I have been seeing a lot of people jumping into affiliate marketing. Though it is a lot different from blogging and adsense, it is as profitable. Affiliate marketing is a whole new playing field and in my experience it has been tough for me to think differently, away from adsense.

Change:

http://psdjf.com/ref=sadjsi213l to http://mysite.com/redirect.php

This post is about hiding your affiliate links. Hiding your affiliate links is very important because…

Reasons Why You Should Hide Affiliate Links

• Google hates affiliate links - Google will penalize you for having affiliate links on your page. And these link will also suck up your PR juice from your site. So it is best to hide them.
• People Hates affiliates - It must be a psychological issue. People don’t want somebody making money out of them. And many people wouldn’t sign up on your affiliate link if they don’t know you. If you provide good information though and helpful, they might consider, but most of the time, they don’t.

How To Hide Affiliate Links

There are different kinds of techniques in hiding affiliate links. The most common one is to use tinyurls. There are also iframe technique, where you will load the affiliate site on your website, so visitors will see that you really own the merchant site, with your domain in it. And the other one is the redirect technique.

I’ll be teaching about redirect technique because this seems to be the best that works for me and it is the simplest.

In order for this redirect to work, your server must be able to use .php pages. Let us make our .php page. We will call it redirect.php.

So open your text editor and add these lines of code:

<?php
header(’Location: http://psdjf.com/ref=sadjsi213l‘);
?>

Once you’ve done that, save and then, everytime you want to go to your affiliate link, call upon redirect.php.

So for example, “Buy Now” will have the anchor text and will have the link of <a href =”redirect.php”>.

So instead of seeing http://psdjf.com/ref=sadjsi213l as your link, you’ll see http://mysite.com/redirect.php

which is a lot cleaner and more professional.

That’s all there is to it.

If you have this (point to head) then you follow this (point to heart), if anyone tries to judge you, give them this (a middle finger).

It’s a very powerful speech. All people have the brains, come on, we are human, but we sometimes doesn’t follow our heart and tries to live the life what society expect us to live. If someone tried to tell you what you should do with your life or judge you by what you make, don’t let them get away with it. They asked for it.

No wonder why most newbies are afraid to do PPC. It will eat your money instantly. And the rate of success and being broke is dependent on how can you tolerate risk and see your money go down the drain.

Earning money is fun. Losing money isn’t. So what happens when someone afraid to take risk in PPC and don’t want to lose money to learn? He will not learn nor succeed. True there is still another option, go SEO. Its free. But, it takes a lot of time to see results. PPC gives you instant results. Though some people say that it is temporary as you can only send traffic as long as you have the money. What they don’t know is that, as long as that money spend on PPC comes back in a form of commission, its still a good source of long term income.

Doing PPC in affiliate marketing is really tricky you need to have data that you can base your decision. Bidding up or down blindly is not what PPC is all about. Being clouded by emotion has no place for PPC affiliate marketing. For example, you are losing $50 a day for a campaign. You still need to get at least 100 clicks to say that it is NOT profitable. But the weak-hearted might stop those campaigns right after the $50 was spent with no return. There are a lot of factors that you can consider why it didn’t become profitable. Maybe sales comes in Monday or week ends or seasonal, maybe your site isn’t converting well, your ads, your ad copy, your title and so on. There are a lot of factors and you need to lose some money at the start to gain data. You can not judge a campaign completely just by saying “I have spent $50 with no sales, so this niche is not profitable”.

PPC affiliate marketing is not for the weak hearted. Better of become an SEO affiliate marketer. Both have their advantages and I believe is a matter of preference. I never said one discipline is better. Just be wary of the consequences in going with any of them.

To sum it up.

SEO is for those who have Patience. PPC is for those who are Aggressive