About a month ago I showed you how to potentially increase your affiliate link click through rate by using a domain redirect.
But astute newsletter reader Jody noticed that in yesterday’s Passive Income Tips I used another type of affiliate redirect.
That gave me the perfect post idea for the third edition of Techie Tuesdays. The affiliate link redux or version 2…the cheapskates clean redirect.
Which if you mouse over, presents a nice clean affiliate link to the Affiliate Sales Letter product.
Jody wanted to know what software I used to create the redirect link. Good news money lovers [sorry, I've been watching way too many Ze Frank videos lately and I slip into his tacky announcer voice often in my head] I didn’t use any fancy software package costing up to $97 dollars, I just created them myself.
Watch the video to see how I did it.
Here’s the code you’ll need to put in the index.php file to create an affiliate redirect.
Update: it looks like copy and pasting the following code causes problems. So right click this and download the file and extract the index.php from the video. Then you can put your new link into it and upload it just like in the video.
<?php
header( 'Location: http://youraffiliatelink.com?somestuff=here' ) ;
?>
*** for example only...download the file from the link above, or else you'll get an error because copy and paste causes problems
The link I created in the video is for a full featured affiliate link management program by Mike Filsaime called:
… which is a nice clean version of this mess
https://paydotcom.com/r/72/JonnyCash/328622/
by turning it into:
http://artofmoney.org/recommends/powerlinkgenerator
Happy affiliate link promoting.
That’s all for now, this is Jon Symons, figuring things out so you don’t have to!
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That’s a good tip .. Will have to remember that .. I’ve noticed that as well in your newsletters
Hey John, do you know how come the ‘on mouse over’ command works to hide the URL when I do it in Dreamweaver but not when I upload it to my site?
Ken,
Have you tried it in different browsers? It could be that it works in Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox…or vice versa. If that’s not the problem, give me more details or the link to what isn’t working and I’ll have a look.
Yes Jon, Powerlink Generator is a very handy tool for hiding your ugly affiliate links. Thanks for the redux video.
Thank you for an excellent video tutorial!!! This is the first time when I really understood how it works and got it work for me too!!!
Thank You!