So what would be wrong here: Link To: http://damn.that-sucks.net Anchor Text: Damn That Sucks! What do you think? Description: Online forum based community for sharing your opinion on just about anything. This is my first time so please don't treat me like an idiot. Dennis
Did you read the guideline or just jumpin Types of ads: No adult ads are allowed No gambling ads are allowed No pharmaceutical ads are allowed Ad Text: Keep your anchor text short and useful for end users For text-based banner ads, make the descriptions long and useful for the users Do not create all uppercase words unless it's needed (abbreviation for example) Do not create all lowercase ads Avoid characters used only to grab attention (for example starting or ending ads with *, !, |, etc.)
Seems to me like the anchor text wasn't accepted. An exclamation mark as well as a question mark is over the top.
Okay, yes I read it. However, the exclamation point is part of the name. I can reword the rest to something that doesn't imply the requiring of a question mark. Please excuse my ignorance, by why is punctuation a bad thing if it's gramatically correct? I would probably not click on something that was just plain bad english.
The first one said no reason needed. This time it said because of the punctuation. This is all very strange to me.
I have resubmitted like this: Link To: http://damn.that-sucks.net Anchor Text: Damn That Sucks! Tell us what you think Description: Online forum based community to discuss what you think about just almost everything.
Now the exclamation is not needed. Don't the people reading these have any way to interact with us? The name of my site contains the exclamation point. And I still don't understand the big deal about punctuation. Somebody please explain that to me? Sorry to be a whiner, just frustrated, Dennis
dsboyce8624, take a look at someones ad network txt. In fact this is mine - http://www.complete-directory.com/ad_network_ads_235.txt, compare your anchor text with everyone else.
Because a lot of people use it for the ranking benefit and people just don't search Google with punctuation (which will be ignored anyway). A direct anchor text match is best here.
Does it have a benefit? See you guys know what's going on, I'm just a goob with a home made web site. If most people don't search with it, which I agree with, how does it have a benefit. My non-search enigine savvy brain translates that to a detriment. Dennis
How many people search for 'Damn That Sucks! Tell us what you think?' ?! ("Tell us what you think?" isn't good grammar btw.) If you use this tool for SEO you will definitely want to change that anchor text. If you use this for traffic then I can see the benefit of your approach. You want to get attention. The guidelines prohibit the excessive use of attention demanding characters so you will have to find a way to tone down. Try 'Damn That Sucks - Forum About Everything' So you have one KW in there as well. Or two ads. One 'Damn That Sucks' and one like 'Talk About Anything'. But for SEO you'd want 'Online Forum' or whatever Overture or Wordtracker suggests.
Well, I appreciate everybody taking the time to talk to me. I'm basically on hold at the moment. I had to rebuild the site from scratch and the paths changed so I have to wait for Google to update the 48 links it has before I can validate. I was proud of those links too! <wimper> Anyway, I'll figure it out, or one of you will kick me is the arse.