As I reported last week, Google suspended my Adsense account without warning and without reason. I wrote a detailed account here.

As I stated in that story, I did appeal to Google. I told them I hadn't clicked on my own site ads and that I had basically been marketing the sites. All of a sudden, Google reinstated my account. Phew I thought.....

But guess what, Google took the $62 in the account as a 'fine' for invalid clicks. Now lets make a few things clear..

1. I have never clicked on Google ads on my site - hell, why would I, I only made $62 in 5-years of using Adsense ads on my sites!

2. Google had free advertising on my sites over all that time - so are they saying all the clicks over a 5-year period were invalid?

3. As soon as I pay attention and drive some traffic to my sites and actually start to get some clicks I am accused without presentation of any evidence of invalid clicking...

On friday I got good news - many of my newer blog sites finally got a page rank from Google. However, my celebration was short lived when I received the 'account suspended' message from Google for my Adsense account. In doing some research I discovered that many small Google Adsense accounts were suspended on February 29th. So, is this part of some strategy on the part of Google?

I have of course appealed and will await the outcome of that appeal.

What is very strange is that the email said my account posed 'a significant risk' to advertisers. In effect, no reason was given for the action.

It goes without saying that I don't click on my own ads - why would I? I couldn't possibly match my hourly pay doing so so its uneconomic to do that but then I am not accused of false or fraudulent clicking - or am I? Therein lies the issue - I am not sure what I am accused of so how can I appeal against charges that are not specified?

Bidvertiser is a pay per click Internet advertising service that I have used with some success on some of my blogs. It works in a broadly similar way to Google Adsense and is quite easy to use. All you have to do is sign up for an account, submit some information on your blog, create your ad template and away you go.
Bidvertiser has some pros and cons though.

Pros