o you know that by simply the Internet. Instead of doing
cloaking your affiliate all by himself, he can also allow
links, you can make more affiliates to market it by paying
affiliate sales? out a certain commission, which
can range from a measly few
And the best part is that if you percent to a huge 75 or even 80+
already own a domain name and percent!
have your own web host, you can AFFILIATE LINKS
do just that.
Thus, when an affiliate marketer
The purpose of this article is to joins the affiliate program, he
give a step-by-step procedure of or she will be given an affiliate
how to cloak your affiliate links link to promote the said product.
with your own domain name. The affiliate link usually
WHAT IS AFFILIATE MARKETING? contain an Affiliate ID that is
either selected by the affiliate
First thing first...what exactly or generated by the system when
is Affiliate Marketing? signing up.
Simply put, Affiliate Marketing The affiliate marketer can then
is one of the many Internet promote the product via his
Business models to earn a website, emails, classified ads,
commission by marketing someone etc by quoting this affiliate
else's products. link.
Usually, an experienced Internet As long as someone else purchases
marketer creates a product (for the product via this affiliate
example, an e-Book explaining how link, the affiliate marketer will
to do something or solve a get paid the predetermined
specific problem) to market on commission.
WHY MUST YOU CLOAK YOUR AFFILIATE dishonest.productname.successgold
LINKS? mine.com
There are at least two reasons Secondly, an affiliate link is
why you must cloak your affiliate usually not-so-nice-looking like
links. this:
Firstly, there are reports that www.successgoldmine.com/redirect.
sales are "stolen" by other html?link=rogerloh
affiliates who simply replace the
affiliate links when making Can you imagine if you get an
purchases. even longer affiliate link than
the one above and placing it into
For example, if I am an affiliate your own email and send out?
marketer with an online
marketplace (such as Not only the affiliate link may
"successgoldmine.com") and my wrap into two lines or more, it
Affiliate ID is "rogerloh", my is most likely "unclickable".
affiliate link can be something Thus, it will reduce the chance
like that: of a sale when the reader is
genuinely interested in the
rogerloh.productname.successgoldm product but does not know to copy
ine.com and paste the affiliate link into
a browser.
So, before making a purchase for HOW TO CLOAK YOUR AFFILIATE LINKS
himself, it is an easy matter for WITH YOUR OWN DOMAIN NAME
another affiliate with Affiliate
ID "dishonest" to substitute mine Now, let's get down to the bolts
as shown: and nuts of the how-to...
For this to work, these are the Please replace the square bracket
requirements: with the standard HTML angle
brackets in the HTML code below.)
1) You must have your own domain
name, eg. [script language="JavaScript"]
http://www.YourDomainName.com [!--
2) You are able to create a HTML window.location="Your Affiliate
file eg. YourFile.html Link URL";
3) You are able to upload your // --]
file to your website with your [/script]
domain name.
3) Upload your file to your
Here are the steps: website with your domain name.
1) Use Notepad or your favorite For example, I used one of my
HTML Editor (such as FrontPage or domains "FactsAboutDavinci.com"
Nvu) and create a new HTML file. Now, all I have to do is to
promote this link in my
For example, I created a new file marketing, such as website,
called "bk01_josh.html" emails, etc:
2) Insert the following lines www.FactsAboutDavinci.com/bk01_jo
just before the /head HTML tag in sh.html
your new file.
Thus, when someone clicks the
(NOTE: For technical reasons, I above link, it will redirect him
have used square brackets "[" and or her to the company that
"]" instead of the angle brackets markets this product. And now,
in the HTML code below. the link looks much more
presentable and professional.
About the Author:
Roger Loh spent many years setting up computer networks and is an Internet marketer who focuses on Affiliate Marketing and eBook creation, among other business models. To start your Internet Marketing business, visit: www.TheAffiliateSecrets.com
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