I suddenly see the About suspended accounts policy on Google adwords. Quote: The unacceptable business practices and policy violations for poor-quality landing pages for which Google will suspend AdWords accounts include (but are not limited to) the following: Data collection sites that offer free items, etc., in order to collect private information Arbitrage sites without relevant and original content that are designed for the purpose of showing ads Affiliate sites without relevant and original content that are designed to drive traffic to another site with a different domain "Get-rich quick" sites Malware sites that install software on a visitor's computer Poor comparison shopping or travel sites whose primary purpose is to send users to other shopping or travel comparison sites, rather than to provide useful content or additional search functionality https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=zh_CN&answer=164786 According to that, the business model of affiliate is useless on adwords? So one day Google will close affiliates ads such as review landing pages. Do you think so?
"without relevant and original content" If worse comes to worse, we just have to step up in creativity. Makes a lot of sense why they have those policies, at the end of the day it creates a more user friendly search engine. And that returns to creativity, be user friendly, be unique in content and you are set to go. With those policies Google is pretty much helping us create a better converting page.
If you click on Adwords ads, you'll see that most are straight-up sales pages with products being sold...Same deal with us affiliates...I kind of understand Google's point of view, but they are being hypocrites for accepting the ads in the first place, allowing us to advertise with them for awhile and THEN deciding that we don't fit their standards... If they are going to start banning all adwords clients that have landing pages "without relevant and original content," a good percentage of their advertising will dry up. If it's a sales page, you will, of course, write up your product. Do they want us to write a whole, involved blog for each product? I'd rather just write articles, then... Google knows that we are selling things, the people who click on the ads know that they are being taken to sales pages...So, why the google harassment?
Yes, I think so. paulmagno, Google is always hypocrites indeed, but they do bring us profit really. A better user friendly is good for us, Google & Seacher.
How do you think such site? http://www.building-a-shed.net/ an advertiser. It owns some original articles and claims he is an affiliate. It may run in the first place, then some day Google find it cannot hit their standard then close suddenly. Or it will go on in the future and future. I mean it will last. What are you ideas? And how about this site, a standard review site http://www.reviewica.com
Google doesn't like one-page landers. If you have them, there's a good chance you'll be slapped. What you need to do is, make a lander, but also provide some content, write 5-6 unique articles, put a TOS link, About Us and Disclaimer on your page, interlink everything together. This is more acceptable for google, since you do offer some content to the customer.
No use.... I have created exactly the same but they have reviewed my site and told me that i have to improve it....
Good advice and make sure all of your affiliate links are clocked. They do not like clickbank links at all. A few of those on a page will get you slapped no matter how good your content is. Never put more than 2 or 3 affiliate links on any page. On Landers it is better you have only 1 or so. Most of there checking is done by computer and a lot of affiliate links will get you slapped!
Thanks for your ideas, but what I concern is the flowing standard of Google. When I think my LP can fit them, but one day it become a challenger in Google's eyes, which troubles our affiliates.
The types of pages that Google wants, IMO, simply won't convert as well as standard sales pages...It's time to start looking for other services because they clearly don't want us around. When I assume the role of consumer and click on those "Google Friendly" Ads, I'm confused about where to go, and sometimes, about what's even for sale...The people who click on our Adwords ads are mostly looking to buy something...Google wants us to send them into a mixed-up jumble of stuff that will require them to click around for what they want... I'm relatively new to the game, but I do know how I'd personally respond to these types of ads if I were just a regular customer...
According to them, they just don't welcome affiliates to use adwords. In fact, the LP i have created are not only used to promote clickbank products. I have like 10+ posts with useful information without promoting any products. But yet the staff told me that my LP cannot make it. Damn it. That's why I have switched to yahoo and bing.
Really? That sounds bad. It is time to start looking for other ads system like yahoo, but I think Google has much heavier impact on US search market. I mean whether I will lose profit if I switch my ads to yahoo. And how about bing?
So don't use landing pages. Test merchants by direct linking with your affiliate link to their homepage. Merchants are aware of adwords policies against landing pages and turning their homepages into a sales page. This will save the affiliate time and money. Just gotta find a high converting merchant homepage.
I like yahoo.. had some success with them. They don't have as much traffic as google, but they can still bring in some significant traffic. They're worth a try. Also, in a few months, The Yahoo And Bing PPC platforms are going to merge (this is official news), so they'll become a pretty significant competitor to google.
Oh that should be good for me (yahoo and bing together)... Getting feed up with google throwing their weight about.