Hey All, I've been doing PPC for a while now on several big affiliate networks. Now for the first time I thought it was about time to try and promote a clickbank offer. The merchant's ladingpage is a very simple page with almost no content. It's only a teaser where people can give their input and they are then taken to a page where they can decide wether to buy something or not. Now in the beginning I was just direct linking to the merchants landingpage and had good quality scores. The only problem was that somebody else was also promoting that offer on the same visisble url of the merchant. So, I did not get many clicks as he was bidding higher on most keywords. I then decided to register a domain and just iframing the merchants site on my domain. I know this is against Google's TOS but I've done it in the past without any problems. My problem is now that all the bids went up to € 4,- and € 8,- because of the poor quality score. When I enter the Merchants original landingpage the bids go down again and quality score goes to OK or GREAT again. So, my question is if there is a way to also get a good quality score on iframed pages, or maybe there is another way to solve this. Building a own landingpage is not really an option since it's a very simple service that they offer and really doesn't require any pre-selling at all. Who can help me? Thanks!
What about copy pasting the landing page HTML on your page and presenting it as your site? Does it violate the TOS? Or creating an iframe using javascript, which the bots wont understand. Something like document.write "<iframe..." etc.? You may probably add some more content yourself for the bots to see!
A.H....cough cough....(See sig)...seriously...you knew beforehand that google doesnt like iframes, so this is nothing too surprising. I use my own methods now on 70, 80 siites for products i promote. Another solution would be you make a blog on squidoo or similiar, keyword rich, or you just make your own page which is highly related to the KW which has links to the product on it.
You said that a landing page isn't really an option. I've come across this situation myself an found that I just had to bite the bullet and do a landing page anyway. I like the idea by alemcherry if it doesn't violate TOS. Then just ad some of your own content (sales pitch, whatever) making sure that Google finds it to be relavent and it will work just fine.