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No Woodworking Plans with Adwords?

by keyon
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Maybe this is old news, but is Google still on the warpath against people selling woodworking plans with Adwords? I remember their witch hunt a couple years ago, when just mentioning the words "woodworking plans" on your site was enough to get your account suspended. Even the long-standing, authority woodworking sites that new nothing about Clickbank were getting their Adwords programs shut down without explanation.

Thinking that maybe the fire had died down some, the other day I tried setting up a new account for one of my sites. Forget it. Apparently I've been permanently labeled as potential trouble for Google (by mere association), and I'll never be able to use Adwords...ever.

The sad thing is that I'm not an affiliate trying to peddle someone else's questionable goods. My products are 100% original, they're high quality, and they're not available elsewhere on the Web for free (thus I shouldn't be violating any of Google's TOS).

Oh well. I'm sure this is old news for many of you.
#adwords #plans #woodworking
  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    That's weird. What's wrong with woodworking products?
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    • Profile picture of the author keyon
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      That's weird. What's wrong with woodworking products?
      Well, a couple years ago Google apparently got bombarded with complaints about a collection of woodworking plans being promoted through Adwords. The argument against the product was that the collection was sort of a shoddy compilation of stuff you could download for free elsewhere on the Web. Also, the original owners of the content were none too happy to see their content being republished and sold without their consent (both are violations of Google's TOS).

      Hard to know who was actually doing the complaining -- it's a pretty fierce marketplace so I can imagine competitors might have played a part in bombing Google with the complaints. Who knows.

      Either way, the whole fiasco pretty much ruined the chance for anyone to advertise woodworking plans through Adwords (unless you've already been doing it for the last 10 years and have begged and pleaded with Google to give you an exception).
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by keyon View Post

        Well, a couple years ago Google apparently got bombarded with complaints about a collection of woodworking plans being promoted through Adwords. The argument against the product was that the collection was sort of a shoddy compilation of stuff you could download for free elsewhere on the Web. Also, the original owners of the content were none too happy to see their content being republished and sold without their consent (both are violations of Google's TOS).

        Hard to know who was actually doing the complaining -- it's a pretty fierce marketplace so I can imagine competitors might have played a part in bombing Google with the complaints. Who knows.

        Either way, the whole fiasco pretty much ruined the chance for anyone to advertise woodworking plans through Adwords (unless you've already been doing it for the last 10 years and have begged and pleaded with Google to give you an exception).
        That's a shame. Seems like Google should have just banned the parties responsible instead of throwing the whole thing away. Woodworking plans seems so up and up if they are genuine.
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        • Profile picture of the author onSubie
          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          That's a shame. Seems like Google should have just banned the parties responsible instead of throwing the whole thing away. Woodworking plans seems so up and up if they are genuine.

          Oh, come on. Why would Google just throw out the bathwater when they can get rid of the baby at the same time?



          Mahlon
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          • Profile picture of the author keyon
            Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

            Oh, come on. Why would Google just throw out the bathwater when they can get rid of the baby at the same time?
            Mahlon
            It really is almost funny how careless Google can afford to be with things like this. I guess if you're a search company making a billion dollars a day, it's too much work to find the root of a problem. Instead, you just shut down anything and everything that has the slightest resemblance to the perpetrator. Job done.

            By the way...I'm thinking that using the word "clickbank" on any of your sites is probably the kiss of death for getting an Adwords account.
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Start advertising 'chicken coops'... LOL

    Have you looked at other advertising platforms? A lot of people are moving to the MSN/Yahoo/Bing ad platform.

    Banner Ads also seem to be a very popular alternative to AdWords.

    Mahlon
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    • Profile picture of the author keyon
      Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

      Start advertising 'chicken coops'... LOL
      I hear that
      Thanks for the suggestion about other platforms -- I'll look into MSN, Yahoo, Bing.

      Geesh.....Google has such knee-jerk reactions to things.
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    • Profile picture of the author keyon
      Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

      Banner Ads also seem to be a very popular alternative to AdWords.
      Have any suggestions how to get started with this type of advertising? I have no idea where to look.
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  • Profile picture of the author perfumer
    Have you tried facebook ads?
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    • Profile picture of the author keyon
      Originally Posted by perfumer View Post

      Have you tried facebook ads?
      Thanks. I'm ready to try anything that doesn't have the name Google.
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