7 Ways to Boost Your Affiliate Marketing Profits
How to Get People to Click YOUR Links & Buy
In Today’s Lesson…
Redirecting Your Links – It’s So Easy Yet So Many Don’t Do It
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Welcome back!
Are you ready to get started with today’s lesson on boosting your affiliate profits through the roof by becoming a super affiliate? I hope so, because today’s lesson is so simple, yet tons of affiliates skip this step every single day.
How many times have you been at a website, seen a recommendation for a product and when you went to click the link you saw a long, ugly, jumbled mess for the link? As you know, that was an affiliate link.
Now, how many times have you decided against clicking the link just because you knew it was an affiliate link? Do you see where I’m going with this? Those long links are such a turn off aren’t they?
The majority of affiliates who sign up for an affiliate program don’t realize just how often people skip over their link and go right to the main website once they see the affiliate link. Or worse yet, they self-discount a product by going directly to the program, signing up themselves and then using their own affiliate link to purchase the product.
Speaking of self-discounts, it’s not good business practice to help yourself to one. It’s not fair to the affiliate who did the work and made you want to buy, and most affiliate programs don’t allow it.
Stop and think about how you’d feel if someone did that with you! Bottom line, Don’t Do It!
Ok, now that I’ve gotten that off my chest (sorry about that little rant), let’s talk about a couple of ways you can redirect your affiliate links.
The first way is to set up a redirect on your own website. Sure, people who have been around probably realize this is an affiliate link, but it still just looks better and it won’t freak out those people who don’t understand affiliate marketing when they see a link from a trusted source (you) in their email.
To set up a redirect on your website, simply create a blank page on your site and name it something that makes sense. For instance, if I was promoting EasySales.com I could create a page on my site that looks like this: mysite.com/greatsales.html
Then copy the following code into your blank page, inserting your affiliate link where it says AFFLINK including the http://
<html>
<head><meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=http://youraffiliatelink.com”>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Now whenever you want to promote that product simply use the link mysite.com/greatsales.html
The second and more super affiliate (thinking bigger) way to redirect is to purchase a domain name just for the product you are promoting. Honestly a domain name can be purchased for little and depending on the product, you’ll make that $10 or less back with one promotion!
Of course, you probably won’t want to do this with every single product you promote, but if something is a good seller, a product that you love, something you’ll promote often, OR a recurring commission go ahead and do it.
Let’s say you are promoting a product whose URL is myaffiliateproduct.com. A good choice for a redirected domain would be something similar like myaffiliateproducts.com. (plural)
So, there you have it – setting up a redirect can make a difference in your affiliate promotions and today I want you to choose one of the above mentioned methods and redirect at least one affiliate product link (more if there are more) from your chosen affiliate program.
If you are planning to market many affiliate programs, you can consider investing in my favorite program for redirecting and/or completely cloaking your affiliate URLs:
I use this software all the time. Sometimes I completely cloak the affiliate page so that the web site visitor never, ever sees it. And sometimes I don’t. More often than not, I cloak the affiliate link. I’ve never been disappointed with this software.
You’re now one step ahead of the majority of other affiliates in your program! Keep up the great work and I’ll see you tomorrow.
Tomorrow, we’ll cover…
“eCourses & Squeeze Pages”
To Your Success,
Joanna Robbins
Editor & Publisher
P.S. Find out how you can earn affiliate commission checks in just 1-3 hours every week by completing ONE simple assignment. Without a website, experience or even an idea!
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This is Lesson 2 in a series of 9 about boosting your affiliate marketing skills and profits.