Top 8 reasons why Google AdSense accounts are suspended or disabled for invalid traffic

1. Clicking the ads on your own website, YouTube channel or mobile apps:

Publishers or YouTube creators must not click on the ads on their website, YouTube channel or mobile apps, and must not artificially inflate the impressions or clicks the ads receive, either through automated or manual means. For YouTube creators, when viewing your videos, you must skip the ad so that advertiser costs are not artificially inflated unintentionally.

2. One or more users repeatedly clicking the ads on your website, YouTube channel, or mobile apps:

Publishers must not artificially inflate the impressions or clicks the ads. Don't tell or encourage your friends, family, co-workers, etc. to click on your ads.

3. Generating automated artificial traffic:

Artificial impressions and clicks that are generated through automated means such as a bot or any software, are prohibited.

4. Using a traffic source which is incentivized:

YouTube creators should not use third-party services that generate clicks or impressions such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, etc.

5. Manipulating your ads which are served:

Manipulating the targeting of your ads to get higher revenue ads is prohibited. This includes using keywords within your site that are not related to the content of your website to get irrelevant ads.

6. Encouraging users to support your website, YouTube channel, or mobile apps through ad interaction or any way:

Publishers or YouTube creators may not ask others to refresh or click their ads. This includes asking for users to support your website, YouTube channel, or mobile apps, offering rewards to users for viewing or clicking on ads, or performing searches.

7. Ad placement deceptive for users or generating accidental clicks:

Publishers or YouTube creators are not permitted to encourage users to click on your Google ads in any way. Publishers do not implement the ads in a way that they might be mistaken for other content, such as menu, download links or navigation, etc.

8. Ads embedded in applications:

Publishers or YouTube creators are not permitted to embed ads in software applications. This includes toolbar, desktop applications, browser extensions, etc.