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In you venture in affiliate marketing, most likely you will be given an affiliate link. Major problem you encounter with this business is the reluctance of your reader-not to follow the link. Thereby, losing a sale.
Here is a list for you to use in dealing with affiliate links.
- .htaccess. Using this technique requires knowledge on ftp. Open up .htaccess and at the bottom of this file, add this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule^acers.php$ http://www.affiliatecrunch.com?ref=memid [R]
- anchor text. Did you know you can use the anchor text? Although the least effective technique presented here but it is very easy to implement. We are dealing with a sort of psychological manipulation here because most likely readers will tend to see the anchor text first and will never check the actual link. For example, you got this affiliate link, http://www.affiliatecrunch.com?ref=memid you can have your anchor text like this, http://www.affiliatecrunch.com.
- html redirects. This another way to hide your link. Create a file and name it acers.html. Open it up using your favorite text editor and type this in:
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Present page</TITLE> <meta
http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.affiliatecrunch.com?ref=memid">
<HEAD> <BODY>Please Wait</BODY> </HTML>
- php redirects. Assuming php is installed on your server use this:
Create a file and name it to acers.php and type the following:
<?php
header("Location: http://www.affiliatecrunch.com?ref=memid");
?>
Save it and upload it to your server. For every affiliate product you promote, will equal to the files you have to create by then. In the above example, url.com/acers.php will bring you to affiliatecrunch.com?ref=memid.
- javascript redirect. Although not advisable, but still you can use this.
<a href="http://www.makemoneyonline.com" onclick="parent.location.href='http://www.affiliatecrunch.com/?ref-memid'; return event.return Value=false'>Show to the world</a>
- Lastly, if you are brave enough, tell the truth. Yes, telling the truth can be rewarding to you. If your readers are aware that the link presented to them are affiliate links, then they are at least become familiarize as to what are affiliate links.
The above tips is very useful although others might consider it as little evil or a sort of a black hat technique. What is important is you have tried to promote the products of affiliate merchants.
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Just recently, thumb drive viruses are getting local. This is perhaps due to the influx of cheap thumb drives in the local markets today where one can buy a 1 GB for less than 10 dollars. My friend of mine ask me how to get a virus infecting his thumb drive. Usually infections from thumb drives is caused by the autorun feature. It is somewhat very useful to delete the autorun.inf file.
I immediately look for hidden files and its extensions. To my surprise for every folder located in the thumb drive's root directory, another folder exist with the same name although with an .exe extension. Very smart, if you have disabled the hidden files and folders and hide file extensions, then you would think it is a harmless folder. The worst thing is these infected files will revive once you delete this, so we have to use the command prompt. Majority of these viruses infects to any .exe file extensions it can find, we have to remove all of them. Using the command prompt, i successfully remove all of them using this command:
where h: is your flash drive.
HOW TO AVOID
I have just learned some precautions in using flash drives because every time I get infected, reformatting the drive including the logical partitions is must once you get infected. It would mean losing your valuable data. Some of these malicious programs intend to identify whatever drives present in your system and most likely will create files on every drive it can find. Reformatting only the drive where your OS is installed is not the total solution to this. Some say, elite virus scanners can identify these viruses. However, as I said earlier they will just intend to get your money because these viruses are getting localized. As I write this post, there is no known virus scanner that will identify these localized malicious script. The best way to avoid this is to disable the autorun feature. Look for any .exe file extensions and removed them using the command prompt. Lastly, do not trust anybody.
How long have you been online today? What was your purpose of being online? If you answer 1 hour or more, then there must be something worth sitting around looking at your 17 inch monitor. But hey, did you ask yourself if making money online was just an option aside from lurking around on many social websites? Why not try Affiliate Marketing?
Ever since the internet zooms past the sky, everything now becomes so easy. The internet has become a great provider for the emerging netpreneurs. With a few clicks, one can gather huge information from buying a product and even making money online. If you want to get out from the classic way of earning money, then Affiliate Marketing is for you.
You don't have to prepare a suit or business attire, no waking up early, you can work anywhere as if you were on a vacation, these are some of the benefits you enjoy when you decide to make money online.
Of course, there's a little work and learning involved, but affiliate marketing has changed over the past couple of years. No need to worry about learning web design and making your own website because others can do it for you. No need to learn marketing on your own because you are given advice, tips and hints from marketing gurus that will help you in your own niche market and rake in the cash. People who run affiliate marketing networks are ready to help you. They’ll be happy to see you successful like them. It's a win-win situation. Both will benefit and earn the money you all deserve.
I am adding a Directory for various Affiliate Programs. Should you wish to sponsor a site or your affiliate link, please contact me or use the submit a site link provided at the Directory page. I will be accepting affiliate sites for FREE up to January 31, 2008 only, afterwards only sponsored sites/affiliate links will be accepted. If you have questions please contact me at http://www.affiliatecrunch.com/contact/
