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Adwords Problem

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Apologies if this is in the wrong section, I think I got it right though?!

 

I have an adwords account that had 4 websites running campaigns on it (I didn't realise that I could set up multiple accounts). I set up an ad campaign 8 months ago for an affiliate marketing attempt which I'll call A(I'm trying my hand at few things) and ran it for 2 weeks with no problems or errors. Then recently I added the other three websites (I'll call B, C and D) I have to the same Adwords accounts (these are all business websites/blogs).

 

Last week in the space of 4 hours between 1am and 5am I get 9 emails telling me about errors I must fix otherwise my account will be suspended with the 9th email saying my account was suspended due to me not resolving the issues (I'm guessing Google don't account for the fact that in the UK most people are asleep between 1 and 5am??). Anyway, I spoke to the help and support team who told me what the errors were (they were all minor errors to be honest, mainly for my fitness website B, an example of one is I quoted a guy called Dick Hoyt as saying "you can do anything you want to, you just need to make up your mind", which Google deemed a misleading claim.) Now the original website (A) I used for affiliate marketing was only mentioned in the warning email because it was linked to the other offending websites (B &C). There were no mentions of errors on the website or adverts at all. So as I haven't used that ad campaign on website A for 8 months I decided to delete the campaign and then proceeded to delete the website.

 

This is where my problems have started.

 

Because I deleted website A too quickly after deleting the ad campaign the Google team then flagged up the ad campaign as pointing to an error page (even though I had deleted it). I called again and explained that I had deleted the website only to be told I needed to reinstate the website so they could get rid of the 404 error on their system and I could then delete the website again and that would un-suspend my account and free up websites B, C & D. Now one of the reasons I wanted to delete that campaign is because one of the websites that I was advertising for has changed it's content, and I think owner, and is now just a static sales page. Anyway I reinstate website A, speak to Google and they now tell me that one of the domains that my ads were pointing to is in violation of their terms (the website with the changed content). They tell me that they can't change the ads because they've been deleted from their system and all that remains is this 404 error and that I need to get that website (which I don't own or even know who does) changed to meet their terms because I am now linked to that website.

 

So basically websites B, C, & D are now currently banned from running adwords because a website I was promoting has now changed hands and changed content and it seems there is nothing that Google can do, or so they tell me? I've explained that I don't want website A or any link to this other sales page but they're basically saying tough luck (to be fair they haven't been as blunt as that and have been very helpful in explaining all the minor little errors I've made). I've even asked if this adwords account could be closed but allow the other 3 websites (B, C & D) to be set up individually on different accounts as per their instructions, but they tell me unless I can get the content of this other site changed then they can't unlock those websites!

 

Has anyone had anything similar to this or know what the likelihood of them changing their decision is? I'm currently waiting for a response but the guy I spoke to didn't make it sound too promising! I know there are other options out there but if I can I'd like to keep Google.

 

Thanks for your time.

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