Can blocking traffic from a country result in Google Ads account suspension?

mikebro68 said:

Hello everyone,

I'm considering blocking all traffic from Bangladesh to my Shopify store. I'm only running Google Ads in the US and only serve US customer and I've seen lately more traffic than usual from Bangladesh to my store. When looking at clarity to see what these people are doing, I see them spending literally HOURs copy and pasting all my store content and basically stealng everything... I don't know if they'll come up with a duplicate site soon or what.

Is very annoying because I've been working for months on my store trying to get it approved in Google and I'm more conscious now that many things you do with your site can trigger suspensions, so I'm not sure if blocking that specific country from accessing my store aswell as blocking VPN connections with some Shopify app could give me issues with my ad accounts.

Has anyone had any experience with blocking traffic from a specific country and how it might impact their Google Ads account? Would love to hear some insights or suggestions on how to protect my website content without negatively impacting my advertising efforts. Thanks in advance for your help!

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boiler said:

nope, google will not block or suspend your account for blocking specific ips and there is no such rule in google ads policies

so as long your campaign not against google ads policies then it safe

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mikebro68 said:

Thank you so much for your response Boiler. I really appreciate it as I didn't find a conclusive answer to this.

I'll be using an app that offers protection against VPN sessions too... Is using that safe also? I ask because I know that Google send bots to your site sometimes and I'm not sure from where these bots can come from or if they are recognized as VPN connections.

I know it may sound stupid, but trust me, I've gone through hell when it comes to suspensions on Google to the point that now I'm scared of doing anything or taking any step withouy asking first a thousand of questions... Very traumatic!

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