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I have said my piece.
If I was running a business on google ads, then I would reach out to my friends and family & would rather pay them 20 USD daily for their account.
They would be happy to help expand my business and in return earn some passive income too.
Or I would set up an LLC(new business) in a different state under my name & ownership. And probably it won't even break google's terms since it's a new business(still DYOR). There are many ways to do this.
Personally, I would never create multiple accounts. Since one account on all platforms has always been enough for me.
I can raise CPC, to get a better placement or offer better service. Or branch to some other platform to advertise my product.
But when a new account comes offering 20 USD via cryptocurrency to use their google account for running an ad, it sure as hell doesn't look good given how many scams run on google ads.
So we aren't just advertising on Bitcointalk. We've got plenty of campaigns that need to be setup, that's why we're branching outside of the agency.
Again if we were to setup a new LLC and everything that's required to run ads, that still doesn't guarantee that Google won't see whats happening. Once they ban one campaign, they don't want you creating others for the same business, website, keywords etc.
If you have a profitable product on a specific vertical and you want to scale it, why not try running ads with your friends or family like you said? Most of these profitable niches come with seasonality so don't you wanna squeeze every bit of profit from them before that trend slows down? It sounds like you tried to do exactly what we're doing but weren't successful....
To start, as mentioned in the thread, these aren't really blackhat ads. We are using blackhat techniques to run multiple ads but the campaigns themselves are selling merchandise for a popular crypto platform. (All designs are done in house and no trademark/copyright is being infringed on)
Double serving on Google will not land you in legal trouble... Even if we were running ads infringing on trademark/copyright, Google would ban the account and that would be that.
banning from Google AdWords services is a sufficient reason to distance yourself from this offer. It's not worth $20.
maybe you could give a closer example here, which type of ad it is (I doubt that someone will steal such a risky idea from you) and it would remove doubts that there is no legal problem besides everything.
I have said my piece.
If I was running a business on google ads, then I would reach out to my friends and family & would rather pay them 20 USD daily for their account.
They would be happy to help expand my business and in return earn some passive income too.
Or I would set up an LLC in a different state under my name & ownership. There are many ways to do this.
But when a new account comes offering 20 USD via cryptocurrency to use their google account for running an ad, it sure as hell doesn't look good given how many scams run on google ads.
OP, himself wrote that there is a great risk to be sanctioned by Google because the whole business is against their TOS. I'd say he was just extenuating, I would say it is 100% certain that the ban will happen.
Sure, there's no denying there's a risk of the ad account getting suspended. I can't say this is too common the way we do it but there is always the risk. Even if you're running a fully legimitate campaign on Google nowadays, you've still got a high chance of random AI misfire suspension...
Our business or the website being advertised is NOT against Google TOS. However, running multiple ads for one product falls under gaining an "unfair competitive advantage" and this is against Google TOS.
$20/daily for someone who will never use Google Ads is pretty good. Anymore than this and we won't be profitable.