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Re: Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear

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Post by george0812 »

Razengan wrote: post #88
dollar wrote: post #28

The biggest indicator of a monopoly is when they can treat customers like garbage and keep doing business anyway. Google suspended the Ads account of our largest agency client ($20,000 per day) with no explanation other than a vague “policy violation”. They steadfastly refused to explain how the policy was violated or what we could do to come into compliance. We contacted attorneys, wrote letters to Google executives…

The entire advertisement ~~industry~~ racket is a case of an emperor with no clothes, a problem looking for a problem. Products should not be forced upon people at random times. All advertising should be replaced by opt-in directories with better indexing and filtering systems that let people search for what they want, when they want. “I want to see games like Dark Souls but in 2D with pixel art and a soundtrack like…

I'd like to think that the need for advertising is just a bug in capitalism and eventually it'll go away.

Re: Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear

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Post by noasaservice »

jefftk wrote: post #47
dollar wrote: post #28

The biggest indicator of a monopoly is when they can treat customers like garbage and keep doing business anyway. Google suspended the Ads account of our largest agency client ($20,000 per day) with no explanation other than a vague “policy violation”. They steadfastly refused to explain how the policy was violated or what we could do to come into compliance. We contacted attorneys, wrote letters to Google executives…

> their old agency paid off a Google insider to flag our client’s account resulting in suspension That's extremely serious. If you wanted to share details with me I can raise the issue internally; my email is in my profile. (Speaking only for myself)

Until there's a legally mandated dispute process that requires disclosure as to why an individual/org is blocked and whom or what system ordered it, and how to challenge it; your individual efforts will fall on deaf ears. Hell, until there's accountability, you might as well join in on the racket and take payola for hellbanning.

Most systems these days are automated blackboxes of hellbanning, whether you pay or not. It is the 1950's parodies of the USSR "You know what you did, and we cant tell you what you did because you already know". And here it is. Google is only one such.

Re: Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear

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Post by Razengan »

george0812 wrote: post #91
Razengan wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The entire advertisement ~~industry~~ racket is a case of an emperor with no clothes, a problem looking for a problem. Products should not be forced upon people at random times. All advertising should be replaced by opt-in directories with better indexing and filtering systems that let people search for what they want, when they want. “I want to see games like Dark Souls but in 2D with pixel art and a soundtrack like…

I'd like to think that the need for advertising is just a bug in capitalism and eventually it'll go away.

It’s a feature by now, that successive versions of the system are actually built around and upon.

Like “rocket jumping” in FPS games: Moving ahead by harming yourself, hah

Re: Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear

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Post by Schroedingersat »

jefftk wrote: post #47
dollar wrote: post #28

The biggest indicator of a monopoly is when they can treat customers like garbage and keep doing business anyway. Google suspended the Ads account of our largest agency client ($20,000 per day) with no explanation other than a vague “policy violation”. They steadfastly refused to explain how the policy was violated or what we could do to come into compliance. We contacted attorneys, wrote letters to Google executives…

> their old agency paid off a Google insider to flag our client’s account resulting in suspension That's extremely serious. If you wanted to share details with me I can raise the issue internally; my email is in my profile. (Speaking only for myself)

The only way to improve it is to quit.

Re: Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear

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Post by ent101 »

jefftk wrote: post #47
dollar wrote: post #28

The biggest indicator of a monopoly is when they can treat customers like garbage and keep doing business anyway. Google suspended the Ads account of our largest agency client ($20,000 per day) with no explanation other than a vague “policy violation”. They steadfastly refused to explain how the policy was violated or what we could do to come into compliance. We contacted attorneys, wrote letters to Google executives…

> their old agency paid off a Google insider to flag our client’s account resulting in suspension That's extremely serious. If you wanted to share details with me I can raise the issue internally; my email is in my profile. (Speaking only for myself)

You seem to be the closest person on this thread who can answer questions about Google. Can you please tell us why Google summarily suspends accounts? Why is there absolutely no way to talk to a human being?

Re: Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear

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Post by chevman »

mtgx wrote: post #5

There needs to be some kind of law that mandates that a company MUST reply to customers and/or users within a given time and offer a proper redress process. I remember years ago FB would block your site and they would give you NO OPTION to contact them - like AT ALL (they used to hide the support chat button, and I think they still do from some people). I also knew a company that got its own IG account indefinitely s…

No new law needed!

All you need to do is serve Google in court and they'll respond, trust me :)

A lot of the stories you hear and see online of this flavor are planted by Google and others to dissuade you from filing simple legal actions!

Re: Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear

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Post by LegitShady »

george0812 wrote: post #91
Razengan wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The entire advertisement ~~industry~~ racket is a case of an emperor with no clothes, a problem looking for a problem. Products should not be forced upon people at random times. All advertising should be replaced by opt-in directories with better indexing and filtering systems that let people search for what they want, when they want. “I want to see games like Dark Souls but in 2D with pixel art and a soundtrack like…

I'd like to think that the need for advertising is just a bug in capitalism and eventually it'll go away.

advertising took over capitalism, rather than going away it's driving.

Re: Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear

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Post by jefftk »

ent101 wrote: post #95
jefftk wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> their old agency paid off a Google insider to flag our client’s account resulting in suspension That's extremely serious. If you wanted to share details with me I can raise the issue internally; my email is in my profile. (Speaking only for myself)

You seem to be the closest person on this thread who can answer questions about Google. Can you please tell us why Google summarily suspends accounts? Why is there absolutely no way to talk to a human being?

I can't speak for Google, and I don't work in that part of ads, but my understanding is it's primarily because of how adversarial fraud detection is. If you give people who violate policy detailed information about what they did wrong and how you know then it is much easier for them to figure out how to abuse the system without getting caught. I don't like it, but I also don't know how to fix it.

Re: Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear

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Post by mike_d »

austinpena wrote: post #57
dsl wrote: post #9

Welcome to the world of blackhat SEO. If someone starts driving up the price of ads for a targeted keyword, you generate a massive amount of abuse and pay people to write complaints to Google. From Google's perspective, they look at your account and see activity that indicates you are doing terrible things. Coupons are an extremely competitive and hostile market to be in. Not saying what happened to OP is fair or acc…

How is this related to the world of SEO? He’s talking about paid search issues.

SEO and SEM are effectively interchangeable at this point.
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