Is Google Setting the Ground for their Own Affiliate Program?
A lot of talking have been taking place in the past week since Google rolled in their new “mystery quality factor” for landing pages promoted through their Adwords program.
Many have been complaining of minimum bid going as high as 2000% making many ads not profitable and eventually cancelled.
One webmaster took the initiative and called Google to re-consider their site. The response they received, while not official, makes a lot of sense as to where they plan on going:
So I called the support number. Here is the short of it: Google is deliberately removing all affiliate programs from adwords listings. They had a quality team go through and rate their experience on a whole wide group of sites, including affiliate sites. The over-all score for affiliate sites was not high enough to pass their new guidelines therfore they are all being flagged and when found are being removed. Indirectly of course with the $10 min bids.
When I asked what I could do to make it meet their new guidelines she told me, “Honestly we have not had any good news for these types of sites.” No help offered.
In other words, if you plan on promoting affiliate programs through Adwords you can faget-about-it (or pay the costs which will cause you to lose $$).
Can this be done in order to clear the way (and the ad space) for a Google affiliate program? I wouldn’t doubt it. With their new Google Checkout program they have almost completed setting the infastructure for such service.
Google getting rid of affiliates? [WMW]
Google AdWords Ridding Themselves of Affiliates [SERoundtable]
Related Stories
POSTED IN: Google
0 opinions for Is Google Setting the Ground for their Own Affiliate Program?
No one has left a comment yet. You know what this means, right? You could be first!
Have an opinion? Leave a comment: