Google Adwords - Do I have to create my own landing page?

I wouldn't recommend you direct link with your affiliate link. Google is not a big fan of affiliate type of sites and you risk getting your account banned.

Hi Sam, where is the confusion exactly ? let me see

google hates affiliates
you can not direct link because google will ban you

? and 101 variants of the above

You can direct link / if you could not direct link how would any site link to adwords ? affiliate or not.

The link is not the problem, how ever what is the problem is what you link to, so to understand that read G terms

but in short forget, make money on line / wonder cures / lover lover / snake oil / any site that contains over hyped under delivered promises / slim shady re bill offers / sites that are designed just to capture leads with nothing else / sites that are thin on support pages / sites that are thin on content.

plus anything else you find in G terms / if you have to ask then its a good guess it probably will not pass, and if so then check with G ad support before listing the site.

and all of that before we even get to the hidden nasty effects of promoting another vendors page on places like click bank.

it would be tough to recommend people use clickbank unless they have an iron clad guarantee from the vendor that what you are about to advertise will not be changed.

I still see people and have them contact me regular with suspended accounts from promoting seamless and harmless clickbank products on adwords. / the more this crap comes to an end the better but these vendors simply do not care (the ones who know their sites are crap but still promote adwords as a creative)

even though the vendors are aware the adwords / sem creative are getting people banned they continue to promote them and this is also allowed to happen for some reason on the site.

there is supposed some video / that i have seen that white washes the rubbish and acts more as an outdated smoke screen and is useless.

it would be tough to suggest any beginner to even consider clickbank / adwords , instead look at lead gen or look at promoting other affiliate products.