My Adwords Account Got Shutdown Becuase of ThruthAboutAbs.com

Joshua,

I logged into Warriorforum today just to see if someone else suffered this, because I did. Google has permanently suspended by Adwords account for once (less than 2 days 1 year ago) promoting an Ad for truthaboutabs. Worse - the landing page was NOT even truthaboutabs.com but to my page with affiliate links. And like you, I never got a single warning from Google.

Here are email threads I've exchanged with them.

I wrote:

"I did not receive any previous policy violation warnings before my account was suspended. I can make corrections if I'm told what I did wrong. Thank you for your attention."

And here was Google Adwords and Policy Dept's first reply:

"Thank you for your email. The suspension of your Google AdWords account is related to the site ' www.truthaboutabs.com' which found to be in violation of our policy around 'Unacceptable Business Practice - Inaccurate or Misleading Claims' because it makes unrealistic claims of weight loss with little or no effort. In response to complaints received from users and publishers about this category of ads, it's Google's policy to not accept ads that make inaccurate or misleading claims regarding the product being promoted. Read more about this specific policy at: Misleading and inaccurate claims - AdWords Help. Please also note that although you may have removed these sites since our latest review, advertisers that have a history of promoting these types of sites are still subject to account-level suspension. In other words, pausing or deleting ads related to the disabled sites won't automatically re-enable the ads nor remove the violation history.

We recommend that you modify your site so that it more realistically and accurately conveys the benefits of your product. We also suggest making sure you are being transparent to our users about any risks involved in using your product. Once you've updated your site per our guidelines, please write back to let us know of the changes, and we'll be happy to re-review your site.

To address your concern around not receiving a previous violation notification, please note that although Google regularly warns advertisers whose accounts may be in violation of our policies, we reserve the right to suspend accounts without warning in cases where the behavior is considered an egregious violation.

We routinely review our advertisers' landing pages and we suspended your AdWords account after a review of your landing page quality, because we believe that advertising policy violations create a seriously negative and/or harmful user experience.

You can review our landing page and site policies here:
Landing page and site policies - AdWords Help

You can learn more about account suspension here:
https://adwords.google.com/support/a...&answer=164786

We appreciate your cooperation in this matter and thank you for your understanding. If you have additional questions or concerns not addressed by our policies or help center, you can contact us by replying to this email.

Sincerely,"

But it was not my site! And this I tried to make clear in the next message:

"Thank you for taking the time to provide me detailed explanations. I appreciate it.

The website www.truthaboutabs.com DOES NOT belong to me, nor is it linked to this account.


What we were doing was promoting Clickbank (www.clickbank.com) products of truthaboutabs.com in order to get a commission from sales each time a visitor goes to that site.


We ran a google ad for a short time through this url: http://xyz.com/truth-about-abs-review.php that contained a review inviting visitors to visit that site.


What we have now done is to take down that referral page: http://xyz.com/truth-about-abs-review.php in addition to deleting the Adwords campaign "Truth About Ads".


We are sorry if we have misled any users through this referral and promise that we will not promote such products again in the future, even tangentially,


Thank you for your kind reconsideration"

Google was not impressed:

"Thank you for writing back. I do understand that the site 'www.truthaboutabs.com' doesn't belong to you. However, during a review of your account, we found that this site was advertised via your account in the past, in the campaign 'Truth About Abs' which is currently deleted. Since it was advertised through your AdWords account, the site and violation have become associated with the account. This holds true irrespective of the duration for which the site was advertised, or if it was subsequently deleted or paused.

Therefore, the only way for your account to be considered for reinstatement is to make changes to this site to bring it in compliance with our policies. I would recommend reaching out to the site owner in this case and work with them to make the required changes.

At Google, we consistently seek ways to better ensure and protect the online experience for all of our users and advertisers. At times, we may review historical as well as current account behaviors to preserve this integrity. During a review of your account history, it was determined that your past violations of AdWords policies warranted further action and thus the account was suspended.

Please also note that pausing or deleting ads related to the disabled
sites will not automatically re-enable the ads nor remove the violation
history. Paused ads or campaigns will still be reviewed based on our
guidelines.

After a site violates AdWords policy and is disabled, advertisers must make changes to the landing page of the site and submit the site for re-review. If approved during the review, the site may be re-enabled for AdWords, and the account violations may be removed."

Phew!

Now on truthaboutabs.com there is only one contact email for Mike Geary, the supposed owner.

I wrote him an email:

"Dear Mike,

I have been an affiliate of your products on www.truthaboutabs.com My clickbank account name is netorbcb

Once in the past, I placed Google Ads to this landing page: http://xyz.com/truth-about-abs-review.php

That page, now removed to please google contained hoplinks to your site www.truthaboutabs.com

Now Google has banned my Adwords account, that I cannot place Ads anymore with them, now or in the future.

I appealed that I do not own www.truthaboutabs.com but they insisted that it does not matter, and that having once advertised an Ad that landed on your page, your domain has now been (permanently) associated with me.

In the last email they sent, they advised this: "Therefore, the only way for your account to be considered for reinstatement is to make changes to this site to bring it in compliance with our policies. I would recommend reaching out to the site owner in this case and work with them to make the required changes."

I will be grateful to get your response as to how we can get this sorted out,

I copy for you below the last correspondences with them.

Thank you very much,".

No reply from Mike Geary!

Now what do I do?

I use the Adwords account for many more serious businesses than this one-time promotion of Truthaboutabs.

Any help will be welcome.

This is the very main disappointing point that whenever it seems that Google ad sense account is going to be banned, We are not warned for that in any way, So, Its really very frustrating.