Furious with AdSense!

[Kevin X Dragon]

Do you not know the definition of estimate? They did not knock off £56.24 because you did not earn £78.01, you earned £21.77. £78.01 was Google’s guess on how much you would make not how much you did make. It would stupid for Google to pay a person extra so the person’s earing match Google’s estimate.

Let’s say that I told you can make up to $1,000 by a month by using software “x”, but you only made $360. I am supposed to pay $640 because you did not reach your max performance? Did I promise you you will make $1,000 a month? No, I said you can, not you will, in other words an estimate on how much can make.

It's not exactly "Google's Guess". £78.01 was what Quiver earned had there been no invalid clicks or impressions. What was knocked off was what Google considered to be invalid.

http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/a ... swer=32852

Google isn't guessing at what you're going to earn. It's estimating your current earnings if everything is 100% hunky dory. (and yes- I had to use hunky dory). 🙂

I am sorry, I did not know that estimated earnings = close estimates of your recent account activity. I was under interpretation that it was just a guess how much you can earn. If that is the case, you can always content Google, but that most likely will get you no where. Google make almost all of its capital from their ad service, so they most likely will find any reason to not give money away.'

Here is list of AdSense alternatives:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/ga-alternatives/

 

[Deleted member 8254]

I have earned 7$ till now, don't when i will reach 100 or when my account will be closed..😀

 

[Geoffrey]

I made a whopping six cents last month. One cent so far this month.

 

[Stefan]

I`ve reached 3 euro for 3 years 😀 I don`t see sense in Adsense. That post reminds me to close the account 😀

 

[GamerPerfection]

I don't know if you guys realise this, but i believe publicly stating your google adsense earnings is a breach of their TOS and can result in account banning.

 

[CyberFreak]

Is breathing against Google's ToS aswell?

 

[Commander]

Yes fowler it probably is. :lol:

 

[Jax]

My finalised earnings have updated for April 2013.
Last month, my estimated earnings were over £70 (£78.01).
Right? Well, the conning pigs only deem it fit to pay me £21.77.
That's £56.24 they've knocked off, which is infuriatingly high!!
My websites are all AdSense friendly, don't use fake traffic, or anything.
I am not involved in any clicking scams or any other breach of their TOS.
I know the finalised earnings are never a high as the estimated earnings.
I'm okay with it if they knock off so much...but this is plain ridiculous.
I will have to reconsider continuing to use their ridiculous services!

I have had a similar problem with them. I am also considering leaving the program and having clients contact me direct to have an advert on my site but i don't no. there really annoying and slow

 

[Fergal]

I don't know if you guys realise this, but i believe publicly stating your google adsense earnings is a breach of their TOS and can result in account banning.

You can post your how much you are earning from Adsense, but there is a lot of information that you are not allowed to publicise. Copy of the relevant term copied below from this page, bold added by me;

9. Confidentiality
You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without our prior written consent. "Google Confidential Information" includes: (a) all Google software, technology and documentation relating to the Services; (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Property performance as pertaining to the Services; (c) the existence of, and information about, beta features in a Service; and (d) any other information made available by Google that is marked confidential or would normally be considered confidential under the circumstances in which it is presented. Google Confidential Information does not include information that you already knew prior to your use of the Services, that becomes public through no fault of yours, that was independently developed by you, or that was lawfully given to you by a third party. Notwithstanding this Section 9, you may accurately disclose the amount of Google’s gross payments resulting from your use of the Services.

 

[spyka]

That's quite a huge amount, we make £1,000+ on Adsense a month and only a few pounds are knocked off for invalid traffic/clicks.

I'd guess something is wrong with the types of visitors you're attracting - did you buy traffic or do you have links from 'dodgy' websites, etc?

 

[Big Sean]

I get paid from adsense every month. I have good, not dodgy websites so maybe that's why I've been getting proper payment. If everything stays clean like it should be, you wouldn't have those problems.

 

[GamerPerfection]

I get paid from adsense every month. I have good, not dodgy websites so maybe that's why I've been getting proper payment. If everything stays clean like it should be, you wouldn't have those problems.

However true that may be, you don't seem to consider other reasons why an account might get banned.

Take competition for example. There have been instances where there are two sites about the same subject that are basically in competition purely because they are about the same thing. If one is earning a nice amount monthly from Google then the other site can damage their opponent by easily getting their adsense account banned. It has been known to be done in the past.