Eric's Estimate

Update: Google Adwords Account Disabled

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Eric

On December 2nd when my Google account was disabled I sent out an email asking them to explain why the service was disabled, and I gave an explanation about the campaigns that I thought were the issue.

I didn’t exactly have high hopes for my account, but in their initial email Google had said you can dispute the account detonation by emailing them.

Here was their response:

Hello Eric,

As mentioned in our previous email, your Google AdWords account has been
suspended. We are unable to revoke your account suspension, and we will
not accept advertisements from you in the future.

Please note that our support team is unable to help you with this issue,
and we ask that you do not contact them about this matter.

As noted in our Terms and Conditions, Google reserves the right to
terminate advertisements for any reason. To view our Terms and Conditions,
please visit https://adwords.google.com/select/tsandcsfinder .

We appreciate your cooperation.

My cooperation? I didn’t exactly have much choice in the matter did I? It seems to me that even a bad campaign that was setup over 8 months ago can get you in bad with Google… and they don’t forget a thing.

Google I love you… you make awesome software… Google Android rules… I love your search engine… your email rocks… you have a ton of traffic and it’s fairly decent as far as conversions go… but god damn is your customer support bad. I don’t know of any other company that would just stop giving you service without explaining themselves.

That brings me to a new point. There are a TON of other traffic sources out there for promoting affiliate offers. Over the next couple of weeks I am going to go over my initial experience with some of these other traffic sources and let you know how the traffic they have converts.