Ok so I have some affiliate review sites slapped. These were pretty heavy, content rich websites. Most people seem to believe the slap was determined by whether or not you have affiliate links on your site. So here is my question... Last night I took out ALL the affiliate links, and just changed them to direct links to see if I would get back up. I changed my adwords ad and deleted and re-added the keywords so they would get checked again. The site still gets 1/10 quality score. So my question is, Is a new domain name required when you get slapped? Is my original domain blacklisted or something?
I have had the same issue with a geo targeted site that i am working on. I cannot figure it out because there is no affiliate links on it. No matter what I do it gets a QS of 1/10. I have narrowed it down to a few things. The adwords account that I am using is screwed up or the godaddy template that I am using is messing up Google's ability to crawl the page. It is very strange.
As far as I know, you don't need a new domain. It sounds like you only deleted the keywords and re-added them. There may be a group QS flag. I therefore suggest deleting the group itself and recreate it with your keywords and new ads.
There were some blogs awhile back talking about affiliate review site getting slapped. So possibly even though you removed the affiliate links, the style of review page OR the type of product you are talking about is what's flagging you and causing trouble. For the scoop on affiliate review sites getting slapped see some of these posts. Is it a free trial/rebill offer? That is a problem with Adwords too. (Let me know if that's the case and I can provide a link to good info about that issue too.)