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Sneaky affiliate promotion tricks

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Getting started with Adwords can be quite daunting. The whole control panel seems to have had a make-over recently, and I just got used to the old one! I was never really big into Adwords to begin with, so by all means, don’t take my word for anything you read here. These are just trial and errors I’m posting.

So anyway, I saw someone doing this ‘sneaky’ affiliate tactic, tried to replicate it, and failed.

The affiliate product I was trying to sell is the wonderful Thesis WordPress Theme, which boasts the strongest SEO of any WordPress theme on the market today (according to Brian) I use (and bought) it myself on this blog, and I’m very pleased with it. It really is a step up from most other themes out there. Trust me – I’ve tried tons of other themes before I found Thesis.

Thesis WordPress Theme

Since Thesis has an affiliate program, someone before me figured out that instead of creating and setting up a complete landing page, they could just iframe the entire original site. All you have to do is register a domain with the right keywords, and add the following code as as the index.html or index.php to the root folder of your new domain!

iframe-code

All this does is present the original Thesis sales site, but it has visitors going through your affiliate link. Sheer brilliance I thought.

Unfortunately I’ve spent nearly $150 in Google Adwords, and had 0 sales. I might give it another $50 before I pull the plug on this experiment. Either the original Thesis sales page isn’t compelling enough, or I am simply targeting the completely wrong group of people on Adwords.

Someone tell Google they’re not funny

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Seriously, I was so pumped when I received the following email from Google.

googlevoice

Until I went to sign up…

googlevoicefail

It surprises me that such a tech-savvy Internet company only does a US product launch, and that they’d waste an invite on someone that lives in Australia. Surely they could see somehow that the gmail account was created in Australia, and that the invite request came from here too.
har-di-har-har

Searching for a Google helpdesk

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google_youtubeThe sheer size of Google’s operation seems to reflect in the poor support they provide. Sure, everything is automated with forms, and in a perfect world these would answer all our questions, but if the world was perfect, we wouldn’t need a support department!

I have been trying to get an old YouTube account back in my name, but it seems I have lost my old email details, and there isn’t a living soul to be found on the YouTube support site. All I get is forms, forms and forms. No place to fill in my specific query. Just having resorted to emailing their legal dept, hopefully someone will be kind enough to help me out there.