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Need Help With Cloaking & Using a Different Destination/Display URL in Adwords (6)

06-05-2012 08:45 AM #1 jlfarley (Member)
Need Help With Cloaking & Using a Different Destination/Display URL in Adwords

When I cloak on Adwords, what I like to do is use a domain I don't own as the display URL, and then I use my cloaked domain for the destination URL

Problem is, I can't seem to get Adwords to approve these ads

The only luck I have had is when I use "www.domain.COM" as the display and "www.domain.INFO" as the destination

Any way around this?

06-05-2012 02:09 PM #2 Smaxor (Veteran Member)

They are getting tougher and tougher on redirects. We're having to actually build our own sites out now and control everything server side. Where we're sending them really to our site. Then we cloak from within the site itself rather then bouncing through a redirect. This is especially the case in the highly watched niches.

However with that said we've really been focused much more on things you don't have to cloak. After years of playing that game it's just getting to be too much trouble if you ask me.

06-05-2012 02:12 PM #3 adpro (Member)

and the ip database is getting huge I bet LOL

06-05-2012 05:52 PM #4 profitable ()

Quote Originally Posted by jlfarley View Post
When I cloak on Adwords, what I like to do is use a domain I don't own as the display URL, and then I use my cloaked domain for the destination URL
it seems they now require the destination url to be the same as the end url (so no more tracking domain redirects)

Most guys I know are now having to create a domain like this:

domain.com <-- this is where you send google reviewers
domain.com/about.php
domain.com/contactus.php
domain.com/sitemap.com
domain.com/articles.php
etc.
ect.

domain.com/realpage.php <-- this is where you send google users

06-06-2012 02:22 AM #5 snarry (Member)

I'm using bevo for tracking and still able to pass through GAdwords just fine.
Just as long as the Destination tracking URL goes to the Display URL.

haven't been banned yet.
not doing any tricky cloaks though.

They do have the option of cloaking and geotargeting redirects as well as SSL if that helps.

07-05-2012 12:16 AM #6 karimelm (Member)

Using sites to cloak you dont own increases risk and policy bans for simple reasons: analytics is almost on all pages and not everyone turns off "data sharing" in analytics. Its easy for google to see if clicks end up on a website or not, in most cases.

Build your own fully compliant sites is the best move. Technically its allowed to run different display-destination urls but its just increasing risk, with google you have to play the game well or dont play it at all imo

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