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Google Slaps Affiliate Landing Pages

Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by Logan.

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Like many affiliates in the past few weeks, I got the Google slap on a few of my top running PPC campaigns which felt like getting my faced kicked repeatedly from Chuck Norris wearing a football cleat. Being a bit upset over losing a big part of my income I had to step back and look at things differently than I have lately.

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Google AdWords Support For The Win

Posted on 04. Mar, 2009 by Logan.

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I’ve always heard people talk about how the support for Google AdWords was mediocre at best. They don’t post a phone number on their site, so I figured that was probably true. I’ve never had many issues with them in the past, so I didn’t really have any need to contact them, until February 17th.

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According To Google, I Am The 2nd Worst Affiliate

Posted on 21. Jan, 2009 by Logan.

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Two days ago I wrote a post titled “How I Created The Worst Affiliate Program Ever” which explained how I had failed with starting my own affiliate program in the past and some things I learned from it. I was looking in my stats yesterday and noticed that I was getting a small amount of traffic from Google for the term “worst affiliate”.

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Changing Google’s Description

Posted on 05. Jun, 2008 by Logan.

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This week, one of my websites was showing a description in Google that I had no idea where it came from. It wasn’t using the meta description or any of the text on my site. After exploring the issue I learned that it was pulling the data from the open directory project (ODP). I was wanting to use my meta description on Google instead and finally figured out how to block Google from using the ODP description.