Google blocked my Fast and Furious post and kicked me from Adsense
Not really sure why this happened but now Google is blocking my last blog post with the “Fast and Furious” truck pictures. They also thought it’d be nice to boot me from Adsense, which I’ve been a long-standing member of on many of my legitimate sites. I do NOT run linkfarms or ANY blackhat-seo methods or even dabble with it. I have always taken a very organic approach towards my online marketing. None of the pictures in the post are copyrighted and I don’t believe I violated any terms of anything.
First, a little history on the post. I saw that the new “Fast and Furious” movie was coming out soon and it actually looked like an entertaining sequel to the first one. I saw the split second of Trophy Trucks in the new movie and was stoked! Afterall, I run several desert racing related sites and own two project prerunners myself. Me and my buddy Zach watched the trailer together and afterwards he tells me that our mutual friend’s little brother works at the shop that BUILT that truck! Of course, I tell him “nooooo waayyy!” but he quickly brings up said brother’s myspace and begins showing me pics of the TT builds.
I thought this was way too cool so I decided to post the pics on my blog and share it with friends and other guys on my offroad forums. Within TWENTY minutes, my post about the fast and furious trucks was on the FIRST page for the search terms “fast and furious truck” and “fast and furious trucks”. I WAS SHOCKED! I have had several first page hits from this blog but THAT QUICKLY!?
Now, just days later, I have been completely stripped of even showing up in the search results. I did NOT steal any content (all text in the post was written by me!), the pictures on the post are personal photos from a friend, and I did not change anything from the normal way I’ve been blogging for the last 2 years. Despite this, my 1st page result for “fast and furious trucks” and other such terms have been stripped of me, without any warning, any notification, NOTHING. I was also kicked from the adsense program for “invalid clicks”. What a great way to spend labor day weekend. I have made an inquiry with google regarding having my adsense account reinstated.. seeing as how I did nothing to violate their terms? We’ll see how that goes, I’ll keep you guys posted.
Wow, that’s kinda crazy. It was 1st page search result within 20 mins? I’ve seen really fast results on google but never THAT quick for such good key terms.
Maybe someone got mad you beat them to it and falsely reported your post? I did a search for this website and it’s not blocked on google, just that one post.
Ya this is totally a slam on the work we did that night. Pics are all personal photos and should not have been blocked. It was very amazing how fast it came up in the google search, and the hits it generated there after. I hope things end up back the way it should be.
Yeah, I’m not really sure what they’re going to say, I just hope its just a mistake, I don’t see how anything I did could have resulted in this.
I was going through some stuff and I realized I accidentally had a theme up on one of my more popular project sites that usually has another adsense ID, for a short period. I’d say three weeks tops and I’ve since changed it back.
I’m not sure how that could be the basis for banning my account, I have control of the domain and have been changing designs around a lot lately, there was nothing malicious, fraudulent, or anything in violation of their terms. Also, that wouldn’t explain the blocking of the fast and furious post. Thoughts?
my blog comes up in first 3 results..but now its not showin even for 1 post.. i dont know what the hell happened…
plzz c s there anu illegal content possted ??
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