Another victim of Adwords

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I've been half expecting this for no particular reason. I received the lesser of the dreaded emails from Google Adwords today:

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Your AdWords account: Site(s) violation

We have reviewed your account and found that one or more of your sites is in violation of our Landing Page and Site Policies.

Customer ID: xxxxxxxx
Visible URL(s): (for my Fit Fat Loss site)
Please note that when a site is found to be in violation of our Landing Page and Site Policies, the site is disabled within your AdWords account and respective ads are disapproved for "Site Policy." Disabling is an action applied at the domain level, and it results in a low landing page quality score and termination of ad traffic. If multiple ad groups have landing pages with the same disabled domain, the keywords in those ad groups will have identical landing page quality scores as well.

To learn more about our Landing Page and Site Policies, please visit (adwords)

Multiple or egregious violations of our Landing Page and Site Policies may result in the suspension of your account and any related accounts, and your ads will no longer run on Google. Domains with egregious Landing Page and Site Policy violations may require significant site changes or a change in business practices to comply with our policies. For a list of Landing Page and Site Policies that may be classified as egregious as well as information on our AdWords suspension policies, please visit (adwords)

This message was sent from a notification-only email address that does not accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message. If you have any questions, or if you have addressed the violations and would like to request a re-review, please visit (adwords)

Sincerely,
The Google AdWords Team
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As usual, no specifics were given.

What gets me is that this was under a $100 promo of theirs and they approved the campaign and I ran it half way through then paused it for a while, then resumed just a week ago. I had $15 credit remaining when they found me in violation.

I was getting pretty good traffic numbers, but 90% were bouncing right off and I got no sales from the campaign. I did get about 50 people to opt-in from adwords, but only 10 verified through the double opt-in request and then only 3 of them even took the bonus gift.

...just thought I'd share another adwords story with you. It's a blog... that site of mine, so I'm not about to go back and redo a year's worth of postings or change the affiliate ads around.

I'm done with Google, even for search & so is my son. He's stopping his campaign immediately before he gets hit too. Sad thing is they will never miss us... or even another 100,000 marketers.
#adwords #victim
  • Profile picture of the author money2k
    I go the exact same email today from google word for word. I too had paused a campaign and just started it up 48 hours ago. I dont know what is going on with google.
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    • Profile picture of the author PaulWeller
      Quite sad to see that...Like you said there were no specifics in the email...It might be worth contacting Google to find out what the real problem is??
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      • Profile picture of the author ShaunAllen
        I can tell you exactly why you were banned from your e-mail. You were collecting e-mail addresses. Were you using a squeeze page? I don't care what people say. Adwords is not something you want to lose. If I lost my account I'd do everything possible to get a new one. Most the people are bitter they got banned because they know how great it is. I am sorry this happened to you.

        I started up 2 new campaigns last week after I read their guidelines about 10 different times. I am almost making an extra $200 per day. I plan to get that to $500 per day in 2 weeks with the display network. Sure beats article marketing. I pray everyday I don't get banned. This is why I continue to stay updated on everything.
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        • Profile picture of the author webdesk
          Originally Posted by DaveJ13 View Post

          I can tell you exactly why you were banned from your e-mail. You were collecting e-mail addresses. Were you using a squeeze page? I don't care what people say. Adwords is not something you want to lose. If I lost my account I'd do everything possible to get a new one. Most the people are bitter they got banned because they know how great it is. I am sorry this happened to you.

          I started up 2 new campaigns last week after I read their guidelines about 10 different times. I am almost making an extra $200 per day. I plan to get that to $500 per day in 2 weeks with the display network. Sure beats article marketing. I pray everyday I don't get banned. This is why I continue to stay updated on everything.
          Yes, my blog has an area to pick-up email addresses, but there is no squeeze page. If the blog wasn't already a year old with post after post after post, I could attempt to please them, but it would be too much work at this point. I have a couple of others though where it wouldn't be such an effort, so maybe I'll study their terms a bit more and see what shakes out.
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  • Profile picture of the author PaulSmith1
    For using Adsense, you have to put quality content on your website only, thats it.
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    These days, if Google even suspects you as being an information collection site, they shut you down. They almost shut me down because I was sending traffic to a squeeze page.

    When I did use them, I wasn't impressed with the quality or quantity of the traffic AND I had to pay for it. I will never be visiting Adwords again and I intentionally will never click on an Adwords ad again.

    Organic results only for me...they are more relevant anyway.
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