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Traffic to a Redirect

by RyanT
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Hey Warriors,

So me and a few friends were having a heated debate last night. I think we all had a few too many drinks, and then we had some more, anyway the argument went on for about 2 1/2 hours before we all had to part ways.

Even this morning in my first meeting of the day I got a text from one of them still debating his side!! :p

Either way I would like to continue that debate here and see what other sides there are.

So, in a nutshell the argument was over how to drive traffic to a redirected affiliate link.

One argument was to get a free web 2.0 platform and direct it to the affiliate link. Then drive traffic via PPC.

Another was to buy a cheap .info and redirect then drive traffic via article marketing. Blasting hundreds of articles out there.

Yet another argument was to direct to a squeeze page and once they sign up redirect to the affiliate link. Then drive traffic via videos and social sites.

Now my personal argument was to do a mixture minus the PPC and web 2.0 platform. I am sure it's possible but to me seems shotty. And that made my friend pretty mad. He swears by cheap PPC to make thousands quickly.

So I'm curious as to what others have to input on this, as I continue our argument through texts and emails
#redirect #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by RyanT View Post

    One argument was to get a free web 2.0 platform and direct it to the affiliate link.
    How can you re-direct a page on a site you don't own?

    Originally Posted by RyanT View Post

    So I'm curious as to what others have to input on this
    Different things work best for different people (in different niches and with different products), which is why doing one's own testing is the perhaps the only real answer, here.

    That said, I find it very difficult indeed, myself, (if not impossible) to believe that direct-linking from articles' resource-boxes to a sales-page (e.g. using a .info domain-name as a redirect, as mentioned above) can actually be better than anything else, for anyone, under any circumstances.
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    • Profile picture of the author RyanT
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      How can you re-direct a page on a site you don't own?
      Something called a meta refresh. He explained it, I didn't quite understand it. Something about it automatically refreshes some tag and then links to the affiliate link. Again, not sure. :confused:

      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      I find it very difficult indeed, myself, (if not impossible) to believe that direct-linking from articles' resource-boxes to a sales-page (e.g. using a .info domain-name as a redirect, as mentioned above) can actually be better than anything else, for anyone, under any circumstances.
      I have personally not used a redirect. Except for something like an upsell from a list sign up page. But that's not exactly the same. So my argument didn't hold too much water. But I do know how driving traffic works so I threw in my 2 cents at every corner.

      Although I've always found articles being a great way to get a steady stream of free traffic, just shouldn't be the SOLE means.
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