Topic: TOS Violation: Using the Forum Referral Links in PPC Advertising
As always, please remember that you are not allowed to use the "acme-people-search.com" or "acme-people-search-forum.com" domain names in any PPC advertising. This includes the new forum referral links, which use the "acme-people-search.com" domain name. Quoting from the Referral Program Agreement in your back office:
"You are not allowed to use our domain names in any email or PPC marketing."
Quoting also from this forum's Rules:
"Don't use the 'acme-people-search-forum.com' or 'acmepeoplesearchforum.com' domain names in any pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. (I'm already advertising those domain names for the benefit of Super Sponsors!)"
There's an important reason for these rules folks: I'm already advertising those domain names for the benefit of all APS affiliates. When you also advertise those domains using AdWords for example, you are jeopardizing the performance of my ads - which jeopardizes the benefits for all APS affiliates. Please don't be a rotten apple in the barrel that spoils it for all.
If you see PPC ads promoting any of the restricted domains, please let me know (your location, a screenshot, and the keywords you used to trigger the ad would be helpful). I will check to see if it's one of my ads or not, and take appropriate action.
Octars: I disabled your account (1245838133TPLV) for the above reasons. I will re-enable it after you post here to let me know that you have stopped advertising the "acme-people-search-forum.com" domain. Accounts are disabled without notice as soon as I see PPC ads with restricted domain names (and I'm always looking...)
And by the way Octars, why did you create a misleading ad like this:
Get Paid for join Forum
Have you come across any forum that
pay its members for helping others?
Acme-People-Search-Forum.com
No one is paid simply for joining the forum. Just like no one is paid $125 just for joining APS. It's that kind of advertising that creates unhappy users - to the detriment of all of us who are promoting APS. Not to mention, people will click on your ad thinking they will be paid simply for joining a forum, only to find out that isn't the case. So they will back out - yet you've incurred the cost of the click. A poor (and costly) PPC advertising strategy.
Thanks,
Tissa
