[soared]

Awesome write up, I'm amazed it performed so well. Most people's first few brushes with adwords end very poorly. At work my only job is to manage display campaigns.. I'm wondering if I could do something like this in my free time.

FYI - if this test was ran for much longer or at a larger scale his adwords account probably would've been locked. Google has strict affiliate rules and you aren't supposed to have two accounts sending traffic to the same domain.

Unfair advantage: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6020954?rd=1

[j_s]

Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575868 (Feb 2012, 112 comments)

One of the key points mentioned in the discussion there is that a ToS violation can be used to terminate the account years later.

[ben1040]

Google definitely started invoking the "unfair advantage" policy when lots of people started buying Adwords ads for their own Dropbox referral codes.