Google Slap my properly setup landing page...

[cheyingtan]

Hello warrior,

Google slap on my profit making landing page. Any thought?

I setup a landing page promoting CPA free trial product 2 weeks ago. It is a 300 words review page with contact us, privacy, term of use plus 3 articles pages. It set up using wordpress and keyword rich domain.

It started with quality score of 7, and making profit since then. Today the campaign quality score suddenly change to 1, and my minimum bid become $10 per click.

What had happen to my landing page? From what i read in this forum, this should be the proper way to set up the landing page that will make google happy? Isn't it? Do I set it up properly?

Any way to get my campaign back to live?

[Amfire]

there is no way to get it back, Google is hitting at affiliates who are prompting rebills.If you want to save your adwords account delete the campaign immediately.

Not sure if your account is still active though.

[AffiliateUrge]

Google is making it harder, you can't just do the 'basics' anymore and get by with it, you actually have to develop a long term mindset when building out your website. Meaning frequently adding fresh content and more, backlinks, organic traffic, etc

Don't be fooled that you can get by with just doing a 5-10 page website and google will love you.

[dburk]

Hi cheyingtan,

Google is responding to the new rulings put in place by the FTC. You can't review a product objectively and profit from sales through commissions or other means. The Bottom line is that you must fully disclose that you are being paid to recommend the product, else you are in violation of FTC rules. A full scale FTC crackdown is underway, bloggers and review sites are the target.

[williamrs]

Google doesn't accept rebills and zip/email submits. You can't promote this kind of offer using AdWords.

[nitin22]

These type of offers are unacceptable at Google Also these a days it is almost impossible not to get slapped with just one page of landing page site.

[Tdale]

Actually, Google has been banning accounts since the beginning of this year. They are looking at certain business models such as the following to name a few:

E-book sites
Affiliate marketing
CPA offers
MLM
Make Money
Get Quick Rich
Biz Opp



Violation of policy is the other area they are looking at hard. In the next few weeks, you will notice how many internet marketers’ accounts receiving lifetime bans.

[mjnet]

Originally Posted by Tdale

Actually, Google has been banning accounts since the beginning of this year. They are looking at certain business models such as the following to name a few:

E-book sites
Affiliate marketing
CPA offers
MLM
Make Money
Get Quick Rich
Biz Opp



Violation of policy is the other area they are looking at hard. In the next few weeks, you will notice how many internet marketers’ accounts receiving lifetime bans.

Affiliate marketing
CPA offers
Make Money

i picked these 3 items you have noted in your post. anything we should be mindful with? sorry, i just started poking around and i hope to go the IM path as well...

[warrich]

Google hate those webmasters who try to bend google TOS, read tos carefully

[WareTime]

Originally Posted by AffiliateUrge

Google is making it harder, you can't just do the 'basics' anymore and get by with it, you actually have to develop a long term mindset when building out your website. Meaning frequently adding fresh content and more, backlinks, organic traffic, etc

Those SOB's! What the hell are they trying to do.

Actually you're only one step away from being banned for life. Delete this campaign as someone else mentioned and rethink completely how you are using adwords and come up with a way that accomplishes what AffiliateUrge layed out.

Two types of thin affiliates these days. The dying and the dead.

[Tdale]

Originally Posted by mjnet

Affiliate marketing
CPA offers
Make Money

i picked these 3 items you have noted in your post. anything we should be mindful with? sorry, i just started poking around and i hope to go the IM path as well...

Hi Mjnet,

Be as transparent with your product and or service. Majority of CPA offers are not transparent they do not let the vistor know exactly the terms of buying their product. The same would apply to affiliate marketers. Let the customer know that you are an affiliate and you are being paid if they purchase the product you are promoting.

With money making products the outrageous claims need to stop. That is a automatic red flag to Google. I hope that helps.

Teran

[Catalyst eMarketing]

There is one main problem with your campaign.
As a couple other warriors have mentioned.

You can't do rebill offers on Adwords any more period.
Does not matter how your landing page is set up.

And again you need to totally delete that campaign.

They are doing permanent bans on accounts that promote rebill offers.

Get Ready, Here Come More Google AdWords Account Bans

Carefully read the quote from the Adwords rep.

[Sancho Sanches]

If it's easy for Google to tell that you are an affiliate then you should admit it upfront.

Unless you can hide it then don't try to hide it.

You also need to add value to what you are doing.

If you are an affiliate and come across hypey and are offering value in the form of a review with 300 words when no one knows you you don't have a lot of clout.

Privacy policies, contact pages, etc., are needed but it's not some sort of magic immunity.

As far as having to have fresh content all the time like someone mentioned - that's bull.

[hotftuna]

"You can't do rebill offers"

What is a rebill?

[Amfire]

Offers which have the condition of being billed in future. All the trail offers have this in built.

Originally Posted by hotftuna

"You can't do rebill offers"

What is a rebill?