Affiliate Marketing Tips

by Lamberto Inquig Jr

It is best recommended to have your affiliate program links posted on your website rather than giving them openly.

Why is it so? Simply because you are promoting products or services and by doing so will not likely invite visitors to click that link if it is posted openly like in open forums or social networking sites.

Here are some reasons to consider:

your website will describe better the products or services that you promote
you can provide links to other products or services in your site that would enable your visitor to choose
you can place testimonies in your site or your own personal experience
reviews of the benefits that the product or services extend
you can submit your site to Search Engine Optimization sites (SEO)
having an affiliate link posted in the open forum or social networking sites will not guarantee your registration if the viewer removes the affiliate code

Take note of this:

Some affiliate programs normally placed your user name at the site's link for you to promote online. Be aware of the code that looks something like this http://www.affiliateprogram.com/?r=myusername. That is precisely your affiliate code and by posting that to open forum or social networking sites will enable the advanced viewer to remove your user name and visit the site to sign up, thus you lose referral commission.

How to make the referral code looks like a site's URL?

You can either join programs that shrinks URLs but the links don't work well in promoting affiliate programs because most are hard to remember and looks like not a trusted site anymore.

Check these sites and how they shrink your long URLs into a compact and short one:

Good luck and happy earnings to everyone!