Has anyone actually found out any specific answers? I had an MCC that we managed for others with over 500 accounts in it, all running DTM links via redirects on various client servers. Within about 10 days, Google closed all of them, without so much as a reason, for all of our clients. I called, emailed, did everything, and despite spending well over $1 million with them last year, they just flat out told me that I'll have to figure out where I went wrong on my own, don't bother creating new accounts because they'll be slapped again, and don't contact them any more either. WTF?!?!
I'm just trying to find out is it DTM linking they don't like, or is it multiple accounts in the MCC that have the same or similar ads (ie: same keywords, same display urls, etc.) but for different companies? Within this MCC are about 30 companies and about 30 different websites, each owned different clients of ours. That's my best suspicion now, and I think the best solution is to create 30 new MCCs, one for each company, of course with new credit card name, new cc address, new IP address, each from a window VPS, etc. I'd even go with different destination urls, new keywords, new campaign and adgroup names, etc. But, if all traffic before went from Google to client redirect site, to affiliate network url to merchant url, and if Google was only given the redirect site's url as the destination url, do you think Google tracks the hops that follow it, ie: the affiliate network url to merchant url? I think its possible that maybe they track the ultimate landing page for purposes of matching them up against the ad's display url, and sometimes they see the affiliate ID tag appended to the end of it, like merchantcom/?aid=554466, and then they might be able to say we've seen that landing page before, that was from that other banned guy's account, so therefore this must be the same account, therefore we're going to ban this one too. Or, is it sufficient to simply create new destination urls such that the traffic goes from Google to new destination url to old destination url to affiliate network url to merchant url? I would have thought this would have been sufficient but when I created a new account to test this theory, it ran for a week or so before being slapped down again. It had new billing name, cc, address, ip address, vps, etc. It had all new destination urls too. But, the problem, I think was that the new destination urls merely redirected to the original chain of redirects. So, I am beginning to thing that Google must be tracking the links and AID numbers along the hops to the final landing page url. Does anyone else have any experience with this? I think the only solution, the one I am going to try now, is to just tell my clients create a bunch of new companies and start over from scratch, or else wait 30 or more days to see if the ban on the domain names themselves, the ones that were the destination urls, are lifted. Then create a new account with new ownership, billing info, ip address, vps, etc. I've heard that after 30 days Google gives up the ban on the site itself, for it is possible that the site could have been sold and there are new owners. What do ya'll think?