MSN Adcenter: Funny and Wierd Things

October 19, 2007

There are many funny things that you can come when you are working online. MSN Adcenter has (to me) a funny and wired things about allowing and not allowing some keywords in their PPC program.

AdCenter Disallows The Price of “$69.69″ : This is really wierd if you as an affiliate marketer advertise a product that cost $69.69 you are not allowed to add this little number to their system. The only cause I can think is because the Kamasutra position “69″. But don’t you think that is funny because there are tons of products with that price? Is really wierd!

The Word Bank: I have a client who has the word “Bank” in their name. It’s also part of their display url, destination url, and a good portion of their keywords. adCenter would not allow me to create a login id with the word “bank” in it, despite the fact that I have a system for creating user accounts such that I always will know which one to use for which client in which provider (obviously with different passwords) I emailed them, called them – nobody could give me an answer WHY the string “bank” was disallowed, but nobody could fix it either. To this day I still have to look up the damn user name every time I want to log on to the adCenter for that client.

Adult Film Star Names: If you are promoting a product which the author has a name of an adult film star name you will not get approved.

Anyone tried the 13 number? May be is dissallowed because is an unlucky number? If you have another keyword that is not allowed let me know (comment here). But please some wierd things not the usual ones