Well my friends, you are about to discover an insane little secret that has dropped a bomb on the Internet Marketing/Network Marketing online world.

Google has gone mad – shutting the door on Pay-per-click (better known as PPC) campaigns on a daily basis.  YouTube is vanishing accounts faster than a blink of an eye and Squidoo (which used to be one of my favorite marketing weapons) has categorized MLM (an honorable legal global business model with 50 years+ in the making with over $100 billion in sales around the world) in Squidoo’s rules; “nor may you upload, post or otherwise include any Content that is defamatory, libelous, tortuous, vulgar, obscene, invasive of privacy, racially or ethnically objectionable, hateful, promotes or provides instructional information about illegal activities, or promotes any act of cruelty to animals or certain vegetables”.  Call me crazy but I don’t see any relevance here.

Bottom line: If you continue trying to market your business using these methods without a backup plan – you are potentially setting yourself up for a major marketing disaster.

If you’ve been in the game for a while then you could quickly identify the names of dozens of Internet marketers and business owners who have been directly effected by these so called ‘new rules’.

Think about this…here you are creating hundreds of leads per day using Google Pay Per Click and all of a sudden out of nowhere, Google says ‘no more’ and slams the door shut on your account.  (Here’s the part that will really eat at you) You try to connect with someone in the customer service department at Google to find out exactly why your PPC account was closed and you get an email reply that says “You are in violation of our policies” with no further response or explanation.

And then there is YouTube, what most marketers proclaim to be the grand daddy of them all when it comes to video marketing. Let’s just say that I personally know several marketers whose accounts were completely wiped out (some with close to 300 videos with hundreds of thousands of views and subscribers) and absolutely no explanation and way to respond, period!

In my opinion the worst of them all is Squidoo because no mater what the legitimacy of your business is, Squidoo considers it as spam based on its rules. I have personally created sites on Squidoo marketing my product line from one of the health and wellness companies I’ve been in business with.

Here is an example of the email I received from Squidoo:

We posted in July 2009 about a policy update that would disallow the creation and hosting of X rated and Adult lenses on our site, as well as lenses on what we’ve determined to be spam topics. We publicized these changes early on in an effort to give you significant headsup time to either change your lenses or export your Adult content and take it elsewhere.

Hello! It’s a nutritional product!

So what is you alternative?

Stay tuned for part 2. Great news is heading your way!