I was trying to make money by promoting clickbank affiliate links to Adwords. I have a landing page and that the destination url matched the display url. And still, Google Adwords banned me. Very weird. I guess Adwords doesn’t want me or anyone to make any money at all.
Anyway, why do Adwords ban people who do clickbank like me? IS it because Clickbank is a scam or what?
Many say that Google simply hates affiliate marketers. It seems that they target certain products that have a high level of fraud or customer dissatisfaction.
A lot of big time marketers stopped using Adwords after the great purge of late 2009? when thousands of affiliate Adwords accounts were permanently banned, including many marketers spending thousands a week on advertising. Word from some Google insider said the process was mainly based on the products being promoted, particular credit card billing products like Akai Berry, zit cream, etc. that all seemed to re-bill at around $80 a month.
Clickbank in general may be targeted because of the large percentage of crap titles people end up getting refunds from, some who stopped using Adwords still use Yahoo/Bing PPC.