BobbyH

I run Google Ads professionally and this has also happened to me. I was never unable to fix it directly. One time, I had a Wordpress site that Google Ads claimed was a compromised site. I migrated it to a landing page provider (Unbounce), and Google Ads still insisted the site was compromised even though Google's tools said the said was clean.

What I did to fix this was to migrate my landing pages to a new domain. (I believe migrating my landing pages to a different subdomain on the same domain would also work, but I haven't tested this.)

You don't need to run traffic to your full website. All you need is a marketing website to run traffic to. That marketing website doesn't even need database integration, so you can put that marketing website on a totally different server.

So to fix this issue, I wouldn't try to fix it. I'd just create a marketing website somewhere else and direct traffic to that.

I work in the bankruptcy niche, and I wanted to tweak your statements...

Chapter 13 bankruptcy is deleted from your credit report seven years from the discharge date, which comes 3 to 5 years after you file (because there's a 3 to 5 year payment plan). So if you measure from the filing date, Chapter 13 takes 7 + 3-to-5 years to come off your credit report, which is 10 to 12 years from the filing date.

Similarly, Chapter 7 bankruptcy is deleted 10 years from the discharge date. In a typical Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the debtor receives a discharge 4 months after filing. So your statement is actually quite close, but to be pedantic, it's 10.33 years from the filing date.

In my experience, most Chapter 7 filers can fully recover after about 2 years, provided they are able to make their payments on-time after the bankruptcy.

Taking a step back, it seems like you want to present a perfect solution to your boss that he can just adopt. I mean this in a friendly way, but that's not your job. Your job is to tell your boss what you want. Your boss's job is to figure out how to meet your needs.

Along those lines, I would just tell him politely that you'd like a plan to get your backpay over time, you'd like a raise although you understand that funding may preclude that, and you'd like your non-compete to be altered so at least it doesn't apply to your consulting work, since the scope of the consulting work is so broad that you wouldn't be able to ever get another job. You can mention that given the natural instability of a startup, this fact is stressing you out and making you lose sleep.

I would also ask to "paper" the backpay, so you have more than a verbal commitment on that.

If you talk nicely and respectfully about these issues, it is very likely that he will agree to the one term that doesn't cost him any money. (He will likely stall on all the other terms.)

It sounds like you and the CEO both want something, which is often the basis for a reasonable compromise. You want to be let out of the strict non-compete clause, and you want your back-pay and ideally a raise. Meanwhile, the CEO doesn't want his company to fall apart in the wake of your departure. You could approach your CEO, and ask him to deliver a plan to pay down your backpay. During that discussion, you can tell him that since you're underpaid and haven't gotten a raise for years, you'd like to amend your employment contract so that the non-compete and invention clauses only apply to your corporate work (and not your consulting work). You can explain that this would let you do projects on the weekend that would help you make some more money to compensate for the undermarket salary.

Not tying the reason to your desire to be able to get another job easily also helps the CEO from freaking out as much. Also, limiting the non-compete edits to the consulting work helps him feel that his corporate work isn't threatened, while getting you what you want.

Amending your non-compete would also give you flexibility if you choose to leave, so that would be my primary goal here. To increase your leverage, you can also ask for a raise. Assuming he says that giving you more money is impossible, that increases pressure on him to concede on the only term that is non-monetary.