Can I forward a domain straight to an aff site?

[Robban]

Can I forward a domain straight to an aff site..... and would I want to?


Lets say I am an affiliate of large established site.

Lets say I have a domain name to spare.

would it be legal and beneficial to forward my traffic to the aff site with a url forwarding.

Sure - I would not do any preselling..so the conversions might not be that good but just wondered if this is something one could do.

And if it is ok - Is it then ok to mask that domain... (I could go to my aff TOS and read mini print but I'd thought I'd ask the many aff pros here instead)

I know it is legal and very much encouraged when you do private Label type storefronts - but those are your own kinda..

any insight or discussion of this would be helpful and of great interest.

cheers,

[Linda Buquet]

Hi Robban,

Great question. You do really need to read the fine print TOS because it varies by merchant. I have seen affiliates do this and their site ended up relacing the merchants site in the SERP for their top KW. The merchants get VERY upset when this happens and some threaten not to pay affiliates for the traffic. So it can be risky. Ideally affiliates get paid when they do some work to earn the sale so it's always best to put up at least a landing page. If you don't want to pay for hosting for just a landing page, then use URL forwarding to a page on an existing site or get a cheap reseller account so putting up one page sites won't cost you anything.

[Robban]

Thanks-

wasnt sure if I even wanted to do that but it just hit me that one could do that. Sure that could lead to bas SE problems for the merchant.

I guess I was just curious. I know there are a bunch of companies selling traffic from expired domains straight to the purchaser of said traffic. But I guess they dont really forward the domain .. or do they?

[ogletree]

Ask first. I would be real careful about this. You would need to make sure you disallow your site from search engines or the affiliate could consider it an attack. If you have a domain with good type in traffic this would work. Make sure the redirect you put in is a link with your affiliate code of course.