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Re:We Have Been De-googled by Readmore on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @02:49PM (#972733)
I had the same sort of thing happen to my blog. Google refused to show my ads due to 'landing page or ad quality' but I couldn't ever determine what the problem was or get anyone to review the site after that.

If Google has an achilles heel it's definitely lack of customer service.

Re:We Have Been De-googled by rbanffy on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @02:56PM (#972749)
Same with my blog. It appears on search, but one day they decided something fishy was going on with the ads and simply terminated the service. The automated e-mail said I could appeal and the appeal resulted in a "yes, it pretty much was something fishy" automated message. No further information, just silence and a warning that they would ignore messages about this subject from that point on.

AdSense needs competition. Badly.

Re:We Have Been De-googled by jxcole on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @03:40PM (#972877)
I don't know if this helps, but a search for adsense competition (on google no less) brought up the following:

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/208/1/Adsense-Comp...

Which has a list of different things like adsense you could use. Out of curiousity, is there any reason why you can't switch to using these companies for advertisement? I can see how google has a complete monopoly on ad-words, but surely adsense is a free market.

Re:We Have Been De-googled by mcav on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @04:27PM (#973001)
They don't pay nearly as well, from what I've heard.
Re:We Have Been De-googled by meatbag on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @03:56PM (#972921)
Google is not required to provide customer service. If "SEO" is important to you, I recommend rereading Google's terms of service and landing page quality guidelines. Google Webmaster Tools is the best way to get feedback on your particular site, though I don't recommend using it on every site in your network.
Re:We Have Been De-googled by kprobst on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @04:04PM (#972952)
Yeah, I'll just take my business elsewhere... oh wait.
Re:We Have Been De-googled by meatbag on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @04:51PM (#973069)
Since we're focused on Google, logically the best strategic decision is to accept that you can't change the terrain on the battlefield, and adapt your strategy accordingly.
Re:We Have Been De-googled by Semiapies on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @04:58PM (#973083)
Or follow the rules of the agreement in good faith, which appears to be challenge for some folks.