Published: Oct 16, 2008 - 10:12 am
Story Found By: rockstack 1706 Days ago
Category: PPC
15 Comments
15 Comments
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This is absolutely massive news - I trust that some of the big US sites will write about this as, with the UK being Googles 2nd biggest market, this could do some very nice things to their share price.
Big big news.
This is huge. Way to go with the rumour ahead of time, Ciaran...Oh, and sphinn, why cant I comment on my iphone??
willcritchlow :- I had a call from my Google contact this morning, so i had to tell someone. It was meant to be a secret until tomorrow but NMA published it.
Someone was called by Google yesterday and it was going round the bar after a4u - Will from NMA was there, so hey presto...
Nice.Good work guys.
Reading the form it looks like you have to have a gambling licence!! What if you are just an affiliate?? Can you still bid?
Actually, this totally screws affiliates if not allowed to bid! As all the natural SEO placements will not convert through PPC of whitelisted gaming firms.COME ON GOOGLE OPEN IT UP PROPERLLY!!!AFFILIATE WANT A SLICE OF THE ACTION TOO!!!
It appears Google may be increasingly scrutinising gambling advertisers in order to weed out possible scammers.
It seems to me that due to the financial crisis Google is looking for new revenue streams...
Very big news. Id like to see this apply to other markets too but UK law is favourable to gambling advertising. Although I am sure Google would like to access these funds now, their hands will be tied in other cases.
Okay, any affiliates not pleased about this, please read here. Time to speak up about it perhaps?
It appears Google may be increasingly scrutinising gambling advertisers in order to weed out possible scammers.
Who would of thought somebody named James Cashmore would have come up with such an innervation. I wonder what is reasoning was ???The hoops relating to licensing are a bit of a pain.
Already within 24 hours after this was announced, the industry leaders in the gambling world have their Google ads in force. Heh.I think it is fair that these companies should be registered to the gambling commision in order to use Adwords and also should have the gambling awareness link in a prominent space on their site.