Ads now disapproved, how to tell why?

[cgchris99]

My ads have been running since 8/12/03 with no problems. Today I looked at my campaign and it says zero impressions and zero clicks.

So I dig deeper and I see disapproved on my ads. How can I tell why this happened? If you click on the (disapproved) it takes you to the faq.

thanks for any info

[cgchris99]

They sent me an email. It was because I said in my ad,
"Buy Online at the Best Prices" They wanted me to change it to "Buy Online at Low Prices"

So I just changed that line to read
"Low Prices and Great Service"

I am documenting my impressions, CTR, etc now so I can see what happens after these changes.

[too much information]

I had an e-mail too. One was disapproved because of a mis-spelling and another because of repeated words in the title and the first line of copy.

[bragov]

I've been running AdWords on my site for six weeks, and have put four advertisers on the blocked list, all for the same reason--misspelled words.

[Shak]

I've been running AdWords on my site for six weeks, and have put four advertisers on the blocked list, all for the same reason--misspelled words.

you mean AdSense?

Shak

[bragov]

Sorry, brain fart. Yes, I meant AdSense.

[AdWordsAdvisor]

An interesting and related note:

I have talked with more than one advertiser who was 'not receiving' emails from AdWords - only to find out the emails were being filtered (and sent into some dark nether-world) because the subject line has the word Ad(Words)in it.

[tamen]

I had my ad (yes Ive obly got one) dissaproved too. the reason was because I used the word "free" ("gratis" in danish), in the add. And google couldnt find the same word on my site.

Its very simple, it consist of ten php/css files and some pictures. All the data is in the database. I didnt think it was nessecary to write on your sita that it was free if you dont sell anything on your site. But apparently, it is. Google refused to activate my ad before I either dropped the word "gratis" in the add or specificly stated on my site that it was free.

I think that the rules could be more fleksible.

Nis Sarup.

[edited by: Shak at 2:10 pm (utc) on Aug. 27, 2003]
[edit reason] no specifics please :) [/edit]