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How many times have you visited a forum to recommend an affiliate program’s product you are promoting, only to be met with harsh remarks from other members criticizing you for blatantly posting spam? How many times have your articles been rejected by article directories because you included an affiliate link? How many times has your newsletter subscribers refused to click on your recommended links because they clearly appear to be affiliate ones?
Worse, how many times have your affiliate commissions been stolen by “ingenious” folks who managed to transform your affiliate links’ designation to their own particular numbers?
These are very real possibilities that affiliates have to face at some point. The most fatal of these is, of course, the low response rate you’d receive from your own mailing list. Your mailing list is your bread and butter, as it’s supposed to be filled with prospects you have been warming up to purchase from your links. If they’d see your affiliate links, they’d just view your messages as worthless… as micro sales pitches that only desire their hard earned cash. This danger is called ad blindness. Your subscribers would get used to your sales pitch deliveries that there will come a time when they won’t take your messages seriously anymore.
Also, your affiliate links may sometimes be too long that whenever you’d send them through emails, they’d get chopped down beyond recognition, or even break them into segments that would render such links quite useless.
The solution to these problems, however, is quite simple. The process is called link cloaking, or creating a new designation for your links. This is done by:
* shortening the links for easy remembering
* hiding the main URLs and the affiliate IDs of the said links
* making them more clickable through rather mysterious hosting URLs
Link cloaking is very easy. All you have to do is to visit any of the link cloaking services below:
www.findv.com
www.getresponse.com
www.tinyurl.com
There are more, of course, but these are the most proven services. Best of all, using them is free.
Simply enter the link you want to hide, press on a button, and you’ll be taken to a result. The result would include the new link that you could use, shortened, sweetened and made more clickable.
Simply copy this new link and use it for your affiliate marketing purposes. Whenever a prospect would click on the new link, he or she would be taken to your affiliate link, and eventually, to your affiliate merchant’s sales page. The benefits of this tactic for the affiliate are immeasurable.
* You won’t have to suffer the condemnation of other people for blatantly promoting your affiliate links.
* You won’t have to endure the perils of having your link stolen as your affiliate ID would be hidden.
* You won’t have to suffer the scrutiny of your subscribers and endanger the trust you have earned from them since no affiliate links would be made apparent. Your recommendations would carry more weight.
* Article directories would accept your articles even if they contain cloaked links, because their filters won’t be able to distinguish them for their real nature.
* Your viral products won’t appear like viral products, which would in turn make them more viral. People would see your viral products as completely gratuitous, and they’ll help distribute the same to compensate you for the good will you have shown.
If you have been promoting your affiliate merchants’ products via the link they have given you, it’s time to evolve to make your marketing strategies even more efficient. Consumer behavior has progressed. You don’t have to suffer from ad blindness. Mask your ads with cloaked links and experience for yourself a higher response rate and better results for your efforts.
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