You know, there’s a lot of affiliate out there telling people that direct linking no longer works, and that they shouldn’t waste their time with it.
I was one of these affiliate.
But in the paste several months I’ve come full circle.
Here’s some success stories :
- I meet two guys at Yanik’s Underground. One guy is NETTING $50k/month with all direct linking campaigns. Another guy is making $100k in revenues a month with direct linking (with HIGH ROI).
- One of my students is netting $1000-$1300/day profit from just 3 direct linking campaigns he launched. He used the strategies I taught him combined with some genius insight into what markets to promote.
- Another one of my students is netting $500/day profit – her first big success, following the EXACT strategies I laid out in my coaching program and in this post.
Also, I’ve just recently launched a direct linking campaign, it’s already profitable, and continues to quickly grow as I split test my ads and add more keywords.
The biggest advantage of direct linking is that it allows you to quickly test a market without a huge invest of your time. No matter how much market research you do, quickly testing lots of affiliate offers is really the best way to find the big winners.
So if you’re struggling to make landing pages, I recommend that you FIRST do direct linking and get 10-20 campaigns going.
You can easily launch 5-10 campaigns a week if you’re focus and disciplined.
Once you find a big winner, reinvest your profits into hiring a decent web designer and writer to build you a site. Once you have a real site up, your traffic will go WAAAY UP!
And so will your profits! 
The biggest drawback to direct linking is that you’ll only get about 20% impression share (in most cases), however, this problem is easily solved with your own site.
Many of you have been asking for case studies, I’ll be doing several case studies in the beginning of May showing some concrete examples, so stay tuned!
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I need to mention what i’ve experienced with direct linking. I’m pretty sure i’ve found a way to do direct linking without getting slapped. I discovered this because I already had an established landing page for a campaign. After I realized google was shutting down direct linking “so to speak” I set the Display URL and the Landing URL to my own Landing page. Then all I did was edit my keywords and redirect every singe word straight to my affiliate offer. This has been working perfectly for me!
Today I’m at the end of my tether, having had all my direct linking campaigns totally shut down over 4 weeks by Google. I don’t know where to turn next or what to do. I have paid out a lot of money trying to buy the right domain names so that they will match the product URL. I then forwarded on from the domain site to the product site through my hoplinks. But nothing works. AdWords doesn’t accept anything I do.
Surely there are sites we can use other than Adwords? These b******s don’t have the monopoly do they? Where am I going to earn enough to stay alive? I have zero website skills. I’m getting in debt. Feel like giving up right now and stacking supermarket shelves. It’s got to be less stressful that this.
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Hello Online Marketing Gurus,
I am posting this message to all the guru sites out there to get a final definitive answer to my frustration with google new rules. I really wish someone could help me. I have been researching and researching and reading and reading everything there is about adwords and I see so many people making so much money online. Yet after 10 years I never really “jumped into the pool” for fear of screwing up royally and losting a ton of money which my jobless unemployed ass has none. I was this close to “jumping in the pool” with the rest of you people then all of a sudden the “Google Slap” came in. That just put more fear in me not to start this. I’m not here to become the next millionaire guru. I just want to survive in this economy. Plus my Severance Package is close to gone. So here are my questions and ANY help or comments will be appreciated. Thanks.
QUESTION NUMBER 1
Is DIRECT LINKING dead in relation to Google Adwords? There’s tons of post all over the net the says YES OR NO either or. Can I just get a definitive answer? Here’s what know (or thought) I thought Google banned the use of direct linking? Gone are the days where people could just buy a domain (relevant or not to the item being promoted by the affialiate) and having the domain be redirected directly to the offer they are promoting using their domain control panel (and not using a redirect script on some hosted site). Is this still allowed? Or not?
Here’s what I do now direct from Google’s site that this is allowed:
For example:
Display URL: http://www.google.com/adwords
Destination URL: http://www.trackingurl.com/google123
–> Landing page URL: http://www.google.com would be acceptable
Display URL: http://www.google.com/adwords
Destination URL: http://www.trackingurl.com/google123
–> Landing page URL: http://www.trackingurl.com would not be acceptable
I understand that the Display URL and the Landing Page URL must be the same. This I have read countless times and it seems like that is all that Google cares about for now. But I heard somewhere now that even the Destination URL MUST MATCH the display and Landing page URL too. Is this true? I haven’t seen any changes concerning this change in the Google policy.
Question NUMBER 2:
I read somewhere that Googles rules has change concerning also Landing Pages. From what I have read simply creating a Landing page with some content or perhaps the same rehashed marketing materials most affiliate programs provide their affiliates where most of the links go directly to their affiliate offers or CPA Offers or even clickbank products. Is it true that this technique is no longer applicable to Google Adwords?
Question number 3.:
I have a great education related domain. For example purposes lets assume I owned: Education.com
Could I just sign up for a Education related affiliate program and get my affiliate tracking link from them? And then simply go into my control panel for my domain? (NOT MY WEBSITE) just the domain. And redirect from there my domain to affiliate link?
After doing that, how would I use Google Adwords then?
I would assume that I create a campaign using the domain as my display right? Ok and then also use it as my Landing Page URL and my destination URL?
Some part of me feels that this compaign would get banned or Google would rack up some obscene ppc charges to my account for my Click thru’s.
Am I right?
See my dilemma? This type of technique is no longer allowed is it? If so how?
Question 4:
Is domain Aliasing DEAD? It seems to me with Googles new rules specifically the part where the Display URL MUST MATCH the Landing Page URL that Domain Aliasing is no longer allowed by Google? From what I know this technique basically is like this
All these domains ( each having it’s own respective Adwords Campaign)
Blue-widgets.com
Red-widgets.com
Green-widgets.com
All will point to : widgetsworld.com
How in the world could something like this work nowadays with Google’s new rules? This technique has to be dead now right?
What’s sooooo confusing about all the info the Gurus have floating on the internet is that there is soo much OUTDATED INFORMATION. I mean few days ago I was about to implement one or 2 techniques I heard about then I quickly thankfully glanced at the date the post was made and it was like 2005! Or 2007!
After realizing this I immediately stopped what I was doing and did more research and found nothing to say otherwise that the technique was valid or invalid or outdated. Is it safe to assume at that point that it is feasible technique(just because I can’t find any info to contradict it?)? Stuff like this really puts much doubt and fear in my head about all this business.
Question NUMBER 5:
Starting Today, Can someone with say 160 domains ( which I do own and are starting to lose because I have no money to keep them) make money using Adwords to promote products that my domains are relevant to? WITHOUT my own hosted website for any of my domains?
Or is purchasing a hosting plan THEE ONLY WAY to make money using Google Adwords?
PLEASE?!?!?!?! SOMEONE HELP??? I’m only about 3 rent checks away from being evicted over here…..so any kind of help would be appreciated. And please? No people hitting me up with some BS or just some way to give me OUTDATED INFO that is probably going to get me banned from Google. OK?? And yes people have done that or tried to. You have no idea how evil people can be these days. I’m going to put this tracking code to this message so I can find it via google later and so I can find some answers to these questions.
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December 07, 2009
Archimedes S.
Arch,
If you can’t find the answer on this blog or the google web master page, may I suggest this site.http://www.ppchero.com/quality-score-handbook/
I would think if you had 160 web sites that had at least
5 pages of content at a minimum. Content that is extremely targeted. Where the keywords are within the first 50 words of the post or page. With the URL derived from the targeted keywords (multi worded keywords, like burn-belly-fat.com) People sometimes tell not to use hypens in the URL , but the search engines love them. So you have a URL called burn-belly-fat.com, your site is only about “burn belly fat”. Set up some adsense on your site as well. If you could get a $1 a day from each site, then you maybe could be on your way.
It seems like you have the drive it takes and as Tony Robbins says “you have the must” needed. And you have the resources in the 160 URL’s.
Adwords is just part of the game. SEO things like content, linking and back linking is needed as well.
Keep your adwords ads relevant to the web page (WEB PAGE) not just the whole site in general. IF you make a post or page about “burning belly fat in 3 steps” you need you ad to reflect that web page or post title.
“Help Google to help you”
Peace