Comments on: Collateral Damage in Google’s War Against Affiliate Marketers on AdWords http://avlmarketing.com/370/googles-war-against-marketers-on-adwords/ Modern Marketing for Small Businesses Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:14:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tracy Sigler http://avlmarketing.com/370/googles-war-against-marketers-on-adwords/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Tracy Sigler Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:08:59 +0000 http://www.avlmarketing.com/?p=370#comment-144 Yes, they are clearly shutting down anything that even looks like affiliate marketing. It's really frustrating. Maybe if you can keep contacting them they will finally get back to you. Your problem may be that all the links on your site immediately go off-site. Maybe using intermediate pages or at least cloaking the links with redirects would have helped. Just brainstorming... Yes, they are clearly shutting down anything that even looks like affiliate marketing. It’s really frustrating. Maybe if you can keep contacting them they will finally get back to you. Your problem may be that all the links on your site immediately go off-site. Maybe using intermediate pages or at least cloaking the links with redirects would have helped. Just brainstorming…

]]> By: GDI http://avlmarketing.com/370/googles-war-against-marketers-on-adwords/comment-page-1/#comment-143 GDI Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:58:38 +0000 http://www.avlmarketing.com/?p=370#comment-143 My adwords account was recently cancelled by Google and they never would give me a solid reason why. I have always had high quality scores on all my landing pages, and all of a sudden, in one day, the quality score dropped and they sent me a "final notice" and said I had "repeated violations" of adword policies. I asked what these violations were but they never would respond, and they refused to reconsider the cancellation of my account. My guess is they have decided to get rid of all affiliate advertisers. I suspect though this could have long-term implications for Google, I was spending around $400 a month with Google adwords, and have read that over the past 60 days, Google has cancelled over 15,000 accounts. If the other affiliate advertisers were averaging around $400 a month, that is $72 million a year in revenues gone forever. I know Google is a huge empire and $72 million a year is probably a drop in the bucket, but, I suspect that long-term, they may reconsider banning accounts for life over trivial "violations. Lets hope so anyway. My adwords account was recently cancelled by Google and they never would give me a solid reason why. I have always had high quality scores on all my landing pages, and all of a sudden, in one day, the quality score dropped and they sent me a “final notice” and said I had “repeated violations” of adword policies. I asked what these violations were but they never would respond, and they refused to reconsider the cancellation of my account.

My guess is they have decided to get rid of all affiliate advertisers. I suspect though this could have long-term implications for Google, I was spending around $400 a month with Google adwords, and have read that over the past 60 days, Google has cancelled over 15,000 accounts. If the other affiliate advertisers were averaging around $400 a month, that is $72 million a year in revenues gone forever.

I know Google is a huge empire and $72 million a year is probably a drop in the bucket, but, I suspect that long-term, they may reconsider banning accounts for life over trivial “violations. Lets hope so anyway.

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