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Google - Adwords - Rules

by michaelzenga
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Hi,

I am new to the warrior forum so please forgive me for breaking any rules.

I am a new affiliate marketer who aspires to make some extra money to pay for the finer things in life.

Here is my issue:

I went into clickbank and found some info products I thought would sell well. I then took the ingenius idea and typed up some good ads on Google Adwords and had some marginal success.

Reading Adwords' rules, I directed visitors to a relatively poorly written landing page I did myself. Way less than 100% clicked through to the destination site where I hoped to have prospects buy and make me commission $.

I see my competitors did what my web guy calls a hop page so the landing page never shows up. He says they are using frames where the domain they registered up in the address bar but it goes right to the destination site; hence, they get a 100% clickthough rate to the destination site since they don't actually have a landing page.

My web guy says this is against the rules.

Does anyone have any feedback of what I should do or advice?

I would really appreciate it...

Thanks,

Mike
#adwords #google #rules
  • Profile picture of the author jhollar
    Hi,

    I would never use an iframe with Adwords....Google will find out and ban your account in an instant..and it's very difficult to get it back.

    Instead, you should focus on creating a good quality Landing Page that offers some kind of review and then users can click somewhere to be taken to the merchant.

    Direct linking is also an option where you use your affiliate link and route traffic directly to the merchant, but a lot of direct linking accounts these days have been facing very high CPCs, since Google wants you to put up your own page.

    So, something to keep in mind.

    But I would recommend that you learn to build relevant landing pages..it will help your quality score as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
      Originally Posted by jhollar View Post

      Hi,

      I would never use an iframe with Adwords....Google will find out and ban your account in an instant..
      Wow, where did you get this wrong information from?
      A framed page won't get you banned. It might get the ad dissaproved, but you won't be banned.
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    • Profile picture of the author ramprof
      Originally Posted by jhollar View Post

      Hi,

      I would never use an iframe with Adwords....Google will find out and ban your account in an instant..and it's very difficult to get it back.
      You definately will NOT get banned. Many people use this technqiue to quickly test how well the sales page converts. In most cases Google doesn't even disapprove the ad.

      After you find a winner then you should focus on developing your own squeeze page, so that you can build a list and keep marketing to them.

      BTW - this is definately against Google rules for SEO and will get your site banned from the SERPs (maybe that's what your guy was talking about).

      -Ramprof
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      • Profile picture of the author PPC-Coach
        Iframes won't get you banned, they're "not allowed" but that rule is rarely enforced.

        Another method is make your display url and destination url match exactly, but then change your keyword destination url to the actual merchants landing page. It's an old technique that's been around for years.

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        • Profile picture of the author patfl
          Originally Posted by PPC-Coach View Post

          Iframes won't get you banned, they're "not allowed" but that rule is rarely enforced.

          Another method is make your display url and destination url match exactly, but then change your keyword destination url to the actual merchants landing page. It's an old technique that's been around for years.
          Does it work for the search network or only for the content?

          In case google find out, what do they do?

          Patrice
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          • Profile picture of the author PPC-Coach
            It works for both. I've never had them find out, but if they did they'd probably stop your traffic on the campaign.
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            • Profile picture of the author JeremyShawaf
              I know I know.......Dead thread, lol BUT I NEED CONFIRMATION. Also, my Iframe would not be the landing page, it would be one of the pages on my website, that I would link to from my landing page Any thoughts or ideas?
              Thanks

              Jeremy
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