Links shown in the video:
Link to Google Ads support document: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6305348
Link to trackingtokens.com website (*note: some of the information here is outdated, such as showing the {adid} token for Google where it in fact doesn’t work in Google ads): https://trackingtokens.com/adwords-tokens/
Hey all!
In this video, I show you how you can direct link affiliate products on Google ads without getting disapproved due to the nasty affiliate link!
If you watched my previous video I made a year or so ago about direct linking with Bing, you may have wondered if you could do the same with Google, and when you tried, faced some difficulties.
Google is not very affiliate-friendly, and sometimes it’s hard for affiliates to promote their products online.
However if you use a third-party tracking tool like ClickMagick in my case, this process becomes far easier and direct linking isn’t a challenge anymore on Google ads.
The basic idea is simple – use the tracking link given to you and add it into the tracking template along with any tokens you want, such as {keyword} or {campaignid} for example, which will pre-populate as you start sending traffic and will show you exactly what generated the clicks/conversions.
For the final URL however, you enter the exact URL displayed at the top of your URL bar when clicking on your affiliate link.
So you don’t want to enter the actual affiliate link anywhere in the ad at all, as it will get disapproved, but rather the tracking link generated via ClickMagick which will then send people to your affiliate link.
If your tracking link isn’t secure and you’re concerned about that, you can simply add the “s” to the “http” and it will become secure, simple as that.
You also don’t need to use cloaking or a custom tracking domain at all for this, so that definitely simplifies the process for you.
However – this won’t work for you if the product you are promoting is bad/against Google’s terms.
This method will help you promote good products which would get otherwise declined due to the nasty affiliate link given (which is sometimes the case).
But that’s it!
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If you are interested in ClickMagick, or want to learn more, feel free to check out their free 30-day trial under my affiliate link at:
https://go.ivanmana.com/ClickMagick/wp-cm-affproductsgoogle
And if you need help with a specific issue and want me to personally take a look at your setup, I can help! Check out the ‘My Services’ section of my blog: https://ivanmana.com/my-services/
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