Can somebody explain if there is a way around this damn "Inaccurate Display URL" - I'm aware it means that the display URL and the destination URL must match, but if your direct linking, its impossible to do so (unless its an in-house program.) Bottom line, how do you direct link and get around the Inaccurate Display URL issue? BTW, some would same "purchase a domain and "frame" the page on your domain." This is against Google's TOS and I'm not trying to get Google Slapped. At the same time, redirecting from one page to another page isn't allowed either. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Just a Little unclear on what your wanting ? if you are aware of what the problem is, then what is the problem ? why is therefore impossible to direct link ? maybe an example of more information could help
I don't understand why you say it's impossible to do. I think you misunderstand what Google is asking. The landing page you want to send your clicks to is www.someoneswebsite.com. That's the domain name that will show in the browser once they get there after any redirects. That's what Google is looking at. Therefore, your display URL must be www.someoneswebsite.com and anything else will be rejected as an inaccurate display URL. The destination URL could be anything as long as the user eventually gets to a final page on www.someoneswebsite.com
^ What he said is exactly right. I just want to add a bit for clarification... Lets say, for example, that you are wanting to use an affiliate link with clickbank. Your hop link(redirect affiliate link) is www.dkjibrwmalaeteg.hoplink.com The landing page for the product is www.exampleaffiliatelinky.com When making an adwords add, it would look like this... Buy This Product The Best Blah Blah Blah Exactly What You Were Looking For www.exampleaffiliatelinky.com However, in the field where adwords asks for the actual link, put www.dkjibrwmalaeteg.hoplink.com As long as that affliliate link ends up pointing to www.exampleaffiliatelinky.com, then everything is perfect. The destination of the URL and the ad URL must match. The URL's themselves do not have to.
^^ To the last 2 responses: It works fine when it comes to placing CB hoplinks in the destination URL, but it DOESN'T work if your trying to put a CPA affiliate network link. For example, if Market Leverage had an offer with the URL http://www.contentcreative.com/....... or something along those lines... they REJECT it? I don't see what the difference is. Here is my issue... I was trying to push an insurance offer from Azoogle. I placed the correct domain name in the display URL, and I placed my affiliate link in the destination URL. The destination URL took the visitor to the SAME domain as the display URL, yet my campaign was still disapproved. Make more sense now?
This sums it up pretty nicely, exactly what I was about to say. I have seen cases where the display URL is just www.google.com, and the landing page actually went to a page built on sites.google.com.
There is no difference. Azoogle's affiliate links work in Adwords just like CB's. So let's try to diagnose the problem. Are you using a subid? Which type are you using? Are you using any PHP in the link? Are you masking or shorting the link? After the ad was created in Adwords, did you click on the link in the ad to see if the landing page EXACTLY matched your ad link? Where are the forms on the landing page? Is the page an Iframe? There is either a problem with the link, or a problem with the landing page. If you are sure that the destination and ad link match, then Google is getting lost in the redirects, or on the page. Have you tried to create a different ad to see if that works? Knowing that the Azoogle affliliate links do work on Adwords, you should be able to track it down. It can be one, or a mixture of the things above. I suggest that you try a different link on a different campaign. Make it bare bones. It may take you a few attempts, but the problem will become clear.