The Adwords "love letters" started going out today. Anyone else get one yet?

Colin

No love letters yet but a bunch of sites got suspended. Most of the ads that are still approved are no longer showing due to "This ad is not eligible to run on the search network." whatever that means.

Yep. I got the same message for all of our Adword Ads. All suspended with the "This ad is not eligible to run on the search network." message with some not very helpful links to "how to fix it".

Of interest also is when I googled all kinds of traditional "adult" search queries that used to have Adwords results, there are no Adword right-column listings for anyone!

But, the organic serps are all still intact, most of them giving first page to Wikipedia or various tube sites. barely a legit paysite to be found!

i still see lots of ads with sex cams,webcam sex etc ,all adult cam ads still show up

Yeah, seeing alot less adult ads, still see some though. Been reading that apparently that message means an account is either under review or suspended. :(

The thing I don't understand is if I link to a compliant landing page and another advertiser does not for the same site causing the site's domain to get suspended for everyone even though it was not my fault or are the site suspensions limited to each account? I ask as some site domains got suspended for sexually explicit content even though the landing pages I linked to are compliant, not even nudity.

Google found out that there's no more money in porn, so now worth to drop the remaining few adult ads to get as clean brand name as Apple store.

I was told that it's not only the landing page that matters.
The rejections also mention the Display URL, not Destination URL. I think the only safe way is if the entire site is compliant.

LOL really?

can you have a softcore lander with a hardcore members area?

Time to make a softcore "nude girls" site and promote it with hardcore terms?

anyone else get the boom lowered on them?
C

yes my account was closed. yeayyyyyy

fuck you google!

i don't get what is so hard to understand, all kind off nonsense with softcore landing page and jiberish maneuvers.

look, if you would go to a car market that sells only originals cars and you would came there with a trabby which has the car body in the perfect shape but under the hood, everything is modified - the trabby is even tuned with an engine which reaches 200 MPH, you would be disqualified? of course you do, it's just a matter of time till someone will want to look closer, under the hood and it will notice that practically is a hole different car.

same with google, if they don't want porn, just STOP! don't try to trick them if you're site is not 100% softcore.

or at least be smart, wait for 6 months or more to see what softcore ads are accepted and running for months, let others to be guinea pigs and risk their own accounts with what is allowed and what is not.

in the meantime do seo and buy traffic from other sources which allow porn.

i never understood this thing, practically to beg with your own money for someone to accept you, which said very clear they don't allow porn anymore.

people are changing adult affiliate programs, adult ad networks etc. at a snap of a finger all the time if they don't allow anymore something in particular but google? no, that is the end of the world!

I don't have an adwords account but seo is dead and buying traffic from other sources isn't as profitable. There's a reason people cry when google closes up shop to you. They have most of the free traffic and paid targeted traffic too.

so they have started disabling cam sites as well

Is this a question or a fact?

Fascinating that Google is so big now and making so much money that they are in the position to deny the adult industry the right to advertise soley based on their moral beliefs. Everything else they might say about creating a better user experience is bullshit. Apple did the same. They would rather forgo $100's of millions in profit to stand their ground with the ideal that porn is wrong. What a bunch of fucking assholes.

fact. got mine and hearing a few others got theirs banned

It's not based on their moral beliefs. It's based on how they will be perceived. They want to 'appear' moral and so take this stand against porn to look good. Most of their money comes from everything BUT porn so it's an easy way to look good.


Pretty much. They do things to make profit and not for user experience.

If they were indeed moral then they should eliminate all porn from their search engine results but they don't. WHY? Because then people would use other search engines and google doesn't want that. So in a way google profits from having porn in their search results and are not willing to guve up that profitability. They are against porn only if they have little to lose. Double standard.

this is great news. bravo google!

Got my campaign blocked as well. They say my site is no longer eligible, yet they ask for modifications. WTF?

Are they simply requiring the landing page for the ad to be non-nude/explicit? Could it be that simple? :helpme

Nudity is allowed, what is the nature of the site which was blocked?

I wonder historically what percentage of their searches were porn related. They used porn to build a user base and sell them other crap but now that surfers mostly navigate directly to tube sites they take the moral high ground. fuckers.

lol, awesome, glad to see google is killing blogs

It's EASY to take the moral high ground when you don't have much to lose.

my ad was leading to the TOUR page :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I had a nice, long conversation with them a couple weeks ago. Granted, each of their reps may give a different explanation, but the guy I talked to said that the entire domain has to be approved. So, if you build an Adword friendly tour on the same domain as the one that was suspended, it will not be approved (unless you completely remove ALL of the offending stuff from the original domain).