can you enlighten us about the critera which a lp has to have ? I guess you use the cloaking feature of P202?
Sure Condan, let me first be little more clear about the clocking thing... In IM there is 2 type of clocking used.
1.
Content Clocking : - In this method, An script (JS) usually show a different content to the search engine spider (or Adwords spider) based on their user agent and a different version to the normal human visitors. This is against their policy and it volatiles webmaster guidelines however many forum sites has been doing this for ages and still not penalized. The most popular and controversial one is "experts-exchange.com" .
For a more generic example, thing of you searching for "Education schools in Canada" and you see a very relevant search result but when you click on it, the website is about child porn.
people use this technique in adwords as well but it only helps until a human being from adwords team decides to visit your site (mostly once in a month or whenever you update your billing). They find it easily and suspends your account. Still Some people are able to use this to get away with adwords for longer terms using some bulk pricy clocking scripts (I don't know how exactly - Never had to deal with this deep blackhat stuff but it works for little longer. ) Google have automated alert system to catch this (Based on MD5 checksum of the page they see via both user agents , but it only triggers an alarm does not actually bans your account). Please note that the MD5 checksum thing is just my assumption based on the conversations I had with Google guys so far. They never confirmed it, neither there is any document stating the same.
To advertise an affiliate site i won't recommend this method.. Eventually you will be banned.
2.
Browser Referrer Clocking :
This one is less nasty then the 1st one. and this is what you see in Prosper202.
An example use case of using this clocking will be - When you are using adwords or any PPC to drive traffic to an affiliate offer but you don't want them to see from where you are sending the traffic and using which keywords. Most of the networks have problems with this but it's easy to get away with (in CPA). Mostly newbies turn this ON to prevent the network from seeing from where they are sending traffic however for a network it's a red flag and they might close your entire account so speak with your affiliate manager beforehand or have a good relationship with them. In case of Clickbank it does not matter you are free to do whatever you like.
What it does is, Instead of normal 302,301 php header redirects it uses "html meta refresh". PHP header redirect will pass on the referer information to the next site but a html meta refresh will not... pretty much everytime you click a link on BHW you see it goes via blankreferer.com right ? That's exactly referee clocking.. the admins here dont want the target site to know the visitor came here from BHW (Obvious reasons) .
you can safely turn it on with adwords , google wont have any trouble with it but be sure with your target network before doing or you will be banned from your network.
Hope that was clear. Now coming back to Landing page, Instead of telling what should be there and what should not on an affiliate product I will simply share a affiliate site i was promoting couple days back. The conversion rate were good but not so great so i dropped the campaign but it can tell you what is accepted and what does not.
it's from clickbank by the way -for the people bashing clickbank direct link does not work -
http://www.rocketpiano.com/
Let me know if you have questions..
