Will You People Stop Whining?

Sometimes the TOS "violation" is not really a violation at all. You get a bad reviewer and you're screwed, even if you didn't do anything wrong.

I just bought a domain that was deindexed before I had even bought the domain. (It was completely dropped, bought it from GoDaddy normally.) I built a small niche site on it before realizing it was deindexed. Submitted a reinclusion request... it was denied. I sent in another reinclusion request immediately after getting the notification that the first one was denied, just to make sure. I figured if it was denied I'd just cut my losses and transfer the content to a new domain that didn't already have a penalty. Hadn't changed a thing, but it was granted the second reinclusion request.

Just goes to show that the exact same site can be in violation of TOS in one reviewer's eyes, but not in another's. Which leads to the conclusion that knowing what the actual TOS violation was is important for verification purposes. (It would also help to fix any problems if there actually was a problem. It's not always obvious what the problem is.)

I agree that's annoying when people whine about clearly deserved penalties/bannings. I just wish Google would be a bit more transparent as to the "why" in all cases. I'd rather they tell the person "you were cookie stuffing" than not tell the person "your reviewer just got dumped by his girlfriend today".

I {agree|disagree|am ambivalent|don't care|am unsure}

many people will learn the hard way. You should always have a backup plan....and then a backup plan to that plan.

It's all about responsibility.

It's funny how "don't put your eggs in one basket" and "FOCUS ON ONE THING" both became part of the IM Bible though, isn't it?

I highly doubt that Ebay powersellers who had their long standing, high feedback 99.9% rating account terminated were doing anything wrong.

Theres always a grey area of things. This banning spree is usually their algorithm picked something up, or you know your just trying to game the system. Either way, they have all the power irregardless.

I can speak from experience.. those idiots over at ebay gave me a $36,000K year ban in december for something that ive been selling for over 10 years. 17 contacts, 1 appeal, 3 supervisors, and 5 different reasons why... and still to no avail. We were even told that we were selling stuff that we didnt even sell? Go Figure... so they can go **** themselves.. Now as far as google they banned us for showing our own ads on our own accounts. Go figure? We dont even use google adsense.. so what brainiac.. figured that one out..

My advice..

Multiple streams of income...

Cpa - Amazon - Sell your own products - Plr - Mrr - Flip Sites - ect....

Just as you would do with your investment portfolio. Diversify.

Even though ebay gave us a "Spank" because they are a bunch of idiots....
We still made more that month by

1) Knowledge...
2) Diversifying
3) Not giving up...

So sometimes it is ok to whine.. when the customer service sucks, has no clue what they are doing, and you know more then their technical staff does.

I will say one thing... "Things always happen for a reason"
Just thought you'd like to know XXXXXXXXXXXX sent you $2,500.00 USD

Funny how life works

@temlawn:

That's a different problem altogether. What was it you were selling?

They're going through catharsis, then some cold person will help them see the light.

I agree with you, nice post! Sometimes due to excitement and laziness we tend to forget the importance of TOS. The thought is sometimes, the less we read the more we complain. So I guess, the best way to get rid of violation and no.no.no moments is to read the TOS.

Complain may be get attention, so...

What's a TOS?