On one of the forums I frequent I came across this post. Apparently Google is taking away account managers from affiliates.

While I certainly don’t spend enough to warrant one anyway, It’s still a little disturbing to me. With the “leaked” ranking guide and now this, it seems Google really has it in for affiliates.

Here is the gist of the post…

“This afternoon I got a rather disturbing phone call from my team manager at Google. As from April the 1st Google is changing their Account manager policies, and affiliates are not longer entitled to an account manager. Google is pulling back their account managers from all affiliate accounts. Doesn’t matter if you do direct linking or through comparison.

My team was in Dublin (Ireland) and I am spending about 20k USD a day.”

I don’t really use AdWords all that much. I spend a little but that’s it. It’s just a little scary to think that the Google has declared war on affiliates.

Guess it’s time to start concentrating on Yahoo!

I may have found my niche. This is the first time, after many failed campaigns that I’ve gotten this kind of score. It’s cheap and has a pretty good search volume which kind of surprised me considering it’s in the “fashion” niche.

Well my blog isn’t completely set up yet but I’ll work on that over the next few days.

In the mean time, I thought I’d start off by beating a dead horse. I’ve seen this kind of stuff posted everywhere. Mainly because I’ve been searching trying to figure this mess out.

It seems no matter what I do, no matter my history on Adwords, I can’t get away from the poor rating from the Google Quality Score. Now I don’t know how accurate these SEO tools are but I always use seoworkers tool to check my pages. Here is what I got…

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