I'm not sure whether we should just wait and see what happens or contact them again and ask for a manual review?
Has anyone else had any luck with the latter?
I'd be interested to know if anybody has had there website reinstated without getting a manual review? I haven't heard that anybody has.
I'm not sure whether we should just wait and see what happens or contact them again and ask for a manual review?
Consider having someone else take a look at it before asking for a review - sometimes a fresh pair of eyeballs can spot things that you've seen so much you don't even realize anymore. If you have any friends who are webmasters, or in your particular industry - or even ask here if anyone would be willing. That is what I would do.
My business model is your typical affiliate model
I think therein lies your problem. G doesn't really seem to want affiliates - particularly ones bidding on the same kwords as merchants they link to - consider this an extension of the single domain policy if you will.
Unique content is the answer, your affiliate landing page needs to have the appearance of a legitimate website - not sure how many articles you can write about ringtones, think laterally.
Good points, but after the first review told me I needed more content I actually added about 25 pages of content on various topics such as certain specific ringtones, cell phone companies, etc. These were on an articles page and the landing page has a link at the bottom to articles. Anyway, its funny because the rep said if someone searches for ringtones do they really want to go to your page and then to the offer or straight to the offer. So it doesn't seem like content is the only thing. My argument to that point though is that if you go direct to an offer you alienate certain carriers since not every offer accepts all carriers. So part of my page has the typical select your carrier. This then funnels the people to appropriate offers that they can use. How can this not be adding value? On generic search terms like ringtone or free ringtone you don't know what carriers people who click have, so say a Nextel person (I use Nextel because they frequently are not accepted by many offers) clicks and is taken directly to an offer I use, which converts good for the majority of the carriers (Sprint, Cingular, Tmobile, and Verizon....which make up the majority of the traffic) but does not accept Nextel. Now we all lost in that scenario. The user got a poor quality experience, I lost money on a worthless click, and Google's search got hurt since the user did not get a useful thing. When I have my so called useless low quality page in between the Nextel person is directed quiite happily to an offer that he can actually sign up to. It seems so logical I don't get it. I would think the ringtone companies should care more about us competing with them than Google.
So here's the point; people have found work arounds but many are only short-term fixes - who needs the constant cat & mouse, not me. My feeling is we - affiliates - need to build "legitimate" websites with unique value added content, contact us pages, privacy policies etc. etc. i.e. pages that could possibly rank in the serps. Having built this website it might be best to use a new domain as the old one's been marked.
P.S. After all this work G still may not want to know & guess what they still won't tell you why. Oh well there are other PPC's.
What are the most important elements of getting back in the quality score for affiliates? (No direct links to affiliate on first page?)
What kind of privacy page would you have as an affiliate, since you don't use the information of customers (most of us). If we link directly to the parent.
How important is the privacy and about us pages?
