If you use Google Ad Grants -- or manage accounts for nonprofits that do -- you should read this.Over the past year, we have been documenting troubling, and in my opinion predatory, behavior from Google toward its Google Ad Grants recipients. Google has been restricting delivery from certain accounts without showing an error message, providing an email notification, in-product alert, or any kind of explanation whatsoever. For nonprofits without much in experience managing Ad Grants accounts, this "shadow-ban" is completely invisible. They don't even know it's happening.Their ads simply stop performing -- or never even start -- and thus they conclude they must be doing something wrong, and quietly give up on a grant they are fully entitled … [Read more...]