Comments on: Is Adwords trying to filter out Affiliate Marketers?

By: Adwords Quality Score Tips

Adwords Quality Score Tips — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:05:15 +0000

Great tips. This will help me with my PPC clients in a highly competitive industry, and for my own affiliate marketing sites, I especially like the affy link tip. Thanks.

By: 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums

5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:23:25 +0000

Outrageous Adwords PPC Price…

I was trying to find some blogs I’ve read on the subject that could help.

Here’s a couple:

Adwords Quality Score Tips | Landing Page Quality Score Tips

10 Ways To Increase Adwords Quality Sco……

By: ok someone teach me this google QS BS - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum - Internet Marketing Webmaster SEO Forum

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:50:01 +0000

[...] better QS. There’s some more info about this if you dig around. Here’s a good post about this on earnersblog. [...]

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:41:21 +0000

There’s no guaranteed way to tell if a product, service or market will be profitable. There’s too many factors to take into consideration.

I’ll actually write a post about this, like a checklist that I use to choose products, service etc

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:56:22 +0000

I don’t mind to build full sites for the program I am promoting, I am able to write my own code,
but my concern is How the heck I will know for “which” market I should build that Fabulous info-content rich site Unless I Test first IF the market is even profitable?

I don’t know about you guys but Not all my campaigns in all markets are profitable – more like 5 or sometimes even 7 out of 10.
So are you going to spend time and money on everything you ever promote Without even knowing if the market will be viable?

How are you going around this?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:24:13 +0000

Well for a start Project Black Mask is a rehash of a free ebook that was written by Alex Goad of Net Frontier Marketing so I’d not even bother trying to rip people off with techniques that are a year out of date

Did all your keywords get slapped?

By: Rian

Rian — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:34:43 +0000

I got slapped by google last night. I was so pissed because I did everything in accordance with their terms.
I had:
- a privacy policy
- a contact page
- keywords in the title, main header
- disclaimer
- using a 6-mo old domain (my blog)
- extra content on site

still I got slapped for $10 clicks. I chatted with an Adwords specialist, and she said our bot determined that you site doesnt have enough content. I couldnt believe it. I’ve been posting since Jan, and ran a promotion hung off my blog. I had tons of content.

now what gets me is that the promotion I did had affiliates scrambling to buy new domains. so brand new domains, most direct links, and they didnt get banned. not even for the same keywords.

Google, what the hell do you want!?
have a look and see if you can tell me maybe what I might have missed: http://www.rianbrooklyn.com/project-black-mask/

Thanks in advance.

By: Julian Paling

Julian Paling — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:37:24 +0000

It strange becuase i have read about the need to change my landing page in several places now, including (http://www.here.org.uk/2007/06/google-adwords-landing-pages-how-to-build-a-page-that-wont-get-banned-with-examples.html).

But one of my landing page breaks all the rules but makes a healthy profit from a single merchant. Last month my turnover was approx Â£35,000 from a spend of Â£10,000.

My landing page has:
No privacy policy
No contact us page
Is only one page
The affiliate links are not masked
No about us page
No site map
No terms and conditions
Very little content
Etc.

Also i still have good success sending traffic direct to merchants from adwords.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:47:49 +0000

I think Google’s quality score algorithm is ridiculous. On some of my campaigns, you’ll see a $0.05 minimum bid for “wooden table” and a $1.00 minimum bid for “wooden tables”.

By: Aumentando o valor do clique no Adsense | O Fim da VÃ¡rzea

Aumentando o valor do clique no Adsense | O Fim da VÃ¡rzea — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:10:55 +0000

[...] hoje encontrei casualmente um post que trata do mesmo assunto. Segundo Stuart, do Earners Blog, o Adwords estaria filtrando anunciantes, elevando o "lance" nos leilÃµes. Para quem nÃ£o sabe, cada palavra-chave tem um custo [...]

By: Brian Free

Brian Free — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:21:50 +0000

More power to Google, I feel that if an affiliate is smart and savvy enough then they will survive. There are always different paths that can be taken and they may even prove more profitable