How I got my Google AdWords account (un)suspended

Re:How I got my Google AdWords account (un)suspended by kevingadd on Sunday February 09, 2014 @10:36PM (#7208961)

That's right, folks: in the policy it states that the page cannot have the "primary purpose" of collecting information, but the way that's judged is whether or not you can get to all areas of the site without putting in an email address or filling out any other personal information. Even though there were no other areas of the site (because it was just a single page with a form on it that had a single field), the email address was a required field and this was enough to violate the policy.

That's some top-quality thinking and engineering from the people responsible for Google's AdWords policy enforcement.

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Re:How I got my Google AdWords account (un)suspended by AndrewWarner on Sunday February 09, 2014 @10:51PM (#7209002)

How about this little solution: "The way I fixed my "Information Harvesting" policy violation was to make it so that the form on my lead capture page could be submitted without filling it in."

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Re:How I got my Google AdWords account (un)suspended by dools on Sunday February 09, 2014 @11:18PM (#7209091)

Yep, pretty ridiculous. I wouldn't believe it if you told me, but it worked (and has worked, since). Who knows, maybe that'll change in future!

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Re:How I got my Google AdWords account (un)suspended by x0x0 on Monday February 10, 2014 @12:25AM (#7209304)

yeah

nonsense like this makes me think google is begging for either a competitor or regulation

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