I contacted Google today and a very polite rep via chat said it would be escalated to the engineers and they would get back to me promptly. That was over 16 hours ago and I have heard nothing.
I am at a complete loss as to what happened. At the very least I hope Google informs me of the reason why they decided I should no longer be a part of this niche since I paid them 20k over the summer in it.
Something else that is somewhat disturbing is all of my competitors appear untouched.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this recently?
To continue my rant, my site was doing well in google a couple months ago. Nothing changed on my site except for new, good content, and with one of their algo changes, I lost about 70-80% of my daily traffic from google. I still rank for terms, but not nearly like I did before.
I've learned a couple things. Never quit your job to run your websites if you are a person who worries (like myself) - I didn't do this, but I've seen people talk about this on the adsense forum.
Also... big G sure seems like Big Brother. One chop of the axe and a web business can be completely ruined or built. With all of their stuff like keyword quality, don't sell links, etc... it's become too much cr*p for me to worry about. Very depressing.
I ended up completely recoding my site, added a contact page, FAQ list, Privacy Policy etc.. I also ripped out the majority of my affiliate links and then pointed everything to a new domain.
After plenty of experimentation I appear to be compliant with the Google algorithm now.
I hope this helps.
Anyone else get their campaigns slapped with $5-$10 minimum bids today?
The only things I have changed recently was I added a Google Custom Search box to my home page and associated it with an old AdSense account and removed the form from my contact page in favor of a e-mail address. Didn't change any text to speak of.
Now I also had a PR drop on my home page on 10/29 from PR3 to PR1.
I also lowered my daily budget 50% as well as play with my daily budget and individual keyword bids on a much higher scale then my previous couple months.
My geo-target is the US only and always has been.
My guess is still a Google Algorithm change but only time & testing will tell.
Between this sort of nonsense and the expanded broad match business, I've pretty much had it with Google. They've gone from being useful to being a nuisance.
So I spent the morning setting up a shiny new Yahoo campaign. I might never have got around to it if Google hadn't done this.
Same thing here, this morning when I log into my account the first thing I see.... almost none impressions.. when I took a look a my campaigns all keywords where inactive, yes Google wanted more money from me.
My keywords had all Excellent QS before
ALways kept a high CTR
My Landing Pages are relevant and ads well targetted
I´m tired of all this monopoly from google. No wonder now why all google's share at the Stock Market are going up! Cause it's getting more money from us and is becoming more and more profitable.
Adwords behaves now like a latin america country, where the inflation is not less than 20% annually.
I'm starting my new account at MSN.
