Adwords Account Suspended - invalid reason. Need help from Adword gurus

[Maartin]

Hi,

I hope someone can give me advice here.

I have been using Adwords for nearly 2 years as an additional source of traffic to some of my websites. Just 2 months ago, I put up two display ads in Adwords.

The first one was revied within a day and the other one's status remained "Under review" for 2 weeks. Using the Adwords contact page, I let them know about this and the next morning when I opened my mails, I had a message "You Adwords Account is suspended permanently".

What a shocker!

Here's the reason they gave: "for repeated violation of AdWords or Landing Page and Site policies in this or a related account."

Just some background: I have an IM course that I sell on an add-on domain (for which the ad was created). The main domain is a review site of tools I have used over the years regarding internet marketing.

The course I was promoting and was banned for, is NOT an affiliate site. I figured that Google thought I was linking directly from my Adwords ad to an affiliate site (which we know you may not do). I contacted Google explaining that I was not linking to an affiliate offer - the site I was linking to is my own site and own product, and asked them to review their decision.

To cut a long story short, after a number of emails between myself and Google, they told me that the reason they have banned me is because it is considered a scam!

Here's the exact words: "Thanks for your email. I reviewed your account and have the following findings:

Your sites Make Money Online For Newbies and vitalwebtools.com violate our guidelines for our policies on Scams. Although Google regularly warns advertisers whose accounts may be in violation of our policies, we reserve the right to suspend accounts without warning in cases where the behaviour is considered an egregious violation."

I then went back to my sites and read and re-read every paragraph but could not find anything which could even distantly relate to "make money quick" scams.

Maybe I miss something, I don't know.

OK, here is my request to all readers of this post: Would you be so kind to visit these sites, have a look at the content and give me your opinion what I have to change in order to be accepted again by Adwords.

I even posted my problem on the Google Adwords Forum to try and get some advice there, but after 3 weeks I still have NO reply to my post.

One thing that I discovered is that there are 100's of people who are in exactly the same situation - being banned for no apparent reason at all.

I hope I could get some advice here.

Thanks in advance.

[TheDavinator]

Happened to me to. I hadn't even used my account in about 2 months or had a campaign running when they suspended it. I talked to another friend that hadn't used his Adwords account in over 6 months..same thing happened. I'm starting to thing they want their own adspace for running their own campaigns. Perhaps they make more from that, than they do from advertisers. They've admitted several times that they've learned a lot from affiliate marketers. Screw them I figure..there are plenty of other places where they actually appreciate their customers. Google doesn't give a crap about anybody but themselves...they haven't for years.