We had clarification from Google today on a topic that has always caused much discussion amongst the Blackhatters… How best to use run Content campaigns on You Tube. Google clarified for us that the Search results pages within You Tube is part of the search partners network whereas the actual video pages are part of [...]
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Google’s Unfair Advantage: Part 2
Posted: 12th June 2010 by blackhat in Google AdWords, PPC Bloopers, You TubeTags: Google's Unfair Advantage
Continuing on from our earlier post about Google’s Unfair Advantage, we’ve found more examples of Google using AdWords to deliver ad types that aren’t open to other AdWords users. Google clamps down heavily on advertisers for double serving, which is understandable as they don’t want one advertiser taking up all the space in the SERP’s. [...]
Masking Affiliate Links
Posted: 6th June 2010 by blackhat in Affiliate PPC, BEST Black Hat PPC Posts, You TubeTags: Affiliate PPC, Black Hat PPC, You Tube
One of the greatest tools that affiliate’s have is the ability to mask their affiliate links. This gives more credibility to users to click on the link (as they don’t see lots of affiliate tracking codes in the links) whilst still giving the affiliate the cookie. There are many ways to mask affiliate links, but [...]
Google’s Unfair Advantage
Posted: 31st May 2010 by blackhat in PPC Bloopers, You TubeTags: Google's Unfair Advantage
Nice to see that Google uses it’s AdWords platform for it’s own advantage. See the ad below for You Tube…excessive amounts of bolding! Brought to you by Black Hat PPC.
You Cant Watch You Tube Video’s When Cloaking Your IP Address
Posted: 1st May 2010 by blackhat in You TubeTags: You Tube
We were recently on You Tube looking at trying to see if video’s were suggested differently depending on your Geo-Location, however, upon cloaking our IP address we found that You Tube wont let you view videos. You get an error message as you can see above. We can only speculate as to the reason [...]