Is it ok to do this?
Hello everyone,
I am fairly new to the forum and am absolutely loving the amazing information that is available here. I upgraded to the War Room and it has been totally worth it.
Being fairly new, I had some questions:
1) I am promoting a clickbank product. In order to promote the product, I am initially starting off with an adwords campaign and have been getting some good results. My concerns are as follows:
I registered a domain name and created cloaked links using the WP Pretty Link plugin. When someone clicks on my ad, it forwards to the merchant site BUT the URL shown in the address bar is my website domain name, not the merchant name, hence the cloak. I am cloaking in order to hide my id from getting stolen.
One of the alternative using this plugin is to create a nicer looking link name (instead of using TinyUrl etc) which when clicked on shows the merchants domain name and exposes my affiliate id upon landing on the page.
My questions are:
--> Is this practice frowned upon by Google's Adwords program in the sense that I am really masking the landing page URL? Or do they not know this because my affiliate id is masked and therefore it just looks like a regular website? The landing page content is relevant to my keywords so I am not randomly sending them to unrelated sites.
--> When I look at the source code of the landing page using my masked link, it shows (I have x'd out some of the information):
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>xxxxxxxxxxxxx</title>
<meta name="description" content="Goes to the article on xxxxxx" />
</head>
<frameset rows="*" framespacing=0 frameborder=0>
<frame src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/?pid=xxx&tid=FORUMS4" frameborder=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
<noframes>Your browser does not support frames. Click <a href="http://xxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/?pid=xxxx&tid=FORUMS4">here</a> to view the page.</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
This link is no follow no index. Given that Google looks at sites in Adwords to ensure relevant content and that there is no content above since the link is masked, does Google read the source code or will they read the text on the page which is actually the merchants content?
Last question: instead of having the domain name in the url address bar show my domain name masking the merchant name, is there a way to still cloak the link BUT show the merchant's domain name in the URL address bar without my affiliate id showing? Or is it only possible to have my domain domain name show up, while masking the merchant's URL?
I hope this makes sense and thanks to all who answer in advance.
I am fairly new to the forum and am absolutely loving the amazing information that is available here. I upgraded to the War Room and it has been totally worth it.
Being fairly new, I had some questions:
1) I am promoting a clickbank product. In order to promote the product, I am initially starting off with an adwords campaign and have been getting some good results. My concerns are as follows:
I registered a domain name and created cloaked links using the WP Pretty Link plugin. When someone clicks on my ad, it forwards to the merchant site BUT the URL shown in the address bar is my website domain name, not the merchant name, hence the cloak. I am cloaking in order to hide my id from getting stolen.
One of the alternative using this plugin is to create a nicer looking link name (instead of using TinyUrl etc) which when clicked on shows the merchants domain name and exposes my affiliate id upon landing on the page.
My questions are:
--> Is this practice frowned upon by Google's Adwords program in the sense that I am really masking the landing page URL? Or do they not know this because my affiliate id is masked and therefore it just looks like a regular website? The landing page content is relevant to my keywords so I am not randomly sending them to unrelated sites.
--> When I look at the source code of the landing page using my masked link, it shows (I have x'd out some of the information):
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>xxxxxxxxxxxxx</title>
<meta name="description" content="Goes to the article on xxxxxx" />
</head>
<frameset rows="*" framespacing=0 frameborder=0>
<frame src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/?pid=xxx&tid=FORUMS4" frameborder=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
<noframes>Your browser does not support frames. Click <a href="http://xxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/?pid=xxxx&tid=FORUMS4">here</a> to view the page.</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
This link is no follow no index. Given that Google looks at sites in Adwords to ensure relevant content and that there is no content above since the link is masked, does Google read the source code or will they read the text on the page which is actually the merchants content?
Last question: instead of having the domain name in the url address bar show my domain name masking the merchant name, is there a way to still cloak the link BUT show the merchant's domain name in the URL address bar without my affiliate id showing? Or is it only possible to have my domain domain name show up, while masking the merchant's URL?
I hope this makes sense and thanks to all who answer in advance.
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