The Watering Hole

Has anyone or know anyone who has ever actually made any money from the Google Adsense program ?

I had a number of other companies ads running on a couple of my websites and they were starting to generate clicks.  Bear in mind that adsense will not pay out until you reach at least $50.    

So, it had been running for a couple of weeks and then hit $65 and guess what....Google suspended my account because of fraudulent clicking activity so they will not pay out.   What the fuck is that all about, what a con.  All the clicks were genuine.  The are implying that I did most of the clicks myself, which is impossible as I only have the one IP address so it would be obvious if that was the case.

I was trying this as it seemed like a good way to generate extra revenue streams.  It creates revenue alright for Google, but they then hold onto it and don't pass on the commission due to the members.

So, anyone have any positive experience of this?

I've done a lot of research (and wasted a few bucks a while back) learning about all sorts of so-called "Internet Marketing."

Google makes the rules, changes them when they feel and breaks them whenever the mood hits as well.  The normal term is called being "Google Slapped."

I'd ask them for proof otherwise you should make a big stink about it.

The only way to get proof from them is to do a lot of work filling in extensive forms and wasting lots of time.  When thinking about this I read their "terms" of making a complaint and it makes it very clear that it is unlikely that a complaint will be upheld as they reserve the right to basically do what they want, so fuck-em.....that's my last venture with google being involved for sure.

It seems this is happening everywhere.  I found loads of videos on youtube about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhn19lEzotw&feature=watch_response

what a scam !