Direct linking - another affiliate running the offer or the advertiser

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Hello all,

I am doing my first campaigns now and I am going to direct link to test some offers. I understand that Google allows only 1 unique url to be advertised at a time.

My question is, how do I know if another affiliate is running that offer or if the advertiser is running it?

Does anyone know what is the best way to determine this.

Someone told me that they use a plugin called http header for firefox to determine this. I don't know how to use this tool and there seems like there is no real good documentation on it or at least i can't find it.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing all your advice.
 


live http headers is probably the plugin you're referring to

it logs every communication between your client and a server so that you can easily track what happens when you click a link, submit a form etc
 
You try to create an ad with that URL, if it doesn't let you, you know someone else is already using it.
 
Yes guys, that's the plugin I installed but how do you use it?

Forgive me but how can you tell if it's an affiliate with this tool?

Do you know of a better way?

@Bubbles - Why build the campaign and then wait to see if the ads will post or not because another affiliate may be using it?
 
Because its not that hard to change the URL. You shouldn't be truely direct linking anyway. You should buy a domain with keywords related to your niche and cloak that to your actual "direct link" that way you can track keywords and hide refers.
 
I had a feeling you were going to say "it's easy to change the url". Ok, that's fine. The reason I am direct linking is because I want to simply test the offers to see if they are a keeper or not. If so, I will build out an entire site for the offer.

Also, can you please tell me how I would actually cloak a link to the "direct link"? I understand that google does not permit cloaking.
 
Yeah you need to be tracking your keywords though, you could have one shitty keyword wasting tons of traffic with 30 other goldmine keywords, that can't quite pull the weight of the bad one. Thus your campaign goes negative and you delete a campaign that otherwise would have been profitable, had you deleted one word.

Cloaking in this case, is basically redirecting. I guess I probably threw that word around. What I really meant was redirecting.
<?
//Put your keyword tracking code here
header("location:http://affsite.com/promotion.html?affid=myid");
?>
Click to expand...

If you don't know PHP just use prosper202/tracking202
 
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