Google Affiliate Network & Cloaking

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We have over 60 domains, and we cloak our affiliate links to avoid the wrath of google. We often have adsense on these domains.

Now we are thinking of joining the Google Affiliate Network because they have a few vendors that are suitable for some of our niches. No point cloaking those links, google would already know it is an affiliate site.

Here is the problem... When you sign up at GAN, it wants to know your adsense account, etc.. And when you use GAN, they will know your domains are affiliate sites, connected with your adsense account, google will know about all of them.

We'd rather not create another google ID, keep all our revenue and costs within the company, rather than individuals getting involved with accounts in their personal names...

How to be a member of Google Affiliate Network, without the big monopoly getting too intimate with their knowledge of our business? How to avoid all our affiliate sites being slapped? What to do? Any ideas?
#affiliate #cloaking #google #network
  • Profile picture of the author JonMills
    I operate in the google affiliate network and the reason they tie your adsense account to your GAN account is so they can send you 1 check ( saves on paper )

    Second google are fine with you masking your links

    As for Google not being in the know about your business. What are you trying to hide from Google?

    Unless your sites are utter crap, you have nothing to worry about. I have a lot of sites online and Google is aware of them and they dont just slap sites for the sake of it.

    People give them good reason to slap them silly.

    Again unless your sites are iffy and you know it.. Then you have no worries
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