I am in affiliate business from begining. I have many friends who are super affiliates and they do ppc and seo and all other things. Last few days they received this email from G: Final Warning: Your Google AdWords account has multiple violations Dear advertiser, We are writing to let you know that your Google AdWords account is at risk of being suspended due to multiple violations related to Landing Page and Site Quality. Please check the existing ads in your account to ensure that they comply with policy. As part of our commitment to making the AdWords experience safe and effective for our users and our advertisers, we routinely review the landing pages that our advertisers promote through our search and content networks. If we find that an advertiser has submitted poor quality landing pages that do not comply with our advertising policies, including the Landing Page and Site Quality Guidelines, we reserve the right to take account-level action. Landing pages advertised via AdWords must have relevant, original content, and must be transparent about the nature of the business being promoted. Further, advertisers are prohibited from promoting certain types of sites, which include, but are not limited to: * Data collection sites that imply delivery of 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 that make unrealistic promises * Sites that are deceptive * Sites that distribute malware or spyware * Extremely misleading/unverifiable or inaccurate claims Please note that this action is related to sites that have recently been advertised through your account. In a review of your account history, we found that your account had submitted multiple sites that merited poor landing page quality evaluations. Advertisers that have a history of promoting poor quality landing pages are subject to account-level disabling. Sincerely, The Google AdWords team That affiliates promote via direct linking or via review sites on G. 2 my friends get BAN from big G!!!! They spend every year at least few milions $. You can read on webmasterworld more info. I can only say big G start to destroy Affiliates. What you Say?
i say if big daddy G starts bitchslappin, bitchslap the beeatch back and move on try searching for alternative places to place ads, approach some relevant bloggers and see what they charge, look at facebook and other social networks etc etc etc.
Is this mean that you are not allowed to promote any affiliate product with G PPC or have they broker is his TOS? Can you share your experience with us.
Sounds like they have rules that they are able to enforce. Lifts the standard to a good level. That's actually good!