Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Warning - Running Clickbank Sites on Adwords

If you are using Clickbank, and you are trying to promote via PPC on Google adwords. Then you are running a 90% risk of having you're account banned for life, never to be able to use Google Adwords again.

THIS IS NOT A JOKE!
Google will terminate your account for breaking the TERMS OF SERVICE. (TOS). The top sites being advertised off of clickbank, break the COPYRIGHT policy. Sending the traffic directly to the hop link with the URL pointing to the publishers landing page.
If you create your own landing page and link to the same sites via the landing page, google will pick up them and stop the ads with a violation of policy COPYRIGHT.
You will receive a msg
"It has come to our attention that your GoogleAdWords account does not comply with our terms of service and advertising policies. You have repeatedly submitted ads that violated our Copyrightpolicies in this or a related account. As a result, your account has beensuspended and your ads will no longer run on Google. As noted in our Terms and Conditions, Google reserves the right toterminate advertisements for any reason. To view our Terms and Conditions,please visit https://adwords.google.com/select/tsandcsfinder. "
Once this has happened the account is dead.. you can never use the credit cards attached to the account. If there is a balance then they still want it. "CHEEKY BUGGERS".
See Google is fine with taking the money for it. After the fact!
Oh well.
What can you do.
Close all the accounts that you have with google. Includes .. Blogger,Adsense,Picasa.
Clear out your cookies.
Get a new credit card number
Sign up with a new e-mail address
Make sure you use you're middle name first when creating the account.
Use a new billing address.
** PLAY BY ADWORDS TOS RULES **
  1. Do NOT promote Clickbank Products Via PPC
  2. Do NOT promote any products that break COPYRIGHT rules
  3. If something gets flagged in ADWORD pay attention and don't do it again

If you are NEW to affiliate marketing then remember to follow these rules.

You can promote many legitimate companies through PPC, but the best way is to create a solid web-site and do it that way.

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