Help HN: Adwords Accounts Closed by Google
Hey HN. Posting this here in the hope that someone who can help sees this.

This is a pretty long post detailing my experience, but TL;DR is I have 2 adwords accounts closed for 2 businesses. One that was dormant for 5-7 years (with ZERO use since then) and another one I opened for another of my companies (linked to my Youtube channel). I cannot appeal as I get a canned response back "can't take any further actions" due to me apparently entering in details incorrectly.

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In the first quarter of 2023 my Youtube channel began to approach the minimums for monetization after a few live streams.

I logged into my adwords account #1 and saw my details were slightly dated, I updated the banking details and company address as we had recently moved to a busines center and we prefer a different bank to the one originally used. The adwords account is maybe 15+ years old and HAS NOT been used in at least 7 years or so.I was prompted regarding reactivating the account if I recall correctly. It passed pending and the account was operational again. I was planning to use this Adwords account for a networking web-based utility I wrote.

A few days later I did one or two (maybe more) live Youtube streams and linked them in my socials, got quite a few subscribers!!!, and hit the minimums for monetization. At this time no Adwords account was linked to my Youtube channel.

I was pretty excited, I had a few Youtube videos lined up that covered some topic people were hounding me on. Yea! Lets go!

I followed the Youtube monetization set up a day or two later and set up an Adwords account #2 for my company that pays for all my streaming and camera gear.

I posted a Youtube video regarding Raspberry PI's and emulating the RPI3B+ under Qemu. I linked the video on Linkedin, Discord and Twitter.

1-2 hours later I got a notification my Adwords account #2 was closed for "Invalid Click Activity". Account was maybe 2-3 days old max. An extract from the mail reads ... "In your case, we have detected invalid traffic or activity on your account".

I was pretty devastated and depressed at this point and just went home from work.

The next day apon waking up I got an email from Adwords stating that my adwords account #1 was closed for invalid click activity? how? Its not even in use? The only thing that they share is the business address.

I read the mails and completed the appeal form for account #2. I immediately got back a canned response which includes "... we can't take any further action due to one or more of the reasons below ...". The reasons listed are basically blaming me for entering incorrect details. I submitted it again, got the same reply.

I then tried the appeal an account closed for policy reasons. I got a similar canned reply.

I then tried to appeal account #1 ... same reply.

I've contacted Youtube Partner support who just keep telling me to re-submit the appeal and they will reply. No reply in 9 months. I tried the form again and got the same canned reply.

In any case, I've been very demotivated for the past 9 months about this. Despite the revenue being only $0.01, getting enough motivation to try post a decent video and not just a Twitch stream recording took quite a bit (I have a speech disability, I find live streaming kind of easy, but actually making a video takes me quite some time as I hate how I sound), then to have my channel literally immediately demonetized without the ability to appeal just feels like the world against me. :(

In any case my colleague suggested I post here and maybe someone can help me with a contact at Adwords to investigate whats up and get my account out of closed status.