Does anyone have Adwords Tips for Affiliates?

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dealmstr

Dealmstr
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I just got cut from CJ and I wasn't even violating any terms. It appeared that by broad matched keywords my ads were geting served for trademarks that I wasn't even bidding on.
I called adwords and they didn't give me a straight answer.

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dealmstr
 


Add alot of content, have a privacy policy, and Quality score optimization is becoming more and more similar to traditional SEO....

Oh yea...and dont push rebills :)
 
Yes, CJ is a seperate entity from ADWORDS. If you violated the TOS for CJ (I assume this is Commission Junction?) then you would have to contact them.

ADWORDS i.e. Google is D.E.A.T.H. on marketers whose advertisements go directly to an affliate page. That seems to be the fastest way to get sacked by ADWORDS right now. Your landing page has to be to a unique domain that is NOT a redirect, a squeeze page, or any other blatantly affiliate marketing related landing page.
 
dealmstr said:
I just got cut from CJ and I wasn't even violating any terms. It appeared that by broad matched keywords my ads were geting served for trademarks that I wasn't even bidding on.
I called adwords and they didn't give me a straight answer.
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Its nothing to do with adwords, you said CJ banned you for brand/tm bidding. You clearly were doing something stupidly wrong by not adding the brand prohibited terms as negative match to your campaign. Had you done that, you'd still be fine by the sounds of it.
 
I have heard that CPS offers can work direct linking if done right. It's very profitable. Just has to be a clean offer that doesn't violate googles terms. Google adwords doesn't like bridge pages
 
I tried doing PPC on my site and Google said it was a bridge page. They hatchet you if you're not smart with your AM/IM skillz.
 
Sounds like you violated CJ terms of service. Since your bidding broad match, perhaps some trademarked terms came up. Make sure you place all these trademark terms as negative matches. Then you won't have this problem.

Contact CJ and talk to them about it.

I tried doing PPC on my site and Google said it was a bridge page. They hatchet you if you're not smart with your AM/IM skillz.
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It's common knowledge now that you cannot have a blatant bridge page. Google TOS make it extremely difficult sometimes. Like JCash said, have something in the tail end and you will make the $$$
 
skohh said:
I have heard that CPS offers can work direct linking if done right. It's very profitable. Just has to be a clean offer that doesn't violate googles terms. Google adwords doesn't like bridge pages
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NEVER link an AdWords campaign to a domain where you don't have complete control of the content on it, unless you're ok with getting a lifetime ban. The problem with direct linking to CPA, or even CPS offers, is if for any reason, at any time, even years later, that page violates any of their rules, they'll suspend you, and then later upgrade that suspension to permanent or lifetime as you didn't make the page compliant.

Contrary to popular belief they don't ban you just for being an affiliate, rather for bridging, or otherwise not providing 'unique' content. As long as you aren't doing anything overtly shady, you can usually get by doing affiliate offers using your own sites, especially if you don't have an affiliate link on your landing page (sending the offers through email, white labelling, or doing host and post etc.). If/when their compliance team have a problem with your site, since you control the content, you can eventually get your suspension lifted, through a series of page edits and appeals.
 
Adwords isn't the problem, as long as the landing page isn't spammy or shady looking, and has decent content you can direct link to the offer.

CJ is the bigger issue. As a long time publisher, I got scolded recently for violating the terms of a merchant who I'd signed up for but wasn't sending traffic to. As I've been accepted to around 200+ programs within CJ, they apparently expect me to read and memorize each program term (200+). So whenever I promote a CJ offer, I not only have to know the terms of that offer, but each of their competitor's terms as well too.

So needless to say, I'm now focused more on CPA networks and less on CJ.
 
edward_b said:
Its nothing to do with adwords, you said CJ banned you for brand/tm bidding. You clearly were doing something stupidly wrong by not adding the brand prohibited terms as negative match to your campaign. Had you done that, you'd still be fine by the sounds of it.
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Not worthy of a lifetime ban IMO.
 
SethH said:
NEVER link an AdWords campaign to a domain where you don't have complete control of the content on it, unless you're ok with getting a lifetime ban. The problem with direct linking to CPA, or even CPS offers, is if for any reason, at any time, even years later, that page violates any of their rules, they'll suspend you, and then later upgrade that suspension to permanent or lifetime as you didn't make the page compliant.

Contrary to popular belief they don't ban you just for being an affiliate, rather for bridging, or otherwise not providing 'unique' content. As long as you aren't doing anything overtly shady, you can usually get by doing affiliate offers using your own sites, especially if you don't have an affiliate link on your landing page (sending the offers through email, white labelling, or doing host and post etc.). If/when their compliance team have a problem with your site, since you control the content, you can eventually get your suspension lifted, through a series of page edits and appeals.
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This.

I create (video) squeeze pages with minimal text all the time and I get 7/10 quality scores straight off the bat.
 
SethH said:
NEVER link an AdWords campaign to a domain where you don't have complete control of the content on it, unless you're ok with getting a lifetime ban. The problem with direct linking to CPA, or even CPS offers, is if for any reason, at any time, even years later, that page violates any of their rules, they'll suspend you, and then later upgrade that suspension to permanent or lifetime as you didn't make the page compliant.

Contrary to popular belief they don't ban you just for being an affiliate, rather for bridging, or otherwise not providing 'unique' content. As long as you aren't doing anything overtly shady, you can usually get by doing affiliate offers using your own sites, especially if you don't have an affiliate link on your landing page (sending the offers through email, white labelling, or doing host and post etc.). If/when their compliance team have a problem with your site, since you control the content, you can eventually get your suspension lifted, through a series of page edits and appeals.
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Or you can submit a totally above-board site and change it to include affiliate links after the fact :)
 
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