Have you ever been punkd by Google Adwords?

I have.

A few weeks ago, I started promoting Keyword Elite on Adwords. It started to go very well as I was getting pretty good conversions and getting a ROI of about 100%.

It’s a great feeling when you can wake up, go to your Clickbank account, and see on a regular basis that you made XXX amount of dollars yesterday and only spent xx.

One day last week, I logged into my Adwords account and see the dreaded “Alert” message. I had several of them.

I noticed I had alerts for several of my KE ads, but not all of them. I made some edits on some of the language I used (took out words like “killer” and “kicks butt”) because I thought they didn’t like the way that I was writing my ads. My ads came back online for a short time, but were disapproved again.

Eventually, my keywords for this ad group are disapproved (in red letters - scary!). However, I still have several other ad groups that are still running. For some reason, Google disapproved the following keywords

keyword elite
“keyword elite”
[keyword elite]

but they did not touch the ones like

keyword elite review (all match types)
keyword elite discount (all match types
etc.

I decided to contact them to see what was up.

Within 1 day, I got a reply.

Thank you for your email. I understand your concerns and frustrations
regarding the recent changes to our content policy. Only after careful
consideration did we decide to implement our Template Sites For Ad
Networks policy. This change was based on several factors, including user
and customer experience. We regularly review Google AdWords content
policies and make changes to keep them current and effective. Our goal is
to have policies that are fair, consistent, and adaptable.

In order to maintain this fairness for our advertisers and consistency for
our users, all Google AdWords ads must follow the Editorial Guidelines and
content policy.

Please note, we do allow advertising for sites and programs that offer
general AdSense optimization tips and advice, as well as sites that
promote web marketing strategy. AdWords/AdSense Search Engine Marketing
(SEM) service providers are acceptable.

Thank you for informing us of your concern, and we appreciate your
understanding.

I had violated their “new” Template Sites for Ad Networks Content policy. That’s a mouthful.
Basically, they don’t want anyone promoting any type of software that can be used to make spammy sites that are made solely for the purpose of making money from ads.

Isn’t that what 99% of websites are for - to make money from ads? I understand what they mean, but I don’t agree with the implementation of the rule.

The real problem is that Keyword Elite is an excellent keyword research tool. It has several powerful “projects” that can be used to help generate huge lists of keywords.

There is 1 option within KE that would allow a user to build a Template Site for Ad Networks type page, but that is not the focus of KE.

Since my keywords were effectively “banned,” I wanted to see if anyone else had experienced this.

I found that I was not alone.

On John Jonas’ blog, he explains how one of the folks he’s working with experienced a similar problem, except the result was much worse - he was BANNED from Google Adwords. A little harsh for a simple keyword “violation,” no?

It’s not like the guy was promoting something sordid or illegal.

At least I wasn’t banned. The only reason I wasn’t is most likely that I spend a decent amount per month. There must be a threshold but I’m not sure what it is. Probably like $500 or $1000. If you meet that minimum per month, maybe Google is less harsh in its Judge, Jury, and Executioner style.

What pisses me off even more is that if you go to Google and type in “keyword elite,” guess what you’ll see. Tons of ads! What the hell? I thought it was funny how in Google’s email reply to me they said how they want to be fair and consistent, blah blah blah… but if you look at their actions, they are neither fair nor consistent. Some people are banned while some have keywords disapproved while some are still allowed to run the EXACT SAME ADS!

Thanks Google - there goes an extra $500 - $1000 per month out the window.

btw, if you want to know how to get KE for $83.50, check this out…

http://keywordelite.goodtimesathome.com

Have you ever been punkd by Google Adwords in a similar way? Let me know here…

There aren’t too many people who can claim to have made $1,000,000 in 24 hours. One guy who has is releasing a new product, and it’s really quite an amazing piece of work. The guy is John Reese (Traffic Secrets) and the tool is BlogRush.

BlogRush is a free widget for blogs that helps drive traffic to your site. Embed the code into your pages and your posts are automatically promoted throughout the net on other peoples’ sites (related to the same topic as your site) who are also running BlogRush. This is a really cool idea and an awesome way to get new targeted visitors to your site.

Here’s the widget that will go on your blog when you install BlogRush.

Definitely check this out here…BlogRush.

If you have Keyword Elite, help me review it here.  Thanks! - Vinnie

Joel Comm recently came out with a really cool site called ScriptDojo.  It’s a review site that is loaded with the best scripts out there for internet marketers.  Scripts like Keyword Elite, Peel Away Ads, Cash Sucking Sales Letters, Adsense Traffic Guide, and many more.   The top Clickbank products and ebooks are reviewed as well as products from PayDotCom and new $7 Scripts that come out.

What is most interesting about ScriptDojo.com is the affiliate program.   Become an affiliate and promote one link, embedded with your Clickbank, PayDotCom, and PayPal ID’s.  The ScriptDojo.com cookie lasts a full year, and if your visitor returns and makes any purchases, you’ll get the full commission.

So, instead of worrying about missing a major product launch, just focus on getting people on your Script Dojo list and let Joel & Co. write the review, email the list, and do all the hard work while you earn the commission.  Pretty neat.  I think this is a really cool idea, but in addition, you should still focus on building your own list too.

What this does, though, is lets you leverage your time and energy since the Script Dojo team will be doing almost all the work.  It’s basically an Instant Affililate Store, but without a lot of the hassle.  Plus you get Joel sending updates to your visitors through the Script Dojo newsletter, all including your affiliate link.

If you want to test out the ScriptDojo.com system, you can get started for one cent through this link.

Check it out here now…

The days of keyword stuffing, single phrase optimization and concentrating only on incoming links to gain traffic are slowly being phased out as a more holistic approach to judging website content comes online. This new concept has many webmasters hopping, and it should. Latent semantic indexing is quickly becoming the wave of now.

Latent semantic indexing, is a Google driven creation that’s meant to better gauge the content of a web page in relation to the entire site to discover the overall theme. It is a more sophisticated measure of what sites and their pages are all about. While it doesn’t mean webmasters need to completely retool all of their keyword optimization efforts, it does mean depth needs to be a greater consideration.

The history behind latent semantic indexing is rather interesting. Google’s current ranking system, which relies on incoming links (or votes) and keywords to scan pages for relevancy when surfers do searches has been known for penalizing perfectly good sites. The system was set up to scan for relevance and quality. In the process, it has a habit of knocking new sites and those which add too much content too quickly. Although some of these sites, naturally, are those that result from link farming and quick keyword stuffed content generators, not all are unplanned fabrications.

Google wanted a better way, and found one. Latent semantic indexing is meant to scan the overall theme of a site, so as not to penalize those sites that have fresh, relevant and good content even if they do happen to pop up over night.

This new focus puts an emphasis on quality and freshness of content to help sites gain higher ranking position. In essence, latent semantic indexing is meant to give a searcher the best possible site to meet their needs based on relevant keywords and comprehensive coverage and not just incoming links.

This system basically presents a more fair way to give search engine users the pages they really want. It does what Google has always tried to do – provide higher quality, more relevant results.

The old days of Google putting 80 percent of its emphasis on incoming links and 20 percent on the actual site itself are coming to an end. Incoming links will always have relevance, especially in regard to breaking search “ties,” but they may not carry the same weight as before. This can make it a bit easier for those who work on their sites with an emphasis on quality to see real results.

What all of this means to web publishers is that those who have done and continue to do their jobs correctly will have a better chance of shining with latent semantic indexing. Those who keyword stuff, create nonsensical content and spend a lot of time using link farms likely will not.

The key to getting ahead in the new age of Google search falls on quality. Sites that provide useful and relevant information in regard to their content will be likely to do better on searches. Those that cut corners could find themselves at the bottom of the search totem pole.

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