I would like to discuss an important situation that has been happening to many people lately using google adwords.
We used adwords to bring in traffic to one of our retail websites since last year and never had an issue up until now. Google has been suspending and banning users accounts due to ” Promoting Google Tree ” and not giving them the right to explain or even question before revoking their account.
Unfortunately , we were one of the unlucky users who’ve gotten their account suspended when I emailed them to please give me an explanation, I was simply Auto-replied with ” For security purposes, we cannot reveal the reason for your suspended account” and that’s it! I’ve spent almost a 1/4 of a million this year and they could not at least give me an explanation or allow me to defend myself.
Basically they told me I had violated Google’s policies, or promoted Google money tree scam, which we had never heard of up until this happened to us. Well, rather than sit and cry about it, I decided to open a new account with Microsoft’s Bing network and Yahoo Search Marketing to promote my electronics products.
The traffic is not as much as Google, but at least I did not just sit and let me business fall since 80% of my traffic was through Google ads I have been using. Well, I’m happy to say I had moved on without Google, at least we still have some pretty strong SEO on our website, so we are not out of Google completely.
Sales have dropped a small percentage since my Google Adwords account was banned, but this is a lesson to all who have been a victim of the Google tree scam suspension, there are other alternatives to go, it does not have to end there.
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