Jan
7
How to Mask Your Affiliate Links
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Masking affiliate links is very important, and in this lesson, I’m going to show you how to do it with ease. A lot of affiliates do not mask their affiliate links and they’re loosing money because of lost traffic because of it. Here are a few reasons why they need to be hidden:
- Google can recognize an affiliate link when they see one. It’s a simple algorithm really, if Google crawls a hyper link that forwards to another hyper link, it can easily assume that the link is an affiliate link and it will either lower your Quality Score (if promoting through Google AdWords) or lower your PageRank (if promoting through SEO).
- People are getting smarter and they notice when they see *.*.clickbank.net…or if they see a hyper link with a number next to it, they’re getting sent to a website that is trying to sell them something.
- If you’re promoting your website through e-mail marketing, SPAM filters are getting smarter every day and if one affiliate screws up, it ruins it for everyone trying to use similar hyper links from the same domain.
Here are a few methods to solve this problem: Read more
