Why Did Adsense Ban Me?

This question gets asked a lot on webmaster forums.

While it seems we all know the answer there are obviously many that don't. If they did, we wouldn't have to deal with this question so often!

Here are the top 7 reasons for Google to ban your Adsense account:

1. You clicked on your own ads
2. Your friends clicked on your ads for you
3. Your enemies clicked on your ads to get you banned
4. You used proxies to click on your own ads
5. You bought low quality automated traffic that clicked on your ads
6. You have a crappy MFA web site
7. You otherwise violated the Adsense terms of service

It seems pretty simple really. Don't go looking for ways to get clicks. Don't go annoying people in webmaster forums or they may feel inclined to click-bomb you.

So what is the poor webmaster to do? Build quality content!

This has been said so many times. If you aren't sure what quality content is, consider which web sites or blogs you actually like to read. Then, consider sites or blogs that you scoff at because they only exist to make some pennies here and there. Which type of web properties do you offer?

Do you know what an MFA site is? Do you know what an affiliate site is? Do you know what a sales site is? Do you know what BANS stands for? Don't use or make these low quality offerings. It's spam. Everybody hates spam. Even you hate spam. I know you are greedy, but if you do the hard work and make something of quality, people will be glad to find it and potentially share it.

There are no excuses. Any schmo can get a free blog at Blogger, alter the basic look and feel a bit, and start writing about something of interest to themselves.

Now get to work and stop flooding the world with useless crap.