Google AdSense Has Been Ban-Happy!

The Google AdSense Help Group is going crazy with dozens of reports of disabled accounts as of yesterday. I personally see this as a great thing, as everybody that has been banned, and actually left a link to their site in their posts are almost always made for ads (MFA) type of sites, or very low traffic, low payout sites.

For a while now I have wished that Google would start implementing some sort of minimum traffic requirements for acceptance into their program, like most of the high quality systems do. Most of the "gaming" of their system is by low income sites, the "smaller" publishers, so it seems quite silly that most of their time is spent managing the least profitable of the bunch. The more serious, or "bigger" publishers likely don't game the system much as they do fine without it.

The downside of this is that once a month or so, right around payout time, Google bans a butt-load of sites, but then approves the same type of sites from new publishers, so there is really zero net gain from all the hard work. If they would simply tighten up their approval process, request approval for each domain a publisher ads to their account, the whole system would be full of higher quality sites, the AdSense team would spend less time monitoring publishers and that would make the whole system more profitable.