Admob account suspended due to "invalid activity on the AdSense ads hosted on your website"

Question

I am new to android and I have managed to read the admob guide lines and then adding the ads in my app and all was working just fine. Its been 3 month that I have uploaded my app and earned a little amount of money. But good so far for starter and beginners.

But today I have received the following message from the Google AdSense Account.

We’d like you to know that we recently detected invalid activity on the AdSense ads hosted on your website. We’ve temporarily suspended your account and will re-enable it in 30 days. While your account is suspended, you’ll still be able to log in to your AdSense account; however, no ads will be served during this period. We hope this gives you time to identify the source of the invalid activity and to take appropriate action.

So I have 3 basic question

1. I do not understand what they have meant by **invalid activity on

   the AdSense ads hosted on your website.** Although I do not have any website. I have just applied these ads in my apps

2. After 30 days they will active my account again , but I do not have clue What went wrong , so I am afraid after those 30 days, they would block me again and then forever. So How do I come to know that What I have done wrong ?

3. My 3rd Question is about what are the best guide line would you people provide me to do with apps and ads I wanted to know I have seen many apps which even are not able to understand the standards of android but still they have 5000+ downloads, How they are doing all of this stuff. I do not understand how to promote app and how to earn with ads although I have read all the guideline but they are general I want you guys please give me honest technical advice.

I am looking forward if you participate in this discussion and make these points clear to me also to new Android developers. Thanks

Answer 1

From googles support pages:

Invalid click activity consists of any clicks or impressions that may artificially inflate an advertiser's costs or a publisher's earnings, and for which we decide not to charge the advertiser. This includes, but is not limited to, clicks or impressions generated by a publisher clicking his own ads, a publisher encouraging clicks on his ads, automated clicking tools or traffic sources, robots or other deceptive software.

Basically, they want genuine user interest. Most of the generated revenue from your app may have been from one person (intentional or not) which has lead them to believe that the clicks were fake. Google uses very sophisticated Artificial Intelligence program to track user mouse pointer location on the page and using the mouse pointer behavior it decides whether it’s a legit or fake click. Sometimes the app or website owner will click the links themselves. This 30 day ban is a cooling off period.

Some common causes of bans regarding invalid clicks:

• Don't click your own ads (see above)
• Don't tell your friends to click on your ads
• A page impression can still be counted towards revenue. Don't let friends browse your ad hosting pages on your account (this will be viewed as YOU)
• Don't use copyrighted content
• Don’t post or host malicious content (hacking etc...)
• Don’t use pornographic materials on your site.
• Don’t use any other ad service on your website while using AdSense
• Don’t put more than 3 ads on any page.

Google recommends that to prevent invalid activity, that your ad implementation adheres to its policies. Here is a full list of Google AdSense policies .

Google also has additional guidelines on how invalid activity can be prevented. https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1112983

Finally:

Get involved with your Google Analytics to see where your users are coming from, and if you truly feel that you have been incorrectly banned, you can appeal here - Invalid Activity Appeal.

Answer 2

Forget Admob and use Facebook audience network ads. its great ads network for mobile ads And you will get 30% more revenue than Adsense.