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I run a network for community forums. My forums have been spammed a few times with objectionable content.

When this happens, usually I get warning from adsense asking me to remove the objectionable content with in 48 hours. Sometimes, they block adsense on my website and email me about it. I promptly removed the content and reverted back. Adsense was restored on my website after a few days.



This has been going on with my forums for many years. Mostly users spamming objectionable content, but sometimes I get slapped for having ads on login/404 ("contentless") pages and other rule violations.

I get disabled, Google lets me know, I fix the issue, appeal, and get Adsense restored. My forums have Adsense incomes that range from $100/mo to $1800/mo.

Google has been great so far. It does feel precarious to have all my eggs in the Adsense basket, but the payout from other ad networks is abysmal in comparison.




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