Are you a casino affiliate targeting the South African market? If you are then you are being screwed by some of the affiliate programs you may be promoting. Let me elaborate.
Google Adwords does not allow online casino related ads in South Africa. They do allow Sports Betting and Lottery with certain restrictions.
That's why online casino advertising via Adwords in South Africa does not happen, or should not happen. However these two Adwords account owners have discovered a way to fool the Adwords ad approval team.
They both use the same geo-targeting technique to fool Google Adwords. I'll use the first listing, which is linked to hxxp://www.sacasino.info/ to explain how they do it.
This is the page that is seen when viewed from a South African ip address and shows a listing of online casinos:
This is the content that is shown when the same url is viewed from a non South African ip address and shows a listing of land based casinos, and that is how they fool the Adwords team.
The two sites concerned (hxxp://www.sacasino.info/, hxxp://www.southafricacasino.info/) require a big budget to keep their Adwords campaigns running. So either these sites are owned by affiliate programs who could afford such a big budget, or the actual site owners of these sites are having their campaigns sponsored by one or more of the casino / affiliate programs listed.
Myself and other concerned affiliates have contacted Google Adwords via the correct channels to point out these ads but our complaints have thus far fallen on deaf ears.
All we are asking for is a level playing field, whats fair for one should be fair for all.
I am trying to gather support to fight this and would appreciate your support if you are an affiliate that is being negatively and unfairly affected by this. If you promote any of the casinos that appear in the top three positions on any of those websites I ask you to contact your aff manager and complain about this unfair practice which is affecting your bottom line too.
I will be contacting them and asking them to help put a stop to this. I will even consider removing the listed casinos from my websites if nothing is done about this in the next few days.
The listed casinos are Yebo Casino, Springbok Casino, Thunderbolt Casino, White Lotus Casino, Apollo Slots, Crazy Winners, Jackpot Cash Casino, Casino Midas, Casino.com, Mansion Casino, Gday Casino.