Advertising on Bing

[got2know]

I was looking at the affiliate pages of a ClickBank product I fancied promoting. They recommended to stay clear of advertising on Google, if I wanted to do PPC ads as they don't like the product.

(Funnily enough I may have been close to having my AdWords account banned for creating an ad to one of my sites that recommends a different Clickbank product. They kept disapproving the ads.)

They did however list a few places where I can place PPC ads to my site (that recommends or promotes their product), without much hustle.

Bing was one of them.

Does anyone here recommend Bing or have any views on this?

Cheers

William.

[got2know]

Originally Posted by rastergraphix

I don't know about Bing...but i think Google PPC is the best because mostly people uses Google for search.

Thanks, but that was completely unhelpful and unnecessary. I just stated that I could not use Google to advertise with, and was asking for any useful information on Bing. If you you don't know about Bing why did you even reply? - Don't answer that!

[semaximizer]

its good if you are targeting US market (but not as effective as adwords though). Not sure about other markets.

[got2know]

Originally Posted by semaximizer

its good if you are targeting US market (but not as effective as adwords though). Not sure about other markets.

Thanks for that. I'll give it a go an see how I get on.

[Lucid]

There really are few types of products that Google doesn't like. It's more likely the landing page that is violating one or more of their rules. As Bing also has rules, and similar ones I might add, you may not be any better there. Best to work with the affiliate, make them understand that they need to change their page. If they can't/don't want to, don't use PPC to promote them.

[got2know]

Originally Posted by Lucid

There really are few types of products that Google doesn't like. It's more likely the landing page that is violating one or more of their rules. As Bing also has rules, and similar ones I might add, you may not be any better there. Best to work with the affiliate, make them understand that they need to change their page. If they can't/don't want to, don't use PPC to promote them.

Hmmm. I have tried to promote one of my WP sites on Google - they didn't like it as it breached their policy. I'm now advertising it on Bing and Yahoo and the quality score is 7 out of 10.

Thanks for the reply.

[Lucid]

Fix the breach then.

I find it so strange that people are willing to give up Google traffic when very often the fix is so easy. You have to know of course the rules and how to avoid breaching them and few seem willing to do that. They are more willing to tell Google where to put their rules and they'll use Bing instead. Well, guess what, Bing has pretty much the same rules.

QS has nothing to do with it. If you breach policy, doesn't matter how good you were or how much money you were making them. Let's take an example. A man -let's call him Pete Rose - is considered one of the best in his profession, a QS of 10/10. Unfortunately, Pete breaches one of his company's rules, let's say it was gambling. Pete, although well on his way to receive the highest accolade in his profession, is disciplined which includes not being able to ever receive this accolade.

The same can happen to anybody, no matter their QS. So my suggestion is to read Bing's rules and fix any problems there might exist. This can in turn get you back into Google's good books. Otherwise, you might find that Bing will suspend you too one day.