google adwords - unfuckingbelievable!

[basschick]

it appears that someone is PAYING to put up an adwords ad that says our main site offers unlimited access to premier porn movies, which it does not, and they are not using an affiliate link.

wtf?

[Matt 26z]

Hmm... maybe muscle site competition trying to run up your chargebacks? That would be really odd for an adult site to do that, but I don't know anything about the owners of mainstream muscle paysites. Maybe it's something they would do?

[basschick]

that was actually the first thing i came up with. it could be a clueless affiliate or it could be a google error - although that seems like a stretch - but it is making sales and those guys must be fairly disappointed.

Hmm... maybe muscle site competition trying to run up your chargebacks? That would be really odd for an adult site to do that, but I don't know anything about the owners of mainstream muscle paysites. Maybe it's something they would do?

[robin]

:shock: Wow that's just weird -- I don't know what to think about that one.

[Andrew]

wow that is just like totally odd man

[IntenseCash.com]

Wow that makes no sense at all.

Mark

[marcjacob]

Have you contacted google? not sure if they can help if its not your account. i would redirect that traffic myself. The affiliate will soon contact you. You dont need the chargebacks.

Do you have terms on your program saying they cant lie about what you have inside the site? if not - get writing!

[basschick]

i have contacted google. they are working on it. on monday our rep has to talk to policy and if there is no policy, she has to talk to legal. isn't it amazing - google started out as an indie company and now are more corporate than almost any corporation.

of course i have it in my terms - but i suspect that this is the competition trying to harm us, which means no affiliate will ever pop up. it is clearly stated and you can't join our program without seeing that term, either - you have to pass through the page with that term in order to sign up.

if i redirect ALL hits from google, that would be bad - we'll lose the pr i have just started working to create.

right now, i have a link our first page clearly stating what we don't have and a link to elsewhere.

Have you contacted google? not sure if they can help if its not your account. i would redirect that traffic myself. The affiliate will soon contact you. You dont need the chargebacks.

Do you have terms on your program saying they cant lie about what you have inside the site? if not - get writing!

[marcjacob]

Im not sure how adword works, i wondered if you can block one ad without blocking google itself. maybe not, hope you get it sorted anyway, this is a bad stunt to pull if it is a competitor. I guess your haveing a big impact then.

[DamageX]

that was actually the first thing i came up with. it could be a clueless affiliate or it could be a google error - although that seems like a stretch - but it is making sales and those guys must be fairly disappointed.

Unless that's their exact intention, but not getting the results wanted.