Well apprently, i took out $25 and placed it into my AdWords account, i then bought advertising on a forum. Yet after registering, i noticed almost 50%+ of their threadviews and posts in general are inside a Warez Section with my ads there. What should i do? I reported them.. but i am still losing $$... and their ads continue to be displayed Isnt this against google's tos? How does this "site" get away from this?
you site targeted a forum only later to find out that its all warez??? Google is not ripping you off, your own ignorance is to blame... do you home work before you do your marketing I doubt Google will issue a credit
Wait.. so your saying.. me buying an advertise on a forum. then finding out they have a hidden warez section.. and then google still allowing them to show adsense is my fault? I dont care about the $25 that much, but its been a week since i reported the site. I mean i understand that it was my mistake of buying.. yet shouldnt google look into banning or taking steps... anyhow it doesnt matter -> I guess I was being ignorant
ignorence from your part it might be, but warez sites/forums are not allowed to run adsense ads which is a violation of adsense TOS. you might try contacting google with proof and see if you can get any credit. doesn;t hurt to try
The warez forum was breaking googles tos. I think if you told google that the section your ads were showing was hidden, you may be able to get some money back.
its your fault but you know 1 day with google = 1 week .. but you shouldn't buy ads in this kind of forums
Sorry to hear that. Personally I hate adwords full stop and fully believe the money is better spent elsewhere, cost per action is far better, if you can manage to find anyone that'll do it. Regards, Liam Online Furniture Show
If a site is making google money. Why would they remove it. I have seen hundreds of sites that don't go along with googles rules. There still around because they have heavy traffic flow. I doubt google would kill an account if its making them some good money. I use google on my dating site ( www.keystrokedating.com ) I have been with google for two years now. They have been great so far. I am not sure what you mean by buying adveertising space on a forum though? Are you saying you have an adwords/adsense account? Sorry if i misunderstood ya.
When google bans and adsense account, they always take whatever money there and says that its given back to the advertisers. Well, you can test this out, report those warez forum, theyr adsense get banned, you get your money back. Thats the theory anyway.
The fact the warez forum's section was hidden where you advertised in, should weigh in your favor because it is against google tos and that is the advertisers fault not yours since you were unaware of the hidden section until after the matter...