I’m through with Google’s Adsense service, as it is an unreliable partner for publishers to use.

I’ve opened an Adsense account for my company Mediagraaf earlier this summer and used Adsense to create some ads on this website. Since I’ve dealt with Google Adsense before, I’m aware of the fact that I’m not allowed (yeah DUH…) to click on my own ads. So you just don’t do that. Ever.

Nor did I, however, a few days ago I received a nice little mail from Google’s Adsense team stating my account was disabled due to illegal clicking activities. Since I am the only person working on this site I am perfectly able to verify wether or not I have clicked an ad.

This kind of situations (I’m far from the first person to experience this) makes Google Adsense a highly unreliable partner when looking for a service provider for ads. This is really really sad, because the system itself is really nice. You just cannot rely on it.

Bummer.

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