Back From Holidays - Google Adsense Team Emails Me
Well I’m back home after my holidays in Montana and British Columbia. Had a great time - fun in the sun and all that. Did some boating, camping etc.
While I was gone the commissions kept on coming in and everything was fine as far as my Internet business goes, but I did have one issue to deal with. The Google Adsense team emailed me and said that one of my sites was not in compliance with the Google Adsense TOS (terms of service).
Turns out that one of my sites had some Google Ads presented in a way that broke the Adsense publisher rules. I had two Google ads (in the Medium Rectangle format) that had a title above them including the word “directory”. This could be misleading to my visitors in that they would see Adsense ads only, and yet they are told it’s a directory. So this is what I did.
I emailed the Google Adsense Team ASAP, and showed them the site amendments I had made. I thanked them for their attention and detailed how I had fixed the oversight as soon as I had received their email. It’s very important that you respond quickly to any emails from the Google Adsense Team.
As a result, I received an email back within 12 hours stating that my site was now in compliance with the Google Adsense program’s terms of service. This is the 3rd email I have received from Google Adsense regarding my page layout and design. Everytime I responded the same way, quickly, accurately, and with courtesy.
You will hear of webmasters that have their Adsense accounts shutdown out of the blue, but I’m here to tell you the Adsense Team does not normally whack out sites (or accounts) without first trying to give the web site owner a chance to fix the issue. Â
So it’s back to work on a number of projects this week. I will making more posts for the Affordable SEO series.
