Help needed: How can I send visitors 'directly' to my cpa offers (Adwords)?

[Michel Z.]

My Adwords ads were NOT approved because of 'Inaccurate Display URL'.
My 'Display URL' & 'Destination URL' are the same!
I use for my campaigns subdomains which I redirect to my cpa offer.
The redirect I set up through my cpanel.
This is probably the reason why Adwords denied my ads!
You think that when I redirect using a .php script, Adwords most likely will approve?
Any other suggestions regarding above mentioned?
Thanks a lot!

 

[WeBcYtE]

This won't work because google wants the display URL to match the root URL of the site the ad is promoting. Redirection is not a workaround.

If you are looking for a way to "hack" your site to make this work, your best bet is apache mod_rewrite. You need access to your .htaccess file on your webserver to do this.

Once you have access, you could have the URL below:

http://www.yoursite.com/cpa_offer

Display as it it were:

http://www.cpa_offer.com/

Of course at this point you may be in violation of some AUP or TOS on the CPA network you are promoting, since you are essentially ghosting someone else's website on your server. It may also prevent tracking cookies from working right.

 

[waz67]

Your options for adwords are basically:
1) Use an automatic redirect or link directly to the affiliate link, in which case your display URL will have to match the merchant URL. The disadvantage is then your ad might not display because of other people's ads with the same display URL. Also, some merchants don't allow you to use their URL as your display URL.
2) Create a landing page which pre-sells the product and links to the merchant. The disadvantage is if you can't write a good landing page, you'll waste money sending clicks to a dead end.
3) Break the rules and use cloaking so that when google checks your link, they go to your landing page, but when other visitors click, they go to the merchant. I think a lot of people are doing this, but it's risky because it clearly breaks google's terms of service.

I wonder how many disapproved ads google lets you get away with before they bannish you...

 

[gdubs12345]

i got caught one time.. they just disapproved my ad