Could Your Affiliate Marketing Dollars Be at Risk?
For all affiliate marketers, the key to success in their programs are not only the marketing and landing pages, but their affiliate links to the product. The affiliate code which contains the URL of the product is what tells the affiliate program the difference between a referred visitor and a unique visitor, to properly credit you for leads or sales. Without an affiliate link, you won’t receive the proper commission from your sales.
The most gut-wrenching thing to discover about affiliate links, is that your links may be vulnerable to those wanting to steal your affiliate marketing dollars. Unfortunately, a little but big problem called “affiliate link hijacking’ is an issue and does exist, causing a loss in money to hard-working affiliate marketers.
Recommends.me has developed a technique to protect links and have added other benefits, such as:
- Wrapping links to make them more readable by Google
- Getting more Click Thru’s due to URL looking more friendly, thus boosting more clicks and sales
Once becoming a recommends.me member, their automated system only requires that you configure an affiliate URL to wrap and choose an appropriate name for the link. Recommends.me is compatible with Windows, Mac or Linux.
10:00 am on January 20th, 2009
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