Google just de-indexed my Ringtone Sites

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Not to mine. Was it PPC or organic? Were you buying links. I've stopped all of my link buys. The bastards are getting good!
 
There is something brewing right now with Google and Ringtones... It's not good.

I know a few other big affiliates in ringtones have been hit pretty hard in recent days. I was on the phone with Google three times yesterday trying to get a solid answer.

Essentially, I believe Google is finally going to start enforcing compliance on landing pages. If you use a jump page, the providers landing page must have a checkbox before submitting the users phone number. If you're running a white label or API, same situation.

It's been Googles policy for a while now that terms and pricing have to be clearly displayed next to the phone number entry field with a checkbox. It was only a matter of time before they started enforcing it.
 
That and you have to place the terms and pricing on your jump page.

As long as they'll actually enforce it across the board this time, I don't see a problem, as everyone will have to deal with it.
 
It will be interesting to see how soon the providers will follow through with their checkboxes and opt-ins. If so, we should be seeing some slightly modified landing pages from the major providers soon (Flycell, Funmobile, etc.) as they too have to adapt.
 
ImagesAndWords said:
It will be interesting to see how soon the providers will follow through with their checkboxes and opt-ins. If so, we should be seeing some slightly modified landing pages from the major providers soon (Flycell, Funmobile, etc.) as they too have to adapt.
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They already have google compliant landing pages. Google did this once before about a year ago and they were created then.
 
motivebrendan said:
google if you are out there --you SUCK and are a pain in the ass. yup i said it.
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The part that's a pain in the ass is that Google has more volume reach and anyone else. Nobody has access to the network that Google does and I don't see this changing anytime in the near future. It's hard not to put all your eggs in one basket when there is only one basket.

gopher said:
That and you have to place the terms and pricing on your jump page.

As long as they'll actually enforce it across the board this time, I don't see a problem, as everyone will have to deal with it.
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The question is when that will happen... Even right now I see no one advertising with Google-compliant landing pages.
 
aim said:
The part that's a pain in the ass is that Google has more volume reach and anyone else. Nobody has access to the network that Google does and I don't see this changing anytime in the near future. It's hard not to put all your eggs in one basket when there is only one basket.

The question is when that will happen... Even right now I see no one advertising with Google-compliant landing pages.
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Agreed on both parts.

Anyone here running google compliant pages already? ;)
 
aim said:
The part that's a pain in the ass is that Google has more volume reach and anyone else. Nobody has access to the network that Google does and I don't see this changing anytime in the near future. It's hard not to put all your eggs in one basket when there is only one basket.



The question is when that will happen... Even right now I see no one advertising with Google-compliant landing pages.
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You are 100% on point. Search is a crazy world and it does not look like it will get any easier to work in anytime soon. But if it was easy everyone would do it right?
 
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