There may be cases when you want to promote a legitimate product through Pay Per Click advertising and send visitors directly to the merchant’s sales page. In many cases this is prohibited by merchants even in cases where it is not Google has a one ad per domain rule.

In an effort to provide Google’s users with more relevant search results Google created a rule stating that they would show only one ad per search when multiple marketers were using the same display URL. Obviously, the effect this has for marketers competing for that one spot is to drive keyword costs up.

One way to get around this rule is to simply redirect the PPC traffic from a page in your site directly to the merchant using a small bit of code. Here is one way to redirect traffic using a page on your site.

Example:

Okay, now say we want to redirect the above ad directly to dotcomsecrets.com with your affiliate link. here is what you would do.

Open notepad or wordpad and create a file save it with the extension .php and name it whatever you want.

You should now have a file that looks like this.

myfile.php

Now with the file open copy and paste the following code.

<?php $url=’http://your-affiliate-code-here’; header(”location:$url”); exit();?>

Replace “your-affiliate-code-here” with your affiliate code. Now upload the code to your server and point your PPC ad to the file on your domain. Like this www.mydomain.com/myfile.php

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