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Client disabled - I have never heard of this reason

endomorph1

7:20 pm on Jan 6, 2009 (gmt 0)

Just had an email from one of my clients. He has received an email from G today stating that his account has been disabled because -

<snip>site is financially harmful to advertisers</snip>

Has anyone else had this ?

He had two websites showing the adverts, both genuine holiday property sales / rental sites.

Could it be that one/some of the advertisers have the same kind of business model and consider him a risk ?

[edited by: martinibuster at 7:29 pm (utc) on Jan. 6, 2009]
[edit reason] Removed email quote. Paraphrased. See TOS for more info. [/edit]

koan

7:57 pm on Jan 6, 2009 (gmt 0)

Seems to me it is just a broader rewording of the famous "invalid clicks" reason where they probably received too many questions about what it really meant. In another words, the clicks are of poor quality (do not convert) and are considered "harmful".

farmboy

8:38 pm on Jan 6, 2009 (gmt 0)

...both genuine holiday property sales / rental sites...

The above could mean a lot of different things. Can you be more specific?

FarmBoy

netmeg

9:25 pm on Jan 6, 2009 (gmt 0)

I've seen those emails be applied to sites that Google feels may attract click fraud, or are very very very thin content-wise (such as thin affiliates or sites with significant duplicate content) That is NOT saying your site necessarily has these issues, but that's what I've seen. There may be other reasons as well.