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Issue between Short url/link and Affiliate programs

by Dima23V
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Hi,
I have an affiliate program that her links i publishing in a different places,
to hide the link that shows the affiliate program I make it with the short link that seems more reliable, I guess you know what I mean.
now through my link goes over 200 people a week, but no signups
the chance is very high that from these 200 people would at least 1 signup.
what could be the problem of not recieving signups (i do recive hits)?
or maybe the short url/link service who are prevents me from receiving signups/money? :confused:
#affiliate #issue #programs #short #url or link
  • Profile picture of the author Mary Wilhite
    It's so easy to get hits without sign-ups or sales specially if
    the traffic is not targeted.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dima23V
      Originally Posted by Mary Wilhite View Post

      It's so easy to get hits without sign-ups or sales specially if
      the traffic is not targeted.
      What are you mean when you say not targeted?
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      • Profile picture of the author Mary Wilhite
        Originally Posted by Dima23V View Post

        What are you mean when you say not targeted?
        Are the people coming in to your links actually interested in
        what you have to offer?

        If you just send links/offers to anybody you can send to then
        you might get a lot of clicks but low or worse, zero sales.

        One thing to also consider is where you send those links.

        If you putting links to some social sites, then there's also the
        possibility that the hits you are seeing are just robots
        crawling the link.
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        • Profile picture of the author Ralph Moore
          Hi Dima,

          Instead of relying on a third party link re-direct, many people do something like this:

          Use a plain text editor like notepad or NoteTab to create a text file named something like aWeber.php (if the affiliate program you are promoting is aWeber for example).

          The contents of the file are as follows where you replace the "affiliatelink" and "hop" with your actual info.

          <?php

          header('Location: http://www.affiliatelink.com/?hop=abc123etc');

          exit();

          ?>

          Then you save the file to a new directory on your hosting account and send people there like this

          <a href="http://domain-name.com/a/productname.php" target="_blank">Click Here!</a>

          where "domainname" is your actual domain name, "a" is the name of the directory where you placed the file and productname.php is like the example "aWeber.php" above or whatever.

          You can also use a tracking script to check to see where the traffic is coming from and where it is going.
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          • Profile picture of the author JettH
            Originally Posted by eagle View Post

            Hi Dima,

            Instead of relying on a third party link re-direct, many people do something like this:

            Use a plain text editor like notepad or NoteTab to create a text file named something like aWeber.php (if the affiliate program you are promoting is aWeber for example).

            The contents of the file are as follows where you replace the "affiliatelink" and "hop" with your actual info.

            <?php

            header('Location: http://www.affiliatelink.com/?hop=abc123etc');

            exit();

            ?>

            Then you save the file to a new directory on your hosting account and send people there like this

            <a href="http://domain-name.com/a/productname.php" target="_blank">Click Here!</a>

            where "domainname" is your actual domain name, "a" is the name of the directory where you placed the file and productname.php is like the example "aWeber.php" above or whatever.

            You can also use a tracking script to check to see where the traffic is coming from and where it is going.
            If you are using Wordpress the Pretty Link plugin does all this (including tracking clicks) for you very easily.
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        • Profile picture of the author Dima23V
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          What sort of "short link", Dima? Do you mean something like "Pretty Link" or something like "tinyurl" or "goo.gl"?

          (I'm asking just because if you're using a third-party url shortening service, many people won't click on them, and they're also very high-risk to use, if you want to stay fully in control of your own business, for all the reasons explained here,here , and by others in so many other threads.)
          Originally Posted by Mary Wilhite View Post

          Are the people coming in to your links actually interested in
          what you have to offer?

          If you just send links/offers to anybody you can send to then
          you might get a lot of clicks but low or worse, zero sales.

          One thing to also consider is where you send those links.

          If you putting links to some social sites, then there's also the
          possibility that the hits you are seeing are just robots
          crawling the link.
          I'm starting to think that this affiliate program of
          "date connected" site i am using is a scam!
          I published their links (from the affiliate site) in relevant places and I see hits only in one of 4 links i posted, and it has hits but no signups.

          If I had some way to check it out..
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Dima23V View Post

    to hide the link that shows the affiliate program I make it with the short link that seems more reliable
    What sort of "short link", Dima? Do you mean something like "Pretty Link" or something like "tinyurl" or "goo.gl"?

    (I'm asking just because if you're using a third-party url shortening service, many people won't click on them, and they're also very high-risk to use, if you want to stay fully in control of your own business, for all the reasons explained here, here, and by others in so many other threads.)
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  • Profile picture of the author JCorp
    Actually getting 200 hits and no sign ups happens more than you think...when I was first trying out FB ads I'd get somewhere in the ball park of 10,000 impressions and only getting around 10 clicks, and this was targeted traffic. That's an average of 1 click per 1000 impressions...sometimes it's not a numbers game. You should maybe imply more seo and target people in your actual market. Conversions may be a lot higher.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dima23V
      The affiliate program i'm using offers 4$ per sign-up,
      too good to be true huh?
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      • Profile picture of the author Vendzilla
        Originally Posted by Dima23V View Post

        The affiliate program i'm using offers 4$ per sign-up,
        too good to be true huh?

        I have affiliates that earn over 10 times that for every sign up on average
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        • Profile picture of the author Dima23V
          Originally Posted by Vendzilla View Post

          I have affiliates that earn over 10 times that for every sign up on average
          The affiliate you are talking about is the tag of yours?
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