Newbies, Cpanel redirects are you best friends

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One of the first technical skills that a newbie should learn is how to do a cpanel redirect.

I've been marketing online for well over 3 years now, and cpanel redirects are to my business what a snorkel is to a scuba diver, they can save your life.

There are a lot of uses for cpanel redirects. From simply cloaking an affiliate link, to more advanced uses like hiding your traffic source from a CPA offer, cpanel redirects are one of the most powerful, yet easy to use tools you have for 'being prepared.'

Here's a perfect example. For example, you have a product idea, but it'd not fully developed. But you want to 'take action' and at least do something that will show you results, so you give away a report to build a list. Your product isn't ready yet, you have no sales letter for it, so how do you promote it from the free report with no link?
You put up a squeeze page, that's how, right? But, then, the link will always go to the squeeze page and not the sales letter when it's ready.

But if you set up a cpanel redirect, the link in the report will be the link to a page that you can simply change wit 3 clicks in your cpanel. So if I click on the link in your report today, it might go to a squeeze page, but if I click that same link tomorrow, or in a week, it may just end up going to a sales letter.

-Dani
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  • Profile picture of the author R Hagel
    Another good use for a redirect link are any affiliate links you scatter about -- on blog posts, in free reports, on social networking sites, etc.

    Affiliate programs and products can and do disappear. So if you have thousands of copies of a free report floating about -- and you use a direct affiliate link to a product that goes off the market -- you lose money.

    Instead, use a redirect link through your own domain. Then if the aff product or program disappears, you can redirect this link to a similar product. No lost sales.

    Cheers,
    Becky
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    • Profile picture of the author VanessaB
      Thanks Becky. Masking and forwarding affiliate links was actually my first introduction to cpanel redirects.

      -Dani
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Mensah
    HI Dani, thanks for info...consider doing a video on this.
    would be really helpful! thanks again for the info!
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Am I getting this?

    Suppose we have a domain registered at one company - say Namecheap, and site hosted elsewhere - say Hostigator. So it might be "superdeal dot com" at Namecheap, and "superproduct dot com" is the site at Hostigator.

    We would point the "superdeal dot com" to both Domain Name Servers at Hostigator (doing so from Namecheap), then in Hostigator's CP we would do a redirect of "superdeal dot com" to "superproduct dot com."

    Is that correct? Then someone connecting to "www superdeal dot com" would see the URL "www superdeal dot com" but be looking at "www superproduct dot com"

    I did this with "14something dot com" redirecting it to "fourteensomething dot com," and people going to "14something dot com" get connected to "fourteensomething dot com" while their browser bar says the are looking at "14something dot com.)
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  • Profile picture of the author freedomguy
    For the many Wordpress users out there you can achieve the same thing from within your admin area with the Redirection plugin. I use it for affiliate links, redirecting old web pages, converting static websites to Wordpress without losing SEO etc. I love cpanel but hate switching back and forth between it and wp-admin.

    WordPress › Redirection WordPress Plugins

    John

    PS I'm just referring to the self hosted version of Wordpress, not Wordpress.com
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  • Profile picture of the author dberen
    Another good WordPress Plugin is Quick Page/Post Redirect.
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