Is Google Adwords cracking down on affiliate/review sites again?

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Last night one of my Adwords account was banned. This account was running affiliate offers for years and never had any issue.

I spoke to Google Adwords support and they said the decision was FINAL and they would be no further review. They refused to give any explanation or provide any advice.

I spoke to some affiliates who run Adwords traffic and it seems many of them have been receiving suspension notices/warnings lately.

It seems review sites are the main target, but also affiliate sales pages in all verticals.

Anyone else got any suspension notice from Adwords lately? Do you think this is a global initiative against the affiliate industry?
 


LOL people were saying this same thing back in 08-09 when Google started cracking down. Just feel lucky you made it another 5 years. I for one can't get Google to accept anything I do so I just moved on.

At one point a very nice Indian Google rep told me that I should try turning my review sites into review sites. When I explained that it is a review site they sent me a nice pre-canned email that told me to check their guidelines. Hilariously the guidelines suggested that I make a site that "provides value" such as a review site.

I for one can't wait until Google crashes and burns. I get the same feeling inside that I got about Microsoft in the late 90's early 00's.
 
This has been happening for the last 5 years. Unless you were cloaking it's a miracle it too them this long to ban you.
 
Well I heard they went big against affiliates in 08-10, but then since 2012 it got easier again to get affiliate sites approved... I had 3 review sites approved on Adwords in 3 different niches (finance, software, mobile) and they ran fine for 2 years until now...
 
avatar33 said:
Well I heard they went big against affiliates in 08-10, but then since 2012 it got easier again to get affiliate sites approved... I had 3 review sites approved on Adwords in 3 different niches (finance, software, mobile) and they ran fine for 2 years until now...
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If you're making enough money then there are ways to get back up and running.
 
evilgenius said:
If you're making enough money then there are ways to get back up and running.
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At a certain point it's just not worth it. If you can make AdWords work on your affiliate offers there other, much less competitive, sources that should also work AND you won't be dealing with QS and other fun Google stuff. Probably not as scalable, and won't give your network rep that Google-quality boner, but at least you wont be shut down every month.
 
avatar33 said:
Well I heard they went big against affiliates in 08-10, but then since 2012 it got easier again to get affiliate sites approved... I had 3 review sites approved on Adwords in 3 different niches (finance, software, mobile) and they ran fine for 2 years until now...
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My understanding is that other people can have review sites, but not me.

Beyond that, everything gets kinda muddy.

I don't think I've tried since they were perma-banning people 4-5 years ago.
 
JSanti said:
At a certain point it's just not worth it. If you can make AdWords work on your affiliate offers there other, much less competitive, sources that should also work AND you won't be dealing with QS and other fun Google stuff. Probably not as scalable, and won't give your network rep that Google-quality boner, but at least you wont be shut down every month.
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Yes, which is why I said "if you're making enough money."

If OP's campaigns were doing well, then he should look into cloaking services such as this site here: [the following link has been cloaked]
 
cheshire said:
LOL people were saying this same thing back in 08-09 when Google started cracking down. Just feel lucky you made it another 5 years. I for one can't get Google to accept anything I do so I just moved on.

At one point a very nice Indian Google rep told me that I should try turning my review sites into review sites. When I explained that it is a review site they sent me a nice pre-canned email that told me to check their guidelines. Hilariously the guidelines suggested that I make a site that "provides value" such as a review site.

I for one can't wait until Google crashes and burns. I get the same feeling inside that I got about Microsoft in the late 90's early 00's.
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MSFT has a market cap of $349 billion, 100K employees. Where's the crash & burn?
 
The funny thing is that if you're REALLY big (like IAC/Mindspark type big) you can get basically anything through.

Google is sort of a monopoly, but the double whammy is that Google too picks/chooses its winners and losers.
 
We used to have issues.

They've gotten much better though.

If it's for something clean you can hit me up on Skype: smaxoro and I'll see if I can help.

We run all kinds of affiliate offers with no issues. But no scummy stuff and has to be a good user experience.
 
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