I am getting my feet wet in affiliate marketing and am testing out some offers in Adwords, linking directly to the offer (with my Clickbank hoplink). I noticed other advertisers doing the same thing; however in their Display URL they add some bogus domain at the end, such as: "website.WeReviewed.info" Why are they doing this? Is it allowed? I know that AdWords only lets one ad appear per domain, but there doesn't appear to be any ads running on just "website.com," so why the workaround? At the end, they are just doing direct linking as well. As an affiliate, how should I use this information? Thanks.
Display URL: website.WeReviewed.info This implies the domain is "WeReviewed.info" so that MUST be the final destination and the domain that must show in the browser after all redirects. Adding "website." before the domain is legal. This simply means it's a sub-domain, not that "website.com" is the domain. This sub-domain does not have to exist. Just like you could display "WeReviewed.info/website" in which case /website is the folder name in that domain but does not have to physically exist. Why do this? You used "website." as the sub-domain but usually you'd use a keyword so that the word would be in bold and making it a bit more attractive. It's a workaround to get your keyword in there and is allowed. For now.
Just to clarify, when I wrote "website" that was just an example. In this case, "website.com" was the REAL domain that traffic is taken to. But these advertisers are adding "wereviewed.info" at the end of the display url - even though that domain has nothing to do with the product. I'm wondering what is the rationale behind this.
adwords didnot allowed bogus domains, google only alow TLD domein in display url suppose the destination url in abc.com and the destination url is abc.com/xyz for details Visit newadwords.com
Then, that is not allowed as explained. If the domain is "website.com", the display URL must show "website.com". They somehow circumvent this but they should be caught eventually.