This is a great little tip for anybody looking at improving their affiliate earnings, there’s nothing black hat or nasty about this it’s just a genuine way of getting more referrals.
It’s a well known fact amongst internet marketers that visitors do not like clicking on referral/affiliate URL’s and that’s why so many people go to great lengths to hide them. Perhaps the most common way of disguising these links is to use a 301 redirect from a PHP file, if you look closely you’ll see that I use that tactic several times on this blog. However whilst that is fine for many average users what happens if you want to use an affiliate URL on forums and blog comments etc. Webmasters hate the idea of anybody other than them profiting from “their” traffic. Most webmasters can spot an affiliate link from a mile away and will simply delete your post or comment. It’s a damn shame because this is a great way of getting your link in front of thousands of visitors without having to go to the trouble of actually attracting them yourself. What if I could tell you a way of being able to use your affiliate link on whatever forum/blog/publically editable content you like?
This is so simple that a lot of people are just about to start kicking themselves….use a domain name as your referral link. Buy a domain name that relates to what you’re promoting and create a 301 redirect to your affiliate URL. No forum moderator or blog owner is going to suspect that the link to http://www.myfavouriteholidays.com in your signature is an affiliate URL (unless they read this!) and it gives you much more license to spread your link around the web. It’s even a way of getting your link past some of those fussy CPC networks.
I’ve got several domains setup like this and it is a tactic that works very well, if you want a quick example of what I mean try typing in www.widget-bucks.com and see what you get (That ones not mine by the way)?
One Response to “A Tactic Many Of The Top Affiliate Marketers Use”
SEO Optimization
November 22, 2007
Uh yeah thats a smart move. I have seen the guy promoting his WidgetBucks affiliate that way on digitalpoint all the time, and he also promoted it through AdWords (he still needs to report if his earnings are paid back, forgot the guys personal blog tho).
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