Azoogle bans "free" ringtone promo

[Andrew]

Very interesting.. Azoogle made this announcement on their site:

"Anyone using search engines to promote ANY Ringtone Offer, be aware that effective TOMORROW 2pm EST, all text ads shall not be allowed to include the words: free, zero cost, no charge, no fee and all synonyms. The only accepted promotions are 10 bonus tones, 10 complimentary tones. At 2PM EST tomorrow, tests of all main search engines with the keywords free ringtones, free wallpapers, free SMS, free tones, etc will be conducted. If you feel you can't edit the text ads by that deadline, stop the campaign."

Additionally, the landing pages now say "9.99 a month."

 

[kyleirwin]

Ouch.

 

[John]

well that just goes and fucks my business. fuck fuck fuck fuck.

Guess it was some good money while it lasted.

fuck.

That promo was making me $1000+ a day.

 

[Xrproto]

well that just goes and fucks my business. fuck fuck fuck fuck.

Guess it was some good money while it lasted.

fuck.

That promo was making me $1000+ a day.

Fuckity fuck-fuck! That sucks!

I feel for you man.

 

[kyleirwin]

Go through another affiliate provider? XY7?

 

[DruSam]

well that just goes and fucks my business. fuck fuck fuck fuck.

Guess it was some good money while it lasted.

fuck.

That promo was making me $1000+ a day.

holy crap...:small-smiley-026:
yeah at least you banked on it while it was around. Time to diversify a bit?

 

[Andrew]

John, it won't work if you don't have free in the headline?

 

[sknydave]

well this sucks

 

[Zygoot-]

This is a bit unprofessional from Azoogle.

If I didn't read this forum I wouldn't know about this. Why haven't they announced this by e-mail? Not everyone reads that Azoogle page everday. And why do they give only 1 day to change this?

 

[Stanley]

I feel like I'm the only one who wasnt cashing in on this.

 

[sknydave]

Some programs already had this in their terms like the Dadamobile program if I remember correctly. I guess its network wide now

 

[John]

holy crap...:small-smiley-026:
yeah at least you banked on it while it was around. Time to diversify a bit?

I didn't really mean it fucks my business, ringtones was only about half my business. I'll still do alright

 

[John]

John, it won't work if you don't have free in the headline?

About 75% of my keywords used either free, no cost, no fee, or no charge. I should still be able to salvage some of my list.

 

[sknydave]

Hopefully this means I'll get more clicks today since I had reworded my ads a while ago

 

[Jon]

The cracking down begins..

 

[dicetomato]

Sheesh, John, care to tell us how you were promoting it?

 

[Jon]

I feel like I'm the only one who wasnt cashing in on this.

I didn't touch the ringtones or smilies markets because they pay shit and don't last very long compared to the stuff we do.

 

[Jon]

Sheesh, John, care to tell us how you were promoting it?

He was hiring professional streakers to go into casinos and BINGO clubs, with his ad painted on their asses.

It's a very secret super affiliate traffic tip that not many people knew about until now!

 

[John]

Sheesh, John, care to tell us how you were promoting it?

Adwords, adcenter, overture, searchfeed, adbrite, private text links

 

[John]

He was hiring professional streakers to go into casinos and BINGO clubs, with his ad painted on their asses.

It's a very secret super affiliate traffic tip that not many people knew about until now!

Hehehe I love how people think it's such a huge secret on how to do this stuff.