Can you still link to hop code in adwords ?

I ve seen some pages still doing this however, i thought that in googles new policy updates, that domains displayed had to the domain that the ad link went to, however I ve still seen some ads on google doing this.

Could someone please allude to whether this activity is still accepted by google ?

I' m more of an seo guru rather than a PPC marketer at this point, however i am looking to do some testing with clickbank. This method appeals to me to do some preliminary testing, however i don t want to lower my historical reference to my adwords quality score.


Any advice any one could give would be helpful, as it will take me some time to do up a proper seo based sales site, and would like to start testing sooner.


Regards,


Jay

 

The hoplink will take you to the vendor's landing page. So the display url must be that vendor's domain. The only problem with this approach is that google displays only one ad per url, so you will need to outbid all others using the same approach. This would drive your costs sky high.

 

thanks for your quick response ... i never thought about that before ... i m guessing doing up a nice landing page is probably my best bet .. would you agree ?

 

sorry repost

 

The days of landing pages are long gone. Google kicked out all "thin" affiliates from adwords by hiking the CPC values. If you want to try the adwords game, you need to have a "landing web site" - the complete site with multiple pages full of high quality unique content, about us, contact us, privacy policy pages, and etc.

 

Are you serious baumann?

Damn, I wanted to start a new hosting landing page...but now I have to make the whole site?

 

It all boils down to the quality score of your landing pages. It is very difficult to get a decent quality score with a single landing page, thus the CPC values will be like 10 to 15$ per click... You do not have to believe me. Make a quick landing page, create an adwords campaign for it, and start adding keywords

 

Still theres nothing to stop you linking directly to hoplink urls as long as you find a fairly untapped niche that you wont be outbid in.

 

Does such niche exist It seems like every niche is over saturated with wanna be and pro affiliates.

 

I wouldn't agree with you. I have a landing page (1 single page, not a site) set up with adwords. My QS is Great! With a minimum cost of $0.05 per click...

 

on the search or the content network? you must know a trick if you managed to get .05$ per click on the search network.

 

So, if you use a redirect service and put the url of the redirect instead of the hoplink. Is that a violation in the TOS?

 

Yes, this is a violation of rules. Your ad will be disabled in no time.

 

True, however I have managed some .10 - .15 per click for some single pages, sure if I upped my qs more though I could get it for much less.

 

Much less than 15 cents? Are we talking about Google adwords or about some other program? Are those values for content network or search network?

 

I never do content network, with OK for my qs 10-15 cents is normal for a nice unsat niche, if I can pull off good on qs then itll drop.