Comments on: How Google Killed My Online Business Overnight (And How They Couldn’t Care Less)

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:19:53 +0000

You have my full sympathy. Google also pulled my Blogger account. For no reason. On the Google customer service forum someone from Google revealed that in order for Google to wrongly close your blog for being a spam blog would be to publish content on the Internet. Sounds weird, but that is the official line from Google, so the Google algorithm must be severely broken. If the same people are responsible for the software that monitors Adword accounts, I think I can see what went wrong for you. Unless, of course, a rival spiked your business? Stranger things have happened.

Also on several pages of requests on the Google “Something is broken” forum, for a review of wrongly closed blogger.com accounts, every single one was flagged up with: “Your blog has been confirmed as a spam blog.”

What? every single one? None of them found not to be a spam blog? That’s utterly absurd and is a logical impossibility.

From your experience and mine and of many others there is something very seriously wrong with Google.

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By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:03:56 +0000

@calvin No don’t worry, you won’t get banned by posting here. Besides, I got some good news from Google Adwords today saying they reinstated my account. I will write a blog post soon about it.
Sebastien

By: Calvin Bacon

Calvin Bacon — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:32:05 +0000

Sebastien,

I have never made a business out of my web pages, however, I like for people to visit my site. This week, I checked my web site page rank. It is now zero. I do not know why. Now I can’t count on any search traffic from them. Interestingly, the other major search engines are still giving me search results.

What seems to me to be the most unfair part of this is that I don’t know what went wrong, and I don’t know how to remedy the situation. I think the Internet space is about numbers and one web site does not appear to matter to big companies.

Best of luck.

PS: I am going to be banned by posting on your site?

By: Brad isaac

Brad isaac — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:04:50 +0000

I think this is probably due to Google tossing out most affiliate ads recently. That’s assuming you were doing affiliate stuff.

By: Jed

Jed — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:50:42 +0000

Man,
Seem to be hearing that a lot from people. Especially since they moved their GAN requirements to combine with adsense. Unfortunately they are the big boy in the game and are in the control seat. Rooting for ya and hope you are able to get something worked out.

By: Joy Martin

Joy Martin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:35:38 +0000

i am pretty sure that Online Business would be the next trend. With growing number of internet users, setting up an Online Business could give us more extra income.

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:25:21 +0000

Thank you all for your comments.

@Delphine Sorry but I’d rather not share those. They are in niche markets and I don’t want more competition.

@Allen you know it! ;)

@Jacob Thanks for the support!

Sebastien

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:43:08 +0000

I feel sorry for you sebastien. However, I feel good that I decided not to bother to follow up with google few months ago when they closed my google adsense account with no warnings. I had more than 500$ in my account from 3 different websites and gogle all of a sudden decided o close my account. I didn’t want more frustruation so I didn’t bother to contact them.

Hope some one will help you to get over the situation. Good luck