michaelbs - 12:57 pm on Dec 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

FAO: AdWordsAdvisor

Hi AWA,

We are full time affiliates who have spent more than $1 million with google over the previous 12 months. I'm sure this is nowere near your biggest advertiser revenue but we think it's a large amount of cash.

We are currently working on new plans to spend much more through adwords and have purchased very costly servers for tracking and have even taken onboard 2 programming contracters to help with the developments that we have planned.

We can totally understand if changes need to be made to your system but you guys at google must also understand affiliates like us are spending large sums of money on developing business plans and the changes that are rumoured could flatten our business models.

All we expect from our "business partners" is some kind of confirmation that this rumour is indeed going to happen and also be given some kind of timelines so that we don't spend more of our limited budgets on staff etc and the whole process will have been a waste of time and money. If we have a confirmation of some kind we can then put plans in place and save a fortune in wasted outgoings.

We all know that "Shak" has good contacts and for him to post this rumour it is enough for us all to sit up and listen. It very much feels like google is throwing a deaf ear to our concerns when all we require is a little business courtesy to plan ahead.

AdWordsAdvisor, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can you obtain a real response to this rumour for all affiliates concerned about the future?

Thanks very much, Michael