I started setting my YouTube account up for making revenue but noticed I need an adsense account.  Last month, my adsense account was disabled for “invalid activity” and I’m not allowed to create another one.

I wish I knew why my adsense account was disabled, I tried really hard to follow the terms and conditions:

• I didn’t click on my ads.
• I didn’t tell anyone to click on my ads.
• I told my friends and family members not to click on my ads.
• I didn’t purchase or use advertising for my adsense pages.

I don’t hate Google, I like many of their services.  I’m just frustrated and needed to vent this.

Anyway, this is good news to those watching my videos .  You won’t be seeing any ads on my videos unless youtube activates my adsense account.

I looked into this further, they said I can send them an appeal to try and re-instate my account.

Today (October 20th), They declined my appeal which means my account is disabled for good.  I can’t appeal again…

I’m very frustrated…  From the moment I signed up for Adsense, I tried to follow their terms and conditions.  I don’t click on my Adsense ads, if I did, it wasn’t on purpose.  I went even farther to tell my friends NOT to click on my Adsense ads.

My guess as to why my account was disabled:
Google Adsense doesn’t recommend the use of traffic exchanges as they may lead to invalid clicks or impressions and result in your account being disabled.

I use traffic exchanges to advertise the following webpage:
http://brycecoulson.com/turning_point_preview.html

As you can see, the above page has NO google ads.  I left the ads off so I could advertise my music album in Traffic Exchanges.  All my other pages had Google ads, but I don’t advertise my Adsense pages in Traffic Exchanges.

Anyone looking at my Google Analytics would know that I use Traffic Exchanges, maybe they saw this but didn’t investigate further.

I don’t make a lot of money and every little bit helps.  I had $50 in my Adsense account but I ended up receiving nothing.  They refunded the money to their advertisers.

Google, I really like your services but my experience with Adsense lowered my opinion of you.

I’m forced to try some other way of making money from ads, maybe something in this list of alternatives to Google Adsense:
http://www.rosswalker.co.uk/adsense_top10/

• For a while, anyone visiting my site through Google would end up at an old broken PHP page, I fixed this.
• Google search results for my page still have my old links, this means you will have to find pages manually.  I’m not sure how long it will take for Google to update my website with new links or if theres anything I can do.  I tried 301 redirects in my htaccess file without much success.
• My website looks terrible in Internet Explorer 6, sorry to anyone using this outdated browser.  Please update your browser or use Firefox.

I added text advertising to the side and bottom of each page.  I’m quite happy with how I was able to match the text ad colors to my site.