General Discussions

**JoeRich** · 09-21-2006, 05:55 AM

I'm am interested if any of you got slapped by google for having
a lead capture page?

**selts** · 09-21-2006, 10:38 AM

Me here. From 0.25 cpc to 16.10. What is yours?

**danifer** · 10-05-2006, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by selts

Me here. From 0.25 cpc to 16.10. What is yours?

I actually did some experimenting where I pointed my adwords traffic to a one-page gateway (http://www.import-duty.com) and then switched to a more content driven website (http://www.itintl.com). Google immediately upcharged the gateway page 800% more than the content site. I saw from the logs what looked like a manual review of the sites and the increase in minimum bids came immediately after. The upside is that after switching my ads away from the content site and back again, I triggered another manual review and they lowered the minimum bids on http://www.itintl.com

Since the Google slap was designed to discourage the "made for AdSense" sites, I did a little research on that as well. Check out the article at: http://www.howtoadvertise.net/dont_a...se_adsense.php

**selts** · 10-08-2006, 12:49 PM

Hi,
Not only MIA (Made for Instant Adsense) sites, it actually targets affiliate sites.
I wonder whether those people at google are tooooo free.

**danifer** · 10-08-2006, 11:33 PM

Really? Why would they target affiliates?

**GeorgeB** · 10-12-2006, 11:19 AM

Because for some reason they expect paid advertisements to be relevant as well. I mean... it's a frickin paid ad!!

But on the other hand what better excuse to charge you more?

**jessecooper** · 12-06-2006, 02:52 PM

could someone pm me with more info on the google slap

**jster321** · 01-24-2007, 02:00 AM

Yea the google slap has killed some adsense arbitragers, but there are new ways to doing it legit now and also making money at the same time.

**Albert King** · 02-27-2007, 11:32 AM

Nice information. Thanks for sharing.