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.
