NewsDaily7.com hijacks BizyMoms.com quality score on Adwords

I was doing some research on Google the other day when I noticed that NewsDaily7.com was using the BizyMoms.com site as its display URL in Google Adwords.

I know this situation well, because I’ve had it happen to ME on more than one occasion and it can be a real pain to get Adwords to stop someone from doing it. In one case it took me nearly 2 months to get Adwords to stop the rogue advertiser – and I’ve heard even worse accounts from people I know who’ve had this happen to.

You can see NewsDaily7.com hijacking BizyMoms.com for their Display URL in the video below.

NewsDaily7.com – a fake news site who’s other questionable practices I wrote up in this post called NewsDaily7.com and ProfitGuruOnTheWeb.com is likely hijacking the BizyMoms.com domain to help increase their Adwords Quality score. This used to be a major glitch in the Adwords system and it looks like it may still be there as I’ve seen an alarming number of other advertisers doing the same or similar things.

FTC Endorsement Rules Get Their First Workout (from CitMediaLaw)

From CitMediaLaw.org:

“The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it has completed its first investigation under the “blog-ola” rules it adopted last year, which require bloggers and other social media posters who receive a free or discounted product or service to disclose the freebie in their reviews or commentary about the product or service, or face the possibility of an FTC enforcement action.  See “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising,” 16 CFR Part 255 (2010) (html) (pdf).

In the end, the FTC decided not to take any action against Ann Taylor (decision letter), whose Loft division (formerly Ann Taylor Loft) offered gifts to bloggers who attended a January 26 “exclusive blogger preview” of the chain’s summer 2010 line.”

Click here to read more at CitMediaLaw.org

So much for those who thought the FTC was primarily interested in going after the floggers. Besides, it’s a lot easier to find Ann Taylor.

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StoreStacker advice

Some of you may have heard of a new affiliate store builder that came on the market that really does seem to trounce many of the existing storebuilders (the closest competing product costs over $1,000/year).

But even though they will limit the first version to 1000 customers I do NOT recommend you go nuts and run out and buy it until you go through the following and see if it’s really a good fit for you.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about you might want to visit the StoreStacker Website here before reading the following advice about whether you should even consider this store builder.

I’m going to split this advice from "most likely to be a good fit" down to "least likely to be a good fit" based on your online business experience level.

1) If you are ALREADY running your own website StoreStacker can be a very smart way to build out more pages to your site easily, target more related products and give your visitors a better user experience. Also, keep in mind that in general Google LOVES big sites.

2) If you are ALREADY considering buying the affiliate website builder XSitePro or similar affiliate sitebuilders you should seriously consider StoreStacker either instead or in addition to XSitePro.

3) If you already have intermediate to advanced online business knowledge it will be worth taking a serious look at StoreStacker and possibly grabbing it if you think it will fit into your long-term business plan.

4) If you’re a newbie to online business I would recommend you read the eBook they’ve put together. It’s a great read even if you have no intention of buying StoreStacker. Actually, even if your NOT a beginner it’s still worth taking a few minutes to read as it really will help you understand how to generate more profits in a business.

You can grab a copy of their book here:

"Your Mother Was Right" – Why listening to your Mother will make you more money online.

PC Users:  Right-click the above link and select Save Target As or Save Link As to save the e-book to your PC.
MAC users: just click the link and hold down on the mouse button

How to view the e-book:

Once you have downloaded the e-book PDF file, you will need a PDF reader program to view it. PDF is a common type of file used for sharing documents on the Web.

The most popular PDF reader program is Adobe Reader which you can download for free here.

The following is the StoreStacker factsheet as of 4/1/2008:

In a nutshell:
StoreStacker does what NO other software on the market can – load a site with products from eBay, Amazon, and Clickbank, targeting virtually any topic or subject matter.  Users build and run their own, ‘conglomerate’ affiliate store, covering any niche they want, on any site they want.  More programs will be added over the coming months – Paydotcom, Linkshare, Shareasale, Walmart, and more are planned.

Also a sitebuilder:
StoreStacker can be used to add products to an existing site or as a standalone site builder (a user can build a site from the ground up with StoreStacker alone).
 
The benefits of the system:
StoreStacker enables website owners to give their traffic more of what it wants.  More content to read, more information to digest, more products to look at, compare and purchase.  In addition, StoreStacker makes it possible to manage a horde of affiliate offerings (more than they ever could manually) from one interface and updating / trying new product categories is a snap.

Why stack?
Think of it this way.  Let’s take a subject matter like marketing.  Amazon, eBay and Clickbank each individually have a lot of products covering this topic – books, reports, software, etc.  But, StoreStacker enables you to pull products from ALL of these sources and stack them all in one place.  The result?  One site has ALL of the marketing products available.  Essentially, the StoreStacker user’s site has 3 times as many products to feature as Amazon, eBay or Clickbank individually. 

With this kind of ‘pull’, a site can become the go-to destination in their niche, because they list EVERYTHING available in one place – more than any other single place.  Add more product sources like Paydotcom, Linkshare, etc, and the sites using StoreStacker become more and more powerful. 

HUGE SEO benefits:
StoreStacker can add thousands of pages of content to a site and tons of low-fruit, product-based keywords.  Added to sites that already have solid in-links, this can translate to a nice bump in search engine traffic.  A new site created with the system has a big advantage over any ‘regular’ website.

List their own products:
Users also have the ability to list and sell their own products, right along side the products they pull from their ‘regular’ sources.

Who can use it?
We created StoreStacker so that inexperienced users can operate it easily and advanced users will be happy with its depth of functionality.

Unlimited use:
Users can use StoreStacker as many times, on as many websites as they want.

Price:
$97
You get the StoreStacker software along with the ability to pull products from eBay, Amazon and Clickbank (first 500).

First 500 Customers:
Get the Clickbank plugin for free.  Please note – this is ONLY the first 500.

1000 customer limit:
We’re opening to 1000 customers and upon our thousandth, closing our doors.

Forum:
We have a seasoned customer forum at www.halfagain.com/forum/

Email support:
Coverage is close to 24 hours a day.

System requirements:
Users need a domain and hosting (like any website).  Hosting should include php, mysql and zend.