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problem with affiliate links please help

by stevey147
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hi guys!! i am really struggling...

i was just about to start promoting a product as an affiliate when i found out that people are alot less likely to click if its obvious that you are promoting as an affiliate...

my question is when writing articles or posting your affiliate link anywhere, how do you mask ittt??

pleaseere helpppp
#affiliate #links #problem
  • Profile picture of the author verdi
    The simplest way is to go to bitly.com and get a totally unrelated link. It's free. Enter your affiliate id and bitly.com will give you a bitly url which masks your original id.

    Best Wishes
    Joe
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    • Profile picture of the author JayDoh
      I use a free plugin called "Pretty links lite", the URL just looks like another page on your site - works great for me
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  • Profile picture of the author high_plains_drifter
    Originally Posted by stevey147 View Post

    hi guys!! i am really struggling...

    i was just about to start promoting a product as an affiliate when i found out that people are alot less likely to click if its obvious that you are promoting as an affiliate...

    my question is when writing articles or posting your affiliate link anywhere, how do you mask ittt??

    pleaseere helpppp
    pretty link lite is very good for this

    it also gives you basic stats to see how many times your link has been clicked
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  • Profile picture of the author money fan
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    Use a redirect.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by stevey147 View Post

    i found out that people are alot less likely to click if its obvious that you are promoting as an affiliate...
    I've found the opposite, myself: that people are actually more likely to click because they know I'm an affiliate. It all depends how you go about telling them.

    For legal and regulatory reasons, you do have to disclose that you're an affiliate, anyway - it's not something you can conceal, so it's best to try to turn it to your advantage.

    It's still very worthwhile masking your affiliate links, though - for several other reasons: just not for that reason!

    "Prettylink" is good.

    Using a $1 ".info" domain-name as a redirection is good (I usually do that).

    The really important thing is to stay away from "url-shortener" services like tinyurl and bit.ly. ("Bit.ly" is probably the very least advisable one to use, for many, many reasons, discussed here and in 100 other threads. ) Even fewer people are probably willing to click on a concealed "bit.ly" link than will click on something like an "open hoplink". (And who can blame them?!).

    The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe | :Ben Metcalfe Blog
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I use Pretty Links Lite. Great plugin and Lite version is free. I don't use url shorteners any longer. It seems that they are becoming an untrusted link.
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