Cloaking Of Links To Increase Sales

Affiliate Marketing is by far one of the most popular source that marketer, be it newbie or experienced marketer, used to earn money online. This is probably because it is the easiest and hassle free ways of earning money.

You do not need a product nor a website or even basic knowledge of Internet Marketing to be able to start selling your first affiliate program online.

You just choose a product and get an affiliate link. Drive traffic to that link and if people buy through that link, you earn a certain amount of commission, depending on the amount of money that the owner is offering as commission for his affiliates.

It may sound simple but it definitely isn’t as easy as it seems. One major problem, and i mean MAJOR, is that some marketer do not cloak their affiliate link.

Imagine you as a potential buyer who wish to purchase webhosting from hostgator, you come across a website with the url http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=thegame 

What is the first thing that you will do when you see such link? You know that its an affiliate link and the first thing that you will do is to delete the url and copy only the first part of the url. Thus you have lost an affiliate commission!

Cloaking of your affiliate link is so important in increasing sales and yet many people don’t realise it.

Alright, is your question now HOW?

You can actually cloak your affiliate link at tinyurl.com or linkyme.com . These website will actually shorten your url and hide your affiliate url such that people will not know that it is actually an affiliate link.

Eg; By going to tinyurl.com, the affiliate link for hostgator http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=thegame can be changed to http://tinyurl.com/2rpfa3

Thus, your email to your list can be something like this,

Hi [[name]],

Recently i came across this website http://tinyurl.com/2rpfa3 and they offer one of the cheapest webhosting fees that i have ever since. Upon researching, i found out that their prices of webhosting is 2 times cheaper than other companies and their up time is 99.9%.

Alternatively, another way of cloaking your affiliate link is when you have your own domain name and you can change the affiliate link to your domain name so that people will not even suspect that it is an affiliate link.

Eg; A clickbank affiliate link that looks like http://thegame050.ayrhaven.hop.clickbank.net can actually be changed to www.ivan-ong.com/SSMM . However, this requires a bit more work then the previous method of cloaking but the 2nd method definitely work better in terms of increasing sales and click through rate. If you wish to know more about the 2nd method of cloaking, please leave a comment with your email address and i will get back to you soon. Cheers!

To Your Affiliate Success!

Ivan Ong

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