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Update 1:
It appears that ads may have been down since as early as one minute after the start of AdSense's Friday. This is because I noticed one of the most popular ads has only had a handful of impressions.
I have submitted a ticket to AdSense's help forum, and I have also emailed a support ticket to AdSense directly.
Update 2: Does anyone have any experience with contacting Google AdSense? I have been browsing through their support forum and it appears this has been happening to quite a few sites this week, with no replies for days on end. I certainly do not hope that this is the case, and that hundreds or more dollars are going to be lost as a result of an error. If there is a policy violation, that is one thing, but if this is reflective of something else happening that is outside of our control, I don't think it's very fair to the 5,000 + authors here who rely on AdSense for income.
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There are some tips to check your mail incase of any DMCA warnings etc. It is about half way across the page, you may have a writer who is spinning or duplicating to much non original writing.
It could also be an update.
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Google forum unofficial
Also here is Adsense policy. This is how websites like Seekyt get blocked adsense. Learn more here: http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=23921
I don't want to accuse authors here...but I do found certain articles on Seekyt that seems suspiciously similar with ones on other sites.
I have spent a long time moderating and manually checking articles by people for plagiarism, and the success rate was quite high, but I do acknowledge that some of the articles aren't totally unique. It's just a statistical disaster with our current content guidelines for me to be able to moderate everything by everyone. I do NOT think this is the reason for banning Seekyt, but who knows?
I'm not saying that all (or any) of them are innocent of breaking the rules, but this does seem a little unfair, even for Google.
With that in mind, I have an idea of how to fix this. I'll do some research and see if it will work.
What's anybody going to do about it when they are unresponsive and unregulated?
If they bring more government interference into the Internet, this is one of the ways they will do it, by injuring people unreasonably and without visible rationale.
I checked Blogger and found that, on some blogs, some Adsense spots were extremely slow to load and some never did. There wasn't any case where none loaded, always some. On one blog post, the ads popped up really fast. Others, slow and/or partial.
What I thought might be telling is that the blog posts slowest to load were those where the Google algorithm decided to plant Google + ads. Where Google + ads were not promoted, everything loaded quickly. I'm not certain this points to anything, but in my case at least, Google promo ads were usually the first thing to pop up. Now, nothing.
Is it possible they are punishing themselves again, as they did last fall, this time for favoritism and trampling others inadvertently in the process? If so, I'd demand compensation for the loss.
As for Seekyt, since I'm convinced the problem is not here, when this gets straightened out, I'm willing to toss some of my Paypal balance into the till, if you can let us know how severe the losses are. I hope others will too.
Also, duplication of some work happens on bigger sites than this, they still have their adsense. Writers have even reported whole site duplication to the owners, it is they who are creating and duplicating the content, that us writers miss out on for.
If you carry on getting really bad experiences with this Tyler, maybe try Infolinks or one of the others. Please not Chitika though as they are painfully low payouts.