EDIT: now as I have finished writing this post I think that people who are in the same situation as me might get some tricks from this to not get their account back, but start advertising again in google with a different identity. Hello you all, I`ve just been banned once again from my already numarous (well.. 3) attempts to get back on my feet and start advertising in google adwords once again... I`ve made my 1st google adwords accour around 3-4 months ago, made a really good campaign with many adgroups (like 112 of them). It all seemed to work all well until I`ve noticed one day, about 5 days of my 1st campaign being created, that my campaign is not generating any impressions nor clicks. I immediately rushed to google adwords support section and to the live chat "specialists" and after many many MANY chats whith those specialists ive come to the conclussion that they banned my account because after each money transaction I replaced my credit card with a bogus credit card (fake one) so people who might of keylogged me whont be able to mess with my credit card or anything, I only replaced it with a fake credit card because there was NO option to remove one`s credit card from account. Offcourse the specialists told me that there is absolutely NO frickin` way in the world that I could restore my account that that they dont want to have any more business with me and etc. etc.. Also I got some of these "Your account has been suspended because of violation of the TOS" emails... After finally realising that google is like a tough block and that I wont be able to crack it open, I decided to try some "undirect" ways to get back to businness with google adwords. I`ve opened a new adowrds account, on a different IP offcourse (cleared all the internet chache and cookies offcourse), I downloaded google adwords Editor tool, copied my old campaign thru it (changed the some things in notepad like costumers ID and Camapign ID# and stuff) and posted it again with a new credit card (of my friend)... After a few days I decided to talk again with google live chat because I`ve noticed that my credit card doesnt get activated, in the cat they told me that my account has been suspended and that they cant tell me the reason why... but the reason was obvious to me... they`re on me... Maybe I`ve done some mistakes or the google adwords editor copied some shyt with my old, banned IP, one thing was for certain... I made the mistake and I was exposed. I`ve diceded to make a new account, extra carefully now... I took my father's computer, re-installed (+formated) my old windows as I entered to my old account to there before, created a new email and account with different name, I took the blueprint of my full campaign from google adwords editor`s tool from my other computer and put it in this current (newly formatted computer) all offline (using a draft account in the program) so they wont be able to trace my by IP. After I got my draft account open I started copiying my whole campaign (which is very long, 112 adgroups... ) to my newly created 3rd account... just when I was in the middle of the copiying (about 2 hrs ago) I`ve decided to add my credit card now (the same credit card that I used in my 2nd account, my friend credit card. I figured if it wasnt approved yet so it isnt logged yet in google adwords... right?) well, i tryed to enter my credit card number, it got declined, tryed to enter it once again, yet again dicline... I`ve decided to go back to my campaign`s copying but then I realised that it says suspended! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The question is obvious... (and yet as I think about it now so seems the answer also...) How the hell did they track me this time?! I mean, it seems like the credit card as I noticed my account was suspended right after I tryed to put it in... but yet again they might of have banned me before and I only noticed it after i decided to go back to copying my account.. Although it is really weird situation... Do they have an auto-suspend bot which suspends people who`se credit card`s care black listed on the same momment as they enter them? Or maybe they logged my somehow differently..?? I chose to post my frustration on this forum as I see that there are some pretty aggressive dudes here with google and thats just the type that I need **btw, before you comment please dont give me the bullshyt about the rules that I`m braking with google, if I wanted to hear those I would have just talked with google adwords specilists, or actually read their bot-generated "ure banned" emails, just a note. Cheers, ~Hanuka
best advice is to only comply to google's rules to the best of your ability, and then if you have a run-in, do your best to work it out with them, understand them, email them (they do email back!), and you will be fine. just be genuine and don't violate the rules in the same way twice, and never intentionally.
I got suspended few times as well, and I already know that the only way to get back to Adwords is to use other person's details. That include name, address, credit card, etc. Nothing should be associated with you. So completely different account. One more thing, Adwords doesn't track it's users by IP, because it would be stupid, as there are people who go to internet cafes to log in into Adwords. So banning IP, would be non sense. I think they were tracking you, looking at your campaign. All the accounts you created you used, the same campaign or similar, so that can be the problem.
Hm... i dunno... after each account failed I completely deleted ALL traces from it (edited, as you cant actually fully delete it, I edited it to a fake Car`s campaign, or Guitars campaign), one think that might say that can indecate me is indeed my site... There are two problems with my site that I can think of that could connect me to my other accounts... One is that it has in it google analytics script, I dunno if they can track me by it, but i noticed that there`s an ID in it so who knows... the other is the URL of it... as all the URL`s are the same on all my campaigns... So maybe I could direct link it (although it`ll take a lot of time to edit 112 links) but still, wont they have records of my previus campaigns somewhere in their database?? And also... wont they be able to track me by the display URL??? I`m deleting my 3rd account, opening the 4th one, will try to do all the proccess again with a totally different credit card/email of my other friend, hopefully they wont track me by the analytics script nor by the url... btw, jwmeyert7, after numarous trying to contact them by email`s I`ve come to the conclusion that google are self centered ****** and that they wont listen to reason, so the only way to get back to them is brake their own rules xD but still... I would like to hear what you think about it... Thanks in advance, hanuka
What?? Why on earth would I want to do that?! I`m doing AdWords not AdSense... If I click on my own ads I`ll just charge myself for nothing...
Hanuka, I feel sorry for all the trouble you went through, i know how frusatating it is to get off the ground and with one error or bad thoughts ..we are crashed.. By the way ..are you from India.. I would suggest to try to call them, rathar chat with them ..cos lots of tech support in Google are from India and they just follow the "procedure" as told to them, they do not think your case is different. I think the best way is to change your domain name and ALL YOUR information from google, get the help of your parents or friend and start a fresh..do not use old credit cards, ID, links, etc..apply for a new one in your fathers name and get on with it.. If you are lucky to get a Good understanding call support, you should get your account back... if you think the tech support is not co-orporating..just drop the phone...and call later...hopefully someone else will pick up..but still..when you call..they will have all your details in their screen..and you just have to convince them that what they seeing on screen is not the true picture..explain to them truthfully and better tell the support to speak to a supervisor.. By the way if someone took exception to being indian tech support..im from india and i have worked on lot of tech support in india and i know how google works back office in hyderabad and gurgoan
Google is banning your URL, making the link between adwords account you create and the domain. You would have to start a whole new domain from scratch to maybe get around this.
Hm... I dunno if google even does that... you see, there are many cases in google adwords when 2+ affiliates are competing for a direct linking spot thru outbiding and adjusting one`s campaign... thus google cant and wont start tracking individuals by URL`s, for that`s I hope for at least...
I have spoken to google directly about this issue, and yes they track your URL across multiple accounts. If you get your URL blacklisted, even if its affiliate, any account promoting that URL will have the ads turned off. Its a fact, not a theory...
Your campaigns, your sites, and your information is all blacklisted. Now you just screwed yourself. And yes I would think Analytics might be part of the problem. Use an alternative ad system as you are now banned in adwords.
Firstly, RectangleMan you just talk like just another of google`s annoying bots, stop doing that, I had enough of it already from google, I dont need to get this kind of attitude from others also. Secondly, my campaign is all done, no suspension or anything, my campaign is offilically running so in your face all of you who think that google is "untrickeble", bah. Masterful, I never drawed any money from the fake credit card that I entered, as I said before, I just put it there because they didnt let me to remove my real one, anyhows, it all benn one small mistake but with huge consiquences, and that proves once again that google likes to shoot first and then... well... not listen later, heh. ~peace, Hanuka
sure thing xD If it does I know that this shyt has happened to many others like more for even smaller mistakes, so if it stays they can use what I did as a ticket back to google adwords