Google Decides YouTube Downloads Are Against Adsense Policies
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Google has decided that My Youtube Download Site is no longer valid for the adsense program. If you don’t know what a youtube downloader is, its a very simple site that lets you download videos from youtube instead of watching the videos stream from the site. The benefit of this is that you have the video on your computer to watch anytime you want without having to go to youtube and look for the video. The site was a nice little earner, as you can see here it was earning more money with adsense than my online arcade site.
The clicks on this site believe it or not were very high paying ones, and $1+ clicks were nothing out of the ordinary with this site.
As you may know I have had my Google adsense account banned once, but was one of the lucky few people to get it reinstated. I don’t know what I did, but now the Google people are cool with me, and if there is every anything wrong with my account they let me know in advance.
Take the fact that I was click bombed on one of my proxies by a malicious person a few weeks ago, I actually got a call from within the Googleplex to let me know what was going on, and what I could do to make things better. In the end, I just disabled the proxy for a few hours and put it back up later on. Problem Solved.
Luckily Google contacted me and told me that the ads from the site were going to be disables.
Hello,
While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying Google ads in a way that does not comply with our policies. For instance, we found violations of AdSense policies on pages such as http://www.youtubedownloads.info/.
As stated in our programme policies, AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on sites with content related to hacking or cracking. For example, sites
showing ads may not provide instructions or equipment allowing to illegally access or tamper with software, servers or websites.
As a result, we have disabled ad serving to the site.
There goes that nice little earner of mine, I guess I will just have to ad some azoogle and try to profit from that.
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mike said:
Thats terrible news. Shame its not a webmaster related niche, i would pay you for a banner spot there otherwise…
Mike
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:19 pm -
GetGoodGadget.com said:
Bad news for me
July 22nd, 2007 at 11:34 pm -
Mr. Grown Up Geek said:
aww krap..
So.. the script works now??
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:26 am -
mubin said:
Still not yet, did you get an email from them as of yet?
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:23 am -
Mr. Grown Up Geek said:
I have not gotten any warning from them, but I removed the ads anyway.
July 23rd, 2007 at 3:27 pm -
piniyini said:
This was a bit of a no brainer to be honest, obviously its not allowed on sites that allow ‘cracking’ (yes this would fall into that category).
On top of that, Youtube is owned by Google so there’s that little bit extra reinforment about it!
July 24th, 2007 at 12:03 pm -
John said:
It is great that they let you know in advance, there are not many people having this advantage. You usually just get suspended and that’s all!
July 24th, 2007 at 12:42 pm -
Football Gossip said:
Hi,
I reckon you would make more money putting a link to a clickbank product ie how to make a you tube video or something, must be something out there better than google adsense.
Keep smiling
Kevin
Ashton-u-LyneJuly 24th, 2007 at 10:30 pm -
Stephen Newton said:
No real surprise as this hack is a clear breach of YouTube’s Terms of Use see (11.2 http://uk.youtube.com/t/terms) and they appear to have disabled your site.
You should also be more careful about publishing your earnings. Google recently relaxed its rules to allow publishers to disclose gross payments received, but has always been quick to sack those that disclose any more detail than that (clause 7).
It always makes sense to check over these contracts. Don’t think that just because you’re a little guy you won’t appear on the radar.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
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