Speeding up Redirects when Direct-Linking

[Sg4]

For anyone that is doing direct linking, I'm having a problem where only about 40% of my traffic is actually reaching the affiliate web page.

IE. 62 paid clicks, 23 clicks reported by the affiliate tracking.

What is the best way to redirect? Custom, TinyURL (or similar service), etc...

 

[Dave33445]

try using an iframe?

 

[WayneDog]

try using an iframe?

Yes try an iframe but make sure to test your offer yourself as I have dealt with offers where the advertiser didn't like affiliates iframing their landing page and they blocked them so my conversions just stopped until I figured it out.

 

[dickson]

have not met such problem when redirect.
Maybe it is due to the different report system? say you record traffic as raw click, but the network record ip, so there would be a difference.
If you don't mind too much about third party tracking, you could try tracking202.com

 

[SeoReborn]

Yes try an iframe but make sure to test your offer yourself as I have dealt with offers where the advertiser didn't like affiliates iframing their landing page and they blocked them so my conversions just stopped until I figured it out.

Iframe is something I am thinking about using too. Can you give me sample code to get our pages looking like the whole page is the affiliate page and not just a section of the page?

Many thanks!

 

[SeoReborn]

For anyone that is doing direct linking, I'm having a problem where only about 40% of my traffic is actually reaching the affiliate web page.

IE. 62 paid clicks, 23 clicks reported by the affiliate tracking.

What is the best way to redirect? Custom, TinyURL (or similar service), etc...

redirect using .htaccess

 

[dillinger]

I´m gonna shoot out this newbie question here, since I´m just getting started playing with PPC:
How do you direct link?
Do you make a basic landing page at the beggining of the campaign so google approves your ads and URLs and keeps a decent QS and then redirect?
Do you cloak?
Or do you start the campaign redirecting from the get go?

 

[AdHustler]

I´m gonna shoot out this newbie question here, since I´m just getting started playing with PPC:
How do you direct link?
Do you make a basic landing page at the beggining of the campaign so google approves your ads and URLs and keeps a decent QS and then redirect?
Do you cloak?
Or do you start the campaign redirecting from the get go?

you can use an iframe with a php redirect to hide your referrer/

 

[dillinger]

you can use an iframe with a php redirect to hide your referrer/

So you would iframe the offer landing page in your Destination Domain. But wouldnt google slap your lights out when it sees there is no true content?

Or are you iframing a php page in your Destination Domain with a redirect to the offer? How would you fake some content to prevent getting slapped?

The more I think about it, the only true solution I see is either cloaking or making a basic landing page with relevant content while google evaluates the ads, and then pulling a switch once you have a decent QS

 

[tob]

I would say it's a case of your aff. networks servers being too slow - you can't get around this. As long as you are actually direct linking, putting the aff network link in your destination url, this is as fast as it gets. If you iframe the offer then you will, in fact, slow it done. The visitor will click the link, go to your website, your website will display the iframe, the iframe will then open the ORIGINAL direct link (which was the slow part before).

So I would say either your reporting is off, or your network is sucking.