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I know a lot of you guys already know how to cloak affiliate links manually or maybe you already have an affiliate cloaking plugin such as the Ninja Affiliate Plugin (like I do) but if you don’t know how to or don’t want to pay any money, here’s how to do it.
I think there are a few different ways you can go about cloaking affiliate links manually but I think the easiest way is to just redirect your visitors.
First, I would open up a blank notepad and copy and paste the following html code:
<html>
<head>
<title>TITLE OF YOUR AFFILIATE LINK</title>
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”>
<script> window.location=”YOUR AFFILIATE LINK GOES HERE“; </script>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”1; url=”YOUR AFFILIATE LINK GOES HERE “>
</head>
<body>
<p align=”center”>You are being taken to the correct page.
<br>If the page doesn’t load after 5 seconds, <a href=”YOUR AFFILIATE LINK GOES HERE“>click here</a>.
</p>
</body>
</html>
Now, this is basically a redirect link with the option of having your visitor link through if the page doesn’t load correctly. But that rarely happens but at least you’ll have the backup just incase.
The only things you have to change are the title of the redirect page and simply insert your affiliate link in the proper areas (which I highlighted in red for you guys).
Once you get that done, just save the notepad document with an easy name to remember for the affiliate link and add “.php” as the extension.
So, say you’re cloaking a link for MarketLeverage or something, just save the notepad document as “marketleverage.php” so it’s easy to remember.
Now that you have the redirect file, you want to put that onto your server. I would suggest creating a subfolder titled “goto” or “go” and put the file in there.
Okay, you’re just about done. Now, when you link to your cloaked affiliate link, just use the URL as “http://www.yoursite.com/goto/marketleverage.php” and whenever someone clicks on that, it will redirect them to your affiliate link.
I hope that’s easy enough for you guys. Let me know if you have any questions!
First of all, I would like to thank MarketLeverage once again for their generosity in sponsoring this contest with a great prize. And a special shout out to Dina for helping me put this together and continue being a great contact as well as a great part of the ML team. Though, I’m going to have to apologize because I was the basic holdup on the second drawing. So, sorry everyone and sorry Dina!
Now, before we get to the winner who was chosen for submitting the best affiliate tip/secret, in my eyes, I’m going to ramble on for a couple of paragraphs.
This contest didn’t get as much publicity as most of my other contests simply because I didn’t have as much time to promote it like I have with some of my others. There were a few reasons behind this; but most of it surrounded the lack of time in December as well as the fact that I was having problems with my computer, internet as well as e-mails.
In addition, there seemed to be a lack of entries because some people mentioned they didn’t know too much about affiliate marketing so they felt as though they couldn’t enter because they lacked the knowledge.
Of course, since some didn’t enter because they were just starting out in affiliate marketing and they didn’t have much to contribute as a secret, others benefited from it because they had less competition.
Less competition = better chance to win.
You guys should all keep that in mind when it comes to making money online. 
Because you’ll soon find out that you always want to find things with less competition so you can benefit from it.
A few instances that would be good with less competition would be, but not restricted to, keyword research, affiliate marketing, building traffic, selecting a niche (get out of the make money online niche while you can!) and so on.
Okay, I’m getting sidetracked a little bit here…
So, there were a total of 14 entries that were submitted in various ways. Some people decided to comment with their affiliate tip on the contest post, some were dedicated enough to write an entire post and lastly, some took the time to e-mail me directly so their secret actually remained a secret. Well, for the most part.
Although, there were only 14 entries, it was still hard for me to choose one winner. Everyone had good tips, some had similar secrets and I had to do my best to pick only one.
There will be only one… (okay, if you’ve seen the movie Zack and Miri Makes A Porno, then you’ll get that line)
Again, it was hard as hell to pick one winner. Matter of fact, I was talking with Dina and asked for her opinion on how to choose one. Some of you guys went into step-by-step details, others wrote an overview on the what’s and how’s while the remaining wrote a simple paragraph or two.
Well, I went with a basic tip and one that would work with affiliate marketing and with any business strategy you go with.
Anyways, the winner is…
T3Leads is an affiliate network that is slowly creeping up to people, in a good way. Plus, it’ll be pretty profitable for you as well.
T3Leads tends to have leads primarily in the financial area which includes credit cards, insurance, debt and more. This is probably the best time to promote these types of leads, especially since everyone is in a financial crunch. I mean Massachusetts and other states just asked for a $1 Trillion dollar bailout! Plus, the unemployment rate continues to climb.
T3Leads does not sell generated leads. That basically means the affiliate gets the most out of the money. And who doesn’t like that? Their affiliate program is directly tied with a large network of banks and other financial institutions.
So, in essence, they don’t have like five companies working in between them. Some affiliate networks are like that and by the time the money gets down to you, the affiliate marketer, the payout ends up being chump change. With T3Leads, you get the most out of your leads.
I’m not sure if this is true as I’m pretty new to this company but it is said that “guarantee” the highest conversion rate in the industry. I am told it ranges from 1:6 to 1:9 which is a very high conversion rate. And it’s good for you if you’re a PPC marketer because you spend less and make more.
Also, a little birdie informed me that affiliates can order free ePassporte cards. Tell me that isn’t convenient?
The thing I like about T3Leads is how they payout and the frequency in which they do it. Normal affiliate networks pay you once a month, no matter how much you make within that period. On the other hand, T3Leads pay you on a bi-weekly basis and if you’re a pro affiliate marketer making over $1,000/week, you can request weekly payouts also.
In addition to getting paid bi-weekly or potentially on a weekly basis, you have the option of a quick transfer through Paypal. I’m sure most of you guys that are associated with affiliate networks know they usually pay by check, which could take anywhere between 7-10 business days to arrive in the mail at the end of the month.
Well, all that goes out the window because Paypal is pretty instant. Plus, you help save the environment by not having a check issued to you!
Not only that but they have 24/7 support and a pretty helpful forum incase you ever have questions or need help with promotional methods. I mean, everyone is there to help each other out.
In conclusion, I would suggest checking them out and taking advantage of the opportunity with the financial dilemma going on. I mean, you don’t have much to lose, yet, you have so much to gain simply by signing up with T3Leads.
First, my laptop crashed with some crazy virus or spyware and now it’s not turning on so I lost most, if not all, of my information on there. Currently, I’m on someone else’s computer and I’ll write a separate post about it. So, if you sent me an e-mail, it’s not that I’m ignoring you, I’m just trying to get everything fixed.
Did I not say a contest was coming soon? Of course, the lovely Dina of MarketLeverage commented the other day hinting on my contest; it’s because the one and only MarketLeverage has been generous enough to sponsor this contest as well!
You’ll be able to win a brand new Flip Mino HD or an iPod Nano, not to mention some additional prizes on top of that!
There are two different parts of this contest in which both are related to affiliate marketing and MarketLeverage. But don’t you worry your pretty little head off; this is not an affiliate marketing challenge but rather just sharing your affiliate marketing tips.
The Prizes:
- A Flip Mino HD or an iPod Nano (Blue)
- Amazon Kindle
- $100 ML Rewards Card
- $50 iTunes Card
How to Enter:
Submit a video or text tips related to affiliate marketing – it’s that simple. You can do so by either posting your affiliate tip (or secret) as a comment here, as a blog post or you can even e-mail me if you want.
If you submit a video, please send me the link. Also, keep in mind that if you are the winner chosen, you may be featured on MarketLeverage’s blog. That’s added exposure to you and your site. Hint, hint!
But here are some things to keep in mind when submitting your affiliate marketing tips and the contest as a whole:
a.) You can only use MarketLeverage as an example network. (Makes sense, especially since ML was nice enough to sponsor these lovely prizes for you guys)
b.) I will choose the best affiliate tip from the contestants and they will be handed their choice of a Flip Mino HD or iPod Nano
c.) This contest is also featured on tons of other sites, you can check out the other sites here.
d.) The winner from each site will then be entered for a chance to win the Amazon Kindle, $100 ML Rewards Card and/or the $50 iTunes Card. The blog owners that are running this contest will then vote for their favorites and that’s how you win!
Deadline:
December 31st, 2008 I know, I’m sorry for posting this late but again, my laptop and ALL my information crashed so that pretty much sucked. And see, my birthday is this week but I’m giving YOU a present instead. (Well, technically MarketLeverage is on my behalf 
)
e.) I can’t vote for the winner from my blog, I can only vote for the winners from the other blogs that are featuring this contest.
Simple enough contest if you ask me. I feel as though I’m missing something but if I am, I’m sure Dina of ML will come and yell at me.
Make sure to subscribe to my RSS Feeds to stay updated to see if you won!
Has anyone been doing PPC affiliate marketing recently? Well, if you have been direct linking to through PPC you might have noticed your SubID not tracking correctly. Is it just me? Definitely not!
If you remember back when I wrote “What I have Learned from Affiliate Marketing So Far”, you might have saw that I mentioned putting “{keyword}” at the end of your affiliate link so you could track keywords, conversions and so on. Well, it doesn’t look like it’s currently working.
This is pretty unconfirmed so I don’t want to accuse every affiliate network out there, but a few of them have some bug in their “Direct Track” system. Essentially, this seems to be causing problems with the SubID tracking. And if you’re putting the “{keyword}” at the end of your affiliate link, the stats simply won’t show up.
I talked to one of my affiliate managers and she said they were aware of the problem and they currently have their tech guys looking into the problem as we speak.
I was talking with Paul from Inspiredaffiliate.com the other day about this and he had mentioned a couple of affiliate networks were having this problem including MarketLeverage.
Of course, I had to pause all my campaigns recently due to some credit card issues I was having but since I picked it back up as of late, I noticed that I couldn’t keep track of which keywords were converting.
As you should know, it’s all about keyword research and narrowing down which keywords convert and which do not. And if you’re doing direct linking with PPC, you are currently at a standstill. Unless you’re willing to take shots without being able to narrow down which keywords convert.
All I know is, I hope they fix this soon. Because the longer we can’t track which keywords convert, the more money we could be potentially losing.
I can assure you I’m not the only one.
Are you having any problems with your SubID tracking?
