I recently found a offer which i was interested in on google adwords, i noticed there's about 3-4 sites which have the offer on their webpage which they promote via ppc. I signed up to the company who has the offer, and on their conditions page they clearly state NO SEARCH MARKETING. I emailed them telling them that there are sites on google adwords promoting the offer via ppc, they sent me back a generic reply. I was wondering how do they get away with this (lousy affiliate manager), and how could i promote this offer without them finding my traffic is coming from pay per click traffic?
No ppc traffic allowed but competitors are..
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Create a blog, buy PPC traffic to your blog, and send traffic to that site from the blog, how are they going to find out?
The generic reply means that as long as you don't step on the keywords that they are bidding on (usually the profitable ones) , you should be fine.
This is a riskier option because you run the high risk of not being able to play dumb BUT in a couple of instances I have contacted the agency / client and inquired about the reasoning behind the restriction, 3 /3 times i've been allowed to run traffic minus a few keywords etc.
An option if you have none left.
An option if you have none left.
When they say no search marketing, they're likely only wanting to restrict a few things. Tell them what you're doing, Find out what their issues are, and don't step on their feet in search. (and then take all those restricted terms & run them on the content network...) The more value you're adding to the process, the more likely they'll let you run on restricted stuff too, but don't expect that out of the gate.
Could be the advertiser themselves doing it its not an uncommon thing. they just dont want to have to compete
With a good relationship with a network you can often get permission to promote any offer however you want.
^^^ second that... sometimes those folks you think are cheating adwords have established relationships w/ the networks -- what i never got is why they would rather have a competitor bid on their keywords and take up a spot rather than having one of their own "restricted" affiliates in that spot
Because of the generic reply, it sounds like they'll turn a blind eye to it. To be extra safe, if you decide to run the offer, exclude the city or state that the merchant is in from the targeting. That way they won't ever see your ads from their offic/home computers.
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