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The Death of "Zero-Spend" Farming: Why an Account Without Spend is Now a Red Flag for Google

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In affiliate circles and private chats, the myth of "high-quality Google Ads warm-up without spending" remains surprisingly persistent. Old-school affiliates and farmers continue to teach newcomers schemes that involve weeks of imitating activity:
  • Linking a new phone number;
  • Watching dozens or hundreds of YouTube videos whose themes directly or indirectly match the target vertical;
  • Scrolling search results, registering on third-party sites via OAuth;
  • Exchanging emails between accounts in Gmail, etc.
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The logic—to show the system that a real, average user, not a bot, is behind the account—seems ironclad. But the harsh reality of 2025 is that this approach is not only gradually losing effectiveness but is actually becoming toxic. An account with a perfect "human" history but no real spend now looks like a potential threat to the Google Ads algorithms.

Has Google stopped believing in the imitation of social activity? Below, we explain why the YeezyPay team, a service for leasing trusted agency Google Ads accounts, is convinced that the foundation of trust in Google Ads today rests exclusively on financial history.

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