bymer - 1:17 am on Aug 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

Oddly enough I had just begun buying Adwords when my site was banned. One thought crossing my mind at first was that there may have been some connection

may be, if we consider that Google bans site under the premise of weeding out the "non-quality" content you could say that they are not interested in serving ad impressions to sites that they do not feel are "fair" in getting into the index in the first place.

of course, as anything Google, we can speculate all we want :)