Things You Can’t Advertise On Google: Guns, Booze & Now Essay Writing

Google bans essay writing adverts from the BBC reports that next month Google will no longer accept ads for essay writing services. This ban on essay writing ads comes after many complaints over the integrity of university degrees. The BBC reports that universities “warmly welcomed” this ban. A spokesperson from Universities UK said up to […]

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Google bans essay writing adverts from the BBC reports that next month Google will no longer accept ads for essay writing services. This ban on essay writing ads comes after many complaints over the integrity of university degrees. The BBC reports that universities “warmly welcomed” this ban.

A spokesperson from Universities UK said up to 12,000 essays have been sold to students in a year. Google said the ban would be applied across the Google network, which implies the UK and US, plus the content and search networks. Of course, this may upset many essay writing service companies. Just check out the number of ads on Google for essay writing.


Google bans more than essay writing ads. Google’s content policy lists things like alcohol ads and gun ads that are not allowed. FYI, I do not currently see any mention of this new ban yet, but it may be added next month.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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