Where should I place landing pages I'm using just for adwords? I can't do a subdomain because that will hurt potential quality score. The domain I'm advertising on has great history and quality score.
I also can't use my product review pages because I already have my own tracking system integrated on those and I don't want to change the offer links to CPVlab links, and I don't want organic traffic mixing in with my Adwords traffic.
Please tell me whether this is the best way to do this:
I'll just create a subfolder - sitename.com/landingpages/ for example, and noindex it via robots.txt so I can avoid any potential duplicate content between landers and the actual site.
Is it as simple as that?
Sorry for the noob question - I am trying to run ads for review pages on large content site I own.. and I can't use my actual live pages for tracking reasons.
dunno if I understand this the right way but...
why not add a parameter (?p=bla) to your adwords-links and switch links if "p" is equal to "xy"?
i would try something like...
<?php
$link1 = "originallink"; // probably a variable in your system
$link2 = "cpvlablink"; // cpvlab redirect
$p = $_GET["p"];
if ($p == "xy") {
$link = $link2;
} else {
$link = $link1;
}
?>
<?php echo $link; ?>
robots.txt seems ok to me but i would also add a robots "noindex,nofollow" (http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html) since you don't want to have your cpvlab links indexed by accident.