Google Slap Fest 2009

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msullens88

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Google Slaps are getting even more annoying recently, Anyone have any info on what they are really looking into right now and any tips on prevention?



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Fucking right man! (#2)

On the other hand, I've only been slapped a couple times, so you must just be doing it wrong or something. It takes forever, but SEO your lp's w/ 1keyword per adgroup. Meta NOindex all the "duplicate" pages that are too similar from your "main" keyword
in a set. PROVIDE VALUE and make a better page than you see in the SERPS.
 
Stop using them. I haven't been slapped at all this year, and my revenue and profits have increased month over month.
 
Had a 40 minute talk with Google about slaps yesterday. The one thing I keep hearing from them is "A big focus of ours currently is "diversity of results". With the affiliate model, there is a big reliance on creating the same kinds of sites. We want to avoid duplicate content in our results".

When I told them that my site was 100% original so what they were saying didn't make sense, I was told that by "duplicate content" they include "style of promotion".

They are vague, inconsistent and all in all, full of shit.
 
Their staff are a bunch of retards when it comes to customer service, but that's what you get from an almost-monopoly search engine like Big G.

Back in the day when I bitched at them, they told me that "You will not get a positive ROI from your webpage". I mean, why try to go that route to try and convince me not to promote what I was promoting? Be up front and tell me that the style of my LP is prohibited etc, don't fucking tell me that I will not make money off what I am doing.

Must be nice as a company to not have to suck up to everyone with the "Customer is always right mentality". I hope one day they get theirs, and I'm sure that day will come. Just hope it's sooner than we think.
 
^^ I hope so too. I remember having to deal with Yahoo a little in 1999 and just thinking man I hope these smug SOBs get what's coming to them. The money I lost in the tech bust was almost worth seeing them crash. (I didn't have much money and thus didn't loose to much)
 
msullens88 said:
Google Slaps are getting even more annoying recently
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Amen to that!

Garrett said:
It takes forever, but SEO your lp's w/ 1keyword per adgroup. Meta NOindex all the "duplicate" pages that are too similar from your "main" keyword in a set. PROVIDE VALUE and make a better page than you see in the SERPS.
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This doesn't even seem to help anymore, at least not on G Search.

I've given them a solid content website with;
- several pages of unique content and articles, throroughly researched
- aged domain with anchored backlinks and SEO love
- a blog on the backend
- custom LPs with highly relevant content for the keyword and ads
- easy LP navigation and site structure
- clear path to actions for the end user
- informative and helpful reviews

The site;
- is not a flog
- is not a LP ripoff
- does not have any short "squeeze" pages

And of course, 2 keywords per adgroup. Tightly themed campaigns/adgroups, the works.

And what do I receive as a thanks from G for taking the time to build this?

"Here....take this red hot poker and jam it up your ass - and enjoy this 1/10 QS, biotch"

gopher said:
Stop using them. I haven't been slapped at all this year, and my revenue and profits have increased month over month.
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Some golden advice right there.

dickarmy said:
They are vague, inconsistent and all in all, full of shit.
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And Amen to that as well!!!

My hate for Adwords "support" is growing more and more for every campaign I try to launch with them. What other company would dare to treat their customers like utter shit like this?
 
ImagesAndWords said:
Amen to that!


This doesn't even seem to help anymore, at least not on G Search.

I've given them a solid content website with;
- several pages of unique content and articles, throroughly researched
- aged domain with anchored backlinks and SEO love
- a blog on the backend
- custom LPs with highly relevant content for the keyword and ads
- easy LP navigation and site structure
- clear path to actions for the end user
- informative and helpful reviews

The site;
- is not a flog
- is not a LP ripoff
- does not have any short "squeeze" pages

And of course, 2 keywords per adgroup. Tightly themed campaigns/adgroups, the works.

And what do I receive as a thanks from G for taking the time to build this?

"Here....take this red hot poker and jam it up your ass - and enjoy this 1/10 QS, biotch"


Some golden advice right there.


And Amen to that as well!!!

My hate for Adwords "support" is growing more and more for every campaign I try to launch with them. What other company would dare to treat their customers like utter shit like this?
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Fucking hell bro you do all the right shit and google fucks you over, I remember a while back you posted a thread about google discriminating you coz you're from Norway, I really think that's whats going on with your situation.

Do you promote only cpa offers or do you go for sales aswell? and if you do go for sales what is your QS verses your cpa offers QS?
 
Sticks79 said:
Fucking hell bro you do all the right shit and google fucks you over, I remember a while back you posted a thread about google discriminating you coz you're from Norway, I really think that's whats going on with your situation.

Do you promote only cpa offers or do you go for sales aswell? and if you do go for sales what is your QS verses your cpa offers QS?
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Yeah I'm starting to think G hates my blonde ass, lol...

My QS is usually better for sites where I run sales or physical products. For CPA offers, I generally have a harder time getting the QS that high across the board.
 
Sticks79 said:
Fucking hell bro you do all the right shit and google fucks you over, I remember a while back you posted a thread about google discriminating you coz you're from Norway, I really think that's whats going on with your situation.

Do you promote only cpa offers or do you go for sales aswell? and if you do go for sales what is your QS verses your cpa offers QS?
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I wonder if a new account would change anything.
 
ImagesAndWords said:
Yeah I'm starting to think G hates my blonde ass, lol...

My QS is usually better for sites where I run sales or physical products. For CPA offers, I generally have a harder time getting the QS that high across the board.
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Instead of trying to get click throughs straight to the offer, try using a squeeze page and promoting the CPA offers via email. That way Goog never sees you trying to drive people through aff links. You could mask it as an ezine or whatever. I know not all niches are opt-in friendly, but many are, and then you give yourself the opportunity to offer them more stuff. I think if you're creative with it, you can get people to optin for any offer, dating, email submits, whatever.

I don't do much CPA stuff, but I'm guessing it would work for that.

The thing that really changed it for me was, as lame as it sounds, Jeff Walkers' Product Launch Formula. Instead of trying to "buck it" and get people to read your headline and complete your offer, do it over time. They aren't going to read the sales page anyways, so take them through it over the course of a couple days or a couple weeks. Once you figure out which emails are working, that sequence is launching shit automatically as people are going through the process. You just have to drive traffic to "the headline" (e.g. optin page) and let the sequence take care of all the selling. That's how I use the content network at least. Also, video content + an article of unique content does wonders my QS.
 
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