Few days ago I received a call from some American SEO company who was offering following service. They would put an Ad in Google Adwords for a flat fee. I`m running an escort agency and I opened an Adwords account and tried to run an advertising program. Google declined it because escort services are not allowed to be advertised in Adwords. Question: Is google allowing to use Adwords for escort services now and why the were offering flat rate if google works PPC? For example they offered for a keyword "New York Escorts" 800/month flat fee. Thanks! Mike
I highly doubt that Google would just randomly change their TOS. Id assume that company was trying to hustle you.
Here is what they showed me as an example of their work http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=escort+service+ny&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=b6f5afd20980ff7e some agency www.pureplatinummodels.com Elite Party Girls Available 24/7 Call Now 1.800.943.6575 Strange...
Yeah, I don't think Google is about to do that. If they did, it would go viral pretty quick. I don't know, I wouldn't trust it.
What if to make some 1 page site(domain), which will not be about escort service and will just have an ENTER link to the website of escort service. That should by Google rules. Isn't it?
I would suggest that do not violate google TOS otherwise you will be banned and that will even be worse..just my 2 cent
google does not allow pornographic content on adwords or adsense or even youtube.in fact if you try to look for the monthly searches for porn related keyword on google keyword tool they wont ive information on that.
There does seem to be a grey area where you can get away with it. I was sure I've seen ads for escort services before (when the issue of adult ads has come up, I'm not looking for a change of career) - and having just tried it now, I found that when I accidentally mistyped and misspelled 'escort', what comes up are slightly coy, but unmistakably ads for escort services, or recruiting for them. But when I try again without the typo - no ads. I think it would also be different in different countries,even in different states, as it would depend on what exactly the law is in those places
I don't think you can be banned for doing some tricks with Google. That way it would be a good way to get a rid of competitors
You can be banned from adwords and people frequently are. And your so-called 'trick'of having a site with nothing but a link to another site won't work, because to get a good price for keywords you have to match the relevancy of the keywords to the landing page - and that sort of landing page gets penalised to high heaven. You are not cleverer than Google - either there are circumstances that mean you can advertise your service or there aren't. They've seen all the tricks and will catch up with you sooner or later.
I like this topic, Adsword agents in China kept telling me that they can do this sort of things, I thought google would like to be the biggest hustler that period. but later I found an extra "s" will empower you to use adword with keywords -> escort
These calls are scams I get a few of them every month. Promising first page on google (adwords) for a flat rate. Most likely they will run $5 in adwords and keep the rest.