The mainstream press, Googlers lied & claimed there was only 1 paid link in 1 single page & penalized a single page of their site. Small website owners that have been caught in similar link buying (or selling) campaigns have been hit much harder. Remember the above story about the bloggers blogging about K-Mart? So far this year Google has sent webmasters over 700,000 messages in Google Webmaster Central. 1 Strike – You’re Out In 2009 Google banned over 30,000 affiliates from the AdWords auction. In some cases the problem was not with a current ad (or even a landing page the advertiser controlled), but rather ads that ran years ago promoting 3rd party products. In some cases Google changed their AdWords TOS after the fact in an ex post facto style. Google won’t allow some of these advertisers.
To advertise unless they fix the landing
page, but if they don’t control the landing page they can’t ever fix the problem. Making things worse, to this day Google still suggests affiliates do direct linking. But if the company they promote gets bought out by someone. Too aggressive then that affiliate could be waiting for a. Lifetime ban through no fault of their own. A popular programmer who has been an AdSense publisher for 8 years had their Jamaica Phone Number List AdSense account arbitrarily suspended without warning. After an ex-Googler expressed outrage over the issue he was able to get his AdSense account reactivated. A publisher without those friendships would have been done. In Australia a small travel site had a similar issue with AdSense. The only way they were able to get a reconsideration was to lodge a formal complaint.
If that is how Google treats their
With regulators business partners, it colors how they view non-business partners who monetize traffic without giving Google a taste of the revenues. Why Does Google Lean Into Brand? Minimize legal risks: if they hit small businesses almost nobody will see/notice/care, but big businesses are flush with cash and political connections. When Google hits big businesses they create organizations & movements like Fair Search & Search Neutrality. Minimize duplication: some small businesses & affiliates simply repeat offers BRLists that exist on larger merchant sites. That said, many big businesses buy out a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or even 5th site in a vertical to have multiple placements in the search results. Better user experience: the theory is that the larger sites have more data and capital to improve user experience.
