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Commission Hijacker Hidden Inside Your Web Page Design
s a person almost obsessed Test your Web site for this
with Web site marketing, I widespread and deadly disease
am often at odds with my that keeps sending your potential
Web site designer friends as to customers to the never land of
what is important. They know that server error 404. Go to your Web
I love them and I mean no offense site home page, which in our case
so all is good. is href="http://www.askdomain.com"
For all Web masters especially title="http://www.askdomain.com"
those who count on commissions target="_blank">selling other people’s products, color="#001000"
some Web design flaws could size="-2">http://www.askdomain.co
really hurt. The following are m. Then add a slash
some common and some not so and something after the main url.
common flaws that can rob you of For example,
commissions by masking your “emailmarketing.html”. The
affiliate links from visitors complete url of this example is
without your knowledge, sending the visitors to wrong landing href="http://www.askdomain.com/em
pages, lowering your Web sites ailmarketing.html"
search engine ranking and wasting title="http://www.askdomain.com/e
your valuable time on maintenance mailmarketing.html"
and tracking. target="_blank"> color="#001000"
Fixing these flaws creates a size="-2">http://www.askdomain.co
clear path to more productive Web m/emailmarketing.html
design and higher commissions.
What will you see? Our home page,
1- Error 404 Disease. right?
Now, go to your own Web site and your stats show the banners and
repeat the process. Enter a url links as displayed but the
from a page on your Web site that visitors do not see them. What
you know does not exist. Do you will this do to your sales and
see a message related to error commissions?
404? If so, your Web site is
losing hard earned traffic and The most popular Internet
potential customers. Contact your Security and Firewall software
Internet hosting provider to help comes with default ad blocking
you cure this and place a ON! Most if not all users will
customized error message on your never take the time to turn it
site. A custom error 404 message off for your sake or mine.
displays your sales message or
redirects these lost visitors to This blessing in disguise forces
your home page. us to solve several marketing
issues at the same time.The
2- Long Affiliate Links & Ad solution is fairly simple and it
Blockers is done in four steps.
Long affiliate links always Step one - Create an internal
create problems especially when directory and call it something
they break up in email campaigns. like merchants or resources. We
But now there is a more serious use “find” in one of our Web
threat: Ad blocking. These ad sites.
blocking scripts view your
affiliate links and banners as advertising, assume the client size="-2">http://www.dailyfinder.
doesn’t want to see them and com/find/
block them entirely from view.
The dark humor in this is you’re Step two - Create a page and name
it after the merchant. In this those strange code “v19605.”
case we called it “the business
end of Websites.” The complete Go ahead and test both urls, you
url looks like: will not see any difference in
destination, but Ad blockers may
size="-2">http://www.dailyfinder. second one. You can lose
com/find/the-business-end-of-webs commissions using one and get
ites--v19605.htm paid using the other. Significant
difference, don’t you agree?
Step three - Within your page,
you can place a redirect url This process will also help
code. So instead of showing a improve keyword base internal
link to : linking which we will discuss
more in later articles.
size="-2">http://www.prowebvalue. 3- Published Work-In-Progress
com/?hop=optiword
Don’t use your Web site as a
You show a link to: filing cabinet for
work-in-progress projects. Any
size="-2">http://www.dailyfinder. work-in-progress page or script
com/find/the-business-end-of-webs on your Web site, you risk having
ites--v19605.htm them included in search engines.
Go to Google and type in:
Of course in this example we are site:www.yourwebsite.com
using a little more sophisticated
system and database driven Web At risk of making it too obvious
site and this is why you see I like to mention that in the
above url I mean for you to Some directories and files are
replace the term “yourwebsite” necessary for running your Web
with your actual Web site. site but have no marketing value
that you want to announce to the
Look at the list. Are these pages world. Robot.txt text file tells
you want to have listed on the search engines to leave these
search engines? Click on a few files alone and do not index and
links, do they end in error 404? show them to Web surfers.
For example, your image directory
Remember that every unproductive or your policies directory does
page of your Web site may replace not contain anything of value so
a productive and completed page you tell visiting search engines
on Google and other search engine not to bother with them. An
directories. Can you see the example of robot.txt file that
damage this could cause? Yes, we excludes these directories is:
can always recover but how long
will it take? User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
Work-in-progress does not belong Disallow: /policies/
on your Web site. Complete your
projects before you place them on For more details refer to line. href="http://www.robotstxt.org/wc
/norobots.html"
Warning - Before you remove any title="http://www.robotstxt.org/w
pages, make sure you have a back c/norobots.html"
up and your customized error 404 target="_blank">is in place. color="#001000"
size="-2">http://www.robotstxt.or
4- Missing robot.txt file. g/wc/norobots.html
Do you have a robot.txt file on May both Web site pages and days
your Web site? of your life be productive.
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