Improve Affiliate Link Clickthroughs
This one’s coming at you in the form of a video:
Watch the Tip for Increasing
Affiliate Link Clickthrough Rates Video
If you noticed that I used a .info domain… that was just a cost thing.
Depending on how committed you are to promoting the affiliate program you may want to spend more and get a better domain extension.
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[...] About a month ago I showed you how to potentially increase your affiliate link click through rate by using a domain redirect. [...]
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Practical WordPress Link Managing Plug-in added these pithy words on Jul 23 09 at 8:39 pmDavid Laing added these pithy words on Aug 06 06 at 5:53 pmJon,
Interesting tip; it would be interesting to see some stats backing up you hunch – perhaps in a few weeks you could report back and let us know how much your CTR for the HostGator link improved?
A slightly cheaper method I use is to encode my affiliate links using tinyurl.com – this has the added benefit that the link is nice and short, so doesn’t break when being stuck in a email.
Finally, I think your use of screen captures to explain technical concepts is great; much better to “show” rather than “tell”.
Warm regards
David
Jon added these pithy words on Aug 07 06 at 10:31 pmThanks David.
It will be a tough thing to measure the CTR on the hostgator…since I didn’t really keep any stats before I changed it…oops.
I have used tinyurl too, yes it’s cheaper, but it still looks kind of messy and don’t forget, the redirect goes through their site, so if they go out of business or get hacked and lose their database…all your links will be dead…if you submit articles with those links in them, you’ll never be able to change them.
I love doing the videos…so much easier to show rather than tell…especially for a poor typests like me
bala added these pithy words on Sep 22 06 at 11:10 pmmy internet connection is slow so please give me the download link so that i can download with acclerator and see, thanks
Doug added these pithy words on Jul 01 07 at 12:22 pmGreat idea, Jon.
I’m just thinking that your technique could be taken a step further, but setting up a website with redirection PHP. So now your link, instead of being hostlab.info, would be xyz.info/hg (for example) where xyx.info is your special redirection website, and /hg is specific to Host Gator (in this example). Now you can manage as many affiliate links as you want all from one place (of course it would need a back end). Probably nothing a plugin for wordpress couldn’t handle.
Jon added these pithy words on Jul 02 07 at 10:39 pmThanks Doug. The WordPress plugin idea is a good one, I’ve looked and haven’t seen one. I started to spec one out, but didn’t ever complete it.
As for linking out with subfolders on one domain that would defeat my purpose with the domains.I’ll need to write a post about this, but in short I’m trying to build value in the domain name, that I can later leverage, not just simply hide the affiliate coded URL.
Doug added these pithy words on Jul 07 07 at 3:43 pmI think I sort of understand what you mean, Jon. But not exactly. I’ll look forward to your future post on the subject.