SEM
(Google Adwords, Bing, Seznam, Yandex etc)

The VELUX trademark as keyword

Dealers that promote and sell VELUX products as well as competitor products are allowed to buy the VELUX trademark as keywords to drive traffic to landing pages that display VELUX products only.

Dealers that promote and sell VELUX products as well as competitor products must not buy the VELUX trademark as keyword to drive traffic to landing pages that display other than original VELUX products.

Dealers that promote and sell competitor products only are not allowed to buy the VELUX trademark as keyword at all.

The VELUX trademark in adtexts

Dealers that promote and sell VELUX products as well as competitor products are allowed to use the VELUX trademark in the display url (subdomain) of adtexts, if the adtexts are sending traffic to landing pages that display VELUX products only. The dealers will not be authorized to use the VELUX trademark in the headline or the description lines of the adtexts.

Dealers that promote and sell both VELUX products and competitor products must not use the VELUX trademark in the display url of adtexts to drive traffic to landing pages that display other than original VELUX products.

Dealers that promote and sell competitor products only are not allowed to use the VELUX trademark in the display url at all.

VELUX and Google does not tolerate text manipulation, e.g. “VELUXblinds” to enable use of the VELUX trademark in adtexts. The VELUX Group registers all violations and reports them to Google.

Google Shopping (PLA)

The VELUX trademark as keyword

Dealers that sell and promote both VELUX products and competitor products are allowed by Google to buy the VELUX trademark as keywords in all search engines to drive traffic to their shops and sites.

Text in Google Shopping

The VELUX Group does not allow dealers of competitor products to use the VELUX trademark in the Google Shopping text, e.g. “VELUX windows”. Instead, the dealers are recommended to use a generic term like “roof windows”, when they want to send traffic to landing pages that only display competitor products.

Images in Google Shopping

Dealers must not use original VELUX images to promote competitor products in Google Shopping.

SEO

Page titles, meta descriptions, headlines/headings, ALT tags in images and link-building

Dealers that promote and sell competitor products must not use VELUX trademark e.g. “VELUX roof windows”, “VELUX windows”, or “VELUX blinds” in page titles, headlines/headings, in meta descriptions, as well as ALT tags in images to promote pages that sell products other than VELUX products.

Also, dealers must not use the VELUX trademark for link-building to pages that sell or promote competitor products.