Over 2 years ago now (has it really been that long!) Google introduced its landing page quality guidelines which had a big effect on affiliates at the time. Affiliates prior to this used to build ‘thin sites’ which provided little ‘user experience’ with the idea of using PPC to direct traffic to these sites and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Affiliate PPC’
Do Black Hat Affiliates really exist?
Posted: 13th January 2012 by blackhat in Affiliate PPCTags: Affiliate PPC
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A sad day for crazy affiliates – as Google bans iframes for AdSense
Posted: 7th July 2011 by blackhat in Affiliate PPC, Black Hat PPCTags: Affiliate PPC
The BlackHatters were sad to read on SearchEngineLand that Google is banning iframes for AdSense. Back in the day some of the best black hat affiliates used iframes to generate massive revenues by tricking people into thinking they were on a merchants site when they were actually on their own affiliate site. However, Google have [...]
Calling all PPC Affiliates: How long should a redirect be?
Posted: 17th June 2011 by blackhat in Affiliate PPC, Black Hat PPCTags: Affiliate PPC, Black Hat PPC
The BlackHatters need your help if you are doing any PPC that redirects through another site. We are testing how long redirects need to be in order to… 1. Be eligable for Google AdWords ad to be approved and not be disapproved because the destination URL does not match the display URL. and 2. Not [...]
No more misspellings in AdWords? Not good news for affiliates!
Posted: 1st December 2010 by blackhat in Affiliate PPCTags: Affiliate PPC
Recently it seems that Google have been cracking down on PPC affiliates who are using using mispelt ad copy to match the keywords they are bidding on. For example, an affiliate purposely misspells their ad copy headline to match the keyword they are targeting so that the headline is bolded out resulting in a better [...]