Anyone have been banned from Adwords before?

[tsinoy]

Maybe for clicking on your own ads? :D

[bcc1234]

For having too many keywords and unrelated ads.
I haven't been banned, but got a "you got 5 days to fix it" letter one time.

[patient2all]

bcc,

Can you elaborate on what were too many keywords and "unrelated ads" if you don't mind?

Thanks,

patient2all

[zeus661]

Why would Adwords ban you for clicking on your own ads?

[buckworks]

Because the advertisers consider it theft.

Added: I was thinking of Adsense when I said that, not Adwords. Sorry!

[edited by: buckworks at 9:12 pm (utc) on April 7, 2005]

[AdWordsAdvisor]

Anyone have been banned from Adwords before?

Maybe for clicking on your own ads? :D

Yeah, this is a little too cryptic for me to comment on. ;)

Are we talking AdWords here, or AdSense, or what?

AWA

[zeus661]

Sounds like Adsense. But if it is Adwords could the person click on their own ads to get a better CTR? Would Adwords frown on that or just be happy to make the money?

[Eterion]

Heh. Im confused now. I have both AdWords and AdSense.
With AdSense I know NEVER to even run my mouse near the ads on my webpage.
But with AdWords, since im paying for the clicks on the ads, I dont think I'd be penalized for clicking on my OWN SPONSORED ads right?

[tsinoy]

hey everyone,

I'm talking about adwords... "I'm familiar with the Adsense program and I'm not talking about Adsense."

The reason I ask this question is this... there were a couple of keywords that I was trying on Adwords and they converted so well... like every dollar I spend I make about $50. Because no one is bidding on it, why you ask? Because there's a ton searches on it and the proportion of people clicking is a little low... but when users click on it about 1 out of 20 visitors buy... high conversion % but low CTR...

so I was trying to click on it myself but eventually I couldn't keep up... and it got disabled... a more targetted keyword combo like "brown stinky widget" doesn't convert as well as oppose to using just "widget". Or maybe I need to add thousands of targetted keywords to achieve what the broad keyword could achieve.

anyways, right now when I search on the keyword there's no google adwords sponsored listing on it... I think google adwords team could add a simple logic(well I don't know how simple) that if there's no one listed the system should lower the required ctr so that people's ad could continue to show up.

regards.

[cline]

Yeah, my wife has tried to ban me several times.

[bcc1234]

tsinoy, try rasing max CPC by 20 times (or whatever you can afford) and see if that helps.
Then keep lowering it.