Affiliate Policy

Google Adwords Affiliate Policy:

We allow affiliates to use AdWords advertising. Please note that we'll only display one ad for affiliates and parent companies sharing the same Display URL per search query. We also monitor and don't allow the following:

Redirect URLs: Ads that contain Display URLs that automatically redirect to the parent company.

Bridge Pages: Ads for webpages that act as an intermediary, whose sole purpose is to link or redirect traffic to the parent company.

Framing: Ads for webpages that replicate the look and feel of a parent site.

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What does this mean? Does it mean that I can no longer use a php script to redirect to my affiliate program?

And also am I not allowed to build a page like review, benefits etc around a product and give a link to my affilaite program?

Am I only allowed to use the url provided by my affiliate and compete in adwords with other affialites and the affialite program itself?

 

You are absolutely correct on all three points. Which is why you need to get a LP made up of all your offers and make Google bleed you dry for irrelevant clicks or clicks that don't even convert to sales.

 

Could you please provide us a link to this?

 

https://adwords.google.com/select/guidelines.html

LP means?

 

If you promote an affiliate called www.digitalpoint.com, you can not have a displayurl of www.digital-point.ca and on your landing page you redirect to www.digitalpoint.com again using your affiliate link.

You can not have a landing page that only has an affiliate link to your affiliate.

I'm not sure if you still can have a redirector script page, but I think that direct redirects like similar to 301 are still allowed.

You can not copy the template of your affiliate and make a page with buy links.

I'm not sure but I think that you can, but you need to use the correct Display URL (your affiliate Display URL)

Yes you can do pre sale pages, what you can't do is an empty page.


...LP means Landing Page

 

Wow.....and I notice more and more affiliate programs are preventing you from bidding on certain keywords.....they are putting this clause into the agreement...

 

Yeah they put in alot of the copywrited search terms or terms the merchant may have overpaid for.

 

is this allowed for example:

Display URL: http://www.digital-point.com and

Destination URL: http://www.digitalpoint.com/affid=xxx

 

No, is not allowed.