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Adwords “Egregious” Bans…FTC, French Regulators

April 1, 2011

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Adwords Egregious Ban

Remember in my previous post where I surmised that Google was doing an end-run around their promise to French regulators by calling all bans “egregious” so as to circumvent their promise to give advertisers warnings? Well, the evidence just keeps pouring in that Google is doing whatever they damn well please. Look at this poor [...]

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Google Bans 11-Year-Old Adwords Account Over Deleted Ads

March 29, 2011

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Adwords Bans my Account

Google seems to be looking for increasingly draconian ways to purge advertisers these days. My Adwords account, which was nearly 11-years-old, had likely been around for longer than most of the Adword’s support team I’ve dealt with. Why then, did Google feel the need to suspend my entire account without warning? It appears to be [...]

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Google Adwords Rolling Out Bans Again?

March 28, 2011

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Adwords Banned

I’m seeing a trend of new suspensions being once again handed out to advertisers using Google Adwords. The difference this time is that advertisers are losing their accounts not based on any sort of current infractions, but are being banned for “violations” that occurred in some cases years ago. This was before Google even restricted [...]

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“Google Proof” Your Business by Providing Incredible Value

March 28, 2011

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Maybe you haven’t noticed, but it’s getting increasingly difficult to get your sites ranked in Google or to get your ads shown through Adwords. Google, for all relevant purposes, is THE search engine. If you want to compete in any market you can either spend all your time trying to please them or you can [...]

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Surprising Split-Testing Results…

July 12, 2009

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Split Testing Graph

Actually, let me say that I’m going to betray the title of this post right away and say that to me these results aren’t surprising at all. However, if you read some of the info by the “experts” then stuff like this isn’t supposed to ever happen. The reality is that I’ve tested thousands of [...]

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