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I haven't noticed anything here in the USA central time. I still have ads direct to merchant and have some adgroups with landing pages and no "aff".
cjshu, the new policy has not yet been implemented - and as I mentioned in another thread, I'll post here as soon as I know that it has occurred.
AWA
AWA - will this be instant or will it take a long time to go through?
Good question, oasisx. I think instant may be overstating it a bit, but the timing will probably be measured in hours rather than minutes, or days.
Also, I'm about 95% certain that the policy will be implemented globally at the same time, but want to confirm that point - so don't quote me just yet.
AWA
maybe we should let you know when it's done eh
(sorry couldnt resist, blame it on the 4 injections in arm, and 2 in the mouth today)
Shak
maybe we should let you know when it's done eh
Heheh. Yes, would you please?
Those injections sound wicked. Sheesh!
AWA
;)
You recently stated in another thread:
cjshu, the new policy has not yet been implemented - and as I mentioned in another thread, I'll post here as soon as I know that it has occurred.
So why do you not correct the post just above (and its backers) that stated:
P.S the policy goes live today at 12pm
Too many rumors
Too many threads
Too much confusion
Too little concrete information
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More recent issues that are popping up:
I've always seen ads that use a merchants url/non existant folder name in the display URL, e.g www.example.com/kitchens - where there is no such folder in the destination URL. Used to be, I just assumed they'd be rejected upon review.
Today, I'm seeing more and more like that. Is this a valid workaround? Are these people mistaken in believing this makes them unique? Or does, it in fact, make their URL unique. Or are they exploiting some unpublicized bug in the new system?
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The new policy, which will be implemented over the coming weeks, is intended to create a cleaner interface for users, increase the diversity of merchants represented in the links, and reduce duplicate ads, all while recognizing the important benefits affiliate marketers bring to the table, said Salar Kamangar, director of product management at Google.
Kamanger, G director of product management, seems to suggest this will be implemented over the coming weeks. Is Kamanger wrong? Or are all the posts citing times of day during Jan 12 as the startup wrong?
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Advertisers will still be allowed to link to sub-pages within a site, where appropriate. There could be an ad that points to an eBay search for an item as well as an eBay store that sells that item, Kamangar said.
Forgetting E-bay for a moment, assuming the same search term at example.com (which sells books) was used for 2 or more different books, could multiple ads with the same URL then show?
A search on an author, could turn up ads for several of the author's books. Would the user be deprived of seeing the ads for the other books by the same merchant and have to settle for the book sold by the highest bidder? Is the above quote from that same source correct? Or is everything else we've read about one ad per URL correct? They cannot both be correct.
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A well written documentation of these changes must be supplied to advertisers who are spending thousands of dollars a day (for that matter, $50.00 a day). Certainly, these changes were documented pre-implementation. That information should have preceded this rollout by at least 30 days.
Answers are desperately needed. The affilate haters repeatedly posting good riddance" isn't enough to dismiss all the good questions that keep coming up on this board (which should not be the sole venue of information about a major company's policy changes).
Guy says it's happening at noon.
Someone else says "believe him, he knows what he's talking about".
That is not information, that is pure opinion and speculation. Too many "probablys", "we'll have to see". An outsider to this wouldn't believe what's going on.
This board keeps patting itself on the back for being the first to mention the "rumor" but neglect to mention they were wrong on a major point, that the policy would include the merchant and the highest bidding affiliate. I can't be the only one who is not impressed with the way this is being carried out. My dry cleaner does a better job of disseminating a change in weekend hours than we've seen Google clarify this immense policy change.
patient2all
Microsoft makes an operating system which no developer or even user can afford to ignore. Google is a search engine which no online business - and few offline ones - can afford to ignore.
What if Microsoft sold a version of Office which, after 3 months of use, stopped being able to open all its own older documents and started using a totally incompatible format?
Worse, if it sold a version of Windows which after three months started only running Microsoft software?
Many of us have spent considerable sums in Google advertising and, more important, we haveall invested months of work in building Google campaigns which have benefited merchants and Google itself.
Google on the other hand seems to act as if it had no obligation towards its users and advertisers with regards to its policies, which can be changed at its whim and are, to say the least, extremely obscure.
While I understand that SERP algorithms must be kept complicated and secret to thwart the SE spammers, I don't understand why Google does not spell out its policies clearly and univocally for its advertisers, who after all pay to be where they are.
Or rather, I suspect that some people get more insight from Google than others on how the Adwords rankings and approval system.
Since we are buying a service from Google - and not bidding for its favors - I think we are entitled to more transparency as to what we are exactly buying. No cabal, no "inner circles" of knowing people. I believe that there may even be a case to force Google to be more transparent - as it happened with Micro$oft.
Sorry for ranting and I am sure that this has come up before.
I'd say down, but i'm always wrong, so i guess it'll go up?
They said it would take place on the 12th and I haven't seen any changes.
Message received loud and clear.
It is January 13th in every Time Zone and still I see multiple ads for the same keyword. What is the next rumored date for this change? The suspense is killing!
inasisi, toddb, and all others, I truly understand how important this is to you all, and also how the suspense can be difficult. However, the intent here is to implement the policy when all the pieces are in place and ready to go, rather than to hit a date.
As I mentioned yesterday, when the policy is implemented, it will be announced on the News and Updates page, here:
[adwords.google.com...]
And, I will also post as soon as I've heard - assuming I'm actually at my computer at that time. (In which case, shak will beat me to it.) ;)
AWA
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