I'm dumbfounded. My story - I'm a work from home Graphic Designer/Web Guy for the last ten years. Been looking for a product to sell online, to do something on my own instead of relying on clients. I thought "This ClickBank looks interesting - no muss, no fuss. Just marketing." So, I start with the very top selling product just to get my feet wet. The Truth About ABs. Spent hours trying to build a good, legitimate website where I plan to sell other fitness products (all digital) as well as add real articles, pictures and info. I decided the site was ready and created a Google Adwords campaign, and was immediately slapped. Made changes, slapped. Pointed my ad to a landing page that is simply an ARTICLE about doing squats - no outside links. The ad read something like "Front Squats - learn how they can tone your abs." Slapped again. Google does not want any links anywhere on my site going to Truth About Abs. They said: "Please stop bridging to the site 'http://www.truthaboutabs.com' and instead promote sites and products that comply with our policy." The fun part is when I just googled Truth About Abs. The first paid ad at the top was a bridge page, the second is what I think is referred to as a direct Hop link where the destination URL is bogus, when clicked it goes directly to the real Truth About Abs landing page. Is this someway to keep a little guy from getting started and big bucks can do whatever they want? How can they spend weeks shooting my $60 ad down while clear violations are running as I type?
Google also banned my Adwords account without giving me a warning and I am still looking for help to get it unbanned.
Google is a bitch bro - I just finished a post mentioning how we were spending four figures a day then boom they shut that shit down. They are really getting snappy on affiliates - It is shit but true.