Did Google ever threaten to suspend your adwords account?

I just received the exact same email. I really can't find what I'm doing wrong... I've been through their policy with a fine tooth comb but I'm complying as far as I'm aware.

So I'd also be interested if anyone has received this email but still has their account active.

However, in your case, is it not bl***y obvious? uhh... PORNOGRAPHY. Even if it's a product aimed at helping people with porn addiction, and not actually the promoting of porn, it's still the same subject matter. Do they not say in the policy that that subject is prohibited?

You'll find several recent threads about that here on the WF.

It's happening a lot, even to people who haven't changed their Adwords campaigns, landing pages etc for a year or more.

I wrote back to them and asked for specific details. No reply yet, not that I really expected one.

Cheers,

Neil

Hey Matt

Well, I suspended my campaign so I guess that's saved my account so far because I still have it. I don't have any plans to re-activate it or even change it. What's the point? Google won't tell me what heinous crime I've committed and I sure as hell ain't getting into a guessing game.

AdWords is not something I've ever made much use of but you're right, it would be a pain to lose my account for future projects.

Cheers,

Neil

Yeh, if it's an affiliate campaign that you're promoting then it can be a little easier to just stop promoting it.

However, I'm promoting a site of my own. It's an eBook with a back end continuity element so this particular site will be a significant earner for me.

It wouldn't be the end of the world if I lost me Adwords account. Just a massive annoyance.

Anyway, hopefully you don't lose your account. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

I just received the Final Warning email as the first and only email from them. My account stopped giving impressions the next day. I sent them a couple of emails - but no reply yet. This is really costing me!

Once you're on Google's bad side you don't have much wiggle room. This affiliate purge has been going on for several months now and I know of people who were major players who are scrambling to redefine their businesses.

The best thing you can do is to broaden your base of operation. You should not be dependent on Google for more than about 20% of your revenue. Just like stocks. Diversification.

I'm not even an affiliate and I got slammed too!

I have quite a few affiliates campaigns running with Google and they have been up for a few months now. I have never had problems with them.

I think that the problem is that most affiliates don't understand them. Running campaigns with Google is not just like running campaigns with Yahoo! or Bing. It's necessary to build real sites, add content, do some SEO, bla, bla, bla... All those things that everybody says but no one does. I create my sites for AdWords as if I were creating sites with SEO purposes, never point links to free trials and avoid createing review pages that have links to more than one offer. However, if you have done one of these things in the past they may catch you even if you're not doing it anymore.


William

Yeah I have actually had my account closed because my site was a bridge page. Lesson learned, but it blows because they are such a great source of traffic. I have yet to find a real way around it, because pretty much anytime your selling someones stuff, its a bridge page. Thats the essence of an "affiliate" right?

I havent had my account disabled or closed down yet and have 2 affiliate sites up.
Im just starting out also.
But what i am going to do is buy some plr,change it around,rewrite some of it,change links or add links,pics,ect..
Now its my own and will call it or name it something close to what is being searched for or sold on cb,ect..
But it will be my own product.With content on site.
Where you guys doing a php redirect,or any kind of cloaking or masking?
Using pretty link,ect..

I think that all the above is a consequence of the fact that google is near monomolist on the search market. If we all use only google for our searches, then we contribute for it's monopol on the search market's targeted advertising. As a result, the team of this company starts to overlook the "small" users and do with them whatever they want. I've red in forums many complains that people from google stop PPC campaigns, close adSence accounts, remove web sites from natural search results - all that with no clear explanation (many of you know how imposible is to get in touch with that company). In my modest opinion, google has very agresive anti competitive policy and do not tolerate any competition on the internet. I think that it would be wonderful if another signifficant player comes on the scene. Curently I see no other company but Microsoft's Bing being capable of braking this monopol. What cen we do to contribute about that - we may just start to use bing search more frequiently in order to change the global statistics. After all the search results from bing are equally good to that of google in my experience.

I didn't see this before. I got hit with that same email around the same time and my site also got deindexed. I drilled into them and got everything resolved because it was absolutely ridiculous. It was because I was promoting an affiliate offer on the front page, I think. Whatever, screw them.

Also, my website has plenty of real content. The home page alone has 1,000+ words of good content, and the website has several articles, most of which are 800+ words and contain information you can't find anywhere else on the net, except maybe scattered around forums.

I got the same e-mail a while back, it was also because i was promoting an affiliate offer.

They banned me for an ad I ran about 8 years ago that sent 1 click and I then deleted.

Yes, it's absurd as it sounds.

They argued repeatedly that I committed violations because they sent me "multiple warnings" and I continued to violate them.

They finally admitted that no warnings were ever sent, the ad was deleted and all my current campaigns were fine BUT they still banned me permanently. They won't talk to me anymore despite having had a six-figure spend.

So yes, they will ban you for just about any reason.

Please make sure you implement changes to your landing page and make sure you are not promoting any affiliate products. In addition, make sure the product you are promoting is not related to prohibited product niches.

Most times, Google will only warn you once before the hammer falls.

If your landing page is a bridge page or an affiliate page which redirect the traffic to another program than it happen. If you want to save your account just delete the campaign you are running for such a page. It already had happened to me.

Are you sure you haven't manipulate the script? Anything to consider even though you are trying to help Porn addicts is Google Doesn't like that word at all. Did you ever ask them if was okay to put adsense on the pages while relating to Porn addicts?

I wrote to them and received very informative replys. Unfortunately their replys demanded more than I was willing to give. I have moved on and accept the fact that I will no longer be paying them to run my ads. There are other options, and I cannot do business with people that I have to "tip toe" around to please. It's just too much trouble. I rank well and they send me traffic anyway. Thank you for the free traffic you "holier than thou" web idiots! (directed towards Google, not anyone on this fine forum)

Just make a new account.



You can make them as many as you want and also have $100 credit on them