Adwords Suspended: ClickBank

Don't bother trying to sell Clickbank products with Adwords.

If you have to use Adwords then use it to build a newsletter email list, then do the selling on the backend.

Also, If you look around you'll find plenty of PPC besides Adwords that will give you more freedom in how you promote an affiliate product.

There's no magic answer but understand Google's view of maintaining a good user experience and not just sending people to a page with links directly out.

I'd agree with the newsletter approach but also try building landing pages that a free of adverts completely but let users navigate to other pages where you may conduct a genuine review of a product.

They got picky with my ads and finally they suspended my account. In my opinion Adwords and Google don't like affiliates. There are lots of other PPC and PPV places to advertise.

Unfortunately there is probably nothing you can do, once Google figures out that your an affiliate promoting clickbank products they don't want you. I personally believe that Google is looking for product owners and not affiliates for there network. Product owners have more invested in there product or service then and affiliate has, and affiliate is just trying to make a quick buck. Google wants there user experience to be the best quality possible. The unfortunate reality is that most affiliate made sites aren't good quality. I believe the reason for your suspension is because your directing visitors to another site. In Google eyes when a viewer clicks on your ad and visits your site he or she should already be on the product page, not have to click over to another website.

I feel you dude I was also suspended form Adwords for just about the same exact reason. Adwords has changed over these past years.

I can't remember how many courses have came out in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 about using Adwords to make money with Clickbank products. Then Google ban adwords accounts left right and center

Where have you been bro?

Nigel

Hi IceCreamTruck,

Google users have complained about being sent to "bridge pages" rather than the page where the product is offered when clicking an advertisement. In response to the poor user experience provided by the use of advertiser bridge pages, AdWords has a strict NO Bridge Page policy.

Apparently, your idea of "high quality" content differs from Google's users perception of "high quality". It isn't the fact that you are promoting a Clickbank product, it is specifically your method of using a bridge page that is not in compliance with AdWords' policy.

I link to another page on my blog where I offer full review of the product with a link to clickbank.

For this, the landing page has to offer partial information, and lead the visitor to clicking the link to the other page to continue reading...

For instance, say you talk about something you achieved and to know how exactly you did it, the visitor has to click to the next page. Takes some imaginative writing (should be keyword focussed as well as give only partial info) and leading the visitor to click to the next page to read more.

Of course, it does reduce conversions, and makes it less worthwhile than earlier.

You can still use adwords with clickbank, and you should really, really provide some information about the product(s) you're promoting. If you fail in that, then they'll slap the bridge page error to you.

Well you see they do this because of all the other shady type of affiliate stuff that has been going down for YEARS. THey have seen it ALL. So they need to set up these sort of standards so they don't get burned, and neither does their web searchers.

Unfortunately you gotta play by their rules, is there any other way you can get traffic to your LP?

This is one sad thing about AdWords...and the reason why I only use AdSense/Words on Hubpages...

Try to bring the above points you have mentioned in front of Google.Make your product tell more about what really you are providing and make your content well enough to catch the eyes of everyone.

you were lucky to get a warning at least. most of the time they ll ban without any warning !

what are good alternatives then? facebook? bing? which is better? Youtube?

Sadly no! Everything you're reading here is wrong!

You can promote ClickBank on AdWords. I can think of 2 products (mid gravity) that show up on AdWords. Stumbled across them using KeyWord spy.

The sites are nicely designed and compliant with the policies:

- No pop-ups
- Video does not auto-play
- content rich
- easy to navigate
- no crazy claims (Lose 20lbs in 2 Days!)
- every review has a disclosure attached to it (results are not typical)

These have been advertised on it for months. I had a friend promote his CB product on AdWords but eventually gave up because it was too costly. Not because Google slapped him.

I'm promoting affiliate offers of a private affiliate network on AdWords. Works fine. Direct link and all that. But again, the sites are absolutely compliant with the guidelines they've given.

Look for quality products that Google feels have compliant websites and you can still use AdWords.

I would argue that it is really a waste of time to send PPC traffic cold to a ClickBank product. It can convert but pre-selling once they are on your list is much better.

-Vikram

As Dan Kennedy teaches, the worst number in business is one. One client, one product, one lead or traffic source, etc.

Why? Because if one falls through for some reason, you're diversified enough to absorb it. So here's a suggestion...

Diversify into other traffic sources. For the sake of speed, look into using other PPC systems such as Bing Ads, etc. In fact, consider testing every legitimate traffic source you can afford (in terms of both time and money) and track ROI to make sure each pulls its own weight.

This will give you more traffic and time to bring your Adwords campaigns & site into compliance with Google's TOS. Plus you'll be more diversified and thus better prepared to face other unforeseen issues that will no doubt arise.

~ Marty Foley

Adwords suspended my site for bridge pages and the use of the word FREE, I sell affillorama products and one of affilorama's hooks is to get you to sign up for free training at the lowest end of the chain. You benefit from it and it creates a opening to up sell the prospect after they are familiar with the affilorama catalogue

Affilorama provides the banner that say FREE AFFILIATE TRAINING... and Google said I was making unattainable propositions or some line like that

My landing page had a open letter explaining that if you expect to plug in a software and host a page you'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams, you are lying to yourself. I go on to say that affiliate marketing costs money you may not recover... all in my opening. They, GOOGLE, said I was offering unrealistic offers. The rep even clipped that sentence and told me that is was a factor in the decision... that clip out was "you'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams" Which if you pull it out of the paragraph like that it says the complete opposite of the way it was presented. Apparently the rep has issues with grammar. So instead of setting realistic expectations by warning a person that they could lose money if they buy into hype.. I get accused of hyping my product!! INSANE!

I pointed out to this asshat that my adsense banners on my page have 3 blocks and at the time I was on the phone with him 2 of the three had a "FREE REPORT" as the text of the ad... BUT I was in violation!

They told me to add disclaimers on EVERY PAGE of my blog that said results are not typical... Product reviews and best practices are the bulk of my blog points... but they had to have disclaimers in every footer.

They told me to jump through hoop after hoop and still I am suspended, the last woman I spoke with said I would need to completely rebuild my site as I would never be compliant as it is today!!

But Google owns the brass ring... So I guess I either play along or die on the vine. I like th idea someone made about linking internally then out to break the bridge issue. But if Google cannot read a sentence as it is written and understand the context,,, I don't think they want to have my business... It feels like I am on the naughty list and I will never be allowed to spend my money at google's booth.

I'm done spewing now.... I gues I'm still mad about the whole thing. I don't like being accused of cheating people.