got away with it for a while"

I dont think he got away with anything. He provided highly targeted ads to advertisers? Google made a mistake by banning him. A flaw in their system.

 

it's good work.im from sri lanka.act its good for Asian country's

 

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