Google is the strangest company

I have had an adwords account for over 8 years and have run ads on and off for that time period. I recently ran a series of ads for one of my sites and then shut down the ads because I wanted to work on the landing page and offer.

This morning I received an email from Google stating that my account has been permanently suspended for repeated violation of their advertising policy. I went to my account and it had a red banner at the top that repeated what I said above and added "after repeated warnings".

What is interesting is that this is the first time I have ever heard from Google about anything on this account in over 8 years. There have been no warnings or contact of any kind.

In the beginning, 8 years ago, I was direct linking and ran affiliate offers with that program and had some slaps with high bid prices, but never a warning. I haven't run that type of advertising for at lease 5 years.

Of course, the email states that I can never have an adwords account again, now or in the future. They are not my main traffic source, but I would like to use them.

What is amazing to me is that a company that is so successful can be so totally screwed up about how they treat their customers. I just don't get what they are trying to accomplish running off their customers.

It makes you wish their was someone in the internet advertising space that could deliver the same amount of clicks that was somewhat rational.

I would be interested to hear how anyone else has handled this type of issue with these idiots (Google).