Google Adwords + Squeeze pages - Ban?

Its not so much the actual squeeze page but the site in general. If google deem your site to be of no beneficial value and just a spam trap for affiliate products then they may decide to deny your use of adwords.

Also be very careful which affiliate products you choose. Google doesn't like many of the re-bill offers or offers that make dodgy claims like water4gas.

I have seen people who blatently break every rule in the book and get away with it. i have also seen people get banned for no clear reason.

For me Google adwords is my bread and butter so I take their TOS seriously. But to be honest, if you concentrate on delivering value to the visitor then you should be ok unless you promote a product they dont like.

with so many Grey lines it is difficult to know exact requirements, first look at G terms. a bridge page is not allowed, a bridge page is any page that has a sole purpose to send a person to another site and is mainly used in affiliate marketing.

Next is a little more Grey and that is the skinny site term, this is the old single page site, and this needs to have privacy policy / terms / about us and other relevant pages for a better q score / avoid slaps or in short a mini site over a page.

how much content is one of those Grey lines as i have not seen any official guide to numbers of words required, so the best you can do is work with what is known

build a mini site with the pages needed by g terms, (the links can be at the bottom or side as discussed but they must be there)

avoid building bridge pages by providing content relative to the search, you can add an affiliate link and or a data capture if it is not the only purpose per say / content.

avoid listing product types as explained as not acceptable by google, ? shady re bill offers / unrealistic health or money making schemes and what ever else is listed by G

avoid shonky URL redirects / i frames

? covered most of it here so keep n mind if you do throw a poor q score then delete the keyword / ads do not pause them as this in effect keeps them active in g eyes.

some people claim you can throw money at a poor keyword , i am yet to have any keyword fixed by throwing money at it, a personal view only.

Google doesn't like thin affiliates...and they never did. So, you have to either learn to be either fully transparent, or substantive; appear to be invisible, or appear to be providing substance. Neither one is difficult. Remember, big G is our friend, those who learn how to make the rules work for them make the money, those who don't write ebooks about it.

What about image ads on the content network? I tried running a campaign in the finance market recently. Quality score is not an issue with image ads, I got ads approved and I started getting impressions. Then boom it just stopped. The ads are still approved but none of the keywords will trigger the ads. I have a squeeze page with a video explaining what they will get for their email address. I have a disclaimer, contact us, and a link to my home page is this not enough?