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Protecting Your Affilaite Links

January 9th, 2010

Copyright (c) 2009 Vivienne Moore

Promoting your affiliate website to earn commissions can be depressing and frustrating because your commissions are small in comparison to the traffic your generating for your site. Beware the unethical people out there may be stealing your referral links and replacing it with their id which is very devious. Or the main website may be getting your customers because it is a short URL and more presentable that the long complicated referral URL.

Implementing measures to prevent commission theft from the unethical thieves is important. It is an important to cloak or mask your affiliate links to protect your income. Cloaking disguises you’re affiliate link with another shorter and more effective website address. Your potential customers see a shortened more appealing masked website link only so customers don’t know the parent company website and the internet pirates are prevented from stealing your commissions.

The Good:Short readable affiliate links are generated automatically with the Viral URL program. Your free memberships enables you to cloak your affiliate links. It is worth upgrading your membership to receive the extra advertising credits and bonuses. The resources available are plentiful in the members area which allows you to easily jump start promoting. Building mailing lists,tracking statistics and earning ad credits is included with this program. Access to text, banner and email ads to promote your affiliate products is included in the members area to generate traffic using you cloaked link.

Website link cloaking is simple and easy with the instructions given. A tutorial video is available for the advanced cloaking methods. Viral URL affiliate program also allows you the opportunity to promote and earn commissions. Everything you require to promote Viral URL is included with your membership. With the upgraded membership the bonus area is full of useful extras. The member’s area would be good for the newbie because it is easy to understand and implement the techniques given.

The Viral URL system keeps the internet pirates away from stealing your commissions with cloaking referral links, gives you the opportunity to become an affiliate and offers 3 different avenues to generate traffic to your affiliate websites. Upgrading your membership offers a lot more potential for supplementing your income by promoting affiliate products. A ticket submission system is available to assist the customer with a prompt reply.

The Bad:Live support seems to offline a lot of the time and the drop down menu bars can be difficult to use. Dull and strange color scheme is very unattractive. The long introduction essay given for the benefits of promoting viral URL is a little boring and a little repetitive. Improving usability by reducing the padding up of explanation. I wasn’t really interested in reading all the information.

The Verdict:Definitely Recommend.Free membership and upgraded memberships are available. Free the membership still gives you a lot of benefits. Cloaking your referral links preventing the theft of your commissions with the added options of banner email and text ads to increase traffic. Promoting viral URL as an affiliate is easy as all the promotional tools are provided.

If you are serious about affiliate marketing and keeping your commissions this program is perfect for you.

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Affiliate Commissions

January 8th, 2010

Your affiliate commissions are your earnings. Each sale you make for your sponsor will earn a percentage of the sale. This will be your commission. In order to make your affiliate business grow you will need to be sure you earn a decent commission from every affiliate program you join.

Safeguarding your commission: it is important to know how to safeguard your commission. You can do this in several ways.

Checking out the companies:

It is critical to your success that you check out the company that you are proposing to join. Be sure they are reliable and are an established business. You do not want the company to fold before you can get paid your commissions. Also you do not want to work for unreliable unscrupulous companies.

Cloaking your affiliate link: There are many people who wil literally steal your sales commission from you. They will either cut out your code from the link and buy direct from the company or replace your code with theirs. Either way you lose your commission. In order to prevent this you will need to use software to disguise the link or have a link that redirects your visitor to the sponsor’s sales page.

Checking that your links work: This is something that many affiliates forget to do. It is no good sending traffic to a broken link. There can be a number of reasons for broken links. Sometimes it is temporary other times it is permanent. If you find your link to your sponsor’s site is not working it is very likely one of 2 things. Your sponsor may be having some web site issues, which will be temporary, or if you are using a redirect service for that link, it may have broken and you will have to remake it or use another company.

I have found this site very useful.  You will learn the real secrets from a super affiliate who has been making a nice living from affiliate programs for several years.  To learn more about taking care of your commissions www.secretaffiliatescout.com

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Affiliate Marketing Without a Website or Blog

January 2nd, 2010

 

Affiliate marketing is one of the business models which one could start without a website and there are many other ways to market or promote an affiliate products or services. Anyone who wants to do affiliate business model could use many free methods in the internet to promote and make money online. The list below explains some of the free methods which could be used to promote affiliate products or services by anyone who is willing to spend some time online.

Email Marketing

A person could promote affiliate links using email. If you are in a membership site which allows you to email members freely or you have many friends who you communicate using email or any other source of email marketing which you could use without restriction, then you could email to these people any affiliate link which will divert people to the affiliate site. If they followed your affiliate link and purchased the product/service, you will get your commission.

Yahoo Answers

If you have seriously used a product which is useful to you and you would recommend it to others to try it out, then you could promote the product’s (if there is affiliate program which comes with this product) affiliate program. You could find people who ask questions in Yahoo Answers related to the product which you plan to promote and answer the questions by explaining your experience using the product. You then could ask the asker to visit the site where the product could be obtained via your affiliate link. Do not simply push your affiliate link, but try to provide good answer to the question and guide the asker to the affiliate site.

Article Marketing

You could also use article marketing in promoting affiliate link. Even when many article directories which do not allow authors to use affiliate links in their author’s signature section, but there are many directories which still allow authors to place the link. You need to spend some time to find these article directories and start writing article related to the aspect of the product or services which you are promoting. Article marketing has the potential to drive highly targeted visitors to an affiliate program.

YouTube Marketing

If you are good in producing videos which you could attract attentions of millions of people who surf YouTube site everyday, then you should make some video relating to the affiliate product which you are promoting. For example if you are promoting a product such as Sony Play Station, then you could make a video about this product being used in funny ways and post it in YouTube. People who watch the video might be interested in the Play Station and might purchase it via your link which appears in the video they watched.

Ebook Marketing

Viral ebook marketing is another form of marketing which one could use to promote affiliate programs. In viral marketing, you create an ebook which explains or provide certain information which are valuable for readers and make them want to share the information with their friends by passing around the ebook. Within the viral ebook, the author will leave affiliate links at certain strategic location in the ebook content, and upon readers clicking the links, readers will be taken to an affiliate sales page. With viral marketing, the more people pass around the ebook, the better chances of you making sales.

Above are only some of the methods which one could use to drive traffic to certain affiliate programs using affiliate links. If done properly, methods such as article marketing, YouTube, viral marketing and Yahoo Answers could be providing highly targeted traffic to the affiliate programs for many years to come as long the affiliate link remains active. This will increase the chances of an affiliate marketer to make a sale constantly.

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Use of Strategic Internet Marketing in Promoting Your ClickBank Affiliate Link

November 21st, 2009

One of the best means to promote a product or services on the Web is strategic Internet marketing. There’s no other way that any website can survive competing with thousands of other websites simultaneously from every part of the globe, except for pointing its place on the Web. A website’s place on the Web can only be pointed out if it’s being marketed properly. Strategic Internet marketing has several forms. These can be in the form that makes use of search engine optimization (SEO), blogs, article marketing, banners or link exchanges. With SEO, an optimized website can stay on top of search engine results. Sending traffic to an affiliate link can make you lots of money. So, if you are an affiliate and wants to boost your earnings online, it is wise to apply the concept of strategic Internet marketing together with the product called CB Pirate. CB Pirate is a ClickBank affiliate product that was designed by Soren Jordansen and Cindy Battye. Tons of exposure has been gained by CB Pirate in the network marketing sector that others even think that it might be a scam. But there are already lots of people who have given proof that CB Pirate is not a scam and that it is a proven system for generating reliable earnings as an affiliate of ClickBank.  CB Pirate reveals that making money with ClickBank is not that difficult. In spite the fact that there are already lots of Clickbank affiliates who have failed in their ventures. The reason behind these affiliates’ failure is they always wind up with nothing to prove or present for all their uphill struggles except for their credit cards that have been maxed out by their fruitless Pay Per Click advertising campaigns.CB Pirate emphasizes the importance of traffic and sending of traffic to an affiliate link. It also explains how to drive traffic to your ClickBank affiliate links. In spite the fact that traffic is really important, it must be the last thing to put on mind when just beginning. It is imperative to understand that in before obtaining traffic, an effective landing page or splash page must be designed first and uploaded to your server. Such reports that are captivating enough to entice visitors to opt-in must be written in order to presell the product to these people. You also need to set up your own autoresponders where you will write your follow up series. CB Pirate is effective in enabling marketers to entice their visitors, capture their prospects so they could continue to market associated products to them with no extra investment or work and have the whole sales process work on autopilot.

As you may have pondered, simply sending traffic to your ClickBank affiliate link may generate some sales but there also possibilities that it would not be, since you’re depending much on the purveyor’s sales copy to transform them into paying customers. You’re extremely fortunate if you get 1 to 2 percent of the visitors to purchase anything. The good thing about strategic Internet marketing is the fact that you can obtain some exposure and visibility for your business 24/7 across multiple time zones.

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The Best Places for Google Ads and Affiliate Links on your Website

November 15th, 2009

What are the best positions for affiliate links and google ads?

Placing affiliate links on your website can really make a difference on how many clicks you end up getting and, since every click means a potential sale, this is an important aspect of internet marketing.

Research has shown that the most effective affiliate links are text links. Thats right, plain text links. Not big flashy banner ads like most affiliate website are filled to the brim with. What happens is, you write a great article (or have one created) about the product or something related to the product and stick the link into your text. This allows interested readers to see the link as they are reading and click on it.

Of course, your article and your link have to work effectively together to make this happen. A bad article and an unrelated link to an unknown product are not likely to make the profits roll in. So the next time you are out to choose an affiliate link, try placing a relevant link in a great article that is well optimized for search engines and see how it works out for you. Visit this great site http://www.makemoneyonline.co.nz for more information on articles, internet promotion and marketing topics.

What are the best places for your google ads?

Place google ads at the top and top left of your site. Ads placed near rich content and navigational aids usually do well because users are focused on those areas of a page. Wider ads seem to perform better that taller ads. The formats that are most effective are the 336×280 large rectangle, the 300×250 inline rectangle, and the 160×600 wide skyscraper. Although these ad formats perform well, you should use the format that best complements your pages.

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Cloaking,shortening and Renaming of Affiliate Link

November 7th, 2009

Affiliate links can now be shorten,cloak and rename to whatever name desire.

Shortening of Affiliate link is the converting of long Affiliate link to a shorter one that is easy to remember.

Cloaking of Affiliate link as is known is superimposing another longer link on the Affiliate link thereby hidding the Affiliate link from Affiliate thief.In the case of cloaking,it is the title given to the Affiliate link that is display when the Affiliate website is display by the browser.

Renaming of the Affiliate link is an innovation in cloaking an Affiliate link.Where a short name is given to the aAffiliate link e.g.http://www.moreinfo247.com/9112409/free changes to http://www.sfimg.inc.tc

http://www.flash-template-design.com/affiliates/affsignup.php?a_aid=3368 changes to http://www.flashtemplatedesign.inc.tc

From the above example it can be seen that the dot com(. com) has changed to dot inc.tc(.inc.tc).They can be checked out for verification.Affiliate ink can now be personalize,shorten,cloak and rename to stop Affiliate thief from stealing peoples commission.

For more details about how to get it http://www.workathome.inc.tc

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Protect Your Affiliate Links

November 6th, 2009

So, you have finally decided to step into the world of making money online!  You too, like others, have decided to start with affiliate programs; also, you must have heard that it’s not difficult to make good money with affiliate marketing, provided you choose the right programs and do some strategic planning while promoting your affiliate products.  So far, so good.  Whether you are promoting other people’s products or promoting your own products doesn’t matter because, after all, it is nothing more but your own business and your means to earn good money.  So whichever be your case, I am sure you would not want to leave money on the table and invite others to steal your share of profits.Even though the industry of affiliate marketing is pretty competitive, if you are cautious and are strategic in your marketing techniques, then it could be very profitable for you.  Take a close look at the industry and you will see that not everyone who enters the world of affiliate marketing is successful.  People who are doing well leave no room for failure and take all security measures and understand the importance of this.  Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing.  If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk.  One of the most important ways to restore security is to protect your affiliate links.  Do not take them for granted!  A bit of carelessness on your part with regard to affiliate links may cost you lots of dollars.Do you know the long complicated links that you send your prospective customers not only look convoluted, but they can create a lot of problems, as well?  If you send such an affiliate link to your customers, then the smart ones will definitely figure out that you are promoting someone else’s product and they would rather visit the parent company; also, if your link does not function, then your customers have to type in the really long URL into the browser, which will definitely put him or her off.You could be a victim of an even worse situation.  What is some devious Internet pirates steal your affiliate links and replace them with theirs?  If they do that, then you get no commission at all.Did I scare you off with all of the above possibilities?  Well, that certainly wasn’t my intention.  I just wanted to open your eyes and state facts that actually happen in the world of the Internet.  So, if you’re not getting the desired results from your affiliate marketing, don’t lose hope.  There’s definitely a remedy for this problen.  

Everyone doing online marketing shoulder have a link cloaker that protects you in the truest sense.  There may be many unethical people lurking around who might play with your affiliate links by cutting them off or replacing them with their own.  No matter how much effort you put toward building and advertising your business, if your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.Save yourself from getting ripped off.  Get all the commissions to your account that you rightfully deserve.  It is a blessing for every affiliate member like you and me who wants to achieve success in their endeavor.Ideally, you should select a program that can help protect your commissions, as well as building mailing lists and tracking statistics for visitors to your website – in short, a program allows you to create massive business leverage.For detailed information about a program that accomplishes these things for you, go to http://www.selfsar.com.To Your Success!

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How To Cloak Your Affiliate Links …In Less Than 5 Minutes

November 6th, 2009

Every internet marketer knows how important it is to cloak your affiliate links.  If you are new to the business chances you have heard about cloaking techniques but might be having a hard time getting results.  Either way this step will add professionalism to your ad, email, or article.  It might even save you money. You will be able to cloak and track all of your links and it will only take you less than 5 minutes to get started and start making money.  The best thing about this tool is that it is FREE.

Some marketers may say that you really don’t have to cloak or hide your links.  They could be right but why take a chance when it now is easier than ever to cloak them all. There are many reasons why you should cloak your links. Lets just talk about the most important two.

Professionalism.  When you advertise your affiliate link it is kind of ugly.  You have just written an ad or an article and then you have to throw your ugly affiliate link in.  You look at it and you know it doesn’t look very good but what can you do.  When you cloak your link not only does it shorten it up and makes it look all pretty but it ads a sense of professionalism to your work.  This is something that will attract your buyers and get those extra clicks you need.

Saves you money.  How does it save you money?  Believe it or not but there are people out there who will steal you work and replace your link with their own.  This will cause you to miss out on commissions that you worked so hard for.  When your links are cloaked no one can tell that you have an affiliate link.  If they can not tell it is an affiliate link then they won’t mess with it.  This might be happening to you right now.

Time to stop the madness now.  You can change all of that right now and start cloaking your links in less than 5 minutes.  Not only can you cloak them you can see how many people are visiting your links. Best of all it won’t cost you a dime …it is all FREE. Click Here Now and see it in action. Now you won’t have to worry about your links and concentrate on making money. For other product reviews and ways to save money goto My Reviews

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A Simple 2 Step Method for Cloaking Your Affiliate Link

November 5th, 2009

If you’re an affiliate marketer, you know that there are some times when it might not be a good thing for your bare affiliate link to show. Whether it’s a forum post, a blog comment or perhaps your affiliate link is simply too ungainly. Some people are uncomfortable clicking on a link that is long and cumbersome.

One of the biggest problems with bare affiliate links is when you try to send them via email. Have you ever received an email with a text link that was broken because it wrapped around to the next line? These line breaks usually happen when a link is full of variables. Examples of variables used frequently in affiliate links is the question mark, ampersand or equal sign.

With the great number of data driven web sites today a link that looks like the following is not at all uncommon:
“mydomain.com/index.php?option=aff_links&aff=12345T”
Links like this break easily when they wrap around to the next line, so it’s often ineffective to use them.

Here is a simple, effective way to cloak your affiliate link that works every time. It requires that your hosting provider support PHP. If you aren’t certain check with your provider, or just take a look at their features page and see if PHP is mentioned. Nearly all hosting providers support PHP now since it is open source software.

First, decide whether you want to keep your affiliate links in a separate directory or in the root of your hosting account. It’s the difference between linking to yourdomain.com/yourlink.php and yourdomain.com/go/mylink.php. If you promote a large number of affiliate programs, I would suggest keeping your links in a separate directory.

I prefer the /go directory; but you can call it any name you like. Within that directory create a file for each affiliate link, and give it a .php extension. Be sure to give the file a name that you can easily identify. For example, if I had an affiliate program and you were promoting it, you might name the file ron.php.

Open the file, and place the following bit of code in it (make sure you insert the opening and closing php tags):

header(”Location: mygreataffiliatelink.com”);
exit;

That’s all there is to it! Now, you can create a forum signature, an email signature or a blog comment using your affiliate link. Just point it at yourdomain.com/go/ron.php, or yourdomain.com/ron.php depending upon where you choose to store your links.

Another great thing about this solution is that you can place a tracking code in the file as well. For example, if you use Google Analytics, your file might look like the following (notice that I’ve removed the “exit;” function that you see in the example above):

header(”Location: mygreataffiliatelink.com”);
-insert html opening tags here. Including head open, head close, and body open tag
(paste the tracking code used by your tracking software/service in this section here)
-insert html closing tags here. Including body close and html close.

With this simple solution, you will be able to track how many people clicked on your affiliate link. Track this against the number of sales credited to your account to determine the conversion rate of the sales page. This will enable you to focus your efforts on the programs that are actually converting visitors to sales.

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The Importance Of Protecting Your Affiliate Links

October 29th, 2009

As an affiliate, your number one commodity will have to be your affiliate link. In any case, your affiliate link is your particular distinctive personality under the attentive gazes of the affiliate program you have signed up.
Allow me to elaborate more.
The instance you register to an affiliate program, you will be asked to pick an affiliate goods to promote. All affiliate merchandise you will select will give you an affiliate link that is particularly your own. Your affiliate ID will be implanted on this affiliate link.
What is the value of this affiliate link?
Basically, as an associate your job will be to promote the affiliate product via your affiliate link. Each time an individual ticks on your affiliate link, two matters will happen:
1. He will be directed to the goods’ selling page; and
2. The affiliate plan will be notified that such a visitor was recommended by you.
If the said guest will opt to avail the item, the affiliate course will identify that he is your referral, and that you – and no other associate- will be credited to the payment.
Hence, your affiliate links are important for your affiliate advertising victory.
However, since your affiliate ID is rooted on your affiliate link, your possible gains will be vulnerable to the following dangers:
- Your commissions may be pocketed, as another crew can straightforwardly file a declaration using your evident affiliate ID.
- Individuals may reject to tick your affiliate links for the reason that they’ll believe that you are only {leading} them to another website for your own personal profit. They don’t like to feel “taken advantage of.”
- The areas where you can sell your affiliate links are restricted, as most internet forums and groups look down on the publication of affiliate links on their sites given the abuse of such a system currently.
The above mentioned obstacles can effortlessly put a rest to the effectiveness of your affiliate marketing operations.
It is very necessary to look after – and in some instances, conceal- your affiliate links to avoid such dangers. You can perform this by using affiliate link cloakers.
Simply, affiliate link concealers will make another URLs that will guide to your affiliate links. This way, you will be dispersing links that will not disclose your affiliate ID, and won’t appear as affiliate links at all.
The effects: better protection of the commissions you have earned, and a loftier click through conversion rate for your ads.

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