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Originally Posted by xenigo
That's NOT the problem. You are avoiding the debate here. The problem is THIS: The guy was generating ALL of his joins with the keyword being the NAME of the site alone. Not for terms that they couldn't rank #1 on, terms that they DID rank #1 on.
That is not allowed by ANY program. Period!
Every domain I own is #1 in the SE's for that term. Any affiliate who tries to send me my own traffic is going to be canned just like Shoehorn. End of story. Cut and dry.
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Saying it is not allowed by any program is untrue. When an affiliate runs adword campaigns they have a whole gambit of keywords to try. Yes, in this instance the joins were based off the domain keywords. But that is not always the case.
Everyone wishes there were no competition for their keywords. When you run a program you make terms for situations like this. You can't forsee everything, since situations change. As they change you update your terms. It's that simple. It's ok to not like it but to not pay on a proven advertising method for
real joins isn't right. Calling it fraud is completely wrong.
Some programs actually run their own ads on their own keywords to provide an alternative SE join point for surfers. There are surfers that prefer ads and convinced to click by that text.