Email/Zip Submit Offers Dying?

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So I got this message from Yahoo SM:

After a careful review, however, we must stand by our original decision
to decline your Ad for the Data Collection guideline.

Promotes an unacceptable service: The collection of personally
identifiable information to be used for consumer or promotional marketing, or
related purposes.
Examples include, but are not limited to, sites that offer free cards
or consumer electronic products in exchange for completing an online
offer or survey.
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And if I remember right, I think I saw a post around here somewhere for someone who heard the same thing from Google (even though I haven't had that problem yet with Google).

Are zip/email submit offers dying? How can you get around this type of thing?
 


Same thing happened to me last week with them. They removed every single ad I had running......UGH! :repuke:
 
I had this happen to me when I began to optimize an already successful email submit campaign. One ad got flagged and the editor killed everything. This was my only "big" campaign so I went to great measures to redo everything to give the appearence of an actual website, but during this I resubmitted anyway and got approved with a slightly different landing page.

The main change was changing the LP from just a basic image & text more of a "website" with some actual content (this was YSM). I'm losing about 10-15% of my visitors to other pages in my site where they read? or? But I can afford a drop in eCPC as long as the campaign keeps up.

Downside with the editors being more stringent is I'm afraid to submit new ad copies that might get flagged and bring my whole campaign down, so just using "bland" ads for now.
 
So what you're saying then, is you got around this by basically making your landing page seem not so much like a landing page?

Is that about right?
 
Yep, thats the ticket. Make it look like a real site. Heck, even turn it into a 'real' site, offer content. Sure the whole idea is to get the submit but make it look like you have 'better' intentions ;)
 
themadpaddy said:
And if I remember right, I think I saw a post around here somewhere for someone who heard the same thing from Google (even though I haven't had that problem yet with Google).
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That's right. Google is getting tougher on it too:
http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate...oogle-s-data-collection-site-policy-shit.html

The trend seems to be that both advertisers and search engines are moving away from supporting that business model. As mentioned already, I also think we will see more 2nd or 3rd page conversion offers rather than the old 1-page submits.

Until then - you can still get around this though with some sneaky methods. ;)
 
I can assure everyone that e-mail submits are not going anywhere! But, zips... thats a whole other beast. I have a feeling those will eventually die out because of fraud.

In my history working with e-subs, I have a feeling that the advertiser (not the ad network), will scrub leads to stay positive. Besides, there is a HUGE demand for this type of advertising.

But, in the future it will slowly move to full-reg... but that means better payouts. So, for example... you might get an e-sub for 1.25, but get a full-reg for 2.50...

At the end of the day your EPC will hopefully stay about the same... I know a few networks that are offing some good full-reg's already.
 
amjonathon is right. Zip submits are hard to come by now. I don't really see e-mail submits going away any time soon but there is definitly less around now than there was a year ago.
 
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