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This is totally bizarre and you should be aware

by yako
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I still don't know how they did this, but they did it and is very scary.

The other day I contacted my affiliate manager for a product I am promoting. Its not a CPA network, it is the product owner directly. We chatted a little bit about my question (which has to do nothing with this story) and suddenly a few days later I received an email from them telling me that I was infringing their keyword policy with one of my ads... and he sent me the ad via email.

Here comes the bizarre part:

-The ad was for another product, from another company, nothing to do with them.
-It was an AdWords ad.
-There is NO WAY in the world they could know that ad was being run by me.
-The ad was direct linking to the other company site, so not even my servers were involved.

When they sent me the details of the infringement I found out they were using the services of a company called brandverity.com

As it turn out, it was a mistake, and I was not infringing their policy and we are all good now...but I am still very very concerned about how this company could link an anonymous ad to myself. If they did it for "compliance" issues, what would prevent anyone to do it for profit?

Do they have partnerships with Google, Bing? If thats the case, how safe is this business model if anyone can see in advance what you are doing?

If anyone has any explanation on how companies can link anonymous ads to specific persons and if thats 'the way it is' I would deeply appreciated.
#ads #aware #bizarre #totally
  • Profile picture of the author RemyMartin
    On their home page they state:

    BrandVerity is pleased to announce that we've developed custom processes with Google and Bing for reporting trademark violations! These new features offer many benefits, including:

    Confirmation from the engines when an ad has been taken down

    Full coverage for violations on Google, Bing, Yahoo, AOL, & Ask

    Detailed responses from the engines when an ad is not taken down

    A record of your correspondence for extra visibility into the process

    If you weren't direct linking I bet that company would of never connected you to that ad. Maybe they are partnered with the search engines. Maybe they crawl the ads for certain keywords and record the affiliate / publisher id. Maybe that other company you are promoting is also using their service. Who knows.

    This business model is completely safe. If you don't want to be found, hide yourself. Cloak your links, use a landing page and fake / block referrers.
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    The money is the motive.

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