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As a reminder, the following Trademarks cannot be used for keyword bidding:

hostpapa
host papa
hostpapa web hosting
hostpapa hosting
hostpapa inc

If you have any questions or concerns, and also, some cases may vary so feel free to contact me for any reason.


Tim Michael
Affiliate Marketing Director
Host Papa Inc.
Phone:   888-959-7272 ext 713
Mobile:  674-999-9258
Email:    tim@hostpapa.com
Aim:       HPAffManager
YM:        HostPapaAM
Google:     HostPapaAM

10. Search Engine and Pay-per-click Policy
Affiliates are expressly prohibited from bidding on any of the HostPapa display URLs, domain names or trademarks in all search engines, including but not limited to Google, Yahoo and MSN. This includes direct bidding on hostpapa.ca, hostpapa.com and hostpapa.co.uk as the display URL or any variation thereof. Any commissions obtained by bidding directly on the HostPapa display URLs will be forfeited.

Affiliates are also prohibited from bidding on any of the HostPapa trademarks as keywords in search engines. This includes using the terms “hostpapa”, “host Papa”, hostpapa.ca, hostpapa,com, hostpapa.ca, hostpapa.co.uk, www.hostpapa.com, www.hostpapa.ca, www.hostpapa.co.uk, or any misspellings or combination thereof to obtain search results utilizing HostPapa’s trademarked terms. Any commissions obtained from such keyword bidding tactics is a direct violation of this Affiliate Agreement and compensation will be forfeited for such results.

Furthermore, Affiliates are prohibited from bidding on third-party keywords which may violate those companies’ trademark rights. This includes using HostPapa’s competitors’ brand names and trademarks in keyword bidding.

[Kent]

Could you explain what "keyword bidding" is please?
I am new to this...

[HostPapaAM]

hi Kent,

There's experts out there that will probably have a better answer than me (so for you experts - feel free to comment), but basically these are words that we/or other companies don't want affiliates bidding on in search engines (like google) to get a high ranking when someone searches for that term.

For example, we prefer affiliates not to use 'HostPapa" as that’s our trademark and we may be bidding on it ourselves.
No point in having to compete with affiliates who are bidding on it as well - it doesn't help anyone to do so.

However we encourage you to be creative and use the variety of terms out there to do with web hosting.
Terms/keywords such as "web hosting, best web hosting, websitehosting" etc
are good to try.
But if you think you have a good campaign idea and want to use Host Papa - let me know privately and maybe we can work something out.

We want to give you as much resources as possible for you to make sales.

Also, there's lots of sites out there that have descriptions of terms, one i've used in the past is: http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/

if you have any more questions, please let me know.

Sincerely,

Tim Michael
Affiliate Marketing Director
Host Papa Inc.
Phone:   888-959-7272 ext 713
Mobile:   674-999-9258
Email:    tim@hostpapa.com
Aim:       HPAffManager
YM:        HostPapaAM