Hey! This is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps! Now today let's
talk about what to do when AdMob disables your ads.
Okay, so, it's a frosty chilly morning here in England but it's really, really nice.
The leaves are really falling off the trees and it's - it's kind of nice to
be back. I know if I was still in Maine last week, it would be kind of the same.
But it's just, you know, I just thought I feel a little bit - to show you
guys a little bit - had to do this one outside this morning. So, this I got
back from Maine on Saturday, so this whole week I've been struggling with jet
lag a little bit. I'm still a little bit, like I've been sleeping in some
days, some days I've been waking up really early. But on Wednesday morning, I
was woken - I slept in on Wednesday morning and I was woken to the Slack
message from Rowena on my team, right? She had said, "Eric are you up yet? Have you
seen the the message from AdMob?" So, I grabbed my phone, I kinda, you know,
(groans) just leaned over and look at it and I see the subject line: "Google AdMob
ad serving has been disabled in your application" And of course, I shot right
up. Now, if you've been doing AdMob for any amount of time, you've
probably gotten this message, you know that this is serious business. This is
like, you know, you don't mess around with AdMob. When they say they
disabled ads, you got to fix something. So, I jumped out of bed and I
quickly read through the message and I've gotten this message
several times before in the past and I'm reading through it and it says,
"Your ad-serving has been disabled to.." and it says, well this two characters, I
think is one one com.tu. And you know what, that's not my app. That's not one of
my apps. It's - this has happened to me once before. Once before where they send
me an AdMob has been disabled for an app that didn't even belong to me.
It was like, you know, last time I tried to email AdMob and say, "Hey,
what's going on? Did somebody stole my app? Did somebody - is somebody for some
reason using my ad ID to serve ads in their application so I get all the
revenue?" None of this makes any sense. And of course, nobody responded. So this
time, I just ignored it. And you know, I just felt this sense of relief.
It was almost like in the movies when the doctor walks into the
office and says I'm sorry you only have six months to live and then, you
know, and then everyone cries and he says, "Oh, I'm sorry this is the wrong office."
That was kind of what it felt like. So, it's just - it was a few minutes of panic
and then everything was fine. But if you do get this email and if you're with AdMob
you probably will at some point, there's nothing really to panic about. I've had
this probably around four or five times in
the last few years. Most of the time, it just means you have to go through and
change your ads. You have to move things around a little bit and then just
tell them, "Okay, this is fixed now. If you please check it." Because there
are certain things you can't do. We talked about this before.You can't have -
basically they don't want to have anything like where they have accidental
clicks or anything like that. They want to have it, you know, they want to have it
so that it's like natural. Somebody's paying for the ads at some
point. And they will disable ads like if you try to get tricky and stuff and do
stuff like automatic clicking or try to get your friends to do it, I mean, that's
usually just a recipe for disaster. Because they will disable it. And if
you've ever - this is one of the reasons why I recommend that as a developer, if
you do receive ad revenue that you should also - you should also place ads
because then you have - then you kind of know what the other side of this is.
People are paying for those ads and if they get a click-through, they want to be
able to -that should result in some revenue for them or should at least -
it shouldn't be an accidental click because the developer wants to make a
little bit of money. But anyway, so if you get this kind of message - first of all,
let me know if you've gotten this message before. I've gotten it like I
said several times before and I really panic this time but false alarm.
But if you do get this kind of message don't panic. And anyway, that's it for
today. That's it for this week. I'll talk to you, guys, on Monday!