Adwords & Affiliate Links - Query

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Stylemangi

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I've been doing the google Adwords professional course to bone up my knowledge of Adwords before trying some more ppc adn I came across the following comment re Affiliate Links:

[SIZE=-1]"We allow affiliates to use AdWords advertising. Please note that we will only allow one ad for affiliates and parent companies sharing the same display URL per search query.[/SIZE]"

I've searched around on this but there seem to be a ton of discussions on links and I'm not sure I'm getting the proper answer.

My Question is, How do you get around Adwords not showing your advet because there are other affiliates pushing the same link? Do you use your own domain and redirect? Put the adlning page on your won domain????

Advice on this baby would be appreciated as I dont want to spend $ if my ads wont show.

Thanks
 


make a landing page on you own domain. This also allows you to watch what keywords people are using on your adwords listings and allows you to control your own creatives.

get a domain like sunshinecoastdeals.com then put your affiliate landing page in a new directory. Like this sunshinecoastdeals.com/dadaringtones.html. Now put up your landing page and google analytics and you are good to go.

Make sense?
 
Dan,

Thats great. Azoogle provides html creative already so I would simply be using their existing creating on the landing page.

Also had not thought about the benefit of using my own stats package on it.

Do you tend to use the client creative or do you typically end up modifying their creative on your own landing page? Guess its deal by deal yeah?

Re the redirection service. I definitely will try that as well:xyxthumbs:...although I did see somewhere on this forum where someone commented that some visitors "spot" the redirection and it impacts on their "trust" of the advert.

Oh well, test adn test...thanks guys
 
Stylemangi said:
Dan,

Thats great. Azoogle provides html creative already so I would simply be using their existing creating on the landing page.

Also had not thought about the benefit of using my own stats package on it.

Do you tend to use the client creative or do you typically end up modifying their creative on your own landing page? Guess its deal by deal yeah?
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I have always used the client creative, but I know others have had creative developed. I guess if it is converting then dont change a good thing.
 
Stylemangi said:
Dan,

Re the redirection service. I definitely will try that as well:xyxthumbs:...although I did see somewhere on this forum where someone commented that some visitors "spot" the redirection and it impacts on their "trust" of the advert.
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You could always frame the site in which leaves your domain in the address bar and the user is none the wiser to redirection. As in:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Uber Cheap Payday Loans!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET >
<FRAME src="http://flybynightpaydayloancorp.com/ref.php?i=Stylemangi">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
 
Palmerville said:
You could always frame the site in which leaves your domain in the address bar and the user is none the wiser to redirection. As in:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Uber Cheap Payday Loans!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET >
<FRAME src="http://flybynightpaydayloancorp.com/ref.php?i=Stylemangi">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
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Google says that is a no go. They don't want advertisers doing that.
 
use a domain and redirect so you can also monitor the traffic you are sending the affiliate.
 
Explain using a domain and redirect.

I thought url redirections wouldn't work because you need your display url to be the final url displayed by your ad. :hollering:

CJ
 
The display URL is meant to be the final site URL.
(although google isn't that great at enforcing that)

So your display URL is set to www.finalsite.com

your destination URL is set to your redirection/stats site
www.redirectsite.com/?kwd=whatever&ad=3&site=2

When redirectsite.com receives the access to
?kwd=whatever&ad=3&site=2 it works out (database,
hard coded, whatever) that it needs to redirect to
finalsite.com/whereever.html and does a 302 (or 301)
redirect to finalsite.

Everthing matches, google is happy. And you can have
as much or as little info stored at redirectsite as you
want.

However if the display URL is set to, say, a merchants site
then only one ad will be displayed no matter how many
people are bidding on that keyword, with that display URL.

The one to be displayed is the one who would have been
highest if the "one ad" rule didn't exist (I think).

This actually means that it it possible to get a "lock" on
being the only advertiser for a specific display URL.
No one else gets a look in because they don't get displayed
and so can't get a good CTR history.

Hope some of that makes sense?

Crispin
 
Crispin said:
This actually means that it it possible to get a "lock" on
being the only advertiser for a specific display URL.
No one else gets a look in because they don't get displayed
and so can't get a good CTR history.
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I've seen it where AdWords will let you run ads for a short while, but only so they can find out if you will make them more money. If you have a higher CTR then you become the one advertiser.
 
The only proper way to do this is to build a landing page. However this may or may not be successful due to the new Google Adwords Quality Score system. To be honest, I can see landing pages being phased out in time from Google.
 
Kieron said:
The only proper way to do this is to build a landing page. However this may or may not be successful due to the new Google Adwords Quality Score system. To be honest, I can see landing pages being phased out in time from Google.
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Yea it's hit or miss with a landing page. Sometimes your bids will be normal and other times you'll end up with $5.00 minimum bids on all of your keywords.
 
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