A Tip for Members of Affiliate Programs
The following is a post I made to the KYA Affiliates Yahoo Group. This is a collaboration site for a popular asset protection and home business opertunity company, but the same techniques described below can be of great use to anyone utilizing affiliate links on the world wide web.
Dear Fellow Affiliates,
As I belive Ice and others have mentioned before, there's a tendency
for prospects to get lazy and cut off the ?username part of your
affiliate link, thus defeating the purpose of the link entirely.
Fortunately, however, there is a way around this:
USE A CLEAR, MEMORABLE DOMAIN NAME!
The concept is simple: Get a short, memorable domain name (I use
www.mpassetprotection.com for this), and set it up so that visitors
will be transparently rerouted to your
http://www.keepyourassets.net/?username affiliate link
(http://www.keepyourassets.net/?andrew in my case). If done right, it
will be instantaneous, and the prospect probably won't even realize
that it happened!
There are some caveats to this, however, that I want to explain, so
that you can learn from my experience and save yourself a LOT of time
and frustration.
I use 1and1.com for my domain name registration needs. They are very
inexpensive and reliable. They even have a cool control panel! Who
can't say no to that right? The problem is, when you use their "domain
forwarding" function, a final slash ("/") will be appended to your
affiliate link, RENDERING IT USELESS. Apparently, the domain server
assumes that anything without a /something.extension is actually just
a directory. If this doesn't make sense, don't worry about it; it
doesn't really matter.
I emailed tech support about this, and they told me to try using
TinyURL.com to get around it. Long story short, they were wrong. I was
getting desperate, so I decided to try one last thing. I have web
hosting for my own websites, libertarianactivism.com and
activistdirectory.org. This is being hosted by Imhosted.com, another
very good provider. To administer my hosted sites, I use a web based
program called "CPanel". Some of you may have heard of it.
There's a feature in CPanel labeled "Add-On Domains". I added
mpassetprotection.com to this list, and told it to redirect all
requests to http://www.keepyourassets.net/?andrew. If you know what
you're doing, this procedure is actually very easy, now that I did all
the trial and error for you. Alternatively, I'd be more than happy to
host domains for other affiliates for $25 USD or equivalent plus
expenses (if any). If you already have a domain you'd like to use,
transfering it over is very easy, and won't cost anything. On the
other hand, if you'd like a domain, I can get one for you for less
than $10 USD. I also have some existing domains that get some traffic
already that I'd be willing to sell.
The bottom line is, this is all easier than it may appear, and needs
only to be done once. Doing so is very affordable protection against
loosing commissions from referred customers, and will result in
maximum productivity for you and your downline.
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