Are you alowed to use paid search like Google AdWords to get commisions by putting a hoplink as the destination url?
You can, but you'll need to then enter the display URL as that site's URL, leading to a potential bidding war if anyone else is advertising with that URL. -T
a lot of people already do that. As per Telmari, you should get your own domain and create a landing page. That way you won't directly compete with other affiliates to display the vendor's url in your "display url" in adwords.
Yup, exactly. It also adds credibility. Which am I more likely to click on, an ad with "crazydude.weirdmerchant.hop.clickban..." or "Coolproduct.com" as the display URL? -T
Thanks, that helps me out. When you say landing page are you talking about a page with the hop link that has a recommendation for the product or something?
You can't go wrong with a .htaccess redirect. Easiest way to do it: Create a new text file on your computer (notepad is fine) and type this: Redirect /PRODUCT-NAME http://AFFID.VENDID.hop.clickbank.net And you'll want to replace PRODUCT-NAME with the name of the product you're promoting (or juicy keyword), AFFID with your Clickbank affiliate ID, and VENDID with the CB vendor's ID. So for example, if my Clickbank affiliate ID is "datadugout" and I want to promote SEO Elite, I would type this: Redirect /seo-elite http://datadugout.bryxen1.hop.clickbank.net Simply save this file on your hard drive as ".htaccess" (note the PERIOD that starts the filename) and upload it to your /www directory of the domain where you're hosting your landing page. And then inside your landing page, just change your ugly clickbank affiliate link to http://www.yourdomain.com/seo-elite and WALA.... a beautiful .htaccess redirect. -datad.
you can also use php instead .htaccess create index.php in that folder and put this script in you index.php