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Adwords Account Suspended, not sure what is wrong

Marketing, social media, advertising

HsrJames

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I got an email on Thursday from Adwords saying that my account of 10 years had been suspended due to advertising violations. I called G and the rep I talked to said that my site looked fine but she would review it and get back to me by the end of the business day on Friday. Its Monday and I havent heard anything.

My site is a web app that allows tire buyers to see the dealer promotions in their local area. There are no ads on the landing page. A buyer enters their zip code on the landing page and is directed to the next page that shows them what deals are available in their locale. The only thing I can think of is that this could be considered arbitrage perhaps. But I am self selling the dealer memberships (not adsense) and they provide a lot more features than what is easily available on the web. The dealer promotions that display on the second page are the revelant and unique content. It is designed to be a good user experience and add value.

Any thoughts or insight would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
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HsrJames

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So does anyone have any experience with being suspended and reinstated? Its been almost 3 weeks since the suspension, I called again 2 weeks ago and they said they are reviewing the account. I don't want to bug them, but would like to know what is happening.
 

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I would keep calling and bugging the sales rep. I'm not sure how much you spend on advertising. The company I'm currently working for spends over $10k a month on ads. Our account got suspended, and we had to be on Google's a$$ to get them to help us. Losing a potential $100k+ in ad revenue is a drop in the bucket for Google, and they act like it.

I doubt anyone will be able to tell you what's wrong except for Google. All sorts of things can violate their terms. Also, you can be erroneously suspended (as we were).
 

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This is why I like to outsource Adwords work because Google changes their policy quite a lot, you can have a dormant ad pointing to a landing page which was allow before but is now disallowed so that could get yor account suspended.

A professional Adwords consultant has direct contact with a Google rep also so they can fast track all of this.

You should be alright, as long as the Google rep is confident that you asre not deliberately trying to game them, and have made an innocent mistake.. Trouble is it's taking you a bit longer than what I would have expected.
 
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HsrJames

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Just as an update. I finally got a email from G stating that the account was suspended due to violations from affiliate programs I advertised from 7 years ago. It seems to be bad business that they would suspend me today for something that they were allowing me to promote back then. Anyway I just got off the phone with a company that says they specialize in getting accounts reinstated. The prices are susprising. $200 to inguire to G if you are blacklisted, $1000 to get the account reinstated, $3000 to coach you on how to be compliant and reinstate your site.
 

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