Goodbye My Hubber Family, Google Has disabled my Account
66Secret Between the dark and the light
This has been another week full of Lemons, on Monday I looked at my blog and all my ads were missing, so I came to check my account at Hub-pages. I realized, upon going to my earnings, that Google and disabled my account. I so click on it to find out what the problem was. Now I would like to remind you that I have been on hub-pages for two years now, and I HAVE NEVER MADE ONE PENNY.
I was shocked when I read, "Their were inappropriate clicks on my account." Well funny that it's two days before my first paycheck in two years. I have never clicked on one of my ads, my family pays not attention to my hubs, I write because I am disabled and this is my passion, my social life, and I love Hub-pages and my friends. I refuse to write for free anymore, as I need money for groceries and prescriptions.
Therefore I did an appeal, and they have made me wait all week, and tonight they answered me with, "Sorry your out, and every dime you earned will be returned to the advertisers for losing their money on clicks that are inappropriate." So, when did this inappropriate clicking began, and why now two year and two days from they having to pay me? Way are they refusing to pay me any money I have earned? I am broken hearted and shocked that I would be accused of cheating, me a thief? OMG, this has me so baffled and the pain and hurt is now turned into anger.
I have not made any comments this week as I was waiting to hear the results of my appeal, and tonight I got the answer. I have no choice, but to leave my dear family here. I will write for the contest of April and hope I can win at least one to get some money that I have lost. Be careful in Goggles agreement that said that can oust you for any reason they choose without giving you a reason, um and I wasn't even kissed. I will slowly move my hubs as google is still on my site for hub-pages to get ALL the revenue, this is really serious, to be accused of a crime I didn't do. Love & peace dear friends
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Hi Darlene, I know the feeling. I was really liking writing on the hubs. Now, all of a sudden they have gotten so tight it makes me not even want to stay on here. I published a hub today and they denied it. There is no reason that I can see for the denial. It was fun but now it's getting to restrictive. I don't understand all the changes. If you go, I will be sorry to see you leave. But I probably won't be far behind along with a lot of others. Greg
Sorry to hear they closed your account right before payout. That seems a bit shady to me. I feel bad about what they did to you. It doesn't sound right. =\
Let me know where you move your writing to Mrs. Darlene. I'll swing by for sure! Business is an ugly thing and it is indeed somewhat strange that your account got canceled just before you would have gotten paid.
I had a blog removed about a week or so ago too. Many people seem to be having problems of this sort lately.
I wish you well though, whatever comes your way. May Wakan Tanka walk with you.
That is very frustrating and annoying news for you, and I do feel for you. Have you considered staying on here and concentrating your efforts on other alternatives like Amazon, Ebay (if you have an affiliate account) and Clickbank. A lot of users make more money from those than they do Adsense.
You could pursue Adsense again too, as one Hubber had the same problem recently, and they hubbed on it because they were annoyed. Some days later they got an email saying their account had been re-instated as the disabling had been done in error. I believe they had appealed and been rejected once too from what I recall.
Whatever you decide, I wish you well.
PS. This is the Hub I referred to in my previous post. http://hubpages.com/hub/Warning-About-Google-Adsen
It might give you a bit of hope at least.
Well its a evil world with evil actors. It feels good that there is so much good happening within the evil.
:-)
You Darlene are one of the good things in my life!
Carry on Darski, the Good will prevail!
Dear Darlene,
When I investigated whether or not I should get involved in Google Adsense, I read many stories such as yours. Just as someone was about to get paid..voila there was a violation and no check was ever issued. Please don't give up your hubbing family. You are so important to all of us.
Wow! One of the problems is that they have the power to do things like this. I had something similar happen to me on another forum but the forum itself was paying the writers. When I got to a certain limit they came head hunting.
Darlene this stinks! I hope that Google does realize they made a mistake and opens your account back. If you do leave, let us know where you go so that we can still follow. This whole google thing as got us all shook up knowing that it could happen to anyone of us who actually abide by the rules.
I myself am already starting to join different affiliate programs and look for other avenues as income coming in, so that I do not have to rely entirely on Google.
Darlene, wishing you the very best- stay in touch
God bless you.
Rob
Sorry about this whole thing girlfriend. I don't take their money anyway so f*ck 'em. Snub Pages took one of mine down too. They're a bunch of drivel spewing nitwits and this kind of crap just proves it. Good luck. Peace!! Tom
Darlene I feel so bad for you. That is really horrible and I am sure Google know were the click came from. I have not got my my 4100 threshold yet but $7.00 away from it. I hope that doesn't happen to me or anyone else. We will all miss you here Darlene and I wish you all the best in your writing ahead and your earnings. I have been with Adsense for about one year and never recieved a penny yet , but soon I hope.
God Bless you Darlene and hang in there , everything will work out fine :)
This breaks my heart. Do you have an Amazon account? I make more money from Amazon than Google. So if you don't have Amazon you could sign up for it. I love you, love your work and know you'd never do anything wrong. I hope you stick around and give Amazon a go. Since you've not made any money on Google anyway... My most positive thoughts are with you. Love Peace and Joy my dearest chicklet. :) katie
The Almighty Google strikes again! Sorry about this. It's a warning to the rest of us too, I guess.
Thanks for sharing your sad experience and the best of luck for you in future.
Love and peace
Tony
Hmmm - this hub is full of google ads! So don't give up yet.
Stick around just for the writing and reading sake of it, there's more here for all of us than the pennies they toss on the internet sidewalk for us to pick up, only to find they've glued them to the ground! It would be sad to see you go, but do what you feel is best for your writing journey and be sure to leave the trail for us to follow you! Best of Luck Darlene.
My dearest Darlene, I’m so sad for you. This is indeed a slap in the face – I wonder who is the authorised person who closed your account? What/who is she/he? I agree with ALL above comments. Don’t run, rather start a revolution. Where is the place you will feel at home? Tell me when you find it and I’ll move with you.
Oh Darski, I will be so sad to see you go :( You're such a supportive and encouraging hubber to all your friends, and your hubs are so lovely to read. I will miss you, and I hope that Google will buck their ideas up and reinstate your account.
I don't know what is going on with all this Google business, but it just seems like they're up to shady stuff at the moment, and not playing at all fair. I've never made any money from them yet - it's funny how the home page for HubPages encourages people to come on in and join the party, and make hundreds even thousands of dollars just like many other hubbers do - WHO THE HELL ARE THESE HUBBERS WHO MAKE HUNDREDS AND EVEN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS??? I don't know of any!
I'll miss you Darski, and I hope you get to stay. If you don't please tell us where you've gone, and maybe we can all move over with you!
Linda.
Darski you have been my inspiration. I don't understand all these technicalities - I just joined HubPages to read and now write. I can't imagine that you have done anything wrong.You are a wonderful person with a heart of gold. You must be completely down hearted but please don't leave Hubpages, this place would definitely not be the same without you. Love Acaetnna xx.
I am so sorry to hear that :( I am getting a little discouraged here as well. You are not the first who has said this to happen to them. I am just afraid that it will, indeed happen to me too. I don't want all my hard work to be in vain. If you are looking for a site to get paid for your content I would suggest RedGage. I have been on there for a month now and I love it. Lots of opportunity to get paid! http://www.redgage.com/mrsk910
I'm the opposite in terms of being happy here and have made some very good money (in my humble opinion) thus far. I'm sorry that happened to you Darski - keep us posted on where you land???
Darsky, I am shocked and very sad that this had happened to you. I hope you will let me know where you are writing the like can still follow you and keep in touch. I love you and I loved all your hubs in your comments. I wish the absolute best for you and hope that you find a place where you can make more money. You will be in my prayers. Love and hugs girl friend.
Are you going to write elsewhere? I want to keep reading your stuff.
I couldn't find you when I clicked the redgage.com link. please help.
Darlene, this is one of your personality traits I love and admire - and I'm quoting YOU: ".... but enough of spelled milk, must now be serious about my income and my writing..." We go-getters don't spend too much time mourning over whatever died on us.... oh, we do mourn, but while we move FORWARD at the speed of daylight. Good luck and don't forget to stay in touch with me - I love to have you as a friend in my life. Hugs and peace from me to you.
Just been there, darski, and it worked this time. I got to read your good article about having a coffee shop business. I couldn't comment there because I am not registered yet but will do so soon so I can continue to follow you. Best of success!
I will check in at Redgage whenever I think of it. I might sign up and post there myself now that you have introduced me to it. Thanks.
Darlene your hubs are truly great and wonderful. I always enjoy reading them. I always find the most interesting words and beautiful pictures. IF YOU CHOOSE TO LEAVE WE WILL MISS YOU. Good luck with your decision.
Sweet wishes Rhonda
My dear friend, i am so sad for you.
I am so sorry to hear about this news. But as your friend. I just want to remind you there are many opportunities out there. Have you get an invitation from hubpages team to test hubpages ads new program. I have tested this and it sound great. I get a couple of dollar in three days. I thought it would increasing in the next days.
After finish my Taxes problem to join this program. Actually I am little bit confuse about TAX, but God help me to overcome this problem and hubpages team also gave me the solution. If you read hubpages blog, they have done a second invitation for many hubbers. This program will launch in public in July. I thought hubpages team has commitment for hubbers to get nice income from ads revenue by writing article. If you banned by google, it mean you don't have to end your membership in hubpages. I hope hubpages ads program is a good solution for you and for us too.
You are my favorite hubber. At the same time you are my loyal readers. Please consider your plan to leave hubpages. 19 months is a long time for you to build your hub kingdom in HP and 132 hubs is a good achievement for you. I hope the best for you. My pray always for you too. Take care!
***I beleive, you will success with hubpages new program***
Blessing and hugs, prasetio
Hi Darlene-
This is so upsetting and an example of what is wrong with the world. I initially became interested in HP because of you & Colin and the personal interest & feedback you both took the time to provide. How much is that worth? And I am one of SO MANY who looks to you for inspiration, friendship & support, again what is the value? We all know this is an error & I am quite sure you will hear back from Google confirming that fact but the damage has been done-Like you, I need to make money & realize that if this can happen to you, it can happen to anyone. I am right behind you my friend.
Kathy
I wonder if you could complain to the labor relations board or whatever they call it in Washington. They investigate stuff like this.
I bet Google winds up in court in a class action suit someday soon.
That sucks! I have had my problems with Hubs too. They can be frustrating but hang in there..I am up to $1.95 after about two months!
There are other ad companies that will support your blogs. I wish I could think of their names just now but they are out there. And you can try adding affiliate links on your blogs to the sales pages of companies that will pay you a commission if anyone buys through your link. I guess you know that but it is still an option, even if it is Clickbank you use. You can blog around what is hot on clickbank. There are others.
Dear, Darski. My pray always for you and you always be in my heart. $25.00 is a good news from you. I hope you always success. Cheers...
Love and peace,
prasetio
BreakfastPop is right - you are too important to us to just leave. There are alternatives. Check out Hubber Charm Baker who has had a similar experience. Best to you - let us know where you're going. Hugs.
I meant for your blogs. HubPages has others, as you know, besides google. But I wish you well and will get off this now. Sorry.
OMG, this stinks and like you I have tomake some money and haven't sofar. I will consider to follow you on Reg Gage. I wish you all the luck in the world and success you deserve.
Oh, my new friend, Darlene, I am so saddened to hear this horrible, horrible news. It is terribly unfair. My heart goes out to you, and yes, I will visit you at your new home! Please keep in touch! Love and SUCCESS!
Darski-got your email. Thanks for pointing this out on hubpages. I've been tagged for having an unsuitable hub which was pulled from publishing by the team. The term they used was: Substandard. It was my very first hub about mothers day and when I queried into it for specifics they told me it had too much personal content.
Yes, that is called a memoir. So, I posed the question : Are memoirs allowed? and it became a featured question, go figure.
It is all mindboggling and I am almost ready to give it all up. I DO NOT make any money, either, it is all purely creative outlet. NC residents cannot get money from Amazon. I cannot apply for EBAY acct b/c they are not taking anyone new...so there is only google ads.
I'm sorry this happened. I wish you the best.
Oh, BTW--they threatened to close my acct as well, but have not as of yet. Hugs to you.
Don't go.
Darski-some of us might follow you over there. We miss you too and I don't know what to do either. Hey, there is always email to stay in touch. :) Hugs and Peace to you Darski. Don't be sad. Just keep up your writing. Love
Hi darski,
I am so sorry to hear about the way that you have been treated and angry also in that you don't seem to have a choice in the matter.
We have made many friends here on HP and as you say I do not want these friendships to end.
If you are moving on darski (and as I see it you don't have much choice)could you leave a link and let us know where you are.
I think we should all bear in mind what has happened here!!!
Take care my dear friend.
Eiddwen.
I am glad that you joined me on RedGage Darski :) I hope that you can get more to follow you as well. It is truly a great place and there is lots of opportunity for payment. Features, bonuses, daily contest, etc. I am happy at RedGage and I am happy that you like it too! See you on the other side!
Thank goodness and I am glad that you are staying.
I don't write for the money either. I write for fun and all the wonderful people here as well. We have made lots of friends haven't we who have become like family. When MSN groups were up and going great lots of us made friends on the groups they had. They took down there groups and many of us lost touch with the friends we made there. I surely hope this does not go in the same direction.
...but I hear there's a new kid (back) in town ... the new and improved Darlene - Happy days are here again!!!!!
Darski - I don't understand why they are doing this to you but am very glad to read all the way down the comments and find you are staying. Things change all the time on sites and maybe it will change for the better here for you. I've seen this go on at other places too and ya just have to go with the flow. Many blessings your way. Peg
Well yes writing is fun, but fun does not pay the mortgage. I do this for several reasons, one of them is to supplement my Income. If I have not earned anything after six months my interest will quickly diminish. But it is rewarding to build the friendships. I will keep those either way.
Hi Darlene,
Please don't despair, try to use this as an opportunity to take control over your affiliate marketing. Why not give it a try to own your own websites instead of posting articles on other peoples sites? This way you have control over ad placement. There are lots and lots of ways you can make money online, and Google Adsense is only one of them. Please check out http://thekeywordacademy.com/coaching/708.html to learn how you can launch simple wordpress sites to make money online. The Keyword Academy has good instruction and support, with an online forum that's great.
Good luck!
Darlene.... I am trying to work out the problem that you have had.. as what you have stated here has lots of gaps in it. You must email HP and specifically ask THEM to provide you an explanation WHY THEY ARE collecting all the impressions from 140 hubs that you have published here! You and HP have an agreement and from what I have seen to date.. that agreement is being manipulated (perhaps by Trolls here) - this means that it is possible that the so claimed 'excess clicks' may have been generated via HP's Share of the impressions and then blamed on You!
You also need to Challenge Google on the history of the account prior to and including the ALLEGED incident that has been used as justification to canning your account.
DO NOT TAKE DOWN YOUR WORK HERE... at least until this issue has been resolved in your favor... now let's see if HP invite you into their program - which will take away a lot of the problems with Google that we are all experiencing!
PM me via my account here and give me entire breakdown of income and problems. You should also have had a Google Analytics account, which can actually provide you all the click history and sources... See where I am coming from?
This is BS and it appears that you are being PLAYED here merely because you don't understand the process fully! So LET'S SORT IT OUT... Start asking some of those Hard questions to your Absense Earning Partner Here... Hub Pages!
Someone Is Cheating.... Catch the Monkey Okay?
Wow being pretty new to all this I hate seeing stuff happen to good people and writers. I do have a question on a comment that was made about moving your articles/hubs. Can you do that and if so how? Good Luck at redgage Ill have to check it out Thanks for all the info
Darlene I am so sorry to hear of your experience with your account being deactivated and disabled. That is so strange as your Google Adsense Ads are working fine here right now (Fri 15 April) as I write this. There are 3 Google Adsense ads and your Amazon ads show here no problem.
Blogspot is a Google Adsense Blog site provider, and is owned by Google, and it also happily lets you use Amazon ads. I know cos Cheeky Girl showed me this.
Your loss here would be immense as many of us love reading your hubs and you have great topics that you write about.
Cassy said there is black hat software that is used by some folks that can simulate the clicking of URL addresses or adverts. That is scary. Question is, did this happen to you and if so why? If not, was it a mistake, which might have been rectified since you brought it to the Hub people's attention? An email to them might tell you more.
I'm happy you are now earning income finally after years getting so little. It is sad to lose a great friend and hubber like you. But I wish you happiness always and your happiness is important. You are a wonderful person, and you deserve better, Darlene.
Darski-
You must be livid! I am so frustrated with this entire HP - Google adsense experience, I have heard so many strange stories! I will email you tomorrow, going to bed now, but seems like you have really been through the ringer, it is one thing to not make money, but another after years of writing, attracting a huge fan base like you have and now they act like it's nothing! You deserve to be paid Darlene you really do. I myself would not even be here had it not been for your initial encouragement! Not over!
Darlene, your story is really scary, and I can't wish it even to my enemy. hope you won't leave hubpages, I don't want to miss you, and I am asking myself why I haven't encountered some of your hubs before... Nice meeting you...
Cassy will email you tonight, Darlene. What is going on? Now I am seeing four Google ads here in this hub??? Did they really disable you account? I am confused. I will link to your Blogspot website with my poetry website if you like. ^_^ Please take care, Darski. Hugs.
Take a look at my page, lots of stuff you could use if you are looking to be independent of Google Ads etc. I really love your writings.
It's a shame when someone accuses you of doing something you would never do, no matter what it might be, but it is a bigger shame to find that big companies or some website owner starts telling lies on you. The best thing about all this is that one day and one day sooner than we think, we'll be able to stand toe to toe and eye to eye with those who lie and cheat us, especially when you are doing your best to do the right thing. Heck, I Very Rarely click anyone else's ads and would never click my own so I understand how you feel. I do hope it all works out well for you, I'm sure it will.
Darlene I was wondering where you were. I came over for a visit and whoa I find this. It has been 3 months. I always make it to my favorites sooner or later. There are many. I am so sorry for the boot. Yikes. tsk tsk google. You will be alright because God is for you not against you. Some will persecute us for no apparent reason. It is so sad but true. God will turn it all for good. You will start to make some real money sister. Darlene Please contact me via email when you transfer your hubs to another site. I would love to stay your sister. Hugs galore precious one. I love you. Skye
DO come over for a read sometime. I miss you!!
So sorry to hear this.I hope you find better alternatives to google adsense.Your article has been such a good reminder not to put all your eggs in one basket.I will always support you on RedGage, which I think pays better
Hey, I'm sorry to hear about this - but were I you, I'd start putting your content on Redgage, where you can earn without adsense.
I am in the same boat as you are with making money here. I am glad that you are doing well on RedGage. I had planned on leaving too but I will add something now and then.
Hey sabella, are you still around? I didn't even realise you left! I have been mad busy with my life so was not able to com eon HB regularly like i used to! Give me a shout that you're still around! You are being missed!
It is truly shocking how many of these stories there are, not just all over the web, but here at HubPages. A similar thing happened to me three weeks ago. I wrote about it at my hub. I have no suggestions except to report your experience to the Better Business Bureau. It's amazing how you can be robbed without ever leaving home these days! I can't tell you how glad I am that I never gave these clowns any bank account or credit card information!
Darlene it has been awhile since we have talked.I miss your beautiful hubs.Hope things are working out for you.I am still trying to make a go of it here.No luck as of yet.Maybe you can still do a little of both.Have a great day.
I'm sorry to hear you went through this. Has this situation since been resolved?
Darlene,
I have not seen you around. You are my favorite hubber too.
Hi Darski hope you're well. I miss you here a HubPages.

















































Akbok Level 1 Commenter 14 months ago
I had a similar experience with associated content, where they wrongfully accused me of having multiple accounts. What it really was was that me and my girlfriend both had our respective accounts but on the same IP address. I offered to send Yahoo photocopies of our driver's licenses to prove that we are two different entities with separate accounts but just in the same household. To this day I've had no response. Sorry about your loss though, I know the pain :