How
& Why
To Redirect Your
Affiliate Links
If you want to
keep better track
of your links, have more control over necessary changes to your links
and possibly even have more clicks on your affiliate links, you should
be redirecting your affiliate links.
This
means where your
affiliate link may look like:
http://www.specialreportclub.com/amember/go.php?r=XXX&i=l5
You
can change it to a
link coming from your own website like:
http://www.mydomain.com/src.html
There
are a number of
reasons to redirect your link and here are a few:
- Many
affiliate links are
long and they can actually break into 2 lines if you’re
sending
them in an email. Once they break up like that, your readers
won’t be able to click through.
- Sometimes
affiliate programs change their
links or even shut
down. Internet Marketing Sweetie is going to be here
for a
long time, but always be safe with your affiliate links as a matter of
practice and redirect them. That means if you ever need to make changes
to your link, you can simply make the change from your redirected link,
instead of trying to find where you placed all those links on your
website and in your emails.
- If
a link is showing as coming from your site, your readers might be
more likely to click on it than if they see a long strange affiliate
link direct from the program. You can even name your file something
creative or descriptive (ex. mydomain.com/src.html) and your readers
might be more likely to click through.
- If
you redirect your links the way we describe in this tutorial,
you’ll be able to log into your website statistics and track
click throughs for your links. The affiliate program you are involved
with may already provide some of these statistics, but you can track
multiple links and get all your data from one place.
- It
makes it easy to remember your affiliates links for promotions on
the fly. Whenever you want to recommend SRC products, you’ll
know
your link right away.
How
to make your
redirected link:
There are a
variety of methods
to redirect a link, but we’re going to keep it simple and use
what is called a javascript redirect.
1. Create a new
blank page for
your website. Name the page whatever you’d like (for example:
src.html).
2. Remove any
HTML code and
paste this instead:
3. Be sure to
replace
http://www.INSERTAFFILIATELINK.com with your full affiliate link.
4. Test your
link to make sure
everything is working. Simply type in the location of your new page
into your web browser to ensure it is redirecting (ex. type in
mydomain.com/src.html).
Repeat with all
your affiliate
links.
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