Does Adwords Team take SPAM seriously?

[sdani]

Just found a new competitor on my keywords today. Visted the web site and the Interface looked familier. I confirmed that it was another competitor, who now has two domains and thus two ads for same keywords.

Is this considered spam, and if I report this, is Adwords spam taken as seriously as Google organic search? (In this case, they are making money).

sdani

[justshelley]

If you can prove it's the same company, yes, they will remove the second ads but sometimes it takes a few days to a couple of weeks.

[Robsp]

Go ahead and report it. It works for us. We all need to compete at a level playing field.

[bostonseo]

Do you know how big this problem is on Yahoo; but Yahoo allows this practice now.

[ownerrim]

"is Adwords spam taken as seriously as Google organic search?"

Just curious....are you implying that, with regard to search, google doesn't care for an individual having multiple sites competing for the same keywords and keywords?

That's not what I see in the serps at all.

[DavidDeprice]

I wonder why double-dipping on AdWords would be considered spam (regardless of Google's guidelines).
AdWords is a form of advertisement. If you bought newspaper ads - two blocks in the same issue or two classifieds in a row - or two radio or TV spots one after another - that's not spam. A lot of advertisers have two ads in newspapers. Effectively, it's happening already with affiliate products - when multiple affiliates sell the same e-book, even though they each have own website.

[sdani]

ownerrim and bostonseo:

Yes, Google organic search do care about duplicate sites.. if you go to spam report, they do have an option for DUPLICATE site.

Yes, Yahoo does not care about this, based on their spam report form. They don't have an option for duplicate site on their spam report form.

sdani

[ownerrim]

"Yes, Google organic search do care about duplicate sites.. if you go to spam report, they do have an option for DUPLICATE site."

I did not say DUPLICATE. I said more than one site owned by the same individual that compete for the same keywords and keyphrases. In other words, two sites on the same topic but each containing absolutely unique content.