Ok, quick explanation cause this is easy to mess up, the names are so similiar. Adwords is the content niched PPC that advertisers sign up for; those ads are shown both on Google and via Google on other webmasters sites. Adsense is where webmasters sign up to get ads placed on their sites and are paid per click out.
She was making a grand a month on Adsense. They come by and say "our bot has detected you are either: using a bot, or are otherwise defruading by clicking on your own ads", and then they suspend the code, close down the account and keep any monies that have been made since the last check was sent. (Which btw, they are always two months late sending out the money. They must have iBill employees.)
The ads are no longer on that site as she's looking for an alternate Adsense type program to replace it with. To my knowledge it doesn't (seem) to affect the search engine listings, just their affiliate program.
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