[jkira]

I'm one of the publishers whose account got nixxed (just a few months ago), and also within a few days of payment. It wasn't a big account; I only made maybe $100-200/month on it, but it was a nice bit of extra change. (I'd also had the account for a long time... since the early days of Adsense.)

I think the biggest frustration is having the account pulled with no explanation as to why. I assume it was click fraud, but it wasn't my doing - I generally just ignored the site. Was I clickbombed? Don't know. But it feels like Google punished me for something beyond my control.

One curious thing - I noticed in my analytics account that the site had gotten about 2x the usual traffic for the day before, so when I emailed my appeal I said maybe that had something to do with it. But a few days later (after the appeal was denied) I looked at analytics again and that traffic spike no longer existed. I wish I'd taken a screen shot the first time. (Or saved some server logs.) Didn't do either though, so oh well.

Still don't know what happened, but the experience definitely makes me bitter towards Google.

[nanidin]

Someone seems to be systematically downvoting posts like this. Just wanted to let you know that I feel your pain - I had an entire Google account shut down without explanation or warning. Lost all access to email, calendar, contacts, etc with no recourse and only a form to fill out that is never answered.

I believe the account was banned for a ToS violation that occurred 2 years prior. But I'll never know, just like I never got any of my data back.