Comments on: Adwords Slaps– a good thing

By: phrench

phrench — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:54:20 +0000

Thanks for the tip. More legit offers often are more competitive and pay less though.
Haven’t promoted info products so far since I don’t like their Clickbank touch.

By: John Hasson

John Hasson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:35:26 +0000

@phrench
I don’t think google is “after affiliates.” They are after things that make them look bad. Lets say there is a deceptive rebill offer, and people buy it after seeing it on google, google looks bad.. The same goes for certain info products, etc.

Don’t sell affiliate products that you would not want your mom, dad, brother, sister, etc. to buy… Don’t push products/services that you wouldn’t want to see people you actually care about using. That alone will save you massive headaches.

There isn’t anything wrong with an info product or a rebill product–just know that a *garbage* info product or a *deceptive* rebill won’t last long.

By: phrench

phrench — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:14:16 +0000

That’s what I did after the last slap. The answer was my site does primarily redirect traffic to merchant X which is already being advertised in adwords and they don’t want to have different ads for the same merchant online.

What’s your take on this? What’s your general approach to promote affiliate offers in adwords? It’s obvious that google wants to get rid of affiliates.
Building a list for this kind of offer would work very bad and drive down EPC.

FYI: It’s not a rebill offer and the slapped site came back in the organic SERPs after 3 months of being de-indexed and is now ranking pretty well.

By: Jeremy Palmer

Jeremy Palmer — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:11:50 +0000

Good advice. Much better than the fear mongering put out by others – http://www.perrymarshall.com/product-review-google-slap/.