So you woke up next to your lover – Google – she slapped you, ran out, and told you to never speak to her again.
This sad scenario has played out for many an internet marketer over the past few months. One day, their Adwords campaigns are bringing them in serious dough; next thing they know, their primary source of income evaporates overnight.
Thousands of PPC campaigns suspended with one flip of the Google switch. By the way, this can happen to your organic listings, too (the non-paid listings).
Many articles have been written about the Slap, but few address how to overcome or sidestep it. This article shows you how.
First, why has Google decided to disable so many marketing campaigns promoted by their customers and affiliates?
Quite simply – feedback. Google has received a ton of feedback from it’s millions of users worldwide expressing displeasure with the kinds of search results that show up in the coveted top 30 spots. And it has been an especially aggravated response from people looking to make money online or start a home-based business.
The major complaints were:
1) Duplicate websites
2) Affiliate websites (including those “salesletter” ones you see)
3) “Review” websites that were actually a slick salesletter (or had affiliate links)
4) Websites with limited or unoriginal content
Let’s take a look at numbers 1 and 2. In the next article, we will go over points 3 and 4.
1) Duplicate websites – Google looks for original and unique content to give to it’s users. Duplicated websites, such as those created for marketers involved in “turn-key” systems (like MLM) where they are given identical websites, don’t fit this bill.
Solution: if you have a stock or duplicated webpage that looks like a page someone else is promoting, you can bet Google has, or will, slap you. Create your own original page with original content.
Yes, this takes work, but if you want to be in Google’s good graces, swallow the bitter pill and do it.
2) Affiliate websites – Google turns it’s nose up at sites that promote too many (or only) affiliate links to other sites. Remember, they are looking for original CONTENT, and not endless affiliate links.
The psychology behind this is simple. People use Google to find free information. When all they find are webpages that include nothing but paid venues, users become aggravated and Google starts to lose big time.
Solution: Keep your affiliate links to a minimum, or at least “nested” within your webpage (not too prominent).
Another neat trick is to put your affiliate links into a .pdf document on the website and have a “no follow” command for the document. It’s a bit technical, but basically it prevents Google from sifting through that document to see the links you are promoting. Kind of a slick move – use at your own discretion.
You could make the PDF document available for download by your live users, and not the Google bots that spider your website.
Stay tuned for the rest in part 2!
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Hi wolf, great info on the google slap but have you tried to open another adwords account after a ban?
I had 4 adwords accounts banned, its took me 2 mths to get back to the status they were in, because google dont give you a reason, they ban your account, for life…
I actually haven’t had my accounts banned, I just know people “on the inside” who have figured out what Google wants in order to prevent slaps from happening to them.
Congratulations for having the tenacity to deal with getting your accounts back, especially with how hard it is to reach them and get a valid response.
What was your approach to getting them back to normal status? Let the other users know.
Thanks,
Wolf
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Wow,delisted twice in 10 minutes.I must be doing something right..I wish twitter would get rid of the listing or ego counts.
I haven’t actually *put* the LC numbers on my non-fiction, but I shelve more or less by my recollection of what they’d be. (My fiction is by author’s surname. My colleagues thought I was weird for this but I think they’re weird for thinking it’s weird. I admit that the semi-LC thing is weird though.)
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falcon slap?
Unfortunately, if you want to be perceived again as a team player, you're going to have to humble yourself. Even though I understand where you were coming from, the boss and Sr. Manager probably saw you as having a bad attitude, etc. Talk to your boss about it, be humble and use the angle of miscommunication. Tell him how you are feeling, and how you feel you were perceived, and that is was a miscommunication, but that you could see how it might look like lack of team work, etc. Focus on solutions and moving past it. "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" Good luck, I hope things work out.
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