SuperF - 9:46 am on Sep 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

Just to give everyone an idea of how bad it can get. We are now suddenly on "last warning" after 7 years and $1M+ per year. We are affiliate marketers, but we direct link - so landing page quality is rarely a problem. Maybe 0.1% of the merchants we promote have ever been slapped. Speaking to Google we discovered that the size of our account, or the number of sites we promote matters not. The warning comes from a raw total. From what we were told, we could be spending $100M a year and still have received this email.

We have not resolved it yet. If Google had account managers that actually looked at the customer, rather than using an automated system, there's no way our account would be in jeopardy.

AWA? Seems like you are the only way the message can get to Google on this. It would be a shame if Google lost good customers this way.