[Allan Simmons]

Just had a long review call with our Google Ad contact at Google and thought I'd just update a few bits here that you guys might also want to check...

My main issue with him was Google Places vanished for one of our sites.
If you've done everything as described on the previous thread to try and resurrect it then it really is a sit and wait, though your Ad words contact may be able to push it along (as others have already said)  as they will apply pressure that you can't link correctly from your PAID ads to that address while it's suspended. BUT here's a funny thing we discovered.  If you look in the Ad Editing section of your Google Ad campaign, make sure the  Address shown with ad: is selected and click the Change selection button below the address, then RESELECT your address.  The reason is, when the Google places was suspended it may have affected this setting and doing this refreshes the advert content to the current address that is in the system again.  We then went through ALL the ads for ALL campaigns and reset them too.  It appears "they've done something possibly linked to Google places" which may be affecting the addresses associated with ads, so reset all your addresses.

I can't promise it's an instant fix but it may help you too.

Al.

[feldon]

Interesting Alan as my google places listing disappeared week before Christmas, just checked my links on Adwords and they are still working however.

I have had several replies to my requests to activate my google places ad and they have told me that they are working on it but can give no timeline.

When I asked why no one else had been affected and all the other carpet cleaners in my area were showing their address i was told that i should report them for infringement of rules too, the cheek of it

[JandS]

What rules?
The options are there to be used so if there
are rules why not tell people?

[feldon]

What rules?
The options are there to be used so if there
are rules why not tell people?

You try and tell that to Google Jason, I think they are doing it on purpose to force businesses to pay for adwords or similar, i expect google places will be gone within the next couple of years, impossible to argue with google they make it very difficult if at all to contact and no telephone numbers at all for google places.  I tried to talk to my adwords contact but he didn't want to know and told me he couldn't help.