Creating a Simple Affiliate Link Redirect
Creating a Simple Affiliate Link Redirect
It’s very important that you cloak your affiliate links for various internet marketing strategies.
For instance when sending email marketing email to your optin subscribers. It doesn’t look good if you include an unaltered affiliate link, ie. https://member.stompernet.net/?r=200778&i=68
You also increase the chances of subscribers removing your affiliate id and going to their own link or the merchant domain, ie. http://stompernet.net/
Another area where you would be advised to add a redirect link in in your article resource box when article marketing. Some article directories won’t allow affiliate links in ANY form. So if they click the link it won’t get past. Even with these directories though, you have a much better chance of passing the directory moderators if the link isn’t so recognisable as an affiliate link.
Here’s a simple redirect that I use. It won’t hide the affiliate link when users click on it but it will look better in your resource box and you can change the link that it redirects too at anytime - which is always good for the future when you may want to change the link for whatever reason.
Code:
<html>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
window.location.replace('PUTYOURAFFILIATELINKHERE');
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>
Simply open a notepad file, copy and paste the above into the file, save it as YOURAFFILIATEPROGRAM.html (ie. stompernet.html), then upload to your server.
Your link will then look like:
http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/YOURAFFILIATEPROGRAM.html
Tip: Create a new folder called ‘recommends’ and put all your redirect links in it. So your link would then look like this:
http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/recommends/YOURAFFILIATEPROGRAM.html
If you are looking for a program that will cloak your affiliate links completely - even in the browser bar - then you can check out the link below:
Affiliate Cloaking - Avoid Getting Your Commissions Stolen
This program further decreases the chances of your affiliate commission being stolen.
Hope you enjoyed this short tutorial.
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