Does my site comply with adwords tos

[jonodaman]

Hi i am new to internet marketing and i a about to advertise my site with adwords but i do not want to get supended from adwords.

There are a few things in the tos about affiliate marketing that i am not sure about.

so what i am asking is could someone here please have a look at my site and tell me if you think it complies with the tos.

My site is Learn Guitar Now

Thank you

[jonodaman]

Surely someone has an idea on wether or not my site complies

Thank You

[Lucid]

In order to know if your site comply, you need to know the Adwords policies and guidelines.

You will get poor landing page quality (which gives a QS of 1 and effectively stops your ads from showing) because what you have is a bridge page.

[jonodaman]

Ok so i made some changes to the site but when i post it on adwords all my keywords start at 5 and some at 7 score but then about 30 minutes after the ad is approved all my scores drop to 1 adwords says that the problem is landing page quality
can any1 here give me some ideas about what to do to fix my site thanks
i am very new to this and this being my first site im not exactly sure what to do.

thank you

[Ditso]

Always remember that G 1st ask's itself "is this a spam site or a reputable company?"

Couldn't see an address within the contact details, just email. Not a banning offence but this will certainly go against your quality score.

Also it will put people off buying from you.

[K Smith]

I don't know about adwords and your QS, but I'd redo your disclaimer it's inappropriate, abrasive and doesn't even apply to your site.

Snippet:

We do enjoy constructive criticism and We do appreciate outside views however We ask that you please share them in a civilized, respectful and well articulated manner — “U suck @$$ n00b, i h8 u & ur goin to h3ll !!!11!!!1!!!“ is not acceptable, justifiable or even sensible. It (and you) will be deleted, sorry — if you can’t play like a grown-up then you should go back to the kiddie pool or go see Perez Hilton or something — you’re nobody’s “FIRST!” here pal!

[Intrepreneur]

You're missing an optin above the fold. In other words.. The way you are doing it you are throwing money away.

[tryinhere]

Originally Posted by jonodaman

Ok so i made some changes to the site but when i post it on adwords all my keywords start at 5 and some at 7 score but then about 30 minutes after the ad is approved all my scores drop to 1 adwords says that the problem is landing page quality
can any1 here give me some ideas about what to do to fix my site thanks
i am very new to this and this being my first site im not exactly sure what to do.

thank you

i will take a guess and say the sheer number of links out of that home page to affiliate sites combined with just about every second link doing a dodgy turn and not connecting to the article source but to the same page.

is the duplicate content rule where a link says one thing but links back inside itself.

lastly it looks like you slammed all of those article feeds into the site, and it really just smells of i have done this just to make money, fast quick slap it up and why am i not making a buck now ?

Maybe remove all of those article links and get a forum member to write some good articles for your site.

these few things may help, and if your keys are at poor rating delete them from your system.

[Lucid]

> Ok so i made some changes to the site

You still have a bridge page. Instead of a link "visit the official site", you're doing a decent job of selling the product so why not say "buy it now" and send them to the order page?

What Google means by poor quality landing page

Don't put all those articles on the one page. Won't fix your problem but it just seems like you have one very long sales page.

[jonodaman]

Thanks for all the ideas i will take down the articles and change the disclaimer and add some more contact details.

but the problem is i really dont know what to add to the front page so google doesnt think it is just a bridge page but really it is and that is the whole idea of the site to get people to click and buy the product.

Thanks

[jonodaman]

ok so i took down all the articles from the front page added some more contact details changed my disclaimer and now in adwords i still get a score of 1 but this time adwords does not say that is is because of bad quality landing page
Quality score Learn more
1/10

• Keyword relevance: No problems
• Landing page quality: No problems
• Landing page load time: No problems

but what i think it is is the front page is still a bridge page but i cant think of any way to get google to think that it isnt

any ideas?

Thanks

[Lucid]

Originally Posted by jonodaman

what i think it is is the front page is still a bridge page but i cant think of any way to get google to think that it isnt

any ideas?

I told you: instead of a linking to the affiliate's sales page, link to the order page. Change the link to "buy now" or "get it now" or something like that.

[indexphp]

Google hates affiliates in case you dont already know that. The best strategy is to NOT let Google know that youre an affiliate, meaning promote affiliate offers on the backend (whether people have to click in 1 page or optin).

Based on your style though, I doubt you are going to get a good QS. Instead of making it look like a sales page, put all that content as a post on a Wordpress blog, and make people optin for lessons or whatever, then redirect them to the offer.

You cant rush Google, which is what youre doing here. Take a week out to create 25 pages of unique content (good for SEO) and start building backlinks to your site. get indexed before you even start up an Adwords campaign.

Use a plugin like YAARP to automatically link to other pages within your site and link to more content in the footer, along with the usual terms, disclosure, privacy policy, contact page.

Yes its a bitch now I know

[jonodaman]

ok so i am adding a opt in form but i cant work out how to get the opt in box to align to the center here is the html code if anyone can help me

<TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0><TR><TD WIDTH=185><IMG
SRC="http://images.notifylist.com/usersnippets/blacktop.gif"
ALT="Sign up for my Notify List and get email when I update!" WIDTH="185" HEIGHT="42" BORDER="0"></TD></TR><TR><TD
WIDTH=185
BACKGROUND="DiaryLand members area method=post
action="http://members.notifylist.com/edit/joinlist"><input type=hidden name="list_name"
value="jonodaman-music"><P><CENTER><FONT
COLOR="white">email:</FONIT> <input type=text name="email" value=""><BR><input type=submit
value="join"></FORM></TD></TR><TR><TD
WIDTH=185><A HREF="free mailing lists from Notify List . com SRC="http://images.notifylist.com/usersni...lackbottom.gif" ALT="powered by
NotifyList.com" WIDTH="185" HEIGHT="59" BORDER="0"></A></TD></TR></TABLE>


Thanks

[indexphp]

Just wrap all that code above in this...

<div style="width:100%;margin:10px auto;">
....code
</div>

[Lucid]

> Google hates affiliates in case you dont already know that

That simply is not true.

> ok so i am adding a opt in form

Good luck.

[indexphp]

Originally Posted by Lucid

> Google hates affiliates in case you dont already know that

That simply is not true.

> ok so i am adding a opt in form

Good luck.

well let me re-phrase. Google hates affiliates who promote with landing pages. And yes, this is true

[tryinhere]

Originally Posted by indexphp

well let me re-phrase. Google hates affiliates who promote with landing pages. And yes, this is true

any page can be a landing page so in effect your wrong but right, as i think your referring to a skinny one page site. regardless affiliates are fine if they follow the rules as lucid indicates.

[Cataclysm1987]

I recommend replacing the standard bridge page with a video testimonial and get an opt in that sends them the link for the product, that way Google won't know if you are bridging or not. Just a thought!

[jonodaman]

ok so i have decided to change the whole site to a wordpress site and changed the style to a review site so my question is if i add 10 articles about each product to the site will adwords give me a decent score?
Thanks

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