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What is up with this text on your home page, above the fold:

(*subliminal message - it's like a bright sun rising from the east, shining down rays, giving life to websites)

It is almost invisible text, a strong spam indicator for Google's robot. Maybe you were banned for suspicious web design?



It's a joke, and was made after the fact. My attempt at humor. I think you might be the only person that has noticed it.

And it wasn't my website that was banned, but rather the AdWords account was permanently suspended. Google's crawlers/robots have no issue with my website.

> (*subliminal message - it's like a bright sun rising from the east, shining down rays, giving life to websites)

I just noticed one day that the boxshot was the color of the sun (yellow), and is displayed on the right side of the website, which is east, and is the direction where the sun rises each day. I thought it was fitting, considering the sun gives life, and the product does the same for websites.




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