Issues with Google

[cheesemouse]

Apparently I have a landing page not working and have received an account warning.

After contacting Google, I have been instructed by Google to remove ALL country codes blocks as my site MUST be accessible to ALL countries even if I only ship to the UK and Europe. If I do not do this they will suspend both my entire ads account and my merchant account.

Apparently there is no reason to block spammers as there are no such issues.

[Dave]

Not something I've experienced, I've blocked countries we didn't ship to previously without any issues. Google wouldn't like it if you blocked countries you are targeting in your Ad campaigns. Also if you blocked countries where Google's Data Centres are located such as USA, India etc would also not be wise, even if you don't ship there, because their ranking spiders wouldn't be able to trawl your site and rank your site in the search results.

[cheesemouse]

I'd only blocked Russia, China and India. I only have ads in the UK.
All are unblocked now and will wait and see what Google say.

[cheesemouse]

Frankly, Google have been less than helpful in trying to resolve the issue. I can find no issues at all (either on my site or in my feed) yet Google says the issue is still there. Blocking via country codes was not cause, but they are refusing to say exactly what the issue is (other than the destination URL is not working). I have been going round and round in circles with Google reps who don't seem to understand what the issue is.