Anyone Doing Direct Affiliate Linking On AdWords Now?

Hello,

Anyone doing direct affiliate linking to advertiser websites?

I have asked the same question some time back. Some says they still allows and some says no.

So those who are doing this please confirm.

- Minterest

 

I have several campaigns that are linking directly to products from affiliate sites.

Most affiliate programs don't like you doing this as they consider it "stealing" but I find that to be nonsense. If they can do a better job than you, your ads shouldn't show over theirs

 

So you're linking directly to advertiser without any landing pages on AdWords?

e.g. advertising www.example.com/?refer=11111 and showing example.com as display URL on Google?

 

I always run my own affiliate not linking through adwords

 

Whether you create your own page or have the clicks go directly to the affiliate site, your ads will run as long as all the policies are followed. If you want to direct link, before doing so, make sure the landing page follows every Adwords policy and that it will continue doing so in the future. If there's any doubt, don't do it. Google won't care that it's not your site and you can't make changes to it. This of course means you need to be familiar with the Adwords policies.

 

in fact.you can do like this.your display url can using www.example.com

 

It workes, I did some time back (2 months i think) withn a piano product from Clickbank and it worked fine. So there should not be issues as long as you are following guidelines.

 

so it seems to be valid if the actual landing page follows google's policies...
how to do that?...e.g.

Display URL:
www.mysite.com
Destination URL:
www.mysite.com/affiliate-product.html
(and redirecting to the affiliate site from the Destination URL)
Landing Page URL:
www.affiliate-site.com

Is it correct?

 

Hello,

Its incorrect... first of all.. there can be 3 URLs... Display URL, Destination URL, Final Landing Page URL. If the final landing page URL is www.affiliate-site.com/product then the display URL must contain the domain affiliate-site.com.. destination URL can be www.affiliate-site.com/affiliate-id


This is direct affiliate marketing... it means there is no landing pages....


If you consider landing pages... then it works like this...

E.g. My Blog URL is http://www.minterest.com/

I am promoting Yahoo.com.

Then I need to create a landing page here http://www.minterest.com/Yahoo.html

and lets say my affiliate URL is http://www.yahoo.com/affiliates/minterest

So.... in my adwords campaign

Display URL Should BE

http://www.minterest.com or minterest.com/anything

Destination URL should BE

http://www.minterest.com/Yahoo.html

and on the destination URL we place banners or text links to http://www.yahoo.com/affiliates/minterest


Hope this helps...

 

yes it helps!
excellent explanation...thanx

 

I agree landing page method will never die, as long as they meet the lading page policies of google (one of google's policies say that the landing page should not be a squeeze page, which the toughest policy to take care of).
But answering the original question of your opening thread, Yes, direct linking is still working. It makes sense too because none of the Adwords policies say that you can not promote affiliate products, the reason they do not allow you to put clickbank (or other affiliate) links is that most of those product's landing pages are blacklisted by google for repeatedly violating landing page policies. Many affiliate links will still work (including some products of clickbank too) but no one will reveal it if he is making money from it.

 

that was a clear explanation of the issue

 

Check out the adwords policy for advertisers in a nutshell.. i have just sorted everything... http://www.minterest.com/adwords-advertising-terms-and-policies/

 

Google do not allow affiliate links to be advertised by Google Adwords.