Clement Chee

Recently, I have been finding out how to use Google Adwords to redirect my affiliate links without uploading a landing page to my FTP server. I got rejected for a few times and finally I’ve got it working just the way I wanted it.

This is why I am writing this blog post and I believe many of you are going to benefit from this blog post.

For the purpose of this blog post, I am going to use ABC product as with the URL of ABC.com to illustrate the whole thing.

For those who do not know, they will usually go for the following approaches:-

Direct Affiliate Linking
>> Display URL: www.ABC.com, Destination URL: xxxxx.abc.hop.clickbank.net
>> Display URL: www.YourDomainName.com, Destinaltion URL: xxxxx.abc.hop.clickbank.net

Redirect Affiliate With a PHP file
This is where you upload a php file that looks like the following:-

<?php
header (”Location:  http://xxxxx.abc.hop.clickbank.net”);
exit;
?>

If you do not know how to do this, you just need to copy the entire code above, paste in a notepad file and save as a “index.php”. Once you have done this, the next thing you do is to upload the “index.php” file to your FTP server under the “public_html” folder.

I bet many of you have been doing that too and there is only one result for this – Inaccurate Display URL.

Google would not allow you to do this kind of affiliate link redirection too.

So, here is the trick. In order to crack the code successfully, you need to allow a delay of 5 seconds before the visitor is being redirected. I don’t know how to explain this but to Google, it will not look like a redirection to them.

Here is the code:-

<?php
sleep(5);//seconds to wait..
header (”Location:  http://xxxxx.abc.hop.clickbank.net”);
exit;
?>

Do you see the difference? This is the code you are supposed to use for your Adwords PPC campaign.

After 4 – 5 times of being rejected by Google, they have finally approved my ad the moment I changed the redirecting PHP code to the above. My ad is now running and starting to bring in traffic for me.

Now I hope you have enjoyed reading this post. It is time to go conquer PPC and rake in amazing commissions!