I´ve heard from a couple of people this week that they have been banned from google adwords and they have no way to access their account anymore, even if they have prepaid their campaign budget. I experienced this three times in the last couple of months and the major reasons are that: - the offers don´t offer a good user experience (if you arenot adding value in your landing page and if you don´t comply with the rules like ´contact page, ´links´, ´about is´, ´content, being a number of blog posts or articles´). - historical dealings with adwords. This one I experienced personally for the last campaign where I was banned as well. Previsouly when I got banned, I forgot about adwords for that URL and went to Yahoo Marketing. And at the meantime work from my own IP on another URL for another campaign. That worked.......untill the last campaign. I couldn´t do any campaign anymore from my own IP and had to get to another computer with different credit card details. So....please, don´t get banned. Follow the rules, otherwise: 1. Find another computer- IP address 2. work with different credit cards 3. set up a new adwords account from a different mail address. Adwords is getting a pain now....I´m switching to Yahoo more now.
I've been wondering about that myself. If an Adsense publisher is banned, the money is supposedly returned to the Adword advertiser that was cheated on. Where does the money goes when Adword advertisers are banned? straight to big G pocket?
Well, they can't return it to you, can they,if you've changed your credit card, your email address, your ip, left the country, changed your name, had plastic surgery...
I tried: -another IP address -different credit cards -different email -different name nothing helped:-(
Hi Vestal, but did you do it with the same campaign/URL? Obvisouly your account is banned for the campaign you are working on. What I did is forget about adwords for that site and campaign and continue advertising with Yahoo. I could continue working on other campaigns/URLs with a different IP/CC/email.
Start marketing on: Yahoo MSN Adcenter Ask.com 7Search Adbrite Looksmart eZanga Searchfeed ABC Search MIVA ^^Not this. What's the point of going to the trouble of giving them a rational explanation and/or trying to reason with them? The Google reply will take the usual 2-8 weeks and it will simply reiterate their earlier wish for you to go away. Their are TONS of IM'ers who were banned, because of a single campaign they might have ran 1 year ago - or more! Use your time wisely - forget about Google and make money in a multitude of other places.