Life Beyond Google

In the wake of the google slap and the google slam The reports are flooding in and the discussion
boards are in a frenzy!

Here’s why…

Over the past several weeks, Google has closed hundreds of thousands of AdWords accounts for what
they(Google) are calling a “violation” of their terms.

Truth be told, in some cases many of these the account holders were engaged in some form of fraudulent (or unauthorized) advertising practices, using fake-blogs, phony news sites, and crazy earnings claims.

Some account holders even used the Google Trademark in their ads, which is a huge NO NO!!! SO, in many cases Google had no choice.

However, a huge number of businesses that caught up in this unfortunate dragnet weren’t doing anything
wrong at all,

So they contacted Google for the story only to hear…
“We will not tell you what you did wrong.”

“Your account has been disabled”

…and the REAL big shocker…

“You are hereby banned for LIFE!”

If you (or someone that you knew) relied mostly on AdWords and organic traffic to make money, imagine for a minute what that would do to your business? CATASTROPHIC!!!!!

Most folks would be devastated! But smart marketers know there’s more to online marketing than a single
search engine!

I watched Frank Kerns “State of the Internet” address (check it out here http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=65) it further validated the theory that you shouldn’t put all of your eggs in one basket!!

So for the sake of relieving you and your business the stress and worry of waking up lost, hungry, stressed and worried

I want this to be informative and priceless. I’m not getting paid for any of this so here we go:

Bing/MSN http://advertising.microsoft.com/home

Yahoo http://publisher.yahoo.com/index.php

Ask.com http://sponsoredlistings.ask.com/

Set up a Squidoo lens http://www.squidoo.com

Article Marketing

Video Marketing

Forums

Press Releases

Social Bookmarking

Blog Entries

In lieu of those that are so mad that they don’t even want to go over to Google today, I will put up some lists soon so you will have a good catch on where the traffics at. IF you don’t have any time to wait. Google it and go for what you know. There is plenty of traffic out there.

In conclusion, Google only accounts for 30% of web traffic, so in simple terms, you’ve got some work to do, bye.