The Great Google Rip Off
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As mentioned on the home page Google has basically stolen my website earnings by cancelling my account for what they describe as erratic clicking on Ads. My intension here is to stop people clicking on Google ads so other people don't suffer the embarrassment of getting accused of stealing from Google and also have there accounts cancelled. Long time uses of my Web will know that my site started in around 1998 whilst I was based in Morawa (Northern Wheatbelt) at that I had a computer related business in a farming area, farmers back then had no interest in computers but obviously had a huge interest in the weather (like myself). My goal was to build a site around weather and have as much easy information as possible, basically demonstrating my site and the ease of the net should equal computer sales (which it did). Every information site needs a search engine, the first search engine I used was called Big Mamma, this at the time was the only search engine I could find that you could have on your own website, this engine was very American based but as was most of the net in them days so it didn't matter. After a couple of years I discovered Google had a code so I could display and use there search engine from my site so immediately switched, about 3 years ago I found that I could actually get paid for people using Google Search from my Site so I registered for that, as I pay all the hosting fee's and weather station upkeep myself I thought the money from Google could subsidize the costs a little, in reality I earned around 5 dollars a month or 2 cartons of beer a year, but it was no effort in having the search there. A couple of months ago a friend told me about Google Adwords, this is a small rectangular box that I had on a couple of pages that displayed text ads, people who have this on their sites also get a small payment when users click on the ads, this appears to be where my problem lies, after around a month or so of having adwords Google cancelled my account, it coincided with a payment I was due, this would have been my second $100 payment in 3 years or so. As you can see the amount of money involved is minuscule to me and a multi national company, Google cancelled my account and said they were returning my money to the advertisers, Less than $100? what a joke, by searching the net Google do this to members quite regularly so the double dipping income they make would be phenomenal. I have promoted Google products for many years and to be accused of stealing from them is one of the most insulting things that has happened to me, what you people can do to stop this thing happening to others is basically don't use Google Search or click on any Google provided ads, another equally as good search engine is Bing which uses the MSN Engine, you can use Bing from my site or CLICK HERE No I don't get any payment for suppling the Bing Engine, but as you can see by the amount of income I received from Google...It certainly isn't about Money, it is about Ethics and Principles, to me the point about advertising is to get your ad out to as many people as possible, this is obviously isn't Googles idea of advertising as people are getting penalized for suppling ads and when the ads get clicked on Google accuse the site owner of erratic clicking, web site owners have no control over who clicks or how many times people click on ads, this action totally makes no sense to me. Please support me in this protest and maybe we can impact Googles income a little, they appear to be very concerned of there own turnover so any dent would affect them, please switch to BING and avoid clicking on Google Ads |