Hello, I'm promoting earth4enery via direct linking on adwords and today I noticed the slap. Is anyboby know the reason? (seems to back at times of water4gas slapping)
If you're direct linking then you're going to get slapped silly if they happen to do a manual review.
Sorry, I don't see the problem, direct linking using CB hoplink is not the reason why, it's not me, I wonder why the domain has been slapped... Bl4ckman, If you do a search for "earth4energy" you'll find the ads, but you will not find the ads with "earth4energy.com" URL. For some reason, adwords slapped this domain. The status of my ads is: "Ads rarely show due to low quality score". Thanks
@Khan12: You are right, there has definitely been a small slap on accounts over at Adwords, my E4E accounts CTR went down with lower positions overnight, had to re-adjust everything.
As GeorgeR said, you are probably direct linking that's why you get slapped. And when you search for "earth4energy", the official website doesn't come up, because everyone uses a landing page, which what you should do too.
Maybe I don't know how should I call the problem. I'm usind regular clickbank hoplink (direct linking?) so I don't think I've been slapped for doing this. There was many competitors using affiliate hoplink disappeared too. I remember the same thing happened for the truthaboutabs.com domain. After some weeks this domain has been unslapped.
Yes, you are right, LP is the next step, but i'm not so experienced. At moment I would continue to do direct linking. However, I only would know why this can happen. The same think could happen to my own website. If someone know how to say this to the owner of earth4energy, I think his name is Swerd, he could know the reason why of this slapping. Maybe there are some technical reason, or maybe the site has been wrongly slapped.
I think their domain was slapped for some reason, thats why it would be best to use a landing page on your own domain.
I've made ONE sale of this product since it came out and with something like 70 articles. No, I DON'T know why I keep writing about it. I've sent 600 pretty decently targeted hops to a variety of landing pages over the past year, including one from the publisher himself. Oh well, didn't feel like devoting a whole thread to my desperation, but this'll do. I'm determined to get one more sale out of it before I pack up for whatever reason.
Only 600 hops from 70 articles is a pretty horrible... Did you do keyword research and build some backlinks to the articles? I doubt it. Your goal should be 100 hops per DAY to get any real stats to play with.
Khan, has everyone has suggested, you are so much better off building your own landing page. It'll give you a higher quality score, cheaper ads, and ultimately i would suggest more profit. Google does not like affiliates direct linking ... and they get better and better at picking it up too ...
khan is obviously pretty new to Adwords.. he is misinterpreting the 'slap'. if he is doing direct linking (which still works btw) then he no doubt will be using the e4e domain as the display url.. now if any other aff is using the same display url then he will be in a bidding war as Google will only display one URL of the same.. so his ads would be showing intermittantly so his ctr will be low, then his QS will suffer. atleast register your own domain to get past the 'double display url' price war.
Also, if direct linking use our landing page that doesnt have the exit offer. Google may lower your qs if using this. The no exit hoplink is available from the aff page.
Thanks to all. Swerd, First, I must say that the domain is no longer "slapped" and I can use again the e4e domain as the display url. But I don't know the "no exit hoplink" and I'll try to understand what it is in the aff page. 2-4-K, As i said before, I know direct linking is not the best strategy. However i have more than 150 kw and my total CTR is 4.90%, and >10% for my best selling keywords. The avg. CPC is $0.47. So it's not so bad i think. Sales are going well and maybe it's better if I change my strategy when I'll be ready for. My main problem about this is how to track without doing a single LP for every keyword and at moment direct linking allow me to track easily using the TID service. I am not an expert but I think I'm not misinterpreting the 'slap'. What it means when the Keyword Analysis says "Ads rarely show due to low quality score" and at the same time no other competitor e4e domain are showing? Anyway, now the problem is gone by itself. Antantnz, I am interested when you say that "Google does not like affiliates direct linking ... and they get better and better at picking it up too ..." This is not the first time I read about this argument. I am a little worried about what this exactly mean. As a CB affiliate I promote several products (all direct-link) and I'm trying to follow the adwords TOS and don't select content I can't promote. So, why Google does not like aff direct linking although not specified? Perhaps because we do not have full knowledge of the salespage that we decide to promote... malware, pop-ups, unwanted URL redirects, slow speeds?