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Why I got banned from AdWords – Google’s side of the story
Posted under Affiliates PPC by Erez ZundyLately I almost can’t find the time to post here and there is a lot of updates.
This post, as the title says, is about Google’s side of my banning story.
Yes, I finally got an honest answer from an AdWords rep’ about why exactly my account was terminated. This is the email I got from AdWords about a week ago:
hello Erez,
Thank you for your email. I understand that you are concerned about the
recent suspension of your AdWords account due to repeated submissions of
ads for low quality landing pages. Specifically, you are concerned that,
due to a previous incorrect evaluation of one of the sites you advertiser
by our system, this suspension is also incorrect.I’ve researched why your account was disabled, and found that this action
was taken for the following reasons:o The URLs cited for a very poor-quality landing page experience are:
smiley-center.com, and gov-resources.com
o The account was disabled because of the following: smiley-center.com -
Data collection site that uses quizzes in order to collect private
information; gov-resources.com – Bridge site that the primary purpose of
which is to drive traffic to another site with a different domainAs you know, we are committed to making the AdWords experience safe and
effective for our users and our advertisers. We disabled your AdWords
account after a review of your landing page quality evaluations because we
believe that this kind of poor-quality site creates a seriously negative
or possibly harmful user experience.The decision to disable your AdWords account was not taken lightly, and we
appreciate your cooperation in this matter.
OK, so at leasy there is a reasonable explanation for my AdWords ban, gov-resources.com, as some of you are fermiliar with if you worked with clickbank, is really just a fraud. The other site mentioned in the email is a poor try to send traffic to smileycentral.com . I don’t really get why they claimed it to be a data collecting site but I do agree it’s a poor quality landing page.
The thing is that I didn’t promote these websites from more than a year or 2 when I was a “baby affiliate”. And back then, many affiliates promoted these poor clickbank sites like I did. After all, this is how all the “gurus” told us we should start as an affiliate.
I did asked AdWords for their mercy and understanding, but as you figured out, there’s no one to answer my emails any more.
Few things we can all learn from my case:
- Never listen to gurus claiming they know the “secret” and especially ones in the affiliate marketing scene.
- Before you promote offers as an affiliate, check closely if these offers are valid and do not violate any guideline.
- Create GOOD QUALITY CONTENT.
Before I sign off I want to leave you with a small tip that might “help” you if you got banned from adwords:
Try to open a new adwords account. I say no more.
How successful were you in opening a new account, can you open in same name or do you need to be a totaly new entity?
how will this affect all your other google accounts?
Sharryn,
I wasn’t able to open new accounts under my name, but I had quite a few accounts already open and some of them were not affected at all.
Man, that really sucks! I thought they would just disapprove your add, that’s what they’ve done to others promoting similar sites. I’ve never heard anyone getting banned like that.
It makes me want to be more cautious with the type of sites I promote on Google Adwords.
Thanks for sharing and Good Luck!
Hi Mathew,
Advertisers are getting banned for the last 6 months now. Around September Google decided they had enough with advertisers that are not adding value and kicked them away from AdWords. I read somewhere 300,000 advertisers (it’s really accounts) were banned during the last 6 months.
If you haven’t heard of it yet, well…I guess you’re lucky
Anyway I think you should be more cautious with AdWords.
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