Okay we take it all back A4U isn’t as bad as we made out! Day 2 was a lot better with some really interesting presentations on link building for affiliate sites and Facebook performance marketing. There was a terrible presentation on ‘how to avoid a Google Slap’ by Clickbank who clearly has never been slapped [...]
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A4U…an expo for affiliates to come and present on affiliate marketing.Hhowever, instead of it being presentations on new ways for affiliaites to make money…its really just an excuse for affiliates to promote their services. The whole concept is flawed from the outset as no affiliate is really going to tell other affiliates how they are [...]
Why a dam good Google Slap can be a good thing!
Posted: 8th October 2010 by blackhat in Black Hat PPC, Google AdWordsTags: Affiliate PPC, Black Hat PPC, Google AdWords, Quality Score
The dreaded Google Slap…every affiliates worse knightmare! Where Google determines that your campaign is in violation of its guidelines for some reason and then lowers all your keyword Quality Score to 1/10…pretty much putting your PPC campaign in the dustbin. Well if you do get Google slapped and manage to get the decision reversed by [...]
Google Policy Update: Cause for concern for affiliates?
Posted: 2nd August 2010 by blackhat in Affiliate PPC, Black Hat PPCTags: Affiliate PPC, Black Hat PPC
The BlackHatters were looking at the new Google AdWords Policy Change Log and noticed one of the points on there under ‘Implied Affiliation.’ Implied Affiliation is one of the many ways that affiliates work and was one of the reason that Google clamped down hard on affiliate websites that looked too similar to merchants sites [...]



