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		<title>By: Aaron</title>
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		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not accusing you of a thing - but I can tell you, there are a ton of companies that are dedicated to helping people &quot;get away with&quot; click fraud. I could easily pay two, three, four of them a relatively modest fee to have their minions visit your site and click ads. It will show up as additional traffic, and when detected by Google it will get your AdSense cut off. And I don&#039;t put any blame for that on Google.    What did your logs and statistics show - both your AdSense statistics and your server logs? Did you have any unusual patterns or spikes in AdSense activity or CTR? Any unexpected changes in revenue? Note that a lot of fraudulent clicks never make it into your account - they&#039;re screened out before they are included in your AdSense stats. Did you see any unusual patterns of activity from Asia or Latin America?    Decisions to terminate AdSense accounts are made with some regularity, based (as the letter says) on protecting the advertiser. You&#039;re not the first person to complain about being cut off, or the arbitrariness of the decision. (See, e.g., the many discussions at WebmasterWorld - to the point that they quickly cut off new threads on the subject and direct people to a thread on reinstatement - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/5794.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/5794.htm&lt;/a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/5794.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; .)    When Google&#039;s advertisers are being defrauded, Google has little interest in whether the cause is you, people trying to &quot;help&quot; you (e.g., friends or family members clicking your ads to generate revenue, with or without your knowledge) or enemies of your website. They can only protect their advertisers by stopping ads. On those indications when they reinstate AdSense accounts, my impression is that they require reasonable assurance that (a) you had nothing to do with the abuse and (b) you&#039;ve taken adequate measures to prevent its recurrence.    </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;m not accusing you of a thing &#8211; but I can tell you, there are a ton of companies that are dedicated to helping people &quot;get away with&quot; click fraud. I could easily pay two, three, four of them a relatively modest fee to have their minions visit your site and click ads. It will show up as additional traffic, and when detected by Google it will get your AdSense cut off. And I don&#039;t put any blame for that on Google.    What did your logs and statistics show &#8211; both your AdSense statistics and your server logs? Did you have any unusual patterns or spikes in AdSense activity or CTR? Any unexpected changes in revenue? Note that a lot of fraudulent clicks never make it into your account &#8211; they&#039;re screened out before they are included in your AdSense stats. Did you see any unusual patterns of activity from Asia or Latin America?    Decisions to terminate AdSense accounts are made with some regularity, based (as the letter says) on protecting the advertiser. You&#039;re not the first person to complain about being cut off, or the arbitrariness of the decision. (See, e.g., the many discussions at WebmasterWorld &#8211; to the point that they quickly cut off new threads on the subject and direct people to a thread on reinstatement &#8211; <a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/5794.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/5794.htm</a> .)    When Google&#039;s advertisers are being defrauded, Google has little interest in whether the cause is you, people trying to &quot;help&quot; you (e.g., friends or family members clicking your ads to generate revenue, with or without your knowledge) or enemies of your website. They can only protect their advertisers by stopping ads. On those indications when they reinstate AdSense accounts, my impression is that they require reasonable assurance that (a) you had nothing to do with the abuse and (b) you&#039;ve taken adequate measures to prevent its recurrence.</p>
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		<title>By: Bob Franky</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Franky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 19:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>  Too be honest - I&#039;m a bigger fan of Dogpile than Google. They support charitable causes and work with all independent search providers to give a good mix of results.    People are too lazy when it comes to search and want it all to be laid out for them in one engine. Problem is, Google, MSN and Yahoo all pick what shows up where.    Research is meant to be RESEARCH - so look around for solid results.    BTW - Dogpile.com just launched a new site called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.DoGreatGood.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.DoGreatGood.com&lt;/a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.DoGreatGood.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - and their donating a portion of there revenue to Petfinder and the ASPCA.    Great that theres a way we can help dog adoption programs at no cost.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Too be honest &#8211; I&#039;m a bigger fan of Dogpile than Google. They support charitable causes and work with all independent search providers to give a good mix of results.    People are too lazy when it comes to search and want it all to be laid out for them in one engine. Problem is, Google, MSN and Yahoo all pick what shows up where.    Research is meant to be RESEARCH &#8211; so look around for solid results.    BTW &#8211; Dogpile.com just launched a new site called <a href="http://www.DoGreatGood.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.DoGreatGood.com</a> &#8211; and their donating a portion of there revenue to Petfinder and the ASPCA.    Great that theres a way we can help dog adoption programs at no cost.</p>
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		<title>By: The Hasbara Buster</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Hasbara Buster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Well, I do have an idea of why you were disabled. But if I tell you, they&#039;ll say I&#039;m a conspiracy theorist.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hint: know anyone in the Chicago area who was denied tenure by a university despite his department&#039;s recommendations? Or anyone whose appointment to the National Security Council has been thwarted?&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I do have an idea of why you were disabled. But if I tell you, they&#39;ll say I&#39;m a conspiracy theorist.</p>
<p>Hint: know anyone in the Chicago area who was denied tenure by a university despite his department&#39;s recommendations? Or anyone whose appointment to the National Security Council has been thwarted?</p>
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		<title>By: Saleema</title>
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		<dc:creator>Saleema</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You are  not going to hear from them. I don&#039;t know what to tell you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Fuck google&#039;s adsense. The bastards. Why don&#039;t you ask comapanies to advertise on your site? There are companies that do business only with Palestinians and go to great lengths so make sure that they are not importing settler olive oil, etc. I have a few of them on myfaves. You can send them an email and ask if they want to advertise? &lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are  not going to hear from them. I don&#39;t know what to tell you.</p>
<p>Fuck google&#39;s adsense. The bastards. Why don&#39;t you ask comapanies to advertise on your site? There are companies that do business only with Palestinians and go to great lengths so make sure that they are not importing settler olive oil, etc. I have a few of them on myfaves. You can send them an email and ask if they want to advertise? </p>
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		<title>By: kylebisme</title>
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		<dc:creator>kylebisme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;d wager the hasbara crew had their hand in this.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;d wager the hasbara crew had their hand in this.</p>
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		<title>By: LanceThruster</title>
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		<dc:creator>LanceThruster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;This needs an expose&#039; in and of itself. Look at how many people here have complained about being silenced on various blogs. Google is supposed to have Zionist ties. I do not imagine it takes much to get you put on a list of &quot;undesirables.&quot; I use www.dogpile.com instead of Google so *they* don&#039;t get any of my money.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This needs an expose&#39; in and of itself. Look at how many people here have complained about being silenced on various blogs. Google is supposed to have Zionist ties. I do not imagine it takes much to get you put on a list of &quot;undesirables.&quot; I use www.dogpile.com instead of Google so *they* don&#39;t get any of my money.</p>
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		<title>By: J. Hynde</title>
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		<dc:creator>J. Hynde</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Hey Phil,&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am afraid there is nothing you can do about it. Google is almighty.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What Google Adsense does is that it senses the context of your blog and then shows what it thinks are relevant ads. Since you are writing mostly about Israel, your blog was obviously showing ads concerning Israel. Most Israel-related ads are, as you may have noticed, funded by the same people your blog decries. And they pay Google each time someone clicks their ad. They (=these advertisers)  can run a Google report any time which shows them which sites generate how many clicks. And they must have noticed they were generating income for Mondo Weiss, however modest. So ironically, Mondo Weiss temporarily got some of its revenue from Zionist advertisers, maybe even from the Israeli government for all we know.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now, it is understandable from their point of view that they wanted to stop this immediately. And normal people, would then go on and use the &#039;Google Site Exclusion Tool&#039; which enables the advertiser to exclude any sites of showing their ads. This takes about 5 seconds. And that would have been the end of it, meaning that Google would simply have stopped showing the ads of certain advertisers on your site while still showing others. (which is very different from being &#039;banned&#039;)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So there are really only 3 possible explanations for this:&lt;br /&gt;
1. Someone high ranking within Google doesn&#039;t like your blog content, making this a political, random decision.&lt;br /&gt;
2. More likely however is that, the advertisers, rather than using the &#039;Exclusion Tool&#039;, simply got together and &#039;smeared&#039; your blog &#039;en masse&#039; convincing Google it was engaging in click fraud. Since Google received complaints from a number of advertisers all concerning the same blog(s), it took it seriously. These advertisers are obviously &#039;related&#039; with each other, something Google doesn&#039;t necessarily know as they may all have separate accounts with Google. &lt;br /&gt;
3. One or more visitors to your blog know how Google Adsense works, and decided to click frantically on &#039;support the IDF&#039; ads. Somehow, I doubt that this happened in an organized or repeated way but you never know.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
So you could try explaining this to Google but I wouldn&#039;t bother since Google doesn&#039;t care. Furthermore, since anti-Zionists usually don&#039;t have any money, I doubt that even with being banned but with just the pro-Israel ads being withdrawn, there would be any ads left.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Phil,</p>
<p>I am afraid there is nothing you can do about it. Google is almighty.</p>
<p>What Google Adsense does is that it senses the context of your blog and then shows what it thinks are relevant ads. Since you are writing mostly about Israel, your blog was obviously showing ads concerning Israel. Most Israel-related ads are, as you may have noticed, funded by the same people your blog decries. And they pay Google each time someone clicks their ad. They (=these advertisers)  can run a Google report any time which shows them which sites generate how many clicks. And they must have noticed they were generating income for Mondo Weiss, however modest. So ironically, Mondo Weiss temporarily got some of its revenue from Zionist advertisers, maybe even from the Israeli government for all we know.</p>
<p>Now, it is understandable from their point of view that they wanted to stop this immediately. And normal people, would then go on and use the &#39;Google Site Exclusion Tool&#39; which enables the advertiser to exclude any sites of showing their ads. This takes about 5 seconds. And that would have been the end of it, meaning that Google would simply have stopped showing the ads of certain advertisers on your site while still showing others. (which is very different from being &#39;banned&#39;)</p>
<p>So there are really only 3 possible explanations for this:<br />
1. Someone high ranking within Google doesn&#39;t like your blog content, making this a political, random decision.<br />
2. More likely however is that, the advertisers, rather than using the &#39;Exclusion Tool&#39;, simply got together and &#39;smeared&#39; your blog &#39;en masse&#39; convincing Google it was engaging in click fraud. Since Google received complaints from a number of advertisers all concerning the same blog(s), it took it seriously. These advertisers are obviously &#39;related&#39; with each other, something Google doesn&#39;t necessarily know as they may all have separate accounts with Google. <br />
3. One or more visitors to your blog know how Google Adsense works, and decided to click frantically on &#39;support the IDF&#39; ads. Somehow, I doubt that this happened in an organized or repeated way but you never know.</p>
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So you could try explaining this to Google but I wouldn&#39;t bother since Google doesn&#39;t care. Furthermore, since anti-Zionists usually don&#39;t have any money, I doubt that even with being banned but with just the pro-Israel ads being withdrawn, there would be any ads left.</p>
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		<title>By: John Smithson</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Smithson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Hmmmmmmmm.  Coinkidink?&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmmmmmmm.  Coinkidink?</p>
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		<title>By: Saleema</title>
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		<dc:creator>Saleema</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Phil,&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I came up with a possible solution. Let&#039;s contact companies and ask them to advertise.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phil,</p>
<p>I came up with a possible solution. Let&#39;s contact companies and ask them to advertise.</p>
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		<title>By: David</title>
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		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Well, not knowing too much, I do understand that Google&#039;s founders were Russian Zionist Jews, so there may be something to the conspiracy theories.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, not knowing too much, I do understand that Google&#39;s founders were Russian Zionist Jews, so there may be something to the conspiracy theories.</p>
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