Let’s face it, Google pretty much knows all. Sometimes its in your best interest to keep them from knowing all they can. Say you were to have certain solid Adwords campaigns that are running well in an account, but wanted to maybe try some other ideas with landing pages that are thin with no quality score. If you wanted to prevent that main account from being tied to the “experimental” account, here are a few suggestions for the test account:
- Don’t use Google conversion tracking
- Don’t use Google analytics
- Never accept data sharing
- Spread the affiliate domains on different hosts, IP ranges, and DNS servers.
- Always use whois protection.
If you did this, the campaigns should be isolated from Google’s reach.
Thanks, this is probably obvious but should you not put both accounts under one MCC.
Umm you still not protected unless you have a seperate Google account AND you logon from a different ip address. Without a different ip address Google still knows it’s you. They track ip addresses……………..
Ya, I was talking seperate accounts when I said “If you wanted to prevent that main account from being tied to the “experimental” account”. The IP for you logon is not tracked from what I have been told, but its easy to use a proxy for that.
Yeah, does MCC remove this problem? Especially if you aren’t doing stuff like targeting the same niche from different accounts?
Chad, you have had slaps in the past? How long before Google nails you down? Do they know from day one what you’re doing?
Hey Chad… I’m curious as to the WHOIS tip. Doesn’t Google own their own Registrar that allows them to see into private registrations? I thought that was why they had purchased their own registrar (or setup, or whatever!)?
I’m just curious how well WHOIS protection actually helps protect from the big G?
Hi Clint,
My understanding is that Google (as a registrar) has access to the *public* databases of whois data, which they can analyze and monitor for suspicious patterns.
However, they don’t have access to *private* whois data from other registrars. So private registrations still offer pretty good protection (unless Google buys your domain registrar, of course).
Hmmmm. That makes things more interesting then =)
Thanks for the reply!
did not know everything given above by Google, thanks a lot
A friend mentioned also being signed out of Gmail when searching. I haven’t tried it, but apparently different ad results based on whether or not you’re signed in with your Google Account. It would make sense though being that they can now match your results to your browsing / web history.