Google Cracks Down on AdWords Schemes by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book, July 25, 2009 It seems as though Google has finally tired of the Google Money Tree offer and other AdWords get-rich-quick schemes and they are now telling many of the relevant advertisers that their ads will no longer be accepted. The precise language that Google is using describes the banned ads as those that “promote a misrepresented affiliation with Google” and we assume it includes some of the deliberately misspelled ads we’ve seen that use terms such as Goolge, Goggle and Googlle Be aware that Google is in some cases not just pulling the ads but is actually suspending advertiser accounts on a permanent basis so if you have been promoting these high-paying offers you’ll need to move fast to avoid problems. There is a bigger picture here, which is that Google itself has been making good money off these ads for some time now, and if it were the subject of its own search algorithm, would probably have been punished in the SERPs for linking to scam sites a long time ago. Finally, if by chance you have been using AdWords to promote your nice new startup company called Goolge, Inc., you’re really screwed. Filed under: Revenue About the Author Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book Chris Trayhorn is the Chairman of the Performance Marketing Industry Blue Ribbon Panel and the CEO of mThink.com, a leading online and content marketing agency. He has founded four successful marketing companies in London and San Francisco in the last 15 years, and is currently the founder and publisher of Revenue+Performance magazine, the magazine of the performance marketing industry since 2002.