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Using Aweber Plain Text For Affiliate Links

by JohnPeters1983
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Hey, I'm using plain text for aweber. My question is how do I put in a affiliate link. Lets say I'm promoting hostgator. What affiliate link would I put in? Some affiliate links are ugly

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author BamaGuy
    Have you thought about purchasing a domain name to redirect your affiliate link to? For instance.... myhostingcompany....com or something like that. This way, it will seem more of a real link and people may be more intrigued to click it.
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    • Profile picture of the author nicolasmd2112
      Purchasing a domain name would probably be the best thing to do. Mostly because of spam filters and it will lessen the chance of your message sending the wrong idea to your recipients and triggering spam filters.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnPeters1983
      Good idea but if I'm promoting a lot of affilate links should I use the same domain to redirect to all the different affilate links?

      Originally Posted by BamaGuy View Post

      Have you thought about purchasing a domain name to redirect your affiliate link to? For instance.... myhostingcompany....com or something like that. This way, it will seem more of a real link and people may be more intrigued to click it.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnPeters1983
    Do I just redirect my squeeze page name to affiliate link? Forinstance if I'm promoting hostgator www.website.com/hostgator? Anybody
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  • Profile picture of the author BamaGuy
    That would be a whole lot better than using the long ugly names.

    You could even set up sub domain redirects like.....

    hostgator.xxxxxxxx.com


    redirect this subdomain to your offer and promote that link.

    Do this for each offer if you wish.
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    • Profile picture of the author KuhNoodle
      Originally Posted by BamaGuy View Post

      That would be a whole lot better than using the long ugly names.

      You could even set up sub domain redirects like.....

      hostgator.xxxxxxxx.com


      redirect this subdomain to your offer and promote that link.

      Do this for each offer if you wish.
      That is what I have done in the past and it works wonders
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  • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
    Get a script to do it on your own domain.

    Google: "redirection script"


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  • Profile picture of the author baokhau
    Originally Posted by JohnPeters1983 View Post

    Hey, I'm using plain text for aweber. My question is how do I put in a affiliate link. Lets say I'm promoting hostgator. What affiliate link would I put in? Some affiliate links are ugly

    Thanks
    You can cloak the affiliate links by using a tool named 'My Link Guard' by Richard Legg. Your domain name will permanently replace the affiliate link forever on the address bar once it gets clicks. I used it before and the conversion is higher than using any free shorten-url services. Hope this helps

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    • Profile picture of the author WillR
      Originally Posted by baokhau View Post

      You can cloak the affiliate links by using a tool named 'My Link Guard' by Richard Legg. Your domain name will permanently replace the affiliate link forever on the address bar once it gets clicks. I used it before and the conversion is higher than using any free shorten-url services. Hope this helps

      Bao
      This type of practice can confuse people since they are seeing your url but viewing someone else's websites. Some affiliate programs don't actually allow cloaking for this very reason.

      I would suggest you just use simple redirects.

      yourwebsite.com/product1
      yourwebsite.com/product2

      It literally takes two minutes to set up a redirect in that way so even with a plugin you won't save a heap of time. Just do it the old school way.
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnPeters1983
        Thanks Will That is the way I'm going to do it.

        Originally Posted by WillR View Post

        This type of practice can confuse people since they are seeing your url but viewing someone else's websites. Some affiliate programs don't actually allow cloaking for this very reason.

        I would suggest you just use simple redirects.

        yourwebsite.com/product1
        yourwebsite.com/product2

        It literally takes two minutes to set up a redirect in that way so even with a plugin you won't save a heap of time. Just do it the old school way.
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  • Profile picture of the author baokhau
    Hey Will,

    Thanks for your notification about this technique. Btw, could you please give me the plugin that you mentioned?

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    • Profile picture of the author WillR
      Originally Posted by baokhau View Post

      Hey Will,

      Thanks for your notification about this technique. Btw, could you please give me the plugin that you mentioned?

      Bao
      I didn't mention a plugin. I said to do it without a plugin. People rely on plugins for too many things nowadays. Simple redirects shouldn't need to be done inside of Wordpress. They take all of 1 minute to setup manually.
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