first strike

... and how it opened a Pandora's box ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ After complete back and forth nonsense with the MSN Ads support team, I was finally able to get on of my disabled ad accounts running again. Recently, MSN Ads introduced a three-strike policy where if you violate any of their policies 3 times (within a 12 month period), they will cancel your ad account. [Turn On Images] The ad account I use for affiliate marketing got a first strike about two months ago for something very minor (they temporarily disable all your ad campaigns until the strike is lifted). They flagged ONE of my ads because the final destination domain did not match the domain where I was sending visitors. This was my fault because I had changed domains and had forgotten to update my MSN ads. For the past decade, they have never cared, so this came as a surprise. No biggie. So I fixed the ad and resubmitted to MSN Ads for approval and they said they would get back to me after doing a manual review of my ENTIRE ad account. Guess what? [Turn On Images] That opened up a Pandora's box to a slew of other issues. They came after my other affiliate ads for a variety of reasons such as sparse landing pages to incomplete privacy policies. By the time I finally got the ad account approved, I had deleted about 80% of all the affiliate campaigns. I'm getting the feeling the MSN Ads is cleaning up their search platform to better compete with Google and trying to weed out affiliate marketers (or at least reduce the amount of affiliates). Does this mean affiliate marketing is dead on MSN ads? Of course not, but it has gotten harder. You can no longer get away with sparse looking landing pages or poor quality affiliate promotions. I honestly believe if the bot hadn't picked up that one ad, I would still be successfully running all our other ad campaigns the same way. So what's my workaround to still using MSN ads for affiliate marketing? Easy. I've recreated most of my campaigns to be optin funnels (putting people on an email list) by offering a high-quality lead magnet. Once they are on my email list, I'm free to market in whatever manner I want. That's my workaround using MSN Ads for now, but this experience has me also experimenting with other paid traffic alternatives. [Turn On Images] I found a new paid traffic source called NewsBreak, which is a mobile app that curates local news. They just launched their self-serve ad platform over a year ago and have over 16 million daily active users. So far I'm only paying $0.08 for USA traffic. Traffic sources like Newsbreak, Rumble Ads, Propeller Ads, etc. are completely cool with affiliate marketers and bridge pages. Newsbreak has been an easy ad platform to launch affiliate campaigns on and they also gave me $500 in free ad spend to get started. Anyhow I've done a complete Newsbreak ad tutorial inside of [Digital Sumo Elite](. [Digital Sumo Elite]( is my inner circle where I deliver new traffic and conversion strategies each month. If you're looking for alternative paid traffic sources that are affiliate friendly, then I suggest you join and take advantage of all the training inside. [Click Here To Join]( Talk soon, [Turn On Images] Gauher Chaudhry LET'S CONNECT! [Facebook]( [YouTube][Follow Us On Instagram]( iPromote Media Inc., 1011 Upper Middle Road East, Suite 1226, Oakville, Ontario L6H 5Z9, Canada [Update Your Profile]( | [Unsubscribe](