Would you suspend this adwords ad?

As I am sure many of you know, Apple has cornered google into disqualifying just about any adwords ad with any Apple product mentioned by name, regardless of whether the page is relevant or not.

So, I have had a page about freeipod.com offers up since January on my site. And just last week I put it on adwords, mainly as an experiment to attract google's indexing robot. Yeah, the site fishes for referrals, but it also has real content on the subject. Honest!

Of course, I can't mention "iPod" by name, so I came up with this:

My Free MP3 Player
How I got a free you-know-what
from freeipods.com.
freeipod.detwiler.us/myfreeipodshuffle.html

The link goes to a specific page within the site, where I threw up a picture of the ipod I actually got.

It passed the initial "allowed words" automatic censorship scan.

But a few days later, I get notified that the campaign is "Suspended - Pending Revision" due to "Unclear/Inaccurate Ad Text"

Well, now. The page in question DOES describe how I got a free ipod from freeipods.com, and the ipod IS an mp3 player!

I did not fight it, the experiment was over anyway.

What do you think?

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That sucks

I agree with u 100% but if google have decided to Say no what can u do?

 

Thanks for the moral support.
Sadly, I wouldn't be doing that clever dance if I could advertise my product.

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What product is that?

 

By product I mean information about the subject, information that others may find valuable.

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Unfortuntely, you've already used the term 'ipod' in "from freeipods.com" ! But in all honesty, the ad and your intent does not seem to be abusing the Adwords program.

 

You are very right, though it does pass muster when you first create the ad. I think "freeipod" itself is still allowed, or was a few days ago when I did this. If you actually use "iPod," or some obvious variation (and I tried many variations!) you get "disallowed keyword" or somesuch error and it won't even start the campaign.

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