After spending $140,000. Google BANNED me.

Cloutsy

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Hello World,

This is going to be the introduction to my story and how I ended up here. Also, if you have any questions about my strategy and what I used, etc. Ask away.


The Journey had Started:

Being 24, I knew what I wanted in life. I always knew that I could be successful, and I knew that there were so many opportunities in this world. A couple of things I jumped right off on was drop-shipping and small warehouse production and manufacturing. I could only work for myself.

I started my own drop shipping company. I spend a lot of money on ads and I had no clue what I was doing. I maxed out all my credit cards and sold my car to continue to invest in ads. I was hooked. I loved spending money and generating awareness and/or conversions and figuring out what numbers manipulated the impressions actions.

I soon came to the conclusion that drop shipping depends on a few things:

- Shipping Time (Terrible wait time. Over 3+ weeks average)
- Quality of Product
- Website Layout
- Ease of Checkout
- Follow-up Sales

There are other things. But this were the main ones that I needed to focus on. After about 8 weeks, I decided I needed to sell the company and start with something that did not require an inventory. That's when I found out about selling followers, likes, views, etc.

Big Bucks started rolling in:

I started using what I learned in the past, but this time, I was not on Facebook ads... I was on Google Adwords. The results were amazing, so much better quality, and I was averaging over $1000/day in sales. (See Attached Image).

I was getting noticed by big Public Figures and started having small YouTube celebrities using me for their views, followers, etc. This got attention from bigger companies like New York Times and HBO. (Links provided below). At this time, I was roughly at $140,000 spent on Google Adwords for my traffic. I sold followers, likes, views, all from Google and it was amazing results. I built an email list of over 50,000 HQ emails highly directed to businesses, companies, small public figures, etc. But then it happened.

48 HOURS IN

Banned. My Google Ads account was perma banned and I was starting to freak out. I instantly called Google and asked them why my account was banned. I spent $140k with them, and 48 hours after my New York Times Article, my Google account was banned. They said there was nothing they could do. I instantly hard to start learning the true meaning of SEO and email marketing. Facebook ads did not work for my niche. Google was the best one...

The Green Light Ahead:

I continue to slowly get sales every day for that site. But nothing like getting $1000/day in sales. Everything started to smooth out, but now if I ever want to advertise on Google, I can't. No matter what it is, I have created multiple accounts using multiple different names, different payment methods, I even bought 2 different laptops because I did not trust my VPN was working. I failed each time the account would get suspended. Any help with this?

*** Also, if anyone has questions or needs any help, please ask. I am not charging services for anything as thankfully my SEO and email marketing has kicked in, I no longer need to keep my secret since I cannot use Google anymore. If anyone could recommend anything on trying to get me advertising on Google again, that would be great.


Google Ads IMG:

https://imgur.com/a/9nlHN4W


HBO Link:

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mycanal.fr%2Fdivertissement%2Freseaux-sociaux-qui-sont-les-trafiquants-d-influence-bonsoir-du-24-11%2Fp%2F1516373%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3QQ3IafLVtW2ADfVe9atWRqhNwXiAJ1IzehGUtfloD0SqqlxAHsUCJp4M&h=AT3WKjDp-Tp_7g45y4i92wfzCmS9EaM7fmhDM9c6lF5ld1w5OhnlMq1rFRYdENHTg7bRZy8UXV2b6y1QGCjyOjk8ToTC55cjadIFKbfJuoZZ0j_Sc9Kg_eKWPRExip-nq_P1yladEGEP6M_pmHUXNhHwGPs

^^ Be sure to be connected to France IP address to view interview
 
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Nowadays google is treating like a selfish girlfriend...
lol. Did you have something like this happen to you too?
 
Ah yes! But never spent this much :eek:

Best of luck to you!

YouTube is owned by Google. You are selling fake views on YouTube. Why wouldn't they ban you? You're on the edge of illegal/criminal.

On the other hand, congrats on success!

They still approve ads today. People are still able to advertise for selling engagement but specifically myself I cannot. Thanks for congrats, but do you have any recommendations on preventing to get banned so someone else reading this does not experience the same ban as me? It really sucks now, I can't advertise anything anymore... Even if I wanted to go back to drop shipping, nope.
 
That sucks for you but Google has every right to protect its properties from manipulators. Your other ventures are going good thankfully. Good luck to you.
 
we can never trust any google adwords account cause they can ban for any reason even after spending so much gosh
 
You blurted to NYT that you sold fake youtube views marketing with Google AdWords?

It helps with SEO. Also, it creates a brand for your company. I took every offer I could get if that included free traffic. Glad I did too, but bummed out I was breaking the rules the entire time and I did not even know it...

sorry for my bad englis,

but i can help you,

whats you skype

I would rather communicate on this forum please. Send a PM

It's for branding :cool:

Exactly :D

That sucks for you but Google has every right to protect its properties from manipulators. Your other ventures are going good thankfully. Good luck to you.

I understand. But the point is I was never warned... My ads were consistently getting approved and then they started getting disapproved then banned. Not I suffer for life..

we can never trust any google adwords account cause they can ban for any reason even after spending so much gosh

I am surprised they banned me. I spent $140k in 7 months... Sucks for them too I guess!
 
Yeah, they should've warned you about it or at least declined your ads. They left you in the lurch all of a sudden.
 
It helps with SEO. Also, it creates a brand for your company. I took every offer I could get if that included free traffic. Glad I did too, but bummed out I was breaking the rules the entire time and I did not even know it...

How can you not realize that faking youtube views is against their tos, surely you had some accounts getting banned/ghosted/views removed?
The thread title implies that Google is in the wrong, not the case at all lol
 
Yeah, they should've warned you about it or at least declined your ads. They left you in the lurch all of a sudden.

They did not warn me. They declined my ads then account was banned.

How can you not realize that faking youtube views is against their tos, surely you had some accounts getting banned/ghosted/views removed?
The thread title implies that Google is in the wrong, not the case at all lol

When I was selling them, the supplier I was buying them from stated that the views were coming from Google Ads. They stated that the views were not fake... So I cannot justify whether or not that it's accurate, but the % of returning customers was ridiculous so I did not question them. I was succeeding very well.
 
any tips for a newbie in adwords to run sucessful campaigns with decent ROI?
 
thats gotta hurt from the top to the bottom
but your back on the up. but you should have
known never ever tip your hand to google then
say - but but they didnt tell me. should have kept
quiet. still it seems u killed it while it lasted.
 
$800.000 on FB ads.
$140.000 on Adsense

Dude, you're the real thing man!

How did you know about the $800k on FB? :p Facebook was good, then they updated the way the impression views the ad back in July 2017 and it has never been as effective. Also, they update the impressions on the news feed. After being on both platforms, I have found out that it just depends on the niche in order to make an accurate assumption of which platform is best.

any tips for a newbie in adwords to run sucessful campaigns with decent ROI?

Yes. Do not pay others to do it. Don't buy courses. Don't pay anyone besides Google to learn it yourself. That is the best tip I can say. Look the numbers, and make adjustments. Also, patience... You won't get rich overnight so get it out of your head if it's there. What niche are you talking about?

thats gotta hurt from the top to the bottom
but your back on the up. but you should have
known never ever tip your hand to google then
say - but but they didnt tell me. should have kept
quiet. still it seems u killed it while it lasted.

You are a bit right, but if I stayed quite, I would not of been able to tell my family that I was in the newspaper and TV =)
 
Yes. Do not pay others to do it. Don't buy courses. Don't pay anyone besides Google to learn it yourself. That is the best tip I can say. Look the numbers, and make adjustments. Also, patience... You won't get rich overnight so get it out of your head if it's there. What niche are you talking about?

Hmmm Makes sense,
I moved from minions merch to shirt merch
 
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