How to deal with affiliate links.
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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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