EZA Articles Be Aware

For those who are not aware, if you are writing and submiting to EZA and you link to your site/blog etc if you have any affiliate products that contain the word Google, your article will not be published.

I don't know if this is to do with the recent clamp down by the big "G" or if it's always been the case. Any warriors experienced this before, or is it something that I completely missed in EZA's TOS ?.

Hmm?

No issues at my end yet but it's for my own product. I'm wondering what product it was? I know there is one product related to Google that has caused a whole lot of issues in the affiliate marketing arena with the FTC etc.

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Rita012 14 years ago

Very interesting. I wonder if it's site wide, or specifically for that page it's linking to.
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Azzurro

14 years ago

Article linked back to my affiliate product review site, which happened to contain a review of Google Sniper, I was advised that this was unexceptable !

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A Bary 14 years ago

I think this is applied to pages promoting products with titles like: Google Profits, Google domination,Google crap..etc

And I wonder why it took that long for Google to act against these type of products, it's an obvious misuse of their trademark and should be stopped long ago.

I believe EZA has an active communication with Google and it sticks to Google's terms and guidelines very strictly
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Dr Livingston

14 years ago

I always wondered that to goldmind123. Makes good sense.

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ryangb74

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Azzurro

For those who are not aware, if you are writing and submiting to EZA and you link to your site/blog etc if you have any affiliate products that contain the word Google, your article will not be published.

I don't know if this is to do with the recent clamp down by the big "G" or if it's always been the case. Any warriors experienced this before, or is it something that I completely missed in EZA's TOS ?.

Seeing that adsense and adwords are not allowing these due to the crackdowns, EZA can't make Adsense revenue on these articles.

This is really why they don't allow them.

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Marhelper 14 years ago

Yes, I have seen this come up before. I have also heard of articles being rejected due to other use of copyrighted names. I think it depends, as often is the case, on the individual reviewer.
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Michael Kohler 14 years ago

EZA does odd things. If you have an article with a political name like obama, I have had my articles rejected even though they were about the stimulus package. Very strange.
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snyder7

14 years ago

You can't have celebrity names on your article. Maybe this is something similar?

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Paul Davidson 14 years ago

I see that Georges Google Sniper product uses the domain is Gsniper.com, Maybe he did that for a reason!

Still a great product that gives great basic seo and pre sell training!

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Paul
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Azzurro

14 years ago

Good point Paul, but it still does not detract from the point that the product name use's Google in its title.
I personally think that we should all be aware of the useage of any copyrighted content within our sites, it appears that EZA editors are looking deeper into everything, which is ok by me, it has made me clean up my site, which to be fair it's better.
The site looks far sharper and I'm sure this will benifit everyone.

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Zach Booker

14 years ago

Have had no problems with this.

Google isn't "cracking down" on anything besides Google CPA offers - they know where the money is made. (Meaning they know most Clickbank products they sue won't be able to pay large amounts.)

It's like saying, "Make Massive Money Using YouTube - YouTube Money." You aren't abusing the trademark your saying what the product is about. If you clearly define that you are not connected with, or are, the trademarked company there is no problem.

The problem with some CPA offers is the fact they act as if they are Google to gain credibility and thus get people to sign up.

Google and EZA don't "talk". What would they say to each other? At most Google wrote an e-mail to EZA informing them of their recent "crack down" and insinuating that they should peer closer into the sites being linked back to.

You don't need written consent to use Google's name. Have you ever tried getting help, even if you have an "adwords rep"? It's impossible.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

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Zach Booker

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

On the contrary: actually there are, at the moment, many US lawsuits listed and pending of which Google is the plaintiff, over people using the word Google in product names.

Yes. For CPA offers - not for Clickbank products like implied before.

Google is also going after 50+ John Does who's names have yet to be released. These are affiliates who used Google's name directly in their URL while hard selling CPA offers - these are usually flogs/fnews'.

Like I said before Google knows where the money is being made. They aloud these bizops(Google CPA offers) to run on Adwords for 18 months - from their creation date to just a few months ago.

Google knows what's going on. They've been forming their current lawsuits since January. They don't go after Clickbank products because, generally speaking, Clickbank products are quality and you can always get a refund if the product isn't.

The vendors also won't have their products approved by Clickbank if it is blatantly pretending to be of some higher affiliation with Google than simply an advertiser. (Like anyone using Adwords is.)

Google will, for most people, settle outside of court for probably six figures and lawyer fees. Which is like getting a speeding ticket for most CPA advertisers/good affiliates doing any real volume.

Google isn't the good guy - their just taking a piece of the pie now that the public has put pressure on them to not allow these products to be advertised on their advertising platform.

Do these products hurt Google's rep? Kind of.

Is this good PR for Google which in turn raises rep? You bet.

Will they make high eight to low nine figures with settlements? You bet.

If Google treated Clickbank vendors this way they simply couldn't pay up. And since they aren't doing anything "wrong" they don't bother them.

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A Bary

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

On the contrary: actually there are, at the moment, many US lawsuits listed and pending of which Google is the plaintiff, over people using the word Google in product names.

Rather you than I, though. Have fun!