So 5 of the best keywords I have gotten traffic for (out of 20) all of a sudden now say Quality 1/10 and ads aren't showing. Also many of the keywords have my ad last on the first page??!!?? Ive tried a bunch of different things. Nothing is fixing it.
You're screwed. I'll elaborate. Google checks AdWords in a two-step process. First, the Google Bot checks your site. Then over the next few weeks, Google analyzes your Quality Score for every click. If you reach this stage, you've passed the first step of Google's approval process. But the second process is when they have a human viewer visit your site. Google is said to have a human visitor visit every paid AdWords website every 2-3 months. There's a lot of violations that human visitors will hit your Quality Score for that the bots won't. These include popovers, not having a TOS or privacy policy, using the word "Free" for things that aren't free (including needing a signup,) etc. Unfortunately, once a human reviewer dings your site, you really are screwed. You have to wait 2-3 months for another human reviewer to review your website before you can improve your Quality Score again. The only workaround is to copy your site over to a new domain name and start over. Fortunately, Google goes by domain names and not AdWords accounts. So if it's a direct response website, just buy another domain name and start over. If it's a branding site, you need to fix whatever Google slapped you for and just wait a few months.
It's a fancy one page site. There's nothing else besides the info part and an email form. I do the marketing for a brokerage firm. I can pm someone the link if someone sees a problem. Would just a URL redirect work?
Dude. I'm in the exact same boat. All of sudden, one of my sites is showing 1/10 quality rating for all my best keywords. This is a site I just bought 3 weeks ago for $3K from someone because of profits that were dependent on AdWords Campaign. I get this message "Ads rarely show due to low quality score". Google is a piece of @!#@!#. Why do they make it so difficult to do business. I am paying them to advertise on their site and they are basically banning me for selling products that other customers want. WTF is wrong with Google? Derek...Are you serious that I can create another domain and switch the same keywords to that domain? The New Year is the most profitable time for my site so this is real downer and one I need an immediate solution for. I'm not attached to the domain I have as all my sales come from AdWords Campaign and not from SERP. Give me some details bro on how to make this work. My site in a multiple page site offering reviews on ebooks that I am an affiliate for. Thanks, Buddha
I wonder how long it will be before someone or some group sues google for this advertiser "slapping" that is going on. It's ridiculous!