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Save Your Commission Use Affiliate Redirects

Written by: Chris Simpson

Article Overview: Affiliate marketing has become so popular online that it can almost be a risk for many website owners. To be an affiliate simply means that you are advertising other companies? ads on your website. It is very easy to have your affiliate earnings stolen if you do not cloak or guard your affiliate urls.

Save Your Commission Use Affiliate Redirects

Affiliate marketing has become so popular online that it can almost be a risk for many website owners. To be an affiliate simply means that you are advertising other companies? ads on your website. It is very easy to have your affiliate earnings stolen if you do not cloak or guard your affiliate urls. By not doing so could result in a large dent in your commissions.

With the Internet becoming so popular, and many people wanting to earn an extra income online, it is common for most people to know what an affiliate link looks like. It has the name of the website that the product is for, and somewhere on the link is also your affiliate ID number. It is very easy for someone to substitute their own affiliate ID or remove your ID altogether.

One helpful solution is to use an affiliate redirection service. This is the best way to cloak your affiliate ID number. However, this can still be done the wrong way. Never trust a third party service that is offering free url redirection.

This is due to the fact that the redirection service could choose to delete your ID and steal your commissions. Once again, you would be at the risk of losing your commission revenue.

If you are serious about saving your commission through the use of cloaking your affiliate ID and links, then you need to hide your affiliate links using a JavaScript redirect page. This is where you can hide your affiliate link in a page on your website using a JavaScript code that will redirect people to your affiliate link.

Your affiliate ID will still be rewarded the commission, but hackers will not be able to steal your links. Your affiliate link will also not be exposed in email messages or other ads after people are redirected to the true affiliate link.

A safe method is to use an ?invisible? frame that will mask your affiliate link so that it looks as if you are sending people to a page on your website. It will seem as if they are simply going to a different area of your webpage.

However, the viewer is actually being redirected to your affiliate link. This is used by many domain redirection service sites. Make sure that you make use of JavaScript encryption to scramble up the page code so that the thief will not notice that it is an affiliate ID involved.

While this is not a sure method of solving this problem in order to save your commission, you need to make use of affiliate redirects, whether it be your own system or a service. You need to make sure that you are not making it obvious that you are referring people to an affiliate link.

You need to cloak all of your affiliate links, not just one. This is due to the fact that your affiliate ID is listed with each affiliate link. Therefore, you will be losing out on revenue if you do not take of them all. As long as viewers cannot tell that it is an affiliate link, then you should be able to save your commissions.

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Commission Junction or Your Own Software - I can't tell you how easy it is to use your own software vs using something pre-created such as Commission Junction, but in the past when I've joined affiliate programs and they use something like Commission Junction, I lose a bit of respect for the company. *Why* don't they have their own software? *Why* do I have to go through all this rigmarole of joining something else? I prefer the "personal" touch - although it might not be that personal - of dealing with the company itself. Just my two cents!
Re: Affiliate Marketing - Open for Discussion - Carol, Mary and David - thanks for your great input and insight on Affiliate Marketing! This is the kind of discussion I was hoping for in this thread. There are pros and cons to Affiliate Marketing, just as there are to any business. As has been suggested, he best policy is to proceed with caution and do some research before jumping in. As Carol has recommended, this topic thread in the EvanCarmichael.com forum is the ideal place to ask questions and seek further input on available Affiliate Marketing programs. If a person is serious about building an online business and is interested in Affiliate Marketing plans, they should approach the process as they would any other form of business. Research, ask questions, compare opportunities, participate in forums on online business and Affiliate Marketing. GT :-]
Re: Affiliate Marketing - Open for Discussion - You made some very good points here Jeff and I agree with you, Affiliate Marketing should not be something that you concentrate all your efforts into. As i said earlier I have learned a lot with Affiliate Marketing and continue to do so, and it has helped me tremendously to understand what I am going to have to do in my chosen niche(s). I am also being coached by the same group of mentors as GT and we are all moving forward daily to achieve our ultimate goals. Take care, Carol
Re: Affiliate Marketing - Open for Discussion - Hi GT Affiliate Marketing is one of the easier ways to get started making money online, but it does take quite a bit of work before you see any great results as you have to keep promoting constantly. It does teach you one hell of a lot about all aspects of Internet Marketing though as you will need to learn how to write and submit articles, create and maintain a blog, social networking is a great help to affiliates too..the list goes on and on. In fact from what you learn from Affiliate Marketing you can apply to any niche and be sure to succeed, take care, Carol
Re: Are you satisfied with your ISP's services? - The same in my case my ISP holds my phone number. What i don't like is that if i have a technical problem the process take to much time and they will never hurry up to solve the problem. Save God this it not happening to often. Another think that bugs me is the advertising .... to many offers and advertisements that are annoying people.


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