Make Affiliate Money

I have been told I must leave my laptop alone for the next two days by my lovely Wife.  I know what is best for me so I will comply!

Seriously, Christmas is important especially if you are lucky enough to have a great family and good friends.

Due to my impending laptop ban I have been working like crazy on a new website which I launched today.  I decided to go back to basics and remember what I did in August to make really good money from Forex.  I have created another Forex review site (I will give details later) and this time I have been able to learn from my mistakes and lessons I have had from other people and forums.

The site is easier to read, has more graphics, good navigation and more importantly has php cloaked affiliate links which look much more professional.

I have removed all TIDs from my hoplinks, so I will not be able to know if the site makes more sales or not, but I have made sure the site has analytics etc from the start so that I can track keywords etc.

I have used a template from www.freewebsitetemplates.com which really do have free templates and they also give the psd file too.  I have learnt a lot about designing with fireworks and CSS during this site creation, every day is a school day!

Anyway, must go.  Laptop is being switched off in T minus 5 minutes!

Merry Christmas Everyone and a Happy New Year.

James

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If you are new to Affiliate Marketing you might not know about Link Cloaking or you may want to know how to do it.

There are several ways that I tested, I will give my personal view on each one.

1) tinyurl or offto.net cloaking websites.

When I didn’t know better I used offto.net to cloak my affiliate links, you simply put your hop link (http://affiliateID.publisherID.hop.clickbank.net) and the name of your link and they give you a url like http://offto.net/forexbrotherhood which looks better you will agree.  tinyurl and other examples are the same. 

The issue with these is that offto.net could change the link or go out of business or have server downtime all of which is out of your control.

2) Subdomain redirect

My host 1and1 allows me 100 subdomains on my current package.  A sub-domain has the format http://subdomain.domain.com and I created subdomains such as http://forexfunnel.forexrobotreviews.com and then used the 1and1 control panel to redirect this subdomain to my hop link.

I personally like the look of this, but recently I have had some issues where my affiliate id is not showing up on the payment page, so I have stopped doing this.

3) php redirect

This is the way I am now cloaking my hop links (I don’t cloak all of my hop links at the moment, only ones that might be changed by the purchaser, ie other Affiliates.)  You will need a website, hosting and a html/php editor for this, but it really does seem to work the best and most affiliate marketers use it.

You need to create a webpage such as forexfunnel.php and using the editor (I use Dreamweaver) and with no other text, html or php code add the following:

<?php
$url=”http://google.com”; // enter the url here
header(“Location: $url”);
?>

You replace the google.com with your hop link. You then need to upload the page to your website and use the link such as http://automatedforex.co.uk/forexfunnel.php

This looks professional and works just fine.

I am told you can use the following html meta tag instead if you don’t like php, but don’t be afraid of php like I was.  It really is much easier than it looks.

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=http://google.com/”/>

I hope this is useful to some of you starting out.

James

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Part 1

The first thing I must tell you is that Affiliate marketing is not “easy” and you probably won’t make hundreds of thousands of pounds overnight.  I have been testing and trying different things for over a year now, just on Clickbank products.

This is going to sound like an advert, but until I found Nichechoppers I really was just playing around with it.  Norb provides amazing graphics and assistance with all of his products, just check out his everLoss product at the moment and show me another publisher who will give you a ready made minisite with such amazing graphics.  All you need is a domain, a web hosting account, a basic html editor (notepad works if you don’t have cash) and then ftp software to upload a ready-made site already SEO optimised.

If you literally have no money, try squidoo or synthasite.  Synthasite will literally allow you to have your own site with no adverts whereas Squidoo is covered in Adsense ads.  An example of one of my squidoo pages is http://www.squidoo.com/efficient-planet

I produced this very quickly using affiliate materials from several publisher sites.  It is simple and to the point with cloaked affiliate links to the publishers sites.

An example of one of my synthasite pages is http://10minuteforexreview.synthasite.com which I created as a landing page for PPC adverts.  The bonus with doing this with synthasite is that you will also rank well in search engine results if you have good website titles and good content.

In my opinion this landing page looks very professional but was made just from content provided by publishers.  You will note that the affiliate links I have used in this example have not been cloaked and include a “tid” that tells me that the hops came from adwords traffic.  This allows me to track conversion rates.

I hope this gives a few examples of how to start affiliate marketing for free, also known as BUM Marketing.

In Part 2 I will explain a bit about Article Writing.

Any more questions, please write a comment.

James

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