If you ever doubt yourself… if your faith in your ability to achieve your ultimate goal sometimes waivers… if you need ongoing inspiration that the small steps you are taking will actually achieve what you want from life…
Here’s a timely reminder of what man can achieve through desire, faith and persistence…
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In my last article, we were discussing the problems with affiliate links. We also looked at one solution to having “overt” affiliate links by using tinyurl to disguise them. We ended up with a disguised link (one offering protection to the link), but one that didn’t look either pretty or natural.
Today I want to discuss a much more satisfactory solution: using a redirect script. Although, initially, a little more complicated, once you’ve used it a few times you’ll find yourself redirecting links very quickly AND you’ll be much happier with the disguised link itself.
In essence, a redirect script is a piece of code that is uploaded to your website; and the term “code” is very appropriate here (think in terms of “secret code”) because the sole purpose of the script is to disguise your true affiliate link. The script I use is a “php” script (don’t worry: I can’t write in php either – just stick with me. I only mention it so that when you see “.php” in a little while, you’ll know why).
Let’s assume that you ‘re going to promote a ficticious ClickBank product called “Earn with Adsense” and your affilate link is going to be:
http://yourclickbanknickname.earnwithadsense.hop.clickbank.net
and, for the reasons we’ve discussed, you want to redirect it. Firstly, before we look at the script itself, we need to decide where it is going to fit into the structure of your website.
I would suggest that you use a format along the lines of:
domain name/”generic” sub-directory/(appropriately named) script
e.g if we called our sub-directory “recommends” and we decided an appropriate name for this link is “adsense”, then, instead of sending traffic to our ugly affiliate link we can send it to:
www.yourdomain.com/recommends/adsense.php
- much better, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Here’s the script itself (I suggest you copy it into notepad and save it as a text document called “redirect”):
<?php header(“Location: *put the url you want to redirect to here*”); ?><html><head><title>redirect</title><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″></head><body></body></html>
END OF SCRIPT
In our example, you need to replace: *put the url you want to redirect to here*
with: http://yourclickbanknickname.earnwithadsense.hop.clickbank.net
Then you need to save the document, like this:
choose save as
in “File name”, enter: adsense.php
in “Save as type”, choose “All files” from the drop-down menu.
All we need to do now is to open our FTP client and upload our adsense.php file into our “recommends” sub-directory. And, of course, send our traffic to:
www.yourdomain.com/recommends/adsense.php
the redirect script will do the rest and send it to our TRUE affiliate link.
I hope this helps.
In an earlier article we discussed the advantages of affiliate marketing; today I’d like to address one of the problems that comes with it – the affiliate link.
A very quick summary: sign up to sell someone else’s product and you’ll be given your own affiliate link. This link is unique to you, so sales resulting from the use of this link will be identified as yours by the product owner and so you will get paid your commission.
That is the theory, anyhow. The problem is this: affiliate links look like, well, like affiliate links! They have a format all of their own; they’re not “proper” English, and don’t look like anything else. This gives rise to two issues:
Call me an idealist, but I happen to believe that most people are essentially honest. Put someone in a bookstore and, I reckon, a good 99% of the people wanting a book will buy it, rather than try to steal it from the bookseller.
Transfer that situation online, however, and the anonymity that comes with it increases the opportunity for theft. Include a very obvious affiliate link and, to some, it becomes “fair game”. The tactics can range from naive (“that’s a long web address – I’m sure we don’t need to enter all that stuff at the end”) to malicious “that’s an affiliate link – I’ll sign up to the affiliate program myself and buy through my own link”. Either way, though, if that affiliate link is yours, you’ve lost your commission.
This is why you need to redirect your affiliate links.
Redirecting cloaks the affiliate links and protects your commission.
Now there are a number of ways of doing this, but here I’m going to show you what I believe is the quickest and easiest of them all. You don’t need any html skills, you don’t even need a web site – and it’s free. As long as you can copy and paste, you can redirect a link in a couple of minutes.
This method uses TinyURL. CLICK HERE to open the site in a new window.
This is all you do:
The resulting url will do the job, but it may not look pretty. You may be able to improve the outcome by using the “Custom alias (optional)” box, but you may have to go with trial and error until you obtain a result you are happy with.
For example, the link for this particular blog article is:
http://recommendedbydavid.com/2009/06/03/redirect-your-affiliate-links/
I tried to convert it to:
http://tinyurl.com/redirect
but it was not available (someone had beaten me to it), so after experimenting I settled for:
http://tinyurl.com/redirect2009
Anyone clicking on that link would be redirected to the original destination at the cloaked URL (using the affiliate link if there had been one).
So there you have it: a quick and easy way to redirect your affiliate links. You’ve protected your link from the theft of the sale, and, especially if you use the “custom alias” option, you’ve increased the credibility of the URL by preventing it from looking like an affiliate link.
“But, hang on”, you may be thinking, “doesn’t the “tinyurl.com” bit of the address lessen the credibility of the whole?”
(You mean you want: quick, easy, free, and IDEAL?)
You’re right, though, we can improve on this solution – and without making it too complicated – and I’ll show you how in my next article.
I woke up today expecting my usual working day with a whole list of things to do and more financial gloom in the newspapers. My first smile of the day came when I opened an unexpected e-mail enclosing a link to the following video. I’m sure people don’t have enough to smile about these days – have this smile on me!
