Today’s Make Money Online Tip – Cloak Your Affiliate Links By….

Today’s Make Money Online Tip

Do YOU promote affiliate links?

If not, you should!  Affiliate links make it possible to earn money from OPP (other people’s products)…and can range from ebooks and software to ANYTHING (as in, ANYTHING) you can imagine at Amazon.com or eBay.com or the other big huge Names.com etc.

Well!  That being said, one way to increase your future commissions is to cloak the blasted affiliate link referrer! 

You see, if you leave it stark naked and open, folks who read your recommendations can see your link, substitute THEIR affiliate ID for yours, and BAM, bye bye your commission.

I am continuously shocked at how often even smart savvy marketers online will miss the boat on this one.

Now, sure, you can pay for affiliate link cloaking (more on that below).  But you can also do it for free!  We have some great threads about that over at our community:

• Affiliate Link Cloaking
  
• Whats link cloaking?

My favorite way to cloak links is to simply use a PHP redirection script that has only 4 lines like so:

<?php
$URL="lingstar.empiredow.hop.clickbank.net/&quot;;
header ("Location: $URL");
?>

The first line starts PHP, the second line is the affiliate link, the third line sends the visitor TO said affiliate link, the 4th line closes the PHP.

Here is the script in action:

www.barbaraling.com/learnmore/eempire.php

You’ll notice there’s no way to see from the file just WHAT is my affiliate link.

Now, if you’d prefer an already-packaged solution (for wordpress no less!), you can check out:

• Ninja Affiliate – this is a must-have for cloaking past, present and future affiliate links in your WordPress blog.  Really useful interface as well!

Remember, if you’ve done all the work to promote an affiliate link…you truly deserve the credit.  Take advantage of affiliate link cloaking – your income’s fitness will thank you for it!

Enjoy,

Barbara Ling

PS – another good tip to make money with your online business endeavors is to check out my blueprint, Income Fitness – it gives you the step-by-step process you need to showcase yourself as THE authority in your niche (as well as optimize your site to meet all of your own personal needs).  Click on the book below to see!