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[Michael Taylor Contribution Level: 1]

I feel a little crazy asking this, but I think I am having a brain ____. But hoping someone could clarify it for me.

When it is stated not to Mask Affiliate Links, this would be like the link that I have for the Magnetic Sponsoring (www.(my user name).magneticsponsoringonline.com) this is what is considered a affiliate link?

Because I have some ads with Google running, but I think I have to use what is up top that I just wrote, because I can not/should not Mask a affiliate Link.

I believe when he talks about Masking in the workbook, it is for when you get your own sites and capture pages etc., or am I missing something?

Thank you in advance,

[Sean Soboleski Contribution Level: 2]

mtaylor,

We have been discussing this on another thread, that can be found here:

ppc-and-seo-f18/ppc-and-google-adwords-help-t16506.html


Sean

[Michael Taylor Contribution Level: 1]

Sean,

I really appreciate the direction to find the answer, as it was what I thought. Networking and sharing is the key.

Thanks again,
Mike

mtaylor, We have been discussing this on another thread, that can be found here: ppc-and-seo-f18/ppc-and-google-adwords-help-t16506.html I do mask one of my magnetic sponsoring links with adwords and it works fine. Sean

Publicly marketing or promoting other threads is generally referred to poor etiquette in most forums. I have had success loading affiliate links into a frame that requires a user to interface within the frame. I believe http://About.com/ utilizes such a frame. Anyway, the following is a good source of information:

“
Domain Masking or URL Masking is the art of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the URL field of a user's web browser in favor of another name. There are a couple of methods to do this.

• One could use an HTML inline frame or frameset so a frame embedded in the main website actually points to some other site.

• One could use mod_rewrite or aliases to have the web server serve the same page for two different domain names.

“ (CITATION), etc..., and CHEERS!

[Sean Soboleski Contribution Level: 2]

mtaylor, We have been discussing this on another thread, that can be found here: ppc-and-seo-f18/ppc-and-google-adwords-help-t16506.html I do mask one of my magnetic sponsoring links with adwords and it works fine. Sean

Publicly marketing or promoting other threads is generally referred to poor etiquette in most forums. I have had success loading affiliate links into a frame that requires a user to interface within the frame. I believe http://About.com/ utilizes such a frame. Anyway, the following is a good source of information:

Scott,
The link I provided for Michael is a link to a previous discussion that covered his question. We do this to minimize repetitive posts on a previously discussed topic.

Easy.

[Anthony Harris Contribution Level: 3]

you can also use software to mask your links.

i use adtrackz

you can also mask your links by buying a .info

at godaddy then forward and mask the link.

[Jim Zak Contribution Level: 1]

I also purchased adtrackz for the very same purpose with built in
click tracking. I have not yet had the chance to test it out but hoping
to very soon.

I also came across a free service for forwarding and masking rather
than having to pay for the .info domains.

http://dot.tk seems to work pretty good so far. Can also be used for
shortening urls in twitter.
Information Link: http://www.tweak.tk/

Would like to hear if any of you have used this service and your thoughts on it.
For free, seems pretty good. multi-functional.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

~JimZak~

[Richard Bravo Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 8]

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OK, now that that is out of the way...
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I wish I could do the whole screen shot thing, but I'm just too busy to do this today. But here's a bit of the results I got this week on a brand new AdWords account with a brand new campaign...

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Cheers!
~ Richard

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