The Google AdSense conclusion

February 9, 2008 · Filed Under peso makin' 

Well, after a week I finally got a response from the Google AdSense team.  Unfortunately they could not give any real insight on how to fix the problem

Here is an excerpt of the email I got from them,

Thanks for your patience while we investigated this matter. I understand you are concerned about the fact that public service ads are appearing on your site instead of paid ads. Our specialists investigated and found that
pornographic links have been injected into the bottom of your pages. These links are only visible to web crawlers so you may not see them if you view the source of your pages. Because our system does not return ads to pages detected to have adult content, ads will not appear until the links are removed. These links may have been placed on your site without your knowledge in an attempt to boost other sites’ search engine rank.

We’d recommend that you contact your webmaster to fix any site vulnerabilities which may have allowed the links to be placed on your site. For more information about security for webmasters, see
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html.
You may also with to perform a search for results related to “wordpress spam injection” for more information about the issue.

Once the links have been successfully removed, paid ads should start appearing again within a week.


For additional questions, I’d encourage you to visit the AdSense Help Center ( http://www.google.com/adsense_help ) or the official AdSense blog ( http://adsense.blogspot.com?utm_source=txft ). Alternatively, feel free
to post your question on the AdSense Help Forum ( http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help?utm_source=txft ).

Now, on some of the sites I was able to take out some coding in the footer of the theme and then my AdsSense ads showed up immediately. I was not so lucky with my other sites.  And hello - within a week?!? They should appear within a week?!? That is so not user friendly Google!

After much research I discovered that using a free theme like this one is what can get you those spammy links in the footer. So, unless you know php and such you have to end up paying for a premium theme from someone.

I also took the afternoon today to upgrade all of my blogs to Wordpress 2.3.3 and I have also installed the Bad Behavior plugin as a means to prevent any more spammy links from showing up on the page. Oy. Sadly, that cut into my peso makin’ time today.

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2 Responses to “The Google AdSense conclusion”

  1. AhBoon on February 12th, 2008 3:07 am

    Hi, thanks or the info.
    I was having the same problem or the past 2 weeks, and i’ve been trying any possible solution with it, but none that work. Including changing to another Plain theme.

    Finally I’ve received same mail like yours today from Google saying about the same thing.
    But supprisingly all my pages turned back to normal today, without me changing anything.

    Still, I do not know what had injected into my wordpress theme… and hope that it will be ok from now on.

  2. the Peso Millionaire to-be on February 12th, 2008 10:17 am

    I tried just changing themes too but that did not work for me.

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