how do I get an a PPC ad removed which is showing a 404 error page?

[kads]

Basically, an affiliate of mine was messing up so I banned him from the program. His affiliate link now shows a 404 error page for his Google PPC Ads. How do I get his Ad removed from the listings now?

I've loooked in Google Webmaster tools but couldn't find anything.

Anybody know?

Thanks in advance

[RhinoFish]

leave it, his/her quality score will very soon deliver the punishment they deserve.

[Acrill]

If you leave it for a bit, Google should automatically catch the error and stop displaying the ad.

[kads]

thanks for the replies guys. I will leave it and see what happens :)

[AdWordsAdvisor]

Hello kads,

Two more quick thoughts:

* Assuming you are still on 'speaking terms' with the affilite, have you asked them to simply delete the ad? This would be to their benefit, by the way, as they are paying for clicks on the ad to no purpose.

* Provide feedback on the ad to the AdWords support team - starting on this page:

Feedback on AdWords ads
[adwords.google.com...]

AWA

[RhinoFish]

AWA, i've complained so many times about this and always heard the same sort of thing from G folks. it's sweet. look, these folks are wolves, hiding via redirects, geo targeting, dayparting and more. G won't give us tools to manage this on our end - I've asked for them here (like an optional site verify like analytics has). it's a huge pain managing this situation. i get that it isn't G's fault, but it is vitally in your interest to provide tools to help us. i have had so many consulting clients that don't understand what this poaching does - if they could control it, the effect on their own adwords roi would help G a ton!

so you know, every affiliate network (including the one G owns) has packs of these poachers and as soon as you stop the ads from one, another pops into its place. G can easily look behind the scenes at the auction and see these sharks lined up to snark these merchants.

many merchants could entirely fund their ppc with the money they're giving away unknowingly through name poaching.

if you were in our shoes, when you ask that 30th one to stop and he doesn't...

why should they stop? unless you break his links, it's costing them pennies. one flaw of your scoring system is that it gives high credit to someone with an account wioth a high ctr... these wolves do nothing but name poaching, i don't need to tell you how high their ctr is... and the advantage you're giving them over the merchant's in-house ppc as a result.

(too much caffeine this morning, or is this an issue that has gotten under my skin or what? hahhaa! lightening up now, gotta get back to work, work that takes all day, unlike a name poachers ppc, which takes 2 minutes to setup. their keyword research is soooo difficult, no wonder they are rewarded financially and algorithmically... shoot, i'm peeved again, how'd that happen? haha.)

[kads]

adwords: the problem is that the affiliate isn't bothering to reply to my e-mails, so I can't get through to him.

Asking him to delete the ad is also inviting trouble. He could just as easily put up a malicious ad to cause my website a nuisance in his frustration.

I will lead feedback with the adwords team too.

Cheers

KAds