Are You Cloaking Your Clickbank Links?
For those of you involved in affiliate marketing I wonder whether you are cloaking your links? If you’re not sure how this is done, please sen me an email and I will send you the code. The trouble is that unless you do this you might loose many sales. See, when others see outright that you are selling a clickbank item with your affiliate link they will automatically use their own link to purchase instead. This can become very costly, especially if you are marketing the program with costs to you. Even if you invest time, time is money too and loosing sales this way doesn’t have to be.
You can cloak your links simply by uploading some code to your website. If you don’t have a website you can always use cloaking URL’s such as www.tinyurl.com. I personally don’t like them as they scream affiliate back to me. Often newbies think they are great because they don’t know different. I used to make the same mistake and I hate to think about the sales I lost while paying good money to advertise.
I can’t stress enough how important this is to your bottom line. It is simple enough to implement even if you are totally lost. Just send me an email with the subject line “cloaking affiliate link” to info @ thewritersmanifesto.com. I’ll be happy to help you out with clear and quick instructions. (Please only do this if you do have your own website with your own hosting. Otherwise use an affiliate URL cloaker as the one mentioned above.)
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Terry Didcott | Jul 15, 2007 | Reply
It is a good idea to cloak affiliate links when you are advertising all over the place. It also makes tracking easier – especially if you do what I think you have in mind to do!
Vlad | Jul 15, 2007 | Reply
I found that using .htaccess redirects work most elegantly for redirecting your affiliate links, not only those from ClickBank.
It is done with just one line of code in your .htaccess
Terry Didcott | Jul 15, 2007 | Reply
I’ll have to look at .htaccess as an option! The only thing, is it as trackable thru cPanel as a dedicated index.html file for each link. I know it’s more work and fills a folder up with files, but I like knowing which aff links are being clicked on!
PS: Cleanest was to do that is one subfolder to keep them all together then each index.html in it’s own sub-subfolder of that. Long names? Not when you call your subfolder “r” and each sub-sub “01, 02…etc”. Neat!
PS: Monika, I just noticed you got your opt-in box in your blog too! They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so I copied your great idea!