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Originally Posted by will76
You say "not organic, that would be SEO". Really what is the difference. The person who did SEO spent time and money to get listed in the SE to try to get "YOUR" traffic (<- term sarastically used). Ok what if it wasn't a "review" site but a site/page created mainly to get good rankings in the se for your terms like a landing page. The person who uses PPC still spends time and money to go after "YOUR" traffic very similar to how people go after "YOUR" traffic from SEO.
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Quite a few hypotheticals there... and I definitely don't want to get on everyone's bad side thinking I'm backing Dirty D, because I'm not. In my opinion, SEO is not the same as buying a PPC campaign using my exact domain name. Did Shoehorn create a page that was optimized for search engines and THAT page had links to Crackwhore Confessions? Or did he simply buy the term "crackwhore confessions" and that put his link above the organic link for CrackwhoreConfessions.com? If you think the latter is SEO, then I have to disagree with you.
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Originally Posted by will76
It seems to me from your post at least, you just don't want someone "above" you. What if your site wasn't listed #1 in google. What if you were listed #3 and since I am such a good SEO guy I got listed #1... would you care then if someone had a paid ad on top of me, would it really be any different to you?
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More hypotheticals... not sure why you're making up scenarios that didn't happen here and applying them to real world. I am not number 3 for any of my domains... I am number 1, as I should be. If I were ever to fall to number three for my own domains, then I probably wouldn't be savvy enough to even know that my own affiliates were buying ads above me.
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Originally Posted by will76
Your problem shouldn't be with your affiliates bidding on your terms, it should be with google allowing people to do paid ads. You have 2 options, trade mark the names you don't want people to pay to advertise, or try to get google to stop offering PPC. Good luck on the last one, not like you can really complain much since you get free traffic from google. Remember, you can ask your affiliates to not do it, but you can't stop your competitors from doing it unless you trademark and sue.
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Bidding on search terms is fine with me. Bidding on the EXACT spelling of my domain name is not. Isn't that what happened here? From what I read, Dirty D wasn't upset about Shoehorn bidding on any of the other terms EXCEPT the exact spelling of his domain. If someone wants to bid on "naughtyalicia" or "naughtyalisha", etc. then have at it. Those are typos of my domain and fine with me.
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Originally Posted by will76
I think I would just encourage all my affiliates to pay out of pocket to blast my site everywhere and I would be happy capturing all the sales and splitting the money with them then losing some sales and making nothing.
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And that's fine with me, too. Blast Google with all kinds of search terms that apply to my site... just not my own domain name.