The affiliate marketing basic skill no 3 is to manage your affiliate link. This article will explain why it is important to manage your affiliate link and it will also touch on the action that you can take to manage your affiliate link.
The biggest reason why you will want to cloak your affiliate link is to make sure that you will prevent commission’s theft or loss. Sad to say, there are some people in this world who will do the unethical way. For instance, if they want to get the product at a cheaper price, they will replace your affiliate ID with their own affiliate ID. When they replace the affiliate link with their affiliate ID and buy the product, you will not be paid commissions. This will not be good for you as you have put in the effort to bring in the traffic.
To avoiding making this mistake, there are 3 ways which you can do to protect your affiliate link. The 3 ways are:
1. Domain name forwarding. You will buy a domain. When people click on that domain, they will be sent to your affiliate link.
2. Use free url shortening services. What you will do is that you will cloak the whole affiliate link. One of the best websites which you can go to to clock your affiliate link will be www.tinyurl.com.
3. Creating a cloaked redirect link. What you will do is to use software to cloak your affiliate link to your own domain name. For example, your affiliate link can be www.GHT.com/hgt=PAUL. Instead of showing that your affiliate ID is PAUL, you can use software to shorten to www.YourDomainName.com/Recommendation.
So this article has summarized the importance of cloaking your affiliate link to make sure that commission’s theft and loss will not happen to you. You have also learned the 3 different ways to cloak your own affiliate link. This is a important step and do make sure that you will not make this mistake.
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