Disclaimer: this is not official advice from AdSense or YouTube, but is based on my understanding of how the system works.
If
you have received a notification from AdSense that your account has
been disabled because of "invalid activity", then here is what you need
to keep in mind:
• Before you do anything else, carefully read and understand the information AdSense provides to publishers:
Can my account be reinstated after being disabled for invalid click activity?
• If your AdSense account is disabled, your YouTube monetization and Partnership will be disabled as well.
"
If your AdSense account has been disabled for invalid click activity or other reasons, you cannot participate in YouTube’s monetization programs."
That means you cannot link a different AdSense account to your channel to restore monetization.
Your only option to get your disabled AdSense account restored on appeal.
• AdSense only promises to look at the first appeal you submit, so you should not rush to submit an appeal.
For
an appeal to be successful, it needs to demonstrate that you understand
the source of the invalid activity on your ads, and that you have plans
in place to prevent invalid activity from occurring again in the
future. That means you need to do a careful analysis of all the data
about your traffic and ads you have, both in saved reports from your
AdSense account and in your YouTube Analytics.
Hopefully you have been actively monitoring the activity on your ads in your AdSense account.
• AdSense will not provide you any details about the invalid activity on your account.
The
appeal form is not a way to ask AdSense for more information. Since
you only are guaranteed one chance at appeal, don't waste it asking for
information you won't be provided.
• Invalid activity does
not only refer to clicks you made on your ads yourself. It includes any
activity on the ads that is not initiated by genuine interest in the
ad. That means invalid activity can include:
- clicks on the ads by your family, friends or fans trying to "help" you out
- encouraging clicks by drawing attention to the ads
-
artificial inflation of impressions on your ads by purchasing traffic
or views on your videos, or by joining a traffic exchange or view
exchange
- watching the preroll ads on your own videos
An
appeal that merely says "I did not click the ads" is unlikely to be
successful. You need to determine what the source of invalid activity
may have been.
• The invalid activity on your ads did not necessarily occur immediately prior to your AdSense account being disabled.
Keep
in mind that invalid activity could have occurred weeks or months prior
to your account being closed, so you need to look at all the data
relating to your traffic and ad activity, not just recent data.
• If you have ads on your website or blog in addition to your videos, the invalid activity could have been generated by the ads on your website, on your videos or both.
If
this is the case, you also need to review the traffic sources and
activity on your site in your site's logs and stats. If you use Google
Analytics, SiteMeter, StatCounter or other 3rd party analytics on your
site, review that data as well.
• You are not allowed to create a new AdSense account if your original account is disabled
If
you create a new AdSense account after your original account is
disabled, that new account will be disabled as soon as AdSense spots the
association with the originally disabled account.
If
your new account was disabled because of an old disabled account, it is
extremely unlikely your account would be restored on appeal.
• Neither AdSense Support nor YouTube Partner support can help you if your AdSense account is disabled.
You
will not be provided any additional information about the invalid
activity on your account, and you will not be provided any direct
assistance.
Your only option is to submit a convincing appeal after researching the traffic and activity on your ads.
Since
no one on this user-to-user forum has access to your account
information, that means it's up to you to review and understand the data
in your accounts.
So what should you do if you have more questions:
If
you have questions about your monetization being disabled or linking
AdSense to your YouTube account, post here in the YouTube Monetization
forum:
If
you have questions about how to submit an appeal to AdSense, or how to
understand your AdSense reports, post in the AdSense forum:
If you have questions about how to understand your YouTube Analytics reports, post in the YouTube Partners forum:
And
remember there is no hurry - better to take your time than to use up
your one chance at appeal before you have gathered and analyzed all the
relevant data.
Reference ;
AdSense Tips: Different forms of invalid activity
Working better together: Protecting against invalid ... - Inside AdSense
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