Google Cracking Down...

ZriiPro · 02-02-2009, 04:53 AM

New article posted by perry marshall, could potentially cause some setbacks for some companies.

whats everyone think of this?

Scot Standke · 02-02-2009, 07:40 AM

A few more details would be nice.

What does he have to say?

Where is the article posted?

Scot

Traffic101 · 02-02-2009, 08:27 AM

Yes, what does the article say? I'm curious, I make my money from google.

Mrs S · 02-02-2009, 08:29 AM

Think the OP is referring to this article Google is cracking down on multiple industries they have deemed "Illegitimate." This guy isn't the only one BTW…

Paul Myers · 02-02-2009, 10:46 AM

Hmmm. If the things repeated in that article are accurate, that ends affiliate advertising via AdWords, at least as most of us know it at the moment.

Paul

Sean Bissell · 02-02-2009, 10:50 AM

So far... *fingers crossed*

I haven't had any of my Quality Scores drop for any of my affiliate campaigns.

-Sean

dmarzean · 02-02-2009, 11:01 AM

I have seen this happen with a couple of my direct link campaigns and some of my longer squeeze pages.

Google is looking out for the end user's best interest. They are looking for sites that actually add value to the search engine.

What I did to turn these around was to change up my landing pages and offer some good quality content while still promoting the affiliate program.

Also, make sure you have more than one page with content, have a privacy policy page, a contact page with a form as well as actual contact information, and provide a site map.

I took a campaign that was rated good, then went to poor then added the above and now it is rated great.

The funny thing is, I have also increased conversion by doing this. The site looks more legit and offers something for the end user.

There are a lot of fly-by-night one page landing pages pushing the same product. That is what Google would like to get rid of.

They will still run your ads, but you are going to pay out the wazoo for them to run.

Doug

Traffic-Bug · 02-02-2009, 11:14 AM

I thought they were cracking down on the sites that sell text links

Art Turner · 02-02-2009, 11:19 AM

The article said Google has

Quote:

disallowed all ads forwarding to affiliate links/sites, bridge pages that then forward to an affiliate site, and any site that contains or mirrors all or portions of a parent company site

IMO, it seems like if you have content other than a sales/squeeze page, your PPC won't be affected.

Art

Mary Green · 02-02-2009, 11:23 AM

Interesting. But, google has told us how many times they have the end users search experience in mind (as well as making money). the point is stop trying to game the system and deliver quality and you wont have to worry, at least that is what i get from it.

Mary

JayXtreme · 02-02-2009, 12:33 PM

See the reply I posted in this thread

More Google Bad News?

Peace

Jay

Jassim · 02-03-2009, 04:42 AM

Google really makes me sick, It's been 1 week over still my ads are not running & there is no reason why ads not showing up & no support also.

Its time for alternative. I think this is very good opportunities for other advertising programs like yahoo, msn to catch the people.

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