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Major Headache Solver: How to Structure Your Affiliate Links
Posted 25th January 2015 at 04:30 PM by kindsvater
Here is an issue that bites virtually every new affiliate marketer: structuring affiliate links for easy changes.
Once you've hit by this you learn a quick lesson. It was recently mentioned to me by one of my Elf Links customers and it is a hidden benefit to using Elf Links.
Here's the Problem
You create a bunch of affiliate links on your website. Great! Until the merchant goes out of business, changes their links, you want to use a different merchant, you get terminated from a merchant, or the products are discontinued.
Ouch. Then what?
You have to manually change every link.
It can be a terrible experience.
Fortunately, there are simple tactics you can use to minimize the pain.
Solving the Problem
If you have a dozen links to a product spread out over ten pages, it is going to take a while to change each link.
However, if each "link" was to a redirect file on your website, or even a link shortening service, then you only need to change it one time.
What a huge timer saver!
With Elf Links (and also my Squeeze Links product) this headache solver is built into how the scripts work.
You create a link in your WordPress admin panel (Elf Links) or in a separate file (Squeeze Links) and then have codes referring to the links. In your web pages you just refer to the code.
Voila.
When a link changes you do not need to edit your web pages and posts at all. All you do is change the Elf Link in your Wordpress admin area or change the url in the Squeeze Link file.
This is easy and fast to do.
Bottom Line
Creating websites can be fun. But before you dive in think about structure and how miserable your life will be if you have to change all those links one by one, page by page.
While all of the misery in spending time changing links cannot be entirely eliminated, by properly structuring your links from the outset you can save yourself hours, even days worth of time down the road.
.
Once you've hit by this you learn a quick lesson. It was recently mentioned to me by one of my Elf Links customers and it is a hidden benefit to using Elf Links.
Here's the Problem
You create a bunch of affiliate links on your website. Great! Until the merchant goes out of business, changes their links, you want to use a different merchant, you get terminated from a merchant, or the products are discontinued.
Ouch. Then what?
You have to manually change every link.
It can be a terrible experience.
Fortunately, there are simple tactics you can use to minimize the pain.
Solving the Problem
If you have a dozen links to a product spread out over ten pages, it is going to take a while to change each link.
However, if each "link" was to a redirect file on your website, or even a link shortening service, then you only need to change it one time.
What a huge timer saver!
With Elf Links (and also my Squeeze Links product) this headache solver is built into how the scripts work.
You create a link in your WordPress admin panel (Elf Links) or in a separate file (Squeeze Links) and then have codes referring to the links. In your web pages you just refer to the code.
Voila.
When a link changes you do not need to edit your web pages and posts at all. All you do is change the Elf Link in your Wordpress admin area or change the url in the Squeeze Link file.
This is easy and fast to do.
Bottom Line
Creating websites can be fun. But before you dive in think about structure and how miserable your life will be if you have to change all those links one by one, page by page.
While all of the misery in spending time changing links cannot be entirely eliminated, by properly structuring your links from the outset you can save yourself hours, even days worth of time down the road.
.
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