To What Lengths Does One Have to Go to in Order to Get an Adwords account? I have tried everything

If the content is what got you banned in the first place, and you are using the same content, you are likely to be banned again. I would say you'll have to change your ad content.

I'm actually thinking about doing a write up on this, because I didn't make my first time either. So I'll say this for now in case you haven't made it yet (and anybody else thinking about trying); to google you are not a person so much as a database. A collection of facts that make up "you." Now imagine that database/you as a velcro covered soccer ball. When you create a new account on ANY google property they dip that ball into a giant vat of raw cotton, and if ANY cotton sticks to that ball they say "well,well, well, look what's going on here, we know this guy-see this piece of cotton..."

Let me get out of analogy territory and just say it; if you bought a domain using your name/address or ANYTHING connected to something you used in the past that google knows about you, it will connect it to your new "you." Nothing can show up from the past. And it's even deeper than that; if you had a profile of any kind with a company that google has BOUGHT like youtube or grandcentral or even admob and you use ANY data from those accounts they'll catch you that way.

You know how you can't delete an adwords campaign and you can only hide it? Well that's how they are about data; they don't throw it away. For them out of sight does NOT mean out of mind. Basically you've got to be a mountain man who JUST clawed his way into society and the first thing you decided to do was advertise on adwords.

I'll fill you in on what has happened to me since I last posted this

I ended up hiring a guy in India to get me back online, and he did. But I still didn't have a credit card I could use, so I had him prepay for the ads each day. But I didn't really like the way things were going, and so I called in a favor and had a guy give me his old Adwords account that he no longer uses. I then created a new website, and started a new campaign, and once again got the dreaded "Your ads are not running. Please contact us for support" message. I thought that option was dead, until 2 days later, when my ad started showing up again!

Problem is, my niches are computer repair products, and Google just seems to have it out for these. So, they slapped me a few times, and then finally just banned me again

Now, here is where things get interesting. I wanted to do a test to see just how much Google tracks, so I had the guy in India set up a new campaign for me. BUT, I copied word for word one of the sites that had just been slapped and put it on a new domain. In fact, I even registered that domain under the same name, address, etc as a site that had been slapped

That campaign has now been running for about a month, with no problems at all

I guess this guy in India must have some secret way of getting Adwords accounts approved, even for niches that Google seems to easily ban. Problem is, I can't really rely on him long term

That’s great news sree94, and I want to thank you personally for coming back and reporting. Especially that fact that you did keep trying. That’s kind of what I wanted to convey, that trying could yield good results-but you had to have no traceable tracks.
Actually the big surprise to me is not that you duplicated a site they didn’t like but that you used your own name/address on the domain. It refutes my experience, because if I understand you correctly, you're saying you used your name/address on domains twice and the only difference is that you built the site the first time (didn't work) and then they India based guy built it the second (did.work).



But I guess it all comes down to once a new account gets flagged and they send in a human for review, and it all depends on who does the review that day. Like GuerrillaIM said I also believe they do a multi-staged review.

Thanks again for your contribution and please let us know if things take a turn downward in the next couple of months.

And there you go. I know from experience too.



I certainly agree that in the past people probably did re-enter with minimal changes. But that Dec 2nd and 3rd 2009 mass banning I think was the largest one that Adwords had ever done (I don’t know I’m just guessing on that part, of course). Especially since it was so across the board, and scooped up tuna and dolphins alike.

So I’d be interested in hearing from people who have actually gotten back in like sree94 and I since that particular banning. And if they found the process easy or hard/had to try multiple times.