FYI- A Conversation with MSN Yesterday
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Hey WF. Fairly new to this, I apologize if you all know this already....
I had some campaigns up with MSN / Bing and It had been about a week that my campaign status was "active". I was looking for more PPC traffic and had not tried MSN yet, and read some blog posts that said MSN traffic was generally more "shopping" related traffic and converted way better than google.
So After seeing no clicks or activity in my account I called MSN to see what was up. Here is what I found out:
MSN has politely told me that they do not want affiliate marketers to utilize their advertising platform. Plain and simple, they do not want affiliates.
This may not be news to some of you, but I was taken by surprise.
because my keywords / landing pages are getting QS of 8 with adwords.(and I keep hearing Google hates affiliates, too...) and I have a clear privacy policy and my pages are adding value to the searcher by offering insight and features / benefits / problems of the product without having to buy it first.
the vendor's sales page had a pop up, not my landing page, but I was still in violation. Fair enough, rules are rules.
But the woman on the phone made it very clear on several occasions that MSN does not encourage affiliate marketers to use their services.
This is kind of funny, she actually confessed that the real catalyst for this anti affiliate stance is **** Berry.....that's right..... **** berry has ruined MSN PPC.
Has anyone had success with MSN PPC with review sites / affiliate products? If so, are your click prices through the roof? Is it worth my time to put up a new campaign? :confused:
Thanks for any feedback!
I had some campaigns up with MSN / Bing and It had been about a week that my campaign status was "active". I was looking for more PPC traffic and had not tried MSN yet, and read some blog posts that said MSN traffic was generally more "shopping" related traffic and converted way better than google.
So After seeing no clicks or activity in my account I called MSN to see what was up. Here is what I found out:
MSN has politely told me that they do not want affiliate marketers to utilize their advertising platform. Plain and simple, they do not want affiliates.
This may not be news to some of you, but I was taken by surprise.
because my keywords / landing pages are getting QS of 8 with adwords.(and I keep hearing Google hates affiliates, too...) and I have a clear privacy policy and my pages are adding value to the searcher by offering insight and features / benefits / problems of the product without having to buy it first.
the vendor's sales page had a pop up, not my landing page, but I was still in violation. Fair enough, rules are rules.
But the woman on the phone made it very clear on several occasions that MSN does not encourage affiliate marketers to use their services.
This is kind of funny, she actually confessed that the real catalyst for this anti affiliate stance is **** Berry.....that's right..... **** berry has ruined MSN PPC.
Has anyone had success with MSN PPC with review sites / affiliate products? If so, are your click prices through the roof? Is it worth my time to put up a new campaign? :confused:
Thanks for any feedback!