Ok, so that basically happens one fine morning. You receive an email from Google adwords called "Adwords Account Suspended". The email doesn't say much more than that except that your ads aren't running anymore in case you really thought "suspended" was just a warning sticker they put on your account when you log in. Nope, some Google guys just pressed the "off" button on your account!

First of all, you need to understand the reasons why Google may temporarily suspend your account because Google will NOT tell you what the reason is exactly. Nope, they're reliable kings but they won't let you know why exactly they suspend your account. It'd be more like... "you violated our policy, now you fix this and get back to us".

So here are the 3 main reasons why your account may be suspended:

1. They consider your site as a "bridge site" meaning that you're suspected of having a site that has for sole purpose to drive traffic to another site... Well, to be honest, that's what we do as affiliate marketers. But what they mean is that your site needs more content in order to provide quality information to your visitors.

2. The content on your site doesn't comply with their policy. Indeed, some topics (get rich quick, hacking,...) aren't allowed and most importantly "misleading and inaccurate claims" are strongly forbidden. It's a blurry edge for sure but basically if you say "this ebook gives you the solutions that will cure your lung cancer", you're in trouble, even if it's true. Among other things, Google doesn't like alternative medicines.

3. Your site mirrors an existing site.

Before going into what to DO if you receive the creepy account suspension email, here's an advice:

Read the Google Adwords Policy before starting a campaign! (yeah that's a link you should click on)



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TomasB Premium Plus
Have you considered using Google ADSENSE instead?Please look into it.
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AllInToWin Premium
Well, these two are for completely two different purposes. With Google AdSense you allow google partners/advertisers to put ads on your OWN website in a contextual manner.

On the other hand, Google adWords is a platform to put YOUR ads on google partners website and on Google search engine.

What she's trying to do is have her ad shown up in Google Search for some of her pages that either teaches something, or maybe she reviews something and want to steer people to particular direction so they can proceed with it and eventually buy a product, but Google being Google doesn't like much of affiliate marketing, especially if it looks like you blatantly trying to drive the traffic to sales page.
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TomasB Premium Plus
Thanks for the input.I must have misunderstood her intentions.
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AllInToWin Premium
For sure Tomas :)
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From my experience, "agents" = "power tripping robot-apes."
"Communication" is difficult with the ape-like creatures. They usually answer any question with a canned/scripted response. This article is very correct - you should appeal to their overblown egos in order to get a valuable response. Don't forget, Google's rules are completely gray - and any Google support monkey can bend a rule to allow/disallow any domain at any time.
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kendamon Premium
Here's some gold. My landing page is suspended and I did not know it until I realized I wasn't being charged anymore. After digging around I finally saw that my ad is fine it's the website that's suspended.
Yes, I did try Microsoft and you said it all with one word "crumbs".
So I am hoping I can get my site back in their good graces because Adwords is Awesome and if you don't believe it just sign up for both and compare.
Here's the culprit ==> www.bestfertilitymethod.com
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christ4life Premium
Here's some gold. My landing page is suspended and I did not know it until I realized I wasn't being charged anymore. After digging around I finally saw that my ad is fine it's the website that's suspended.
Yes, I did try Microsoft and you said it all with one word "crumbs".
So I am hoping I can get my site back in their good graces because Adwords is Awesome and if you don't believe it just sign up for both and compare.
Here's the culprit ==> www.bestfertilitymethod.com
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steved Premium
Thanks for the tutorial ... i have been focusing on organic traffic with seo work . It's been slow for me but I realize in the long term I'll be better to learn it instead of playing the google adwords game.
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Kent S Premium
Thanks for the tutorial ... i have been focusing on organic traffic with seo work . It's been slow for me but I realize in the long term I'll be better to learn it instead of playing the google adwords game.
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