I built a website to sell a Clickbank product a while ago and right now it ranks at #3 in Google. Arguably #2, since the first two results are different pages of the same website. Since I haven't been getting the sales I want from this site (some, but not enough), I've decided to conduct a little experiment. I set up a redirect so the domain goes directly to my hoplink, so when people click on my site's search result in Google they are now taken directly to the product's landing page. While I don't get to do any pre-selling this way, I'll have a CTR of exactly 100%. I know Google doesn't "like" this, so I'll be checking every day to see how long I can go without getting penalized/deindexed/whatever, and I'll report back with my results. Some more details: The keyword has some competition but not a whole lot, and it gets about 9900 searches per month globally. While my site is at #3, the landing page for the product itself (which my site is now redirecting to) ranks at #9 right now.
