I just got an email for google saying my adwords account is banned for all future advertising with them! The thing is: 1) I have ZERO keywords in the account 2) I have ZERO Ads in the account There is basically nothing in the account at all! I haven't been near it for years and yet they decide to ban the account now? Years ago I use to run some affiliate ads etc but I haven't done that for ages. I am finding google is becoming more and more agressive towards everyone, this tactic of theres will backfire in the future. I find the whole thing bizzare to be honest
They apply their guidelines retrospectively. If you have promoted certain types of sites, even before they told you they didn't like them, bye bye account.
Yea, they definitely looked at your history. It's not banned because of inactivity. If they banned because of inactivity then a lot of people would be banned. That is not fair.
They banned you because years ago you ran something they decided they don't like TODAY. It's a crock, but hey when you're the biggest traffic source out there, you get to treat everyone like crap.
Exactly my point, they were quite willing to take my money every month and the programs I promoted were all legit. But now years later they decide to close the account, its the same old story of using people to get rich and then dumping them when you don't need them.
Are you sure? Oh my, maybe I should start running some (inactive) campaigns now. You know what people can do when they have the power...