"[I]Your Google AdWords account has been permanently suspended because your billing information in this or a related account could not be verified. Learn more"[/I]
"[I]We periodically review accounts for security purposes and to verify billing information. As a result of this review, your account and any related accounts have been suspended, and your ads are no longer running on Google. If you believe your account was suspended in error, please contact us through the AdWords Help Center.[/I]"
I was just thinking of one reason why Google hasn't patched this up as tight as it could... that maybe it's letting us test some of these pages for free... cause I know myself that if I worked out a way to pay for it and it was still lucrative, I'd just do it that way.
As an example: Ok, I have a site that I'm setting up - with 2 CPA products - one is a CB product that sells for $29ish... and the other is a natural cure ebook that I have resale rights for - that I'm going to post for just under $25. (I win with either sale of course, I just get paid more for the one I'm selling). Now if I use $300 in coupons and sell $300 of product, I'm going to tweek my landing page, my ads and look over keywords to see if some just aren't worth the price. Now let's say I then get $500 of sales with $300 worth of coupons... cool... now let's tweak some more... Now I get $700 sales with $300 coupons... ya know something... at that point, I'll drop the coupons and go legit (and continue tweaking for even more profit).
Maybe big G realizes that if they give us (or at least some of us) the ability to tweak our process with these coupons that we'll go legit and then we all win...
Just my thoughts... may have nothing to do with fact at all... lol
Actually this isn't the reason why they allow it. Google make $30 Billion US Dollars a year from Adwords and other their other advertising platforms.
The reason they don't bother with tightening this is up is because the amount they probably lose from people misusing these Adwords Vouchers is insignificant compared to how much they make from them.
In essence, the voucher give away is a means of acquiring clients. It is one of the most efficient methods for them to acquire clients, and not everyone is trying to abuse them, which in essence, is what is being done here.
On a side note, how would one go about setting up several adwords accounts whilst remaining under the radar and not getting banned like some of the other people here - I'm not as proficient as I'd like to be with the nooks and crannies of this method so any help would be appreciated.
Essentially I am asking for information on how to create accounts without the need for phone verification and also being able to register as being in the US as opposed to the UK as these vouchers do not work for the UK.
The absolute easiest way is to search for Adwords on Fiverr and buy from one of the sellers that's selling the accounts already loaded. You can buy 6x$75 vouchers and set the account up yourself, or you can buy 1x$100 or 2x$75 accounts pre-loaded at the ones I looked at quickly. With the pre-loaded ones, you just have to setup the ads and let them go...
For the people that got banned, can you help shed some light, because I have never seen those errors. Did you 100% use a proxy in which you knew the area of the proxy and correlated an address in close proximity? I always make up an address and never use a known restaurant for fear of google maps. Just trying to help others figure out where you may have went wrong. Thanks.
First of all expertSEO much thanks for sharing the info, I'm sure it works and can work for me but I'm not understanding what's going wrong.
I have tried 2 accounts and both times they got banned. I am using hidemyass for proxy and I make sure to know the location of the proxy as well. Then for the infomation I go to yellowpages and find a real personal listing with address phone number and name, and also make sure that my email address is the same as that name.
I then went in put in the voucher. From here I tried two variations.
1) Manual payments plus voucher. I couldn't put the ad live because it said I had to first enter billing information. Then within a couple of hours without any billing info I got banned because they couldn't verify.
2) Automatic payments with voucher and billing info (some guy on Fiverr was selling voucher with cc info's for adwords), I put these in but again my account was under review and then eventually got banned.
Not sure what I am doing wrong. My site looks great, I have all the necessary TOS, Privacy and other pages. Plus I have put in about 10 posts. I am using a PHP redirect on my ad so the ad looks like an internal link. So I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the site.
But for some reason my account keeps getting reviewed and banned.
Let me know your thoughts.
First off, I would never trust a guy giving out cc info with adwords accounts. This sounds like straight FRAUD to me. They could be a real person so that's a NO NO in my book. Now to address the time you put in voucher and they said you couldn't run the ad live because first you had to enter billing information. This is all strange for me, because I never get this. I enter in fake information, select manual payments, and enter promotional code, then I create my ad. It goes under review. 3 days later it is running. I'll tell you what. If you are still able to log into banned account, go inside of it, and delete your current campaign. I am going to send you details to an account I set up personally. All you will need to do is login and set up your ads.
Then we can see transparently what is going wrong. If you want to do this let me know.
So with all the talk about accounts getting banned as far as billing info goes what is the best practice here since I need to finish my account setup with the billing info?
So if I'm not using a proxy and let's say for example I'm located in Miami (and my internet IP is Miami) and if selected Eastern Time zone/USA how should I fill in my billing info so that everything goes smoothly?
Do I use a made up address that does not exists, but still use city as Miami, state FL, a real zip code in Miami, and real Miami area code, but fake phone#? Or should I actually look for a real address that exists in Miami (residential or business) and also use Miami, FL, Miami zip code, Miami area code+fake phone#?
Those that were able to successfully get this done please give your feedback.
Jane Doe
1927 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132
305-387-55XX
Fill in XX's with real numbers change name of Jane Doe. Let it fly. That's what I would do if I lived in Miami.