Whoa this is crazy, I have the same exact story, except I think I know what happened.
Google auto switched my language to Japanese (I happen to live in Tokyo — every other Google property is English, my account is set to English), and the first payment happened with an American credit card. I thought it was weird that it said Yen when I was setting up the account but now I’m convinced that’s what got me banned.
At this point, I just happily fork over money to all the other ads providers and learn how to navigate the market there. There is so much to learn in the space that I am enjoying using various systems and figuring out the core skillset.
Microsoft ads, twitter, reddit ads —- they have their idiosyncrasies and they don’t see the same traffic but it’s fine. Google will just be the only one I do well in with purely good content.
Being able to build businesses and things without Google is a skill I didn’t think I’d be happy I learned but I guess playing the game on hard mode is good for something.
Google auto switched my language to Japanese (I happen to live in Tokyo — every other Google property is English, my account is set to English), and the first payment happened with an American credit card. I thought it was weird that it said Yen when I was setting up the account but now I’m convinced that’s what got me banned.
At this point, I just happily fork over money to all the other ads providers and learn how to navigate the market there. There is so much to learn in the space that I am enjoying using various systems and figuring out the core skillset.
Microsoft ads, twitter, reddit ads —- they have their idiosyncrasies and they don’t see the same traffic but it’s fine. Google will just be the only one I do well in with purely good content.
Being able to build businesses and things without Google is a skill I didn’t think I’d be happy I learned but I guess playing the game on hard mode is good for something.