I'm trying to get into offline marketing with business cards, flyers, etc and I'm trying to figure out how to best set up my websites with affiliate links. The plan is to have a variety of different business card types, and other offline marketing materials. I want to track which ones work the best and drive the most customers to my websites and through my affiliate links. They will be driving visitors to websites with basically the exact same information. I thought about redirecting different domains on the business cards to the same single website with the information I want to provide, but then the problem becomes the affiliate links. I also want to see which offline marketing materials actually get the visitors to convert and sign up for the product I'm promoting. The solution I've come up with is to build the exact same site on multiple domains so that I can track the affiliate links for each offline marketing material. What I'm wondering is if there is any better way to do this and if I will be penalized. The traffic for the site will be coming from offline materials so it doesn't matter too much if I don't rank well for a variety of terms, but I'd still like to rank at the top for my website name so that if a person with my business card types in the sites name in google or even the domain name in google I still get that traffic. Could anyone let me know if you have any other ways to fix this problem, or if you think it will even be a problem in the first place? I'd rather not have to make several unique sites when I'm basically providing the exact same information on each....
Unfortunately, there is no easy way around this right now. But, there are people like me who work out a temporary solution by rewording or reframing my content and advertising my main website that way. However, in my experience you can carry this out for just 3 months after which your domains and websites will start getting penalized. The best way to avoid penalties is to simply have little bit of unique content and insert the same content as an image rather than as text so that way your domains do not get penalized. This is what I do anyway and it seems to work for a longer time.
Ok cool, that's an interesting way to get around it. I guess it could make it look nicer too, will just be a little more work initially to get the images looking good.
Yeah it takes a bit longer but does work pretty well for the purpose. Use a text to image software online that will help you make tons of images within seconds once you have the text files ready to convert to images.