How to deal with aggressive counterfeit designer goods policy

[Peter Bowen]

My client sells legal services - not knock-off handbags but, uploading 
adverts via the API has proved troublesome.  Here's a snippet of the first 
request that failed.

<SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <ns1:mutate>
      <ns1:operations>
        <ns1:operator>ADD</ns1:operator>
        <ns1:operand>
          <ns1:adGroupId>2295083885</ns1:adGroupId>
          <ns1:ad 
xmlns:ns1="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201101"; 
xsi:type="ns1:TextAd">
            
<ns1:url>http://www.divorce-sa.co.za/divorce-advice.php?ad=2011092725f8bc0311d3ffee78269318c3714708</ns1:url>
            
<ns1:displayUrl>divorce-sa.co.za/Advice-On-Divorce</ns1:displayUrl>
            <ns1:headline>Want Advice On Divorce?</ns1:headline>
            <ns1:description1>Get Advice on Divorce From 
Our</ns1:description1>
            <ns1:description2>Nationwide Specialists.</ns1:description2>
          </ns1:ad>
        </ns1:operand>
      </ns1:operations>
    </ns1:mutate>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>

and the response

    <soap:Fault>
      <faultcode>soap:Server</faultcode>
      <faultstring>[PolicyViolationError.POLICY_ERROR @ 
operations[0].operand.ad.displayUrl]</faultstring>
      <detail>
        <ApiExceptionFault 
xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201101";>
          <message>[PolicyViolationError.POLICY_ERROR @ 
operations[0].operand.ad.displayUrl]</message>
          
<ApplicationException.Type>ApiException</ApplicationException.Type>
          <errors xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xsi:type="PolicyViolationError">
            <fieldPath>operations[0].operand.ad.displayUrl</fieldPath>
            <trigger/>
            <errorString>PolicyViolationError.POLICY_ERROR</errorString>
            <ApiError.Type>PolicyViolationError</ApiError.Type>
            <key>
              <policyName>counterfeit_designer_goods</policyName>
              <violatingText>sa</violatingText>
            </key>
            <externalPolicyName>Counterfeit Goods</externalPolicyName>
            <externalPolicyUrl/>
            <externalPolicyDescription>Google does not permit the 
advertisement of websites selling counterfeit goods. Please see our full 
policy at:

http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guidelines.cs&amp;topic=9271&amp;subtopic=9279&amp;answer=47215</externalPolicyDescription>
            <isExemptable>true</isExemptable>
            <violatingParts>
              <index>8</index>
              <length>3</length>
            </violatingParts>
          </errors>
        </ApiExceptionFault>
      </detail>
    </soap:Fault>

All subsequent adverts were rejected with the same notice.

A human review would sort this out.  Is there any way of requesting this 
from the API?

Thanks

Pete

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