Google Conspiracy to be the Next ClickBank or Amazon?
Thought you'd find this interesting. I went on Google and typed in "make money online" for the heck of it. Guess what I found? I saw an ad at #1 for the Google Affiliate Network (GAN). Does anyone have experience with GAN?
Then, I typed in "make money on the internet" and this link came-up in the live-feed. I almost fell out of my chair.
Google seeks to grow eBooks affiliates, compete with Amazon
They just ban folks like you and I from Adwords for life since we're competition and not spending over 30K / month. Then, they want us to promote their stuff?
What do you think about this?
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/06/google-seeks-to-grow-ebooks-affiliates.html
This didn't happen over night, it's been a long time in the making! If you look back a few years ago when Google wanted to scan every book in the world for their own database.
Google Books was an affliate scheme from the start.I always said Google Books was a load of BS, this new ebook affliate scheme is simply a spinoff of Google Books.
BTW, If you sign up for that Google ebook affliate program, you will be a sub-affliate, you'll get a percentage of a percentage, lol. Invest in a new piggy bank, you'll need it for all those pennies.
"Do as I say, not as I do!" - Google 2011
Very true... The Google quote is very fitting, too. Total hypocrisy.
What ad network was it that got gobbled up by Google, I forget now, but I was a member of it until I got the news that Google now owned it. I got emails from them for months to log in and get links ... I'm in enough ad networks that I don't need a Google ad network. Wouldn't promote them if they were the only ad network around.
They want to control all information, all transactions, all mobile communication and for the record, they want to control the appliances in your home... (Google's Android ambitions go beyond mobile)
It's not surprising why they shut down so many affiliates, particularly digital eBook affiliates.
Is it a conspiracy? Who knows. But I do know that this much power is frightening, and crushing.
What I also find interesting about good old Goog, is how they manipulate their search results to suit their own agenda.
Sure, they can do whatever they want I suppose, but what does that tell you about their integrity?
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely
It is pretty scary though. But we could say the same about how much info Facebook has on all it's users... anyone checked out the TOS lately?
I can see it now, self publish a ton of works through google over the course of the years and wake up one morning to find you don't comply with the TOS they adjusted over night and they have permanently banned your account. Sounds like fun.
Google wants to own it all, control it all. buying FB, YT, and trying to buy TW and Groupon. i dont think anything is stopping Google from placing their own affiliate id on all searches done through them , amazon, eBay, CPA , whatever you name it! its just a matter of time before that happens (IMO). Google already has more than it can chew in its plate and its monitoring robots are still a work in progress and far away from perfection!
Not good to see Google promoting itself at the top of search results, or for Google to be inching into product sales. No chance I'll promote this and hopefully it will die a quick death.
Double Click ad network was purchased by Google...
History has proven that well. On a similar note, here's another interesting observation I've noticed over the last 6 months. More and more regular mom and pop brick-and-mortar business websites are getting banned from Adwords now.
I get a couple emails / week about this from newbies to web marketing that have never heard of affiliate marketing or a Google slap before. Anyone else notice this trend?
On the flip side, is anyone making sales through GAN?
