How to cheat Adsense - and get yourself banned!

Today I want to talk about something important.
Google Adsense is a profitable ads service, but one thing that new bloggers and webmasters should keep in mind is that, just like any other advertisement service, Google Adsense won't allow you to quit your day job over night.

To make money with Google Adsense and the likes, you have to provide a good service, keep your blog/website updated with fresh and interesting content, do your best to promote it and be patient: chances are you won't see much money in the beginning, not until you have a good amount of followers.

Unfortunately some people are not patient and begin to look for ways to cheat Google Adsense.

There are several methods to cheat Google Adsense, I will only make a few examples:

• Clicking on your own ads, which can be done manually or using bots
• Soliciting your visitors, or friends and family, to click on your ads
• Using malware that will cause your visitors to click on your ads
• Joining clicker-rings, which are basically association of folks who click on each others links - in many different way
• Hiring people to click on your ads, some crafty folks hire underpaid workers in India or China for the job.
  
  Let me tell you something: first of all, even if you could manage to cheat Google Adsense without being detected, you would be committing a crime - it's actually a fraud, you are stealing money from Google and its advertisers.
  That should be enough for anyone with common sense: whether you're blogging for fun or to make money, you sure don't want to end up in jail, do you?
  
  There is more though, for those who didn't make up their mind yet..
  
  You can't cheat Google Adsense.
  
  The reason is simple: Google is a huge company, they can afford to use some of the best technologies, hire the best programmers and engineers and they sure don't want to give money away to scammers.
  What makes you think that you can beat them?
  
  The truth is, it's just a matter of time (could be minutes, could be days), before they catch you and ban your account forever.
  Which means you will never be able to get it unbanned or to get a new Google Adsense account.
  
  And mind one more thing: Google tends to ban at the slightest suspicion of fraud and won't even give you a reason for the ban.
  Some folks have been banned for no apparent reason, or for simple mistakes.
  Therefore there are some precautions every blogger and webmaster should take, to avoid any risks:
  
  1. Don't click on your own ads, or you will get banned.
     
  2. Do not solicit or even hint your visitors to click on the ads: just place your ads in the best possible position in the page and "forget about them". Clicks will come in time.
  3. Do not boost your page impressions count or your might get banned.
  4. Do not put adsense code where you're not supposed to: no Adsense ads in your email, registration forms etc.
  5. Do not alter any portion of the Google Adsense code.
  6. Do not put Google Adsense advertisements on a blog or website if you talk about subjects that violate the TOS.
  7. Should you receive any email from Google about your account, be sure to reply (although they normally won't contact you until you get automated mail following the ban.
     
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