Well Isn't That A Kick In The Pants!

Recently I've been trying to come up with ideas that allow me to contribute monetarily to our family. I thoughts of tons of things including at home child care, opening my own etsy shop and even adding Ads to my blog.

The last one seemed the easiest so I started there first. I figured all I would need to do is apply the Ads which Blogger will let you do in a heartbeat. I started them up around two weeks ago. To get the ball rolling I told close friends and family about them and how they would really help generate a little extra income for us!

It seems that friends and family were VERY generous in their endeavor to help me out :).

Below is the email I received...

After reviewing our records, we've determined that your AdSense account 
poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a 
responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due 
to invalid activity, we've found it necessary to disable your AdSense 
account. Your outstanding balance and Google's share of the revenue will 
both be fully refunded back to the affected advertisers.

I'm a little sad that I have just barely gotten started and now this is something that I can't count on. I read the rules before I started and it states pretty clearly that I myself am not allowed to click on the ads themselves. I was unaware that they would tally up how many times an Ad was clicked on from various IP addresses. I wish I was warned about that too so I could have passed that info on to well meaning friends and family. I'm sure that it was mentioned somewhere in all the small print that I neglected to read. :/. 

So, word to the wise friends, if you decide to apply Ads to your blogs, BEWARE! 

(oh and I'm also not sure of  why Blogger is cutting some of my words in half and wrapping them around to the next line. So weird.)