How To Cloak Affiliate Links
When doing affiliate marketing you will want to cloak or redirect your ugly affiliate links.
Here are several ways to do this including our quick free desktop software for cloaking/redirecting links.
You will need to be able to upload (ftp) a file to your domain to do this. Links to the webs best free ftp software & a tutorial are included in this post.
First here is a quick video on using our affiliate link cloaking software. The download link is right below the video.
Free Affiliate Link Cloaker
http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/LinkCloaker.zip
As shown in the video we have converted our affiliate link from:
http://digiweb.bryxen4.hop.clickbank.net/
to…
http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Keyword-Elite.htm
&
http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Likes-Keyword-Elite.htm
Another way to do this is to use an online cloaker like this one:
http://sparechangeprofits.com/plr-cloaker/
The nice thing about this one is you can use it from anywhere you have an online connection and even if the site disappears it will still work.
http://tinyurl.com is another online cloaker but the site will need to be up & active for your links to work.
To use an ht.access solution which works quite well see this online tutorial http://afreelinkcloaker.com/ the tutorial can be downloaded from the top nav bar.
Here is a simple php redirect code that is reliable. Simply copy and paste this code in notepad then save as index.php > make a folder on your domain using filezilla such as Likes & upload the file to the folder. Replace the url >http://tomdean.net< with the url you want to redirect to.
<?php
header( ‘Location: http://tomdean.net’ ) ;
?>
Here is an example in use:
http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Likes
Below are the download links for Filezilla & the tutorial on using it.
Download Filezilla
Filezilla Tutorial
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/documentation/
One last thing… if you don’t want to pay for a software program that tracks our links like this one Link Cloaker with Tracking
you can use google analytics or our favorite Clicky a free service that will track one domain and includes a wordpress plugin to use on your blog that makes things super easy.
Here is a screen shot of the Clicky Dashboard (note to track Twiter links you would have to upgrade to a paid account $4.99 monthly).
Hope this helps,
Cheers – Tom
Keyword Research for Blog Post Video
Here is a short video on using the google external keyword tool to do some quick research “before” you make a blog post.
If you blog and use the all in one seo plugin for Wordpress you can get some quick keywords to paste into the keyword section of the plugin. You can also use the best search to competition keyword to use as the page title (title tags) and in the blog post.
As an aside the post titled handwritten signature generator is on the 1st page of google for the search term “handwritten signature generator” no quotes, not that it does this blog any good. This is mostly due to the keywords & title tags. Google shows stats of 92 searches a month for this term. There were 102 uniques to that post in 5 days…
Anyway using the right title and description is important in how your post appears in the index. See how that one apperas below.
I’ll get the squeeze page post up tommorow. Just wanted to get this up since everyone will be posting away soon.
Tom
Private Label Rights Business Reports
30 day Challenge Preseason Update
Well all the preseason training has been viewed. I skipped a few I’m already versed on. Our group Accountability partners has 14 members and a facebook page with a little activity. Looks like most members are fairly experienced. Hopefully there will be more interaction as the 30 day challenge proper kicks off.
Still fooling around with niche ideas or maybe applying this years challenge to an existing profit stream.
Really thinking about applying this years 30dc to*GASP* Internet Marketing as in selling resell products to people looking for resell products like PLR (private label rights), ready to sell MRR (master resell rights) products etc.
Here is an example. There is no live buy button on these pages… just an example of a solid resell rights product that can typically be picked up for very little.
Dynamic Copywriting with Resell Rights
Dynamic Copywriting Article Adsense Site (drives traffic to sales page).
These type of products that can be resold still have a decent search volume and do sell although competition is pretty heavy & the market seems to be a bit incestuous. However with the number of people coming online looking for make money products there is still a decent market.
How to type products and videos sell well. Templates & squeeze pages sell well, list building products sell well. Wordpress themes paticularly with plr sell well. You can imbed your links in the footer and give them away.. instant backlinks.
Building a subscriber list (email marketing) can be very effective. Giveaways of genuinely useful tools with info on how to use them can be used effectively by giving them a viral element.
Anyway something to look at.
In the next post there will be a link to download a solid pdf on making effective squeeze pages along with a squeeze page and how to use the product to list build. This will let you see the process in action. No worries, no optin to get it. Just an example of a viral list builder.
Tom
