Adwords Banned - How to get back?
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Banned by Adwords – How to open a new account?
Mar 19th
The last weeks have been a real nightmare. After I got banned from AdWords, my business came to a standstill. I was under so much pressure I even had to take some antidepressant drugs.
I spend two years of my life building this company; suddenly from one day to the other I was facing the serious threat of losing my business for ever, because AdWords suspended me.
I tried to open new Adwords accounts about 6 times. Based on my online research in all different kind of forums I deleted my cookies, used new credit cards and changed my name. Every time I completed the registration, I was monitoring the status of my ads all the time. However, they Ads just would not show even after a couple of days. I contacted AdWords support , and they just explained to me in a short email that my account has been suspended indefinitely, without going into any details. How cruel is that? Adwords bans accounts, without even telling you.
I did a lot of research online how to get back on Adwords, I also read different eBooks that promised to offer a solution for AdWords Banned customers. However, the author of ‘Adwords Ghost’ Peter Bergmann seems to understand the technology AdWords is using to ban customers best.
My AdWords ban situation was very unique. I was surprised by the level of support the Author of this guide gave me. It never took him longer than 12 hours to reply my emails. I thought I would never be able again to advertise on Google again, I could almost not believe when my Ads were live again.
I think the solution will only work for people who really fallow this guide step by step. If you leave one step out, you will get banned again.
The only negative thing would be the price. However, I am back in business so the investment I did with ‘Adwords Ghost‘ definitely paid off.
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Adwords Monopoly
Oct 1st
A lot of friends who know the horror stories I experienced with Adwords always like to ask me, do you hate Adwords? The answer is yes and no. As long as you can use Adwords and you not get in trouble with the department suspending accounts it’s the best place to advertise on the planet.
It is not cheap, but still the return on investment is just amazing. I tried to use Facebook, Bing and Yahoo as an alternative for Adwords, without any success. The issue with Facebook is people are not looking or searching for information, they mind is focused on interacting with their friends or playing games. So it is very hard to sell to people who are not searching for anything.
Yahoo and Bing even combined don’t get enough traffic to even be considered a competitive force to our all mighty God of the internet Big G.
I am a big believer in the free market. I hate monopolies, but unfortunately online advertisement is owned by Adwords. People are just so used to use Google to find stuff on the internet. It’s very difficult to break this habit. However, there is hope. If Facebook manages to turn some of its 1 billion users to use the search feature of FB, Google and Adwords could get serious competition. Mark Zuckerberg should change the user interface of FB in a way which stops people leaving FB and going to Google to search.
FB search is powered by Bing, and my impression is that the search results delivered by Bing are now actually allot better than what Google is showing on its search result page.
Google’s Adwords is to the internet what Microsoft used to be 10 years ago to computers. Windows used to rule the world. People were scared of monopoly Microsoft had. We all know things have changed. I am strong believer that in 10 years Google will not own the internet as they do now. Google tried to so hard with Google+ to compete against Facebook without a lot of success. The only thing Google is making any real money from at the moment is it’s Adwords business.
The challenge large corporations are facing is that the bigger they grow the more inflexible they get. Startups are like young adults. They are creative, they are eager to learn new thinks; they just have the mindset to invent new stuff. Once they get older the mindset changes. The loose the ability to see things from a different perspectives, the whole mindset changes.
In multinational companies such as Google even if some people have great ideas, in most cases they are lost in the hierarchy. The bigger the companies grow the more arrogant they get. A good example would Apple, Microsoft and even Google. The arrogance G shows it’s Adwords customer is sometimes really hard to grasp. In many cases advertisers had their account unfairly suspended.
In most cases appeals to reconsider the suspension are ignored. I personally sent a very polite email to Adwords to reinstate my suspended accounts. The response email I received did not answer any of my questions I had ask. The customer service representative must have come to the conclusion that instate of actually doing some research and replying my email it might be easier to just choose the “don’t contact us again template” and close the case.
After years spending every month thousands of dollars with Adwords I felt very insulated. In my opinion only companies, who have a monopoly on the service they are offering, can afford to treat customers so arrogant and offensive.
Living The 4 Hour Work Week
Aug 10th
During my last month’s summer vocation in South East Asia, I met a lot of guys making their living online and living in exotic countries such as e.g. Indonesia, Philippines or even Singapore. It’s a quite smart move, as they all earn their money in us dollars.
However, the living costs in those countries are very cheap. I remember, when I stayed in Indonesia last month, I could get a very nice local dinner for 1 usd. People in South East Asia working in a 7-11 shop maybe make about 200 usd a month and live a decent life, if you are earning let’s say 1000 usd online you can live like a king.
I really kind of envy the kind of lifestyle those western people are having there. Beautiful beaches, all year round warm weather, amazingly delicious food.
I read the ’4 Hour Work Week’ from Timothy Ferriss last year. I was very impressed, actually meeting people living the 4 hour work for real.
I run an ecommerce business; I am selling all different kind of fashion accessories online. I am working now on a step by step plan how to outsource the whole product fulfillment to warehouse and finally being able to spend more time abroad, exploring new countries and cultures.
Are you living the ’4 Hour Work Week’? Share your experience, add a comment below.
Adwords Alternatives
Jul 1st
In this article I will discuss 3 major Advertisement platforms which could be seen as substitute to Adwords, after you have been banned. I tested them on my own business, the results may vary depending on your niche.
Bing (Microsoft)
What I really like about Microsoft AdCenter is their control panel, which is very logically structured and easy to use. I also had contact with their customer service department via phone. I was surprised by the well trained customer service agent, and level of customer service delivered. You can feel they really try hard to win customers over from Adwords.
I am using them for 4 weeks now. They traffic they deliver is good and converts well, similar to what I used to experience with Adwords before they banned my account.
The only issue is that Adwords was able to deliver about 100 visitors to my page a day, compared to Microsoft Adcenter I am getting 7 – 10 hits. It should not be a surprise as the market share of bing.com is still very small.
I liked the idea of “targeted” ads, as Facebook gives you the option to choose age, language, location, level of education etc. It took about 24 hours to approve my Ad, which is not very fast, however, if this Ads delivers sales, who cares.
After 1 week, my “free” Facebook advertisement credit came to an end. I made about 1 sale which originated from Facebook. Quality of traffic, very low. My conversation rate was about 2%, compared to 20% before I got banned from all time favorite Adwords. If I would test different Ads I maybe could improve the conversations. Again Facebook only delivered 30 hits in an entire week. Those numbers are so far away from what I am used from Adwords, it just does not make any economically sense to do any fine tuning. People on Facebook are not searching for specif information, they are more in a ‘information consuming’ mood. That might explain the low click through rates and low conversations.
You might be able to make Facebook Ads work for your specif niche. However, it did not work for me. After beeing adwords banned, this is definitely not the kind of ‘alternative’ I was looking for.
I using Yahoo for some time, before simultaneously with Adwords before they banned me. The issue is the same as with all other above advertisement platforms, the volume of visitors they deliver is just to low to really to qualify as an alternative.
After I tested all those “alternatives” to Adwords, unfortunately I have to conclude, there is NO real alternative. If Adwords also banned you, the only way to continue your business is to get a new working account.
Google Adwords Banned Nightmare
Apr 24th
I own a small internet dating website, we promote our business with Google Adwords. Google Adwords banned my Adwords account 2 days ago. I tried to contact Google Adwords via email, I am very disappointed as they only send me some pre-written emails without any specific reason why I got banned.
Adwords Banned Customer are treated like outcast. They are acting in such an unethical manner. There are 6 people working in our small office. It is very questionable if we can continue operating this small business, if we are not able to reverse the Google Adwords Banned verdict, we will have to close this company. I was looking for alternatives to Google Adwords after we got banned, it did not take me long to realize there is no substitute for Adwords.
The Google Reich
Google Adwords controls 80% of PPC advertisement online, the chances are very slim that this Google monopoly will be destroyed anytime soon. If any company would deal with clients as Adwords does, they would have to deal with a lot of lawsuits. The only difference that make the Google story even worse, there is no substitute for Adwords.
If your business only relies on Google Adwords traffic, be careful. Google Adwords Banned Accounts without any warning. I learned this lesson, when it was already to late. Last week I was researching every day how to get back on Adwords after being banned, yesterday I opened a new Adwords account. However, my new account was linked to my old banned Adwords account. I am sure there must be a way to get back on Adwords after being banned, I will continue looking for a solution.
If you have been banned from Adwords as well, share you Adwords experience with us below.
Adwords Disabled
Jan 4th
I did some research in different online forums and it was shocking to read all those horror stories people were experiencing with Google and how they got their Adwords account disabled. One Adwords disabled horror story that really got me came from a good friend of mine (Bob), he owns an e-commerce business selling perfumes.
Bob used to import perfumes such as Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, DKNY etc. from the US to sell in the UK market. Those are gray imports as he does not have any distribution rights by the trade mark owner.
Last year suddenly he got Adwords disabled. Bob has a wife and one 5 year old daughter and 7 year old son who just started school.
Bob used to make a decent money with his business, however, being Adwords disabled, did not only destroy his business but also is jeopardizing the future of his family.
After Bob got Adwords disabled, he was forced to find a new job. He is working now as ‘Customer Service Representative’ for a UK tour operator. He barley makes more than $1400 after taxes. His wife stays at home to take care the 5 year old daughter. Adwords banned means they can not afford to go out for dinner, go on holiday or even own a car.
What Adwords and Google don’t seem to understand, that their decision to ban someone changes lives for the worse. Adwords banned means people loose their businesses, their jobs and their lively-hood.
As Adwords own a virtual monopoly on online advertisement they need to introduce some kind of process to offer Adwords customer who were banned to reappeal this decision. There has to be a fair and independent entity who controls the process. Adwords disabled means to many people, their financial existence is being destroyed. It time to end this cruel and evil behavior by Google when the randomly ban Adwords accounts.
How to keep you Adwords account secure and save.
Dec 2nd
Last month about ten friend of mine contacted me that their Adwords account was banned. Everyone was losing it for the reason that most of their very own cash flow has been immediately deterred over night. Those individuals were generating thousands of dollars every month and out of the blue got banned from Adwords.
We are not only discussing a, “Oh you cannot run this campaign” style of ban as well. We’re talking about, “If you actually open an extra account by using this credit card, address, ip location you may be banned again” style of banning.
I was lucky as this Adwords ban did not affect me but some friends of mine were hit hard. I will show you how you can make sure you will get your account not suspended in the first place.
Things you need to stay way from to make sure you can maintain your Google Adwords Account Secure.
Downloading and re-uploading slapped campaigns. – Once in a while, or any time your current campaign becomes Google slapped (which means your own marketing campaigns stop appearing regardless of how high you bid). Usually a surprisingly simple resolution to quickly obtain a new domain, download your own marketing capmagins and re-upload using a brand new domain name. It could work for a quick time right up until you get banned again.
Google is God in online Advertising, never upset God. Bad karma may fallow you, where ever you might go.
Adwords Ban Solution?
Jan 5th
Last week, shortly after I published my last post I came across this ‘Adwords Unbanned’ eBook. The author Tom Goldman claims that this book will get you a new working Adwords account, after you have been banned. I am surprised what kind of technologies Adwords is using to ban clients who have been banned from Adwords before.
I followed the step by step guide as described in the book. I am very excited as I have a new working Adwords account, however, I am little bit scared to get banned from Adwords again. I will do an extended review in two weeks, as it is to early to tell if the information inside this book really works.
Why I love Adwords
Oct 12th
Google Adwords is a amazing. If you sell online there is NO alternative. My sales increased by 400% after I started to using Adwords. Adwords helped me to market my goods to a broader market which was not the case before. I would like to share my Adwords experience with you.
I was a petty trader before. I had a small automotive spare parts shop in my town. The business was ok but not great. I was quite happy the way the business was going on. I did not need much money as I stayed alone. I was okay with the profits I made. However things changed once I had a family. The expenses kept raising and I had to earn more to keep my family happy.
I used to buy wholesale auto parts at a very cheap price and I used to sell them at discounted rate. Customers used to buy auto parts in my small shop. However, the customer base was very small. I wanted to increase my customer base and sales.
I came up with the Idea to publish Ads with Adwords. Though I was not enthusiastic, I still thought it would be worth a try. There was a nominal activation fee of $5usd. I had to type in few words about my business. I did all the steps mentioned and was hoping to receive few positive responses from customers.
Initially there was no or very small response. After few days I got an enquiry from a retail dealer asking for a quotation for one of the spare parts. I gave him a reasonably low quote. Within two days we had finalized the deal and I had a good order in my hand. The dealer assured me of regular business every month if I would provide him the goods promptly and at competitive prices. I was excited with this new development in my business. I started working hard to achieve the business targets.
This did not stop here, I started getting enquires from people who clicked on my Adwords campaigns. My business almost doubled within few days. Now I have enough money to support my family and fulfill all their needs. Google Adwords helped me at the right time, when I needed it.
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