Redirecting Brand New Domain to Merchant

I'm confused on this subject

[Brado12]

Hey all

I want to advertise affiliate product but I can't direct link to the merchant because they are already in the top 10 natural results?

I bought a new domain.

Can I use that domain in the display url and then use a redirect so it goes to the merchant?

I need help.

Thanks!

[Habtom]

Nop. Redirects are no no.

[Brado12]

If amazon is in the top 10 natural listings for a keyword but I want to use adwords to target one of the products (a hot product fresh of the press) how can I do it?

[edited by: Brado12 at 11:41 am (utc) on April 15, 2008]

[Habtom]

I seem to have missed the point on your second question, but someone else might be able to address it.

And, yes Welcome to WebmasterWorld Brado12.

[Brado12]

Thanks for the welcome.

My second question?

Mmm sorry for the confusion.

I mean, if I find a hot new product to promote but the merchant is in the top 10 natural listing and I'm an affiliate of the merchant. How can I get around the problem of not being able to display an adwords add because of the double url display policy?

Thanks

[buckworks]

The main requirements here are that the landing page must be on the same domain as the domain in the display URL, and Adwords will only allow the same domain to be listed once for any particular search.

The second rule does not apply to the organic results, only to Adwords, so you don't have to worry about who is ranking where in the natural listings. You'd want to keep an eye on that because it might affect user response to your ad, but otherwise you don't have to worry about the organic results.

You could create a page on your own domain with some effective pre-sell content about the product, and promote that.

[Brado12]

Thanks buckworks.

The reason I want to use this method is because many times you'll see a hot trend pop up on Google trends and you can capitalize from that quite well I think if you act fast.

Thanks again for the help.
Appreciate it ;-)

[wrgvt]

Keep in mind that if you're an affiliate of example.com and either another affiliate or example.com themselves has an ad running, you must outbid them to make your ad run (acknowledging that many factors come into play besides bid price). To use a redirect to subvert this policy is exactly why Google doesn't allow it.