ffiliate links are hide". I feel that this method is
something we all have to not only effective, but also
live with in internet provides great presentation and a
marketing, but unfortunately we recommendation from you as the
sometimes find that unscrupulous web site owner as well.
people hijack them. Even if they
don't hijack them, some people OK, here we go.
will just strip the affiliate
part in order to deprive you of a Let's assume that we are going to
commission. They don't even save cloak the following link:-
themselves any money or gain
anything out of this other than http://www.the-greatest-product-e
some perverse pleasure in ripping ver.com/affiliate-area/start.php?
someone off. offer=youraffiliate-id&pid=1
Whilst there are programs out The first thing to note about
there that will cloak your links this is that it is very long and
and also track the click ugly. Another danger with this
throughs, here's an easy way that link is that it could "wrap" in a
you can employ on your own web text based email and lose its
site to both cloak your links and click through ability.
also improve the presentation of
them. So what do we do?
Before I get onto that, can I OK. Open Notepad or a similar
just say that there are other text editor or you can use
methods such as using Tiny URL, Dreamweaver if it's configured to
but personally I dislike these run php files because we are
type of links. They almost scream going to write a very simple and
"Hey, look what I'm trying to straightforward php file.
been tested.
In your editor type the following
on a blank page. That's very In your url address bar type:-
important. If you are using a http://www.yourdomain.com/recomme
HTML editor, make sure there is nds/filename.php and it should
nothing on the page. take you direct to the page of
the affiliate product that you
Insert Less Than Sign Here?php are selling. It bypasses your
header("Location:http://www.the-g site entirely so people don't see
reatest-product-ever.com/affiliat all the affiliate code in the php
e-area/start.php?offer=youraffili file.
ate-id&pid=1");
exit(); Once you have tested the page and
?Insert Greater Than Sign Here you are sure it works, you are
ready to incorporate the page in
That's it. Yes, it's as simple as an email to your list or even
that. onto your web pages directly if
you have done a product review or
Now, save the file into a similar, but the link of course
directory on your web site. I will be:-
would suggest a sub-directory
name "recommends" and upload the http://www.yourdomain.com/recomme
directory and file to your nds/filename.php
server.
I think this looks so much nicer
The first thing to do now is to than a terribly long and
test the file to make sure it convoluted filename and certainly
works as it should. Whatever you much less secretive than a Tiny
do, NEVER send out an email or URL. It is also stating in the
put a link on a page that hasn't url that you "recommend" the
site. people and with great success. I
hope you enjoy the same.
I employ this method on all my
web sites and in my emails to
About the Author:
Ric Raftis is a partner in No Bull Internet Marketing at http://no-bull.net and writes on a wide variety of subjects. You can also see some of his work at http://best-content-articles.com
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