Today I received a rather cold e-mail from Google Adwords, a reminder of their strict and non-forgiving rules. Of course I feel a bit aggravated; I have after all just been banned for life, by one of the best PPC tools on the Internet.

Google as a company has experienced tremendous growth and success since the beginning, and if you remember the case of Microsoft growing too large, creating a monopoly, that’s exactly where Google is heading now. When you are banned by Adwords, there’s little you can do to get back. Perhaps begging on your knees, hoping they will listen.

I have not used Adwords since many months ago, and what I did back then was advertising a normal affiliate sales page using an Adwords PPC campaign. A while later they updated their rules and became very strict on what they consider appropriate sites, especially when it comes to affiliate landing pages. I had been testing a few campaigns and then stopped all of them, then I got caught up with other things and stopped using Adwords for a while.

Today, I received the e-mail of doom, notifying me that I’ve been banned for life by Google Adwords, their reason being adding inappropriate sites to the PPC campaigns.

This happens every day: people thinking they are following Adwords rules to the point, are still banned, and every time someone are banned from Adwords, it’s for life. Even the church is more understandable with freaks wanting to marry a pig than Google is with their paying advertisers.

Luckily, I only had a small amount of money left in my Adwords account. I was planning on getting back to Adwords, and for that I am most grateful that this happened now rather than later!

As for PPC advertising, I will move on to something else. There are numerous alternative out there, such as: Adbrite, for instance, Bidvertiser and Yahoo! Advertising.