Amit Mehta: "Google gave me the middle finger"

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Anyone else ever get a message like this from Google? Amit Mehta claims to have gotten it, and now claims that because he got it, there is a major affiliate smackdown going on.

“It has come to our attention that despite multiple disapprovals, you have repeatedly submitted ads that violate our Editorial Guidelines and content policies.
Please consider this notice a final warning. If you submit these ads again or continue to run ads that violate our policies, we will be unable to run any of your AdWords ads in the future.”
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I've gotten it. It was when I was brand bidding on moneytree terms for payday. And I kept typoing my terms by 1 letter to avoid the filter. I'd get a letter from adwords legal team each time. Eventually on the 4th time that's the exact msg I got.
 
I don't know Amit's game plan (trying to scare people whitehat?) but since when can't you open up a new adwords account? And even if you were banned from adwords and couldn't open a new account (which you could, just open an account through your business) there is always YSM, Adcenter, Content networks, media buys, starting a super affiliate blog, or if you want to get into mailing, seo, making your own offers, making your own network, starting a super affiliate blog, selling your secrets in an ebook, etc etc. All things someone with affiliate marketing skills could do.
 
CShoemaker said:
All things someone with affiliate marketing skills could do.
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I think you hit it on the head. He only knows how to use the advertising program every idiot business owner in the world uses. And only by the book - not run multiple accounts.
 
I've got that by bidding on a trademark of HUGE company that must have some employees just searching google all day long.

His post screams, "so i was promoting this anti abortion site that sells drug test aid pass kits, tequila for $1.50 a bottle, anabolic steroids for $5 a pack all packaged in this nice Gucci knock off designer bag, but google didn't like it. I think it may have been the fake ids or the bongs or the panda fur coats or the fireworks or the $50 coupon for the poker site or the how to hack the fbi database or the click bot or the cure for aids or the free ringtones or the hookers or the how to get wells fargo bank logins and passwords guide or the teen porn or the adsense templates or the smokes or the radar jammer or the colt .45 gun or that e-gold site that i'm promoting...but I'm not sure. It must be that google is laying the smackdown on affiliates. Yeah that's it!"
 
I got that message after I resubmitted the same ad 10 or 12 times (their reasoning was bs, they claimed emusic was an unauthorized download site and violating copyrights). So his claim that he got it on the first try is pretty much not true.
 
I've gotten the message before too, from constantly adding ads with high CTR that didn't conform to their display URL policies.

It scared me so much that I quit affiliate marketing altogether and I went back to my old job at Dunder Mifflin slangin paper.
 
threehundred said:
I've gotten the message before too, from constantly adding ads with high CTR that didn't conform to their display URL policies.

It scared me so much that I quit affiliate marketing altogether and I went back to my old job at Dunder Mifflin slangin paper.
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I've gotten that message before. And I think if they disapprove your ad again they just ban you instead. I got that message and then like a month later I tried running a completely different offer on the same keywords that got me in trouble and they didn't care. Some douche at google just disapproved it for no reason and then the system banned my account. I got them to approve the same ad that got me banned later, but they didn't remove the ban because they are all retarded robots.
 
I got the same email a month ago on my largest campaign. The claimed my dating ads were anti content. Which put me in the same group as gay bashers and racists. WooHoo Since when did saying your competition sucks warrant such a claim...
 
So those google fridges don't stop your account from getting banned.

damn, now it looks like I'll have to get myself a pair of those google goggles too.
 
CShoemaker said:
...there is always YSM, Adcenter, Content networks, media buys, starting a super affiliate blog, or if you want to get into mailing, seo, making your own offers, making your own network, starting a super affiliate blog, selling your secrets in an ebook, etc etc. All things someone with affiliate marketing skills could do.
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Precisely. It also boggles my mind that Google has such an anti-affiliate stance when they now own their own affiliate company and don't ban companies that use affiliate networks. I liked this comment from Amit's blog:

"I gave up on Google a long time ago. I don’t need a business partner who doesn’t communicate."
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I wonder how much of Google's revenue comes from affiliates. Based on the ads I see, It's got to be large. What ever it is, I'm pretty sure that's not going to be replaced by companies dishing up offers direct, especially if those companies don't adhere to Google's byzantine rules for using Adwords. Affiliate marketers with years of experience struggle to understand AdWords, so a small company selling product X is going to have one hell of an uphill climb getting the job done.

There are just too many alternatives to explore without relying on Google alone. So go ahead and ban all affiliate marketers, Google. Just don't come crying during your next shareholder meeting.
 
If you ban affiliate marketing then only outlaws will be affiliate marketers!
 
A blog and an adwords account does not a marketing pro make. I think the AM blogosphere has shown us that on more than one occasion.
 
If google is only interested in pennies per click merchants ads , then they will loose a lot of their stock value. They will be letting go of Aff marketers paying hundreds of times that amount.

He must have done some really weird deal to keep getting that message given how much he spends at G.
 
Most advertisers should allow pre-pop into their campaigns to overcome this. So that we can make real sites and put up forms to fillup on the landing pages with SSL etc.
 
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