More adwords bans coming tonight and tomorrow..

So I looked into my account more, and all my live campaigns were going to legit CJ offers - Turns out I wasn't cloaking any, but one had an incorrect display URL. The one with the incorrect URL is already up and running fine in another account - I can't wait to hear which landing page they deem as being the issue. Only one of my campaigns will take a few days lead time to get up due to approvals, but it had a very low profit margin, so it's not a killer. Everything else can be easily duplicated without issue, fortunately.
 


they bann me 2 dumb asses. I will just get my people in India and Philippines create me 2 new accounts, than I am going to cloak every campaign with same url and bang make some money. Right now it will be so awesome on adwords and cheap as most of us are banned and fucked over.
 
johu said:
I can't wait to hear which landing page they deem as being the issue.
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I doubt they are going to tell you. I tried pressing them for which campaign was the problem, and they basically copy and pasted the email before that and stopped answering my emails.

This has been talked about lightly here, but why can I still access my account if I'm "banned"? I tried enabling a few campaigns to see if I still could, and it worked. Seems weird that I'm allowed to set a campaign to active if I'm banned.
 
My account got banned last night at 11pm.

I hadn't had anything running in the account for over a month, no rebills ever just got slapped once for using some iframes and switching the links.
 
I got this message from them today ..... "As noted in our Terms and Conditions, Google reserves the right to
terminate advertisements for any reason. To view our Terms and Conditions,
please visit https://adwords.google.com/select/tsandcsfinder. However,
I've reviewed your sites and think that this suspension may have been in
error. I've consulted a specialist team regarding the status of your
account and requested a re-review of your situation. I will provide you
with an update shortly. I sincerely appreciate your patience."

Are they fucking with my head? My gut feeling is the ban stays. I was promoting pheromones and male enhancement products. No CPA.
 
Faint said:
I doubt they are going to tell you. I tried pressing them for which campaign was the problem, and they basically copy and pasted the email before that and stopped answering my emails.

This has been talked about lightly here, but why can I still access my account if I'm "banned"? I tried enabling a few campaigns to see if I still could, and it worked. Seems weird that I'm allowed to set a campaign to active if I'm banned.
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The AdWord rep said she'd let me know which was the problem - From her email, it didn't sound like my account was really banned. Either way, the landing pages I direct to are within every Google regulation for content, so hopefully the manual review that they're apparently doing will show them that.

Google has said to some people (including one who just posted above) that some suspensions may have been in error, and they can review it. From my conversations with them today, it actually sounds like someone is reviewing my sites, though I can't actually talk to those people.
 
Adwords rep says bend over

Google Rep says if they slapped your page and you tried to re-run it or "outsmart" them - ban hammer son.

The ad disabling procedures have resulted in ongoingback and forth between us and these questionable advertisers as they try to outsmart our systems and processes. Therefore, we're being stricter with advertisers who deliver a bad user experience by permanently disabling AdWords accounts that engage in prohibited behavior.
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update on adwords account disabling from google adwords rep 11-16-09
 
we're being stricter with advertisers who deliver a bad user experience by permanently disabling AdWords accounts that engage in prohibited behavior that we've just made prohibited.
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fixed.
 
hows the traffic with bing and yahoo. maybe the both of the together would be a decent sub for google.
 
besides - I was wondering if direct linking (not acai) could´ve been the reason for banning....
any comments on that?
 
hows the traffic with bing and yahoo. maybe the both of the together would be a decent sub for google.
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a trickle compared to a torrent and (in yahoo's case) more expensive due to the massive influx of affs culled in the last rounds of banning. at first you're going to be disappointed but like with everything in the AM game every cloud has a silver lining. laxer rules mean you can deploy quicker which means more campaigns and adgroups rolling. it is possible to cover the drop in traffic eventually but if you're like me (and sounds like half this board) you'll soon come to realise that there are lots and lots of other places to buy traffic with infinately more volume. and thats all you're getting out of me because the testing's costing me a small fortune =)
 
I wonder how this will trickle down in certain niches for their adsense product. I have a feeling they are going to be hurt there as well. I don't do much with adsense but I have one small site that was doing $50 adsense/day that saw the eCPMs cut in half after the bannings. Not a smart move to just do a mass ban like that. They are going to lose a lot of adsense business as well. Aff marketers fill in all the gaps where there aren't as many advertisers.
 
dhamma said:
besides - I was wondering if direct linking (not acai) could´ve been the reason for banning....
any comments on that?
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There has never been any policy against direct linking on Google. They only show one ad per domain, and you're allowed to use any tracking server redirects you like. If I remember correctly, Performics's search management service even used the same tracking domain as their affiliate network (now Google Affiliate Network), so in some cases there's no way of telling if it's an affiliate or an agency. One offer I run directly from an agency goes through the same tracking domain that all of their search ads use, after my initial server redirect, so there's no telling that I'm an affiliate there.

The campaigns I was running on my paused/banned account allow direct linking, and if they have a problem with one of those landing pages (regular ecommerce product sites, and legitimate subscription service websites w/ no shady trials or rebills), they're going to have to ban direct advertisers spending millions per month. Those campaigns are already up and running in my other account (linked in my MCC, even), and if that gets banned for the same illogical reason, they're on to yet another account of mine.
 
johu said:
There has never been any policy against direct linking on Google. They only show one ad per domain, and you're allowed to use any tracking server redirects you like. If I remember correctly, Performics's search management service even used the same tracking domain as their affiliate network (now Google Affiliate Network), so in some cases there's no way of telling if it's an affiliate or an agency. One offer I run directly from an agency goes through the same tracking domain that all of their search ads use, after my initial server redirect, so there's no telling that I'm an affiliate there.

The campaigns I was running on my paused/banned account allow direct linking, and if they have a problem with one of those landing pages (regular ecommerce product sites, and legitimate subscription service websites w/ no shady trials or rebills), they're going to have to ban direct advertisers spending millions per month. Those campaigns are already up and running in my other account (linked in my MCC, even), and if that gets banned for the same illogical reason, they're on to yet another account of mine.
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They want to deal directly with the merchant. Here is some good info about this that was blogged on seobook How Google Killed Affiliate Marketing | SEO Book.com

This is how Google will kill many mid market players and get a piece of the action for most large businesses. They will keep automating recommendations and arbitraging against your brands and trademarks until you decide to broker an ad deal directly with Google, and if you don't give Google a big enough cut they will just recommend an arbitrager, some high converting currently hot scam, or a competitor of some sort.
Affiliate marketers funded search and showed business the value of search before getting pushed around by ad quality scores. The lead aggregators will show businesses that they can just work directly with Google. Off the start the numbers will look great, and they will keep doing well until direct inquiries gradually decline as the Google Tax is applied.
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