I don't think you are exposed to the reality of the problem. I'll describe one incident I witnessed for you to get an idea.
We were working on a client's medical information site. A reputable MD. He happened to own about 250 domains parked at GoDaddy. We were going to use AdSense on his one site once it was up. He went ahead and setup an account with Google to use both AdSense and AdWords. During this process he saw that Google offered a product called "AdSense for Domains". The premise being that you park your Domains with Google and they auto-magically place ads on them.
The domains were already parked with GoDaddy's "Cash Parking" service for over a year. It didn't take long for him to realize that this was an intermediates version of Google's AdSense for Domains. He decided to cut out the middle man and park the domains directly with Google.
He transferred all the domains. They had to be approved by Google. That happened overnight. All was well. Two days later he gets the dreaded notice and his entire account is permanently suspended without recourse, without a way to learn what the problem may have been and without a way to speak to a real person. Horrible. Particularly when you realize that he had already been using this service through GoDaddy as a middle-man.
That is the kind of thing a shit company who cares not for their customers would do, not a company who clims to live by this "Do no evil" ethos.
Based on that experience I can't see ever trusting them with anything at all. Great search. Absolute lack of respect and consideration for their customers, which is an absolutely shitty way to behave in my book.
My standing recommendation is to not use Google for anything other than search.
If the person was buying Adwords ads and then using them to direct customers to parked domains, then I think I have an inkling as to why their account was terminated, considering I am the person who implemented that policy.
No such thing. The events were exactly as I described them. No ad clicking. No vectoring through AdWords. Nothing other than a transfer of the domains from GoDaddy intermediated parking to Google's "AdSense for Domains" and in three days the account was closed.
Because there's zero feedback all we could figure out is that some of the domain names (he had a couple that were politically charged) may have hit a filter. What's weird is that they went through their approval process, started showing ads for a day and then the account was closed.
This is one account. Search for "Google closed my account" to read more horror stories, all with different threads. Their process and approach is absolute crap. Not to be trusted with anything.
If they weren't buying Adwords ads, then they weren't paying Google anything, and thus, it's absurd of you to demand that someone providing you with a free service would also guarantee customer service.
We were working on a client's medical information site. A reputable MD. He happened to own about 250 domains parked at GoDaddy. We were going to use AdSense on his one site once it was up. He went ahead and setup an account with Google to use both AdSense and AdWords. During this process he saw that Google offered a product called "AdSense for Domains". The premise being that you park your Domains with Google and they auto-magically place ads on them.
The domains were already parked with GoDaddy's "Cash Parking" service for over a year. It didn't take long for him to realize that this was an intermediates version of Google's AdSense for Domains. He decided to cut out the middle man and park the domains directly with Google.
He transferred all the domains. They had to be approved by Google. That happened overnight. All was well. Two days later he gets the dreaded notice and his entire account is permanently suspended without recourse, without a way to learn what the problem may have been and without a way to speak to a real person. Horrible. Particularly when you realize that he had already been using this service through GoDaddy as a middle-man.
That is the kind of thing a shit company who cares not for their customers would do, not a company who clims to live by this "Do no evil" ethos.
Based on that experience I can't see ever trusting them with anything at all. Great search. Absolute lack of respect and consideration for their customers, which is an absolutely shitty way to behave in my book.
My standing recommendation is to not use Google for anything other than search.