> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://pixelsnprofits.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # [Journey] How Repeat Violations Took My Amazon Account Down - URL: https://pixelsnprofits.com/amazon-repeat-violations-suspected-intellectual-property/ - Published: 2026-10-11T10:54:22.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-11T12:21:44.000Z - Author: Nick T - Tags: Print On Demand After scaling the three side bets back, all of my energy went into Amazon FBM. The workflow was running, and now it was the only thing running. That's when it started to improve properly. I kept testing new things and upgrading the pieces one by one, and nothing got upgraded more than the SEO bot: AI writing the titles and the generic backend keywords. Each version was better than the last. The newer listings were outperforming the older ones on impressions, on relevance, on clicks, on conversions. So I had a catalog where the newest listings were the best ones, and tens of thousands of older ones still running on the old SEO. If you've ever looked at your own catalog and thought the same thing, you already know what I did next. --- ## I pushed the new SEO to every listing at once I went back and updated the SEO on all of my products. Around 70,000 were live at the time. That was one of my biggest mistakes. Not the upgrade. The update. A few weeks in, the notices started: suspected intellectual property violations. --- ## What a suspected intellectual property violation actually is As far as I could tell, Amazon's system flags a listing for possible trademark misuse on its own, no complaint from anyone. There's no appeal for it. Best case, you edit the listing or delete it. The different kinds of violation, and what each one lets you do, are written up [here](https://pixelsnprofits.com/amazon-listing-removed-trademark-infringement/). A lot of the flags were wrong. I had no real trademarks in my listings. One of the words that got hit was coach. I'd used it the way anyone would, sports coach, basketball coach. It's also a brand. I always tried to stay compliant, so I kept editing and deleting as the flags came in. --- ## What I didn't know: Amazon was counting Every one of those flags was being tracked as a repeat violation. Enough of them inside a 180-day window and the account goes. I didn't notice until it was too late. **Enough violations inside 180 days, and it's no longer a listing problem. It's an account problem.** The cause was simple. I'd updated every listing at the same time without checking the trademarks on each one, so whatever the bot flagged, it flagged across the whole catalog at once. ⚠️ **Before any bulk edit.** Run the trademark check on every listing first, not after. One unchecked word pushed to the whole catalog is how this happened. --- ## Etsy went the same month Around the same time, Etsy closed my shop too. That one was stranger. Etsy doesn't tell you why. A lot of shops get suspended for different reasons, and I dug for a long time and never found mine. So every problem landed at once. One of my worst months. Every store I had, gone at the same time. --- ## Where that left me Both accounts gone, the whole catalog with them, and no clear path back. Everything I'd read said an account doesn't usually come back from that point. I got both back anyway. It took months, and that's a story of its own. **Nothing is final.** But the cheaper version of this lesson is never needing it. Check the words before the edit, not after, and read the rules you agreed to. Everything in this stretch of the journey I'm still writing as it goes, the mistakes included, and it [comes by email](https://pixelsnprofits.com/#/portal/signup) if you'd rather not keep checking back. Still here, Nick T