So the “get link” text-only ads don’t work anymore?

June 22, 2010 on 5:55 pm | In Questions and Comments | 1 Comment

Hi,

I apologize if the question sounds abvious but I read the book and the comments on this blog as well:

true now Amazon, CJ are asking to provide a web site name to complete the registration,

However, what happens if I apply the “old concept” of  get a link from, for ex, an Amazon product and then

advertise it on Google AdWords?  it wont be accepted?     

My registration account at Amazon - (I provided as website a simple website regarding my career) has been approuved, what happens if I try the get link scheme and I advertise it on Google?

 

Can you please clarify the “technical changes” : an organic search would still be able to show sponsored ads or not? 

Forgive my ignorance but this is a complete new world for me;  and again congrats for your book, I found it to be a revolutionary book;

 

Thank you

rob

1 Comment »

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

  1. Rob,

    Sorry for the very late response. I have been focused on building a number of new sites these past couple of months. A poor excuse, but there it is.

    The short answer to your question is yes, the old technique is no longer accepted by most affiliate programs. The just slightly longer answer is that many of them will not catch you at it until you start making real money… but it doesn’t make a lot of sense to invest your time and money building campaigns that will automatically shut down once they start making steady money.

    The technical changes are not on Google’s end, so you can certainly run most ads there. It is the affiliate programs themselves that police this, and can withhold payments if they catch you running ads linking directly to them. There has been some talk about allowing the practice again (CJ is doing a great job of encouraging affiliate programs to reconsider it) but at present most affiliate programs frown on the practice.

    The solution is to do what I am only just now starting to do myself (late, like I seem to do everything these days). Start building web sites to promote affiliate programs.

    I have partnered with a talented web-designer, whom we will be hearing from soon on this blog and in the newsletter, and we are buying domain names and building sites.

    We are currently redesigning this site (you’ll see the difference in a few days), and then we will return to creating and launching others.

    I have one pet project, that I have built without my new web designer’s help, in an attempt to prove that you do not have to be a web expert to make money online. It is a citizen journalism news site title the Third Report at http://www.thirdreport.com and in the few short months since I launched it, I have reached a modest couple hundred page views per day. The site is not completely finished, however, and has not been advertised, so I am pleased with its progress. Check it out if you like. It is a revenue sharing site, so you can make money — and you won’t be asked to spend any.

    Good luck,

    Tony

    Comment by Administrator — August 22, 2010 #

Leave a comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Powered by WordPress with Pool theme design by Borja Fernandez.
Entries and comments feeds. Valid XHTML and CSS. ^Top^