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It's Official You can Link To Sales Page (in a fashion)

by yves
12 replies
Hi,

I just emailed ezine about linking straight to the vendors sales page because I had seen others link straight to it and they were all published.

I didn't quite understand the response but it seems that you can link straight to the site but by doing something difficult and technical (well for me anyway).

Here's what they said:

"we will accept articles which forward/redirect to an affiliate link from the top-level of a domain name.For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:
htttp://your-company-name.com/
...but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:
htttp://your-company-name.com/page.html
htttp://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/"


If possible can somebody please break that down into linking for dummies?


I take it that it has something to do with going through your own site first but without the visitor seeing it or something?


Any answers hugely appreciated.


#fashion #link #official #page #sales
  • Profile picture of the author JoelMatthews
    I can link you to

    Total Wealth Solution
    but not one like...
    About Me

    It has to be a link without a sub category.

    Edit since they don't wana work,
    "www.totalwealthsolution.com"
    "joel-matthews.com/about"
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  • Profile picture of the author stma
    To keep your cost down in my experience they will accept subdomains....... and subdomains are free.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    It's really simple. You buy a domain. You go into your control panel and do a permanent redirect to your affiliate link. Or you create a php redirect in the index.php file (google it - easy as pie). Then you just use that domain in any resource box that you publish in your article. Spend 20 minutes googling and reading and you'll then think this is very easy and not complex at all. Better yet actually DO it and you'll be sure it's easy.
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    • Profile picture of the author ecis36
      If you're not sure how to do a permanent redirect, you can try the following simple redirect script:

      Open up a text file and copy and paste the following:

      <html>
      <script>
      location = "http://your-affiliate-website-goes-here.com";
      </script>
      </html>

      Save it as "index.html" and upload it to the root directory of your domain using your favorite FTP program.
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      • Profile picture of the author Steve Diamond
        Originally Posted by ecis36 View Post

        If you're not sure how to do a permanent redirect, you can try the following simple redirect script:

        ...

        Save it as "index.html" and upload it to the root directory of your domain using your favorite FTP program.
        Yes, or even better use this script:
        PHP Code:
        <?php 
        header         ("Location: http://your-affiliate-website-goes-here.com"); 
        ?>
        Save it as index.php and upload it to the root website directory (usually public_html) as in the previous example.

        For reasons that I explained here, the PHP method is more reliable. The other method (which uses JavaScript) is likely to fail for about 5% of your visitors.

        Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author yves
    Thanks everyone
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  • Profile picture of the author JoelMatthews
    IMnwxlh2 I think the bio box, and resources box have different rules to the articles themself?
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    Here's a little tip to help increase the click-thru rate from your article if you go the subdomain route:

    Set up a subdomain called "recommendedby.domain.com" ... This is what the readers of your article will see as the link destination if they look down at the status bar in the lower left of their browser while hovering over your link. You'd be surprised how many people do that as a matter of habit before they'll click a live link.

    So if your readers who do this and are naturally a bit cautious see "recommendedby.domain.com" it's kind of like a mini-review page, if you follow my meaning. Honestly, it's not gonna affect that many of your readers, but hey, every little thing you can do to creep up your CTR, all the better, right?

    John
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