googles fucking useless
 

<rant> so i get this email this morning saying my google account is suspended because i didn't identify myself in my adword campain that i was an affiliate to something. so you have to fucking say HI I"M AN AFFILIATE PLEASE CLICK ME to advertise with google? horseeeeeeeeeeeshit</rant>

cry cry cry.

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interesting I wonder how many on this board it will happen too?

:eyecrazy

No cause you can't say "click me".

somthing new?

Ad Status: Suspended - Pending Revision
Ad Issue(s): Identify Affiliate Status
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POLICY DEFINITIONS:

Identify Affiliate Status: You must clearly identify yourself as an affiliate or distributor in your ad text. This will help provide clear, descriptive ads so that our users understand the nature of your site and your business. Affiliate status cannot be indicated in your URL, as the URL is not always visible on our ad network sites.

Everyone who uses adwords is my guess. Pretty ridiculous really. Just stick 'Aff.' at the end of your advertising text and they accept that.

I guess only us smart folk can figure that out.

Exactly that. It's easy to work around and the rule has been in place for a long while. If you can't stick to the pretty clear rules (no matter how daft they seem) why bitch about it?

You're acting as if there is a problem. Google's TOS very clearly states that you have to identify your ad as affiliate if you are acting as an affiliate. All their email says is you have been suspended until you make that change. They're not PayPal...you're still in business, pending slight modification.

And, in case you were wondering, having "aff" in your ad does not deter clicks :thumbsup

probably because no one goes through and reads that far into the rules.

i know it has happened to me too. i just stop using ad words completeily. i never got good conversions from it

You've never advertised on PPC engines before? This is a pretty common thing on Overture and Adwords.

WG

I dont see many people using AFF when I look at some keywords. I imagine they will catch up with them eventualy.