You are definitely right in that they have a tremendous amount of power at there finger tips when it comes to smaller companies.

Okay, we have determined that the letter to Google is out. The step I would take for you is 3 fold:

1. Contact an SEO company which also offers PPC advertising campainge management. Explain the situation and see if they can get you back on under their supervision.

2. Even though you are ranking high in the organic listings are you ranking high for the SAME keywords as you were purchasing with Adwords. If not, maybe you can optimize for those keyword terms.

3. Try opening up a sister site strictly for Google Adwords traffic. You can keep the same site but just change the name, logo, look, phone numbers, etc. Then open a new account with Google Adwords and advertise for that site. You don't have to get rid of the factory supply site, but at least then you can still get Adwords traffic. It's not like you will have to wait to get ranked with adwords as your paying for placement anyways. Make sure you don't use ANY of the same information though including credit cards and such.

Those are the only 3 options I can think of... Anyone else?

you can always use kanoodle or yahoo advertising progs

kanoodle looks interesting.. I contacted them asking about getting us back on Google.

Hopefully they can get you back in. It sounds like this problem really was inherited from previous management and that there would be no harm letting you bak in.

One thing to remember though is that being part of the program isn't our right. It's a priviledge and Google gets to decide who's in and who's out. Maybe not fair all the time, but it is their program to do with as they see fit.

Another letter doesn't seem like it will do any good. Hopefully another business will be able to send ads to your site again. Outside of that it's probably just best to look for other ways to spend that marketing money.

I think if this were to happen a year and a half ago, it probably wouldn't have been a big deal to Google. But right now all the PPC search engines are in high smoke over click fraud - It's ALL over the news. You have to give Google some credit for figuring it out, and doing something about it. I think a better punishment would be to pay a fine, 6 month suspension + pay the competitor(s) their click fees back.

it is a shame that you were banned from Google AdWords, I personally think it is alright, not that great.

But you should know that Google doesn't monitor your Credit Cards, so if you want to create a small account with the same info, they wouldn't notice.

But if you're a big player, they would probably notice you and you would get banned again , so the safe bet is to get your employer to open one up.

Google shouldn't have a problem with the domain name, because they banned YOU, not your employer and people should be free to advertise to any domain they want...It's worth a try!

I have to say: good luck and be careful next time