Website Security and Google Ads Policy Guides
Ads stop, a browser shows a warning, or a blacklist picks up your domain — and the first hour goes into working out which problem you actually have. These guides cover the policies Google publishes, in the order the work has to happen.
How to fix a Google Ads "compromised site" disapproval
Your ads stopped because Google found hacked code on the landing page. Scan the site free, find the injected scripts, clean them, then appeal in Policy Manager.
11 min readRead guideGoogle Ads disapproved for malicious or unwanted software
Malicious software and unwanted software are two different Google Ads policies, and the fix differs. Check which one you hit, clean the destination, then resubmit.
9 min readRead guideIs my site compromised?
Seven blacklists, injected scripts, hidden iframes, and CMS version in one scan. Find out whether your site is actually hacked before you start changing anything.
7 min readRead guideAppealing a compromised-site disapproval in Google Ads
An appeal filed before the site is clean gets rejected. Here is the order Google expects: clean, verify in Search Console, wait for the recrawl, then appeal.
8 min readRead guide
Before you change anything, find out what Google is seeing
Most of the time spent on this problem goes into guessing which file is infected. A scan of the exact landing URL in your ad answers that in under a minute, with no account and no card.
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- Google Safe Browsing plus six other blacklists
- Injected scripts and hidden iframes on the page
- Third-party scripts loaded from domains you did not add
- CMS, theme, and plugin versions the page exposes