Someone just told me about this as a possible way to get around the fact that Google Adwords doesn't often take kindly to direct links to vendor sales pages. They told me that I could take the vendor's source code from hoplink page and create an identical site on blogger, from which I could link directly to adwords... A few questions: 1) Is this true? 2) Is this legal and/or within TOS? 3) Will I get credit for the sales? 4) Will the hops and order form impressions be counted by Clickbank analytics? Thanks for your help!
It would take some work to get this to work. You still would be showing the same page but the domain would be different. I don't think google throws out ads because of the domain. It's most likely because of the content. There is ads on there that I see linking directly to sales pages. I think it just depends on the quality of the content on the sales page. I don't use adwords so I don't know but this is my take on it.
Well, every adword campaign that I've tried to link directly to a vendor's page has been rejected by Google, so I'm assuming that they don't like it...
But why would stripping the code from the vendor page make it any different? It still going to be the same sales page. I would try buying a domain and cloaking it. If that doesn work then set up a review page for the product. That would probably work. Also you can probably email google and ask then why it is getting rejected.
Hmm, I'm not sure about stripping the code. What I've tried that works and doesn't get rejected by Adwords is using an iframe like so: <html> <title>PRODUCT TITLE</title> <meta name="PRODUCT TITLE" content="true"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> <meta name="KEYWORDS" content="SHOVE SOME KEYWORDS HERE"> </head> <frameset border=0 rows="100%,*" frameborder="no" margintop=0 marginleft=0 marginright=0 marginbottom=0> <frame SRC="CLICKBANK HOPLINK HERE" scrolling=auto frameborder="no" border=0 noresize> <frame topmargin="0" marginwidth=0 scrolling=no marginheight=0 frameborder="no" border=0 noresize> <body> </body> </frameset> </html> HTML: Not sure if that's ok with Clickbank's TOS, but I've been using it for quite a while, lol.
I guess, it's the same as forward and masked go daddy domains!!...Yes, indeed google adwords accepts them
If you are going to do that it may work it may not, but the time you spend getting it to work you could quite easily do your own landing page with fresh content and that is optimized for the phrases you want to target. That is what I would do anyway. Chris