Google doesn't like affiliates.

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The sign says "Nowhere".
I know everyone knows that. I recently spoke to a Google rep over their chat system. She said the reason your landing pages are being slapped because you're an affiliate. I said well I don't own the product but yes I'm an affiliate. She said it all up to our policy team. If they deem your pages are not worth while, all they do is drive traffic to the advertiser page, then yes. you will receive poor quality score.

I asked her, as per your guidelines, adding relevant and unique content will increase my landing page quality. She said sure but it won't guarantee that it won't be slapped again. So I asked, what can I do to avoid poor quality on my landing pages. She said the best you can do is add more content and pray.

Now, I'm left wondering what I can do? My landing pages were basically bridge pages but even if more relevant content won't guarantee no slaps, then I'm not sure what else I can do.

I have content website in the same niche. I haven't used that in my adwords campaigns yet because I don't want to risk that domain getting slapped. So, I asked her, how I can use my content site to promote the product. She said use the index page of you content site. Then when I asked her, can I put a link on the my index page to the offer page (dedicate a small section of page to the product..somewhere on top) would that be fine? She I can't guarantee anything.

WTF?
 


what i you run the adwords add for 2-3 weeks on low budget, with no banners or aff links, and then gradually add them to the site?! just a thought...
 
sweeppicker said:
Your promoting an offer Google doesn't like. Duh.
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No they said the offer I'm promoting is fine. My landing page however is not. All it does it direct users to the offer page. Thou I have some content on it.

What I worried about is when I switch my ad urls to my content site and use that as landing page, they may slap that too.

There is also a question bout how I use the my content site as a landing page to drive traffic to the advertiser's page.

I was hoping she would say that you can use your content site and add links to the offer site and it would be fine. She basically said, we don't guarantee that you won't be slapped.
 
soulvagabond said:
what i you run the adwords add for 2-3 weeks on low budget, with no banners or aff links, and then gradually add them to the site?! just a thought...
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Sure but when they manually review the landing pages, they will slap again. This may work on facebook but not for adwords because they manually review your ads, pages and keywords time to time.
 
gopher said:
This is news how?
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No I'm just trying to find out if having a content site guarantees any sort of sustainability?

Sure, I can add a section dedicated to the offer I promoting with a link to the offer page using a call-to-action on my index page of my content site, but am I just going to get slapped again. They didn't say if the offer I'm promoting is bad.

I guess I will have to just try it.
 
If you have a related content website then just put a banner up. They can't say anything bad about that..your sending traffic to a legit content driven site.
 
Add a blog to your main site, put links to various posts or categories in the footer.
Keep adding new content to blog.
 
KC-Coop said:
If you have a related content website then just put a banner up. They can't say anything bad about that..your sending traffic to a legit content driven site.
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That's what the rep was hinting at. Banner is fine, but will have to see if the CTR and conversions stay the same or high enough to be reasonably profitable. I think a text ad with image and call-to-action would work better. I'm setting up my page to test both.
 
this is why people need to start using the wordpress platform for their sites. It acts as a blog, but you can tweak it to make it look more like a cms.
 
The more non-affiliate looking the site appears, the better your chances are of survival. Google is not going to deindex all sites on the web with adverts or ecommerce...they know people need to make money. BUT, they dont like the middleman / affiliate marketing model. THEY want to be the ones in the middle, NOT us.
So, SEO the shit out of your once simple lander..add content but do so in such a way that will not allow the clicks to spill out of your funnel.
If you have a good # of sub pages indexed, with IBLs, and other attributes on subpages that make the site seem legit, youve done your part and chances are G will lay off.
Now for those of us that used to do minisites...landers with a FAQ, contact, TOC et al...that isnt going to cut it any more. Same with bogus blogs (flogs).
Wordpress with rss feeds on subpages isnt a bad idea either..auto gen content....

G'luck
 
affiliatearmy said:
The more non-affiliate looking the site appears, the better your chances are of survival. Google is not going to deindex all sites on the web with adverts or ecommerce...they know people need to make money. BUT, they dont like the middleman / affiliate marketing model. THEY want to be the ones in the middle, NOT us.
So, SEO the shit out of your once simple lander..add content but do so in such a way that will not allow the clicks to spill out of your funnel.
If you have a good # of sub pages indexed, with IBLs, and other attributes on subpages that make the site seem legit, youve done your part and chances are G will lay off.
Now for those of us that used to do minisites...landers with a FAQ, contact, TOC et al...that isnt going to cut it any more. Same with bogus blogs (flogs).
Wordpress with rss feeds on subpages isnt a bad idea either..auto gen content....

G'luck
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Hi affiliatearmy, what do you mean rss feeds on subpages? Where are these rss feeds getting their content? Do you recommend anything for auto generating content?

Google just slapped a site of mine that's been on Adwords for 8 months. It seems to me you are right, they are getting more strict, so I'm just hoping you can elaborate a little on what you were saying there.
 
So in addition to having to bust your ass paying Google for traffic, you gotta follow their bullshit guidelines as far as content goes? Vanilla landing pages aren't kosher if you're an affilate?

Jesus fuck Google. Do no evil my ass.
 
Anyone else having issues with adwords campaigns going live? I've always had a delay on content network campaigns but I launched a search campaign last night and it has yet to see its first impression. I've got two accounts (although linked in MCC) and I've tried search campaigns on both with the same issue.

Looks like I could possibly be flagged or under manual review. Anyone else know the first signs?

Wtf Google? You REALLY don't want my money?
 
Wait until Google starts feeling the heat from their shareholders. Then they won't be such picky cock sucking fucks anymore.

Do no evil? Another worthless corporate motto. FUCK YOU G.
 
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