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Adwords: "unacceptable content" -- now what?

Asked by softplus in Internet Marketing

Tags: adwords, tobacco

I just started with adwords for my companys sites (yeah, better late than never... argh.) and was talking about it to my brother in law. He's in a tax-free cigarette MLM (don't even ask :)) and asked me to run some ads to promote his site with his referrer-ID for a couple of european countries.

I checked google, there were tons of sites on the big list of keywords, lots of ads running. Google even suggested better keywords for me :). So I started a adwords-campaign in my account (no, I never bothered to check the guidelines as there were tons of similar ads running), which started quite nicely. Some of the keywords however weren't toggeling any ads, but hey, it's a start.

Until today that is, when I get a mail from google saying they suspended the ads, because they're "unacceptable content" (i.e. tobacco = not allowed). I check google again and all the other ads are gone as well. Search engine placement is all the same. Huh???

My questions to the experts (just wanting to gain some insight, I checked some other sites, but still have some questions):

1) Is my account "marred", i.e. should I open a new account? I still have my other adwords campaigns running...

2) How does this happen? Is this a weekly / monthly / daily thing? (automatically checked for keywords?) Are the keywords now completely "blocked" or is this a one-time-check?

3) What do the bigger sites do about this? Do they just change the text and resubmit the ads and hope for another week of runs? Get new accounts?

4) Where else should I be asking these questions? I'm sure lots of other people have had this happen, I just couldn't find that many (mostly found the "but my site is ok" comments...).

Thanks guys!

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Adwords: "unacceptable content" -- now what?

Asked by softplus in Internet Marketing

Tags: adwords, tobacco

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