Can you use a forwarder when promoting affiliate products with adwords

[narsticle]

I know you can only have 1 TLD promoting a product but can you use a frowarder through your own domain to send people to the affiliate site? Is this kosher? Please let me know :)

[poster_boy]

It is not allowed.

From Google's January 2005 Google AdWords service announcement:

Affiliates or advertisers using unique URLs in their ads will not be affected by this change. Please note that your Display URL must match the URL of your landing page, and you may not simply frame another site.

Redirects are covered within the point about framing the advertiser site.

[ronmcd]

They have to end up on the domain you use ion your Display Url, so no, you cant just use your own domain but redirect them immediately to the merchant site.

Create a landing page on your site and presell the product.

[narsticle]

thanks for the replies...i dont want to do anything against TOS

[humblebeginnings]

To go half on/off topic:

I see loads of Adwords ads that display the original merchants URL (@pple.com, [e-mail], etc) but just have an affiliate link for destination url. Surely against TOS but G just leaves them...

[jtara]

I see loads of Adwords ads that display the original merchants URL (@pple.com, [e-mail], etc) but just have an affiliate link for destination url. Surely against TOS but G just leaves them.

These are compliant with the TOS. However, they invoke the "affiliate rule". Only one ad with the same merchant's URL will be displayed on a given page.

This tends to make these ads more costly. In the case of affiliates with high name recognition, it generally forces you to bid for the top spot. Otherwise, you won't be displayed.

[ronmcd]

As long as the visitor ends up on the domain in the display url, its fine. So having an affiliate link as the destination url that takes you to the merchants site is ok.

[humblebeginnings]

jtara, ron, thanks for the explanation!
Sorry for being mistaken about this...