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How to Easily Increase Your Affiliate Profits by 30%

January 9th, 2010

Selling affiliate products is a great way to start a new online business. It’s free to get started and you can begin making money right away! But there are some pitfalls along the way. One of the biggest problems in the affiliate marketing area is theft.  It is estimated that the average marketer experiences a 30% loss of affiliate revenue due to theft!

 

A good question that puzzles many new website owners suffering this fate is, “how does it happen”? The answer is straight forward; thieves view the source code of your web page and easily obtain the URL of the affiliate links along with relevant details. They replace Your affiliate ID with their own ID and create a new affiliate link. Then they use this new link to purchase the product. The result is, you lose a commission and the thief gets a discount. Most affiliate marketers are not even aware that they were robbed.

 

So how do you protect yourself against these thieves? The best way to protect your affiliate profits is to cloak your links. A good cloaking system hides your affiliate ID from these dishonest individuals. There are several cloaking techniques that you can use to protect your profits.

 

The first and easiest is to use is Tinyurl. This web service is free and is very easy to use. You simply go to the website and enter your affiliate URL into the text box. They’ll provide you with an alternate URL for that link. The new link that they provide effectively hides your affiliate ID. There are many other companies that provide the same type service but this is among the most well known.         

 

There is also software available that will cloak your links. Some of the software is quite expensive but inexpensive options also exist. So, stop those affiliate thieves in their tracks. Take back the 30% that they’ve been stealing and protect your profits with affiliate links.

 

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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.

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Affiliate Links and How to Cloak Them

November 1st, 2009

Affiliate sales amount to billions of dollars each year. Most successful online use affiliate sales for at least a portion of their business. To direct buyers to your affiliate products, it is necessary to include a link to the product that you are promoting. These are called affiliate links. Each link includes the name of the product you are recommending as well as you own personal ID for that program.

 

Affiliate links are a necessary component in the Internet marketing business. But we sometimes find that unscrupulous people steal them. There are shady people out there who will look at your affiliate link and consummate the sale after replacing your affiliate ID with their own. It is a fact of doing business on the Internet. For that reason, if you want to make serious money in that arena, you should always cloak your affiliate links.

 

In addition to lost sales, there is another reason to cloak your affiliate links; they look unprofessional and announce that fact that it is an affiliate product. And unfortunately, there are those out there who will not knowingly buy affiliate sponsored products. For those reasons, it is best to cloak your affiliate links.

 

There a number of techniques that you can use to do this. Following are four tactics that you can use to cloak your links:

 

1. Use free link cloaking sites. These sites will allow you to enter a URL and they will convert it into a cloaked link. Tinyurl is probably the most well known of these sites but there are many others that do the same thing. You can find these sites by doing a search for ‘free affiliate cloaking.’

 

2. You can also use software, both free and paid, that will cloak your links. You can find hundreds of software programs by searching for ‘affiliate cloaking software.’   

 

3. An option that most super affiliates use is the purchase of a domain name for one specific affiliate product. Using this tactic, they either develop a specialized landing page or use either domain forwarding or re-directs to link to the affiliate products.

 

4. As an alternative to purchasing your own domain, you can use a page within your existing site and re-direct traffic from that page. If you are uncertain how to use re-directs, you can see many examples by doing a search for ‘link redirects.’

 

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How to Multiply Your Product Value: Affiliate Marketing

October 29th, 2009

. Affiliate marketing is growing by leaps and bounds and it seems there is no stopping it. This form of marketing has become so vital for every business that without it a business is nothing less than dead. Affiliate marketing multiplies the internet presence of a business’s products or services in the market by encouraging other internet sites to promote them. It enhances the exposure of the products and services of a business, thus also improving the efficiency of its overall advertising costs.

A natural focus of any marketing initiative is to ensure that more and more number of surfers click onto a site and also become active buyers. There are various ways to promote your site through other online channels using affiliate marketing such as including banners that affiliates can display on their sites or developing email templates that can be sent by affiliates to the database of their users.

An affiliate works by way of developing traffic by taking care of the individual needs of each user and customizing their content to prospective customers’ requirements and expectations before facilitating delivery of a call into action through to your site. The interesting part is that customers that are diverted to your site have already made up their mind about what you are offering, and therefore are very likely to make a purchase. This way you get a pre-qualified customer, and all of you have to do is make a purchase bill. All this has been possible only because of affiliate marketing.

Contacts that are developed through affiliate marketing are very important because they are derived from places where your business would have not reached or would have reached after having to part with valuable time and money through conventional channels.

Now the big question is who should be hired to carry out affiliate marketing for your business and the answer is it should be the best in the industry. Logic applied here is simple. An affiliate that understands your needs and has a trusted and close relations with the major operators so that it is ideally placed to run is affiliate marketing services should be the one you should have

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Safeguarding Your Affiliate Link

October 29th, 2009

Your affiliate link is the link your sponsor gives to you when you join the program. It is very important as this is how your sales and commissions will be tracked. It is usually your sponsor’s URL with a code name or number at the end. This code is how your sponsor’s affiliate software or program will track your traffic and ultimately the sales that you send to them.

There is something that you should be aware of regarding this link and that is affiliate hijacking. This is a common problem with affiliates. Surprisingly enough many people just ignore this and allow a lot of money to be left on the table.

What is affiliate hijacking? This is when unscrupulous affiliates substitute your code with their own. It can also happen when customers knowingly or unknowingly chop off your affiliate code and go directly to your sponsor’s site. Without the affiliate code that is in your link your sponsor has no idea that you have sent the customer to them and cannot award your commission. This is very common with Clickbank affiliate links.

Many times sponsors will track your visitors with cookies but customers will often clear cookies from their cache and your commission can be lost. Therefore it is most important that potential customers use your own special affiliate link when they buy as a result of your promotions.

This problem can be easily resolved by disguising or cloaking your affiliate link. Here are a couple of ways that you can do this.

Cloaking your Affiliate link:

Some affiliate programs do not allow you to cloak your affiliate links so be careful to read the TOS of each program you join, but most of them do allow this.

In order to get maximum profits from your affiliate programs it is important not to ignore affiliate hijacking. With these simple and cost effective techniques you can fight back. It is true that some hijackers will get through no matter what but if you take precautions you will safeguard most of your sales and get the money that is rightfully yours.

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