I was wondering if someone could possibly help me here ( with info not money ) on what i can do to put myself back on my feet ... I started my website EveryPipe.com 3 months ago and joined Google , Yahoo , MSN for Pay Per Clicks .. At first i said to myself ill work in my headshop ( I have 2 of them ) and then at night when i get home I'll pack and ship the few orders ( Garage Packed w/merchandise ) .. It turned out i was getting an order almost EVERY 30 MINUTES ...sometimes even more , Huge orders !! My first month i made over 15k pure profit , I was Packing items from Midnight till sunrise almost every day . Then came Google and deleted all my keywords leaving me without all the normal keywords i need such as glass pipes , wholesale glass pipes , ect . 2 Days later yahoo , and 2 months later msn stopped accepting my ads , Im not banned they just emailed me they have a strict policy against paraphanilia and now instead of doing $1,000 a day on average , im doing more like $50 average . Very Upsetting ... I turned to all these buy hits cheap sites that basiclly while watching the customer online i see they dont move meaning time in 3:03 am ,its now 3:45 am with a last click of 3:03 am kinna tells me this is just BS !! ( bots ) Im willing to try anything for traffic but im very dumb with affiliate programs and i really dont have too much time for all this , Its a shame for me to give up because im not that type of person that gives up and the first month with being on all those search engines i made so much money i just CANT .. I was wondering before i just give up and slam my business for sale is there any way around these search engines , like perhaps buy a prepaid credit card and try again from a different name to advertise ? I am so depressed i cannot advertise on Google , and all the major Search Engines anymore ... At first i was telling myself ahh google doesnt want me "F" them but its not like that as i see how bad i need them ... Statisticly im down from 100 sales a day to 1 sale a day ... Any advice Much appriciated !!
there are specialized ad networks that allow adult content / products search for them and try to get ads there also try to advertise on dating sites and similar .. or buy banner ads in dating sites, etc or change your trade and sell cellphones, mobiles, PDAs or similar high tech stuff ...
Ohhh wow , Im sorry i dont know why this ad is showing up twice , Moderator please forgive me 1 time .... Thanks
Try advertising in forums related to your products. Search google "your niche forum" and there should be hundreds if not thousand of potential buyers. Good luck =)
Oh.....THOSE kind of pipes. Lol, well honestly I can't feel sorry for you and I think they did the right thing.
I agree it is amazing that he even was dreaming to do business and get accepted and it also is proof that G and others sometimes accept business$ just to make profit without regard to moral or ethics nor legality and to later find out what they made profit from. adult articles are off-limit for most ad companies honest creative/productive work is the default method originally created by God ....
What about SEO for the key words you made the sales from? Why don't you save your money and hire a SEO expert and explain to him what you told us.
Try advertising on the following sites: marijuana.com 420times.com hightimes.com Marijuana.com charges about $500/month for a banner. Last time I did a campaign with them it got around 10,000 clicks over the month and about $4000 in sales. You may have more luck.
People have posted some good suggestions here. I'd experiment with some of the ideas people have given you before giving up. If your business was successful before there's no reason you can't revive it again.
We are sorry to hear about that. We had a similar problem a long time ago. Adwords once objected to a site we promote, instantdegrees.com When the owners of instantdegrees.com (corporate lawyers) couriered proof to google that everything was 100% Legal with the service, adwords reinstated our ads immediately.
Unfortunately you can't do that with bongs. Bongs and similiar products are a almost a black market product, so Google will ban them. So does Paypal and most other major companies, it's a major pain Pretty much anything related to 420 will get you banned.
I say don't give up! There are many good suggestions here and though I do not agree with your product, I do think you have a right to market a product that though frowned on is not illegal in most places. What you use it for yes, but not the product itself. You need to start targeting areas of advertising which will hit your target audience for the least amount of money. There are thousands of sites and forums dedicated to this niche. Search out those sites and check their traffic stats and experiment with different ads till you find the one that works for you. If you kept customer records, contact old customers and offer new discounts and referral fees for them for sending you new sales. Give up on trying to get around the PPC and put your efforts into the new avenues of advertising your product. Good Luck!