I have a competitor whom I compete with for the same keywords. For the last 6 weeks or so, this person has been using 4 different domains (all of which redirect tot eh same site) and essentially monopolizing the top 4 spots for our keyword.
My question is....isn't this against Adword's rules?
Also...is there a specific email address I should report the offender to?
you have a company they make for accounts and in each account have the keyword widget and then have a diffrent advert in each account all going to diffrent domains but the site is set so it loads the main site say widget.com in a frame to the user/google see's www.widget1.com,
i think this is running a fine line, i cant give an exact answer all i can sergest is contacting your rep and asking them, i would think it would be against the TOS as google wants to provide as much targted content relevant infomation as it can, 1 page on 4 spots 4 one keyword is not amazinly targted.. in fact maybe the opersite.
i hope this helps
Alan
Alternatively they could have 3 or 4 affiliates but thats still against the TOS if those affiliates are redirecting to a different url than the one being displayed in their ad. Either way its against the TOS.
Would be ok if the affiliates all used different landing pages on unique domains and they didnt redirect.
Well one account cant be bidding on a keyword and have all 4 slots filled with different domains, they would appear in rotation, so they may be using different accounts which definitely isnt allowed, thats double serving (quadruple serving?)
Looks like that's exactly what they're doing (using 4 different accounts in an attempt to lock all competitors out of the top 4 spots).
I've reported them...we'll see what happens.
I reported a case of violation of the affiliate policy.
The Display URL of site belonging to affiliate, but instead of landing on affiliate site, redirected to land on the mothership.
Not only that, the domain name is a variation on the parent company's. Probably just this side of a trademark violation. But that's an issue for the parent company to deal with. Further, if you go to the actual website of the affiliate directly, the parent company's required affiliate language is nowhere to be found.
This guy just doesn't care about rules. Google says "welcome".
In the past, Google followed up on these. Not any more. Actually, they had me convinced that they just routinely elimiated these and so there was no need to report them. I accepted that you just might see them between the time an ad is placed and the time it is reviewed.
This one's been there for a week since I reported it. So, not only are they no enforcing the rule automatically, they aren't even enforcing it when it's reported.
However, as of this morning, all 4 ads are gone. Not sure if it's a result of google's intervention or not (and I'm sure they would never tell me anyway), but I DO know that my CPC is not exactly half what it was ;-)
Is having two accounts for two different companies bidding on the same keywords but using different adverts and domains against the TOS?
Might be different if the accounts are opened by the two companies, but you manage the accounts for them.
Surely this can't be against the TOS as the must be a very high chance of being asked to manage accounts for companies in the same market looking at bidding on the same keywords?
