Page Redirection for your Affiliate Links
By David McKenzie
As an affiliate I use affiliate links at various places
throughout my web site, in emails and in other online
promotions. These affiliate links are usually long and have a
number or word to define who the affiliate is.
As well as using these 'direct' affiliate links I have also
used redirect pages (or what I might call 'indirect'
affiliate links) on my web site as well. These are blank web
pages whose sole purpose is to redirect the visitor to the
affiliate page.
I recently did a comparison between direct affiliate links and
redirect pages and the results were astounding!
The redirect pages outperformed direct affiliate links about
2 to 1 when placed in the same position on my web site. This
meant twice as many people were clicking the indirect affiliate
link as were clicking the direct affiliate link. Why?
I have no idea about the logic behind this but it appears that
visitors are less inclined to click a link when they know it is
an affiliate link. They would rather have the thought in their
mind "I want to buy direct".
I must admit I do not think like this because I have bought
many times through affiliate links but I guess I'm an affiliate
so perhaps I think differently to people who are not affiliates.
Want more traffic? Want more customers? Want to make more sales?
This unique automated website traffic and
profit generating system can help you:
You will need to replace the URL "myaffiliatelink.com" with
your own affiliate program link.
If you are in 5 different affiliate programs you will need to
set up 5 separate pages for each affiliate link.
Now you can use each redirect page link in your promotions
instead of the affiliate link.
When someone clicks on your redirect page link the following 2
things happen:
1. They get taken to your redirect page which is a blank page.
This lasts a few seconds.
2. The command in your header tag then forwards the visitor
directly to the affiliate site.
The best thing about redirect pages is they do not look like
affiliate links. They just look like normal pages. For those
people that DO have a problem buying through affiliate links,
they are unaware that the redirect page is actually an
affiliate link.
Try using redirect pages for your affiliate links. I think
you'll be pleasantly surprised by the results.
David McKenzie is the author of a new e-book titled "The Facts
You Should Know About Affiliate Programs"
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