So, we all know Google AdSense is cutting off holiday gifts this year. There were many insulted publishers. So, I figured Google would at least send out e-cards before the holidays. And some are now receiving these e-cards.
But those receiving the e-cards are afraid they are sent by spammers. In fact, one AdSense publisher said, "it looks like spam, what are they thinking?" Another said that he will "just delete instead of download" the email. Here is what the email said, and it came from the Google Sydney team:
Dear {this bit was blank},You have just received a message from Google AdSense Team at Visual Jazz.
To view your message, please visit the following address: {redacted, but the domain included a subdomain 'marketing' and a domain appropriate to the company name above, followed by a long alphanumeric pagename}
To unsubscribe, reply to this email and change the subject to be: unsubscribe
E-cards can be done very nicely or they can be done not so nicely. It is sad to see the beloved Google getting so much bad karma towards them over the holiday season.
I did receive an e-card from a good PR person at Yahoo, it looked like this and led to here.
Hope to hear more happy news next week.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
