Do affiliate work with Parallel Tracking in Google ads or Bing ads

[Micheal]

Hi,

For affiliate offer to work, a user need to go through the affiliate link and it a mandatory. if user did not went through the affiliate link then the commission will not get generated for affiliaters.

Example:

Let say my affiliate link is https://www.affiliatelink.com/offer=123 which redirect to a merchant website https://www.example. com

Now, in simple way i will add https://www.example. com in final url and https://www.affiliatelink.com/offer=123 in tracking template URL.

User click -> Tracking template URL (affiliate link) -> Final URL (Merchant link) = Successful commission

So, when user click, it will click on tracking URL which have affiliate link and then the user will get redirected to merchant page and this how a affiliater get commission if merchant make a any sales.

But, the main problem is google ads introduce a parallel tracking. In parallel tracking when user click ads they directly get landed to Final URL https://www.example .com and the tracking template URL get loaded in back-end.


User Click -> Directly landed to final URL (merchant website)
Tracking template get loaded in back end.

My question is even if the tracking template loaded in back-end, do i still get commission from affiliate network? because i fair i know about affiliate marketing that a visitor should visit through the affiliate link to get any commission.

Important link :

Parallel Tracking : About parallel tracking - Google Ads Help
Tracking Template : Tracking template: Definition - Google Ads Help

 

[ElizabethR Goff]

Parallel tracking sends customers directly from your ad to your final URL while click measurement happens in the background. This helps load your landing page more quickly, which can reduce lost visits.

 

[SarahBoyer]

There is no Google Ads policy that mentions affiliate links. It is against policy to promote a website if the purpose of that site is to send people elsewhere, to someone else's site. So that policy pretty much stops affiliate marketing on Google Ads.

 

[Graybeard]

just stay one step ahead of Google

Heavily redacted because my server paths are none of your business --nor Google's when I include them (server-side-files)--none of that info is in the HTML source.

sample contents logged by setvar.php in the traffic.log

click out from my landing page to the offer sample contents of clicklog.log

Internal tracking --Google's legal problems with regard to privacy and tracking are THEIR PROBLEMS.

I am not doing a s2s postback currently but I know how to
I developed my own tracking that works with JavaScript like Google-Analytics (dumbed down) to specific needs of a affiliate/sponsor relationship but they have to agree to put it on the payment page --most refuse because then they are accountable --do the math ...

Google is just a bully constantly revising and upgrading to suit THEIR needs --then telling webmasters to jump through the hoop like a circus dog.

`I developed my own tracking that works with JavaScript like Google-Analytics (dumbed down) to specific needs of a affiliate` I could modify it to send the {token} data to a tracking URL on another server --for every measure there is a counter measure.

 

[Graybeard]

Do you understand this?

Solution is to use your own server rewrite
example.com/1234 (Google and your client/referral see)
is a rewrite to example.com/path/file.php?a=[value]&b=[value]&c=[value]&d=[value](real URI [file location with query parameters])

You are not tricking Google you are just ignoring their game plan and their bullshit