Banned cloaked landings vs legitimate redirect hygiene: taxonomy, program vs ad-platform referees, honest bridges, Amazon pointer, and a same-offer audit.
Paid traffic to affiliate offers needs platform reality, kill math, and a 2026 tracking spine (Data Manager offline + Meta CAPI). Map production breaks; open the deep-dives.
Running Meta ads to affiliate offers breaks purchase tracking. A bridge page gives a proxy signal, not a closed loop. SubID revenue matching still decides spend.
Silent-breakage tutorial for AI-assisted affiliate pages: detect URL substitution, catch post-publish param strips, audit beyond HTTP 200, and run a pre-live gate before bulk publish.
Commissions withheld after review? Read holdback and investigation clauses before you scale, document the referral trail, diagnose the freeze type, then escalate on a clock.
When CTR and CPC improve but commissions stay flat, measure commission yield and diagnose traffic, bridge, merchant funnel, and tracking before more ad optimization.
Translated affiliate pages can rank and earn clicks while commissions break. Audit geo eligibility, redirect param survival, and cookie Path before you publish.
