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Published: January 4, 2012
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Does this essentially mean that they only like affiliate who run campaigns via their own affiliate network?
A lot of affiliates succeed in organic search still (maybe not so much in the hotel space) but it can be hard to operate as an affiliate in AdWords in some of the more competitive markets (based on the combination of click prices & editorial policies).
Please get THAT site owner to change their website to comply so it's not misleading.
For which they don't care that I am not the owner and for which I asked if anybody had tried the product and it was disregarded.
So I'm one of the 30,000 who one day logged in to find my Adwords account banned. And that's pretty much the end of the story. Google is NOT interested.
The ad WAS in your account, inactive or not, notification or not, don't care how long you were a paying customer, don't care we once approved it.. you violated it, you are gone.
I know the website owner personally. He said he's tried many times to contact Google. They won't open a dialog.
And there you go.
Small Business owners for Google and head on over to Bing, Yahoo or the DMOZ.
You would think that what they would suggest as "best practices" advice for affiliates wouldn't be career ending, but in many cases that presumption would be incorrect.
Sorry to hear they screwed you. :(
Now voices are rising against the google ... their products are failing terribly ... so soon we will be able to see the soft form of Google.
It is hard comment on whether variances are good or bad without know what type of variances they are. Generally the "buy a pre-built site & just add marketing" variety is usually a bad signal though, due to duplicate content filters at search engines & how frequently the "just add marketing" type of sites are associated with MLM styled stuff.