Hope none of you got Google slapped but if you did you are not alone. If you do affiliate PPC and especially if you use landing pages, as that's what seems to be affected the most in this update, you'd better log-in to your Adwords account and see what's up. Well actually don't log in right this second as Adwords is down for maintenance until 2 PDT.
I checked earlier and didn't see any difference. But then again I'm not doing affiliate marketing with Adwords, only have campaigns driving traffic here to 5 Star, so as a direct advertiser I would not expect problems, but I knocked on wood anyway.
Lots of people ARE having problems, primarily affiliates. Here's a round up of blogs including a great post from Kieron that offers a great SOLUTION and practical advice that will help.
Kieron's SOLUTION:
Google AdWords Landing Pages - how to build a page that won’t get banned, with examples.
Kirsty has a good overview:
New Google Landing Page Algo Change - AffiliateStuff.co.uk
James writes:
Minor AdWords Quality Score Updates Brings a Major Smackdown on Some
Ashley at Affiliate Fortune Cookie is crying:
Tips: Dealing with the Google Algo Changes
Were you affected?
If so, how?
What do you plan to do about it?