My site was getting about 20 hits a day and i made $7 i was happy with this,a good start i thought. I never ever clicked the ads on my site and never asked anyone to click ads for me.I checked on google adsense for the percentage of clicks on my ads and they were 40%,a very high figure. So i decided to push my site by writing some articles.
Month two
The articles brought more traffic and my click percentage stayed at 40% i made $27. Time to get more traffic,i thought if i pay 1 cent for each visitor and my click % stays the same then i could at last make some decent money online. I set up a google adwords account and hey presto i was getting 200 visitors per day for $2 and sill getting 40% click through,i was making $5 for every $2 that i spent. Wow this is easy.
Month three
This is where i made some real money $185 in one month,i checked my payments page and the 3 months earnings were verified so now i had to wait 4 weeks for my first cheque.On the exact day my cheque was due to be posted i got an email from google telling me my account had been disabled to to click fraud. I was gutted not just because of the many hours i had wasted on my site but also because i sent 99% of my traffic through adwords.In a nutshell i paid google for my traffic and they accuse me of click fraud,how could i be guilty when google themselves sent me the traffic.It makes me think they are the biggest rip off merchants out there,i appealed and was told there is no chance of ever having my account reinstated that reply came within 10 hours of appealing.Upset by this i asked them if they would please refund the money i spent getting clicks through adwords,guess what ? i asked them twice and no reply.
Life after adsense
In hindsight while still being very annoyed it made me determined to make money online and i now make $650 a month doing high paid surveys.