My NameDrive account has been suspended and here is the reason I was given:
First of all, let me say that if I had clicked on my own ads, I'd totally agree that it'd be cheating and deserving of the boot.
Further more, I've only got good things to say about NameDrive (they've always being friendly and quickly returned my emails) and I don't believe that they would be risking their good reputation in order not to pay me a few $.
So, I must have done something wrong, I just don't know what...
Here is what I know:
- I did not click on my own ads
- I told several people about my sites, but only suggesting to use them to do searches relevant to the domain names. I never asked anyone to click on anything just for the sake of it (again, that'd be cheating)
- I know of at least one person who used it to look up something (he complained to me of an ad-on making IE crash - even though I didn't have pop-up)
- There was very little traffic. I can't see the stats anymore, but for this month I seem to remember there was only 7 views / 0 clicks on one site and 2 views / 0 clicks on the other (that one never had any click)
- There were few clicks on the one site that ever had any, with many days without any traffic
- Recently, the stats showed a lot (30 something) of searches that were not related to any of the keywords (still can't figure out where they came from)
I'm sad to be kicked out of NameDrive and I really would like to understand where I went wrong. I've had these two sites for months before hearing there was something called "site parking", so I'm obviously not a pro at this.
I'll very much appreciate any suggestion. Thank you very much.
"Your account was suspended because the traffic was in breach of our terms and conditions. We only allow type in traffic and traffic from existing search engine sources. Analysis showed signs of self-clicking. We are obliged to protect Google's advertisers wherever possible and therefor suspended your account. Due to our relationship with Google we must be very firm when it comes to any breach of our terms of service.
Our review of the traffic showed an abnormal traffic pattern. This was evident in the 100% CTR on several days, several days with an identical number of clicks/valid clicks and the fluctuating number of clicks."
Our review of the traffic showed an abnormal traffic pattern. This was evident in the 100% CTR on several days, several days with an identical number of clicks/valid clicks and the fluctuating number of clicks."
First of all, let me say that if I had clicked on my own ads, I'd totally agree that it'd be cheating and deserving of the boot.
Further more, I've only got good things to say about NameDrive (they've always being friendly and quickly returned my emails) and I don't believe that they would be risking their good reputation in order not to pay me a few $.
So, I must have done something wrong, I just don't know what...
Here is what I know:
- I did not click on my own ads
- I told several people about my sites, but only suggesting to use them to do searches relevant to the domain names. I never asked anyone to click on anything just for the sake of it (again, that'd be cheating)
- I know of at least one person who used it to look up something (he complained to me of an ad-on making IE crash - even though I didn't have pop-up)
- There was very little traffic. I can't see the stats anymore, but for this month I seem to remember there was only 7 views / 0 clicks on one site and 2 views / 0 clicks on the other (that one never had any click)
- There were few clicks on the one site that ever had any, with many days without any traffic
- Recently, the stats showed a lot (30 something) of searches that were not related to any of the keywords (still can't figure out where they came from)
I'm sad to be kicked out of NameDrive and I really would like to understand where I went wrong. I've had these two sites for months before hearing there was something called "site parking", so I'm obviously not a pro at this.
I'll very much appreciate any suggestion. Thank you very much.