Being Hit Hard with Low QS

[Minderwinter]

This is not my first AdWords campaign. I've run about a dozen offers in the last two months, but this is the first time I've been hit with such a low QS. Here's the deal.

I registered a domain and setup the site, in line with my previous MO. I wrote about three 150 word posts and the standard pages (privacy policy, terms and conditions, contact us). Then I made a lander, with around 200 words of content.

I create the AdWords campaign. My lander is on topic enough that during the ad creation process big G suggests the keywords I'm targeting when I enter the destination URL. Ad creation complete. Everything gets approved.

Then about an hour later, I come back and find that my QS is 1 for every keyword. I've never encountered this before. I can't think of anything I've done differently this time. All the content is original. I'm not stuffing. What gives? Any ideas? I've searched through the forum, and the most frequent diagnosis is dupe content, but that is definitely not the case here.

 

[Minderwinter]

By the way, I've deleted and resubmit the campaign three times now, adding more content to the site each time. Nothing seems to be working atm. For the time being, I'm switching to Adcenter.

 

[juntao65]

Is the keyword in your domain? That usually boosts QS >7 even though I don't have shit all on the site. Either that or I'm just lucky. o.0

 

[SandnSurf]

I've noticed same....started around mid Mar for me. Only one particular niche though. It's getting slapped within 30 mins of launch... have created 4 different domains & 3 new AW acc's. It seems the niche is flagged.

 

[Minderwinter]

Keyword is definitely in the domain, juntao. I'm not sure wtf is going on, but for now I'm just going to run it on Adcenter. I read all of the Google BS on landing page quality, and I suspect that they may have flagged me for linking to a game download that installs AdWare.