This page may
SHOCK you - but it's about time the
truth was told...
Most people online
have now heard about the benefits of securing affiliate
links by hiding them inside special redirect pages,
cloaking pages or something similar.
Many people use some
sort of software to create these solutions, which
can be anything from a simple page generator to a
sophisticated $100+ script.
However there is one
important piece of information that you will never find
mentioned on any web page selling these types
of tools...
If you're
currently using any tool/script to hide your affiliate
links, it is very likely that for some affiliate
links, you are actually reducing your commissions
by up to 50% - instead of boosting
them!
The
Problem...
Most affiliates don't
realise this - even the majority of successful ones -
but affiliate links are NOT all the same.
There are lots of
different technologies and scripts behind affiliate
programs, all with their own unique
properties.
These properties have a
HUGE impact on what methods can safely be used to secure
and promote the affiliate links.
If you use a strategy
that is not fully compatible with the affiliate program
script, you will lose some of your
commissions.
This issue affects
every single software tool available on the Internet
which claims to help protect, secure or hide affiliate
links.
"Link cloaking",
"link framing", "link branding", "embedded cookies",
"covert linking" and many other solutions all suffer
from this problem.
Even the expensive
scripts costing $100+ suffer from this
problem.
From research conducted
on the Internet, I can tell you that there are tens of
thousands of affiliates who are currently losing
some of their commissions - and in many cases well over
half their commissions - to this serious
problem
... and worst of
all - NONE of these affiliates even have a clue
that it is happening!
The Solution...
This problem means that is absolutely
vital to make sure that you are using the correct
solution to secure an affiliate link.
Unfortunately there's no way to check this
by just looking at the link itself.
It's no
use asking the affiliate program owners either, as they
almost certainly won't have a clue what you're talking
about. The details are just too technical and complex.
The only way to find
this information is to perform a complex technical
evaluation.
For the technically
minded, this involves: "Spidering the link,
following the pathway it takes to deliver visitors to
the sales page and analysing the HTTP cookie header
data passed between the script and the visitor's
web browser".
As you would expect
from something that sounds as "techie" as this, you
need a skilled and expensive technician to do this
for you.
Until now there was no
automated solution available.
But now our exclusive
Affiliate Fire Extinguisher will
automatically analyse your affiliate links and warn you
if you are at risk of losing commissions - and will help
you eliminate the risk automatically.
Hide Your Affiliate Links
SAFELY...
Affiliate Fire
Extinguisher is a simple tool that creates special
"link hiding" pages, which can significantly boost
profits.
If you're not familiar
with the concept of hiding affiliate links, here's a
quick overview...
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A quick overview of
why hiding affiliate links can boost
profits
Affiliate links
typically look something like this:
http://www.salessite.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/refer.cgi?r=3572&p=17
Or
this
http://www.affililserver.com/affiliatenet/link.php?ref=1452&prodid=22
These
links look "techie" and quite
obviously affiliate links.
With
Affiliate Fire Extinguisher,
your links look like this:
http://www.mysite.com/info/ebook.php
Or
this:
http://www.mysite.com/recommended/
These
links are neat, clean and look just
like links to pages on your own
website.
In an
independently conducted test where the exact
same email was sent to two groups of 4000 people
- with the only difference in the
emails being the link - over eight
times as many people clicked on
the cloaked link as clicked on the original
affiliate link.
That's over eight times as much
money, without any extra
effort!
While I
cannot promise that you'll see the same increase,
you will almost certainly see an increased
response when hiding your links.
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Cloak And Brand Your Affiliate Links
SAFELY...
As well as simple link
hiding pages, Affiliate Fire Extinguisher also
offers the more advanced solutions of "link
cloaking" and "link branding".
If you're not familiar
with the concept of link cloaking and branding, here's a
quick overview
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A quick overview of
link cloaking and
branding
The simplest solution for hiding/securing
an affiliate link is called a "Simple Redirect".
It makes the link look like a web address on your
own site, but as soon as the visitor clicks on the
link, they are "redirected" to the sales page,
which is shown as normal.
Example: Someone clicking on our "hidden"
link:
http://www.mysite.com/info/ebook.php
would see the sales page in their browser as
normal. In the web address bar on their
browser, they may see something like
this:
http://www.salessite.com/ebooks/?ref=1234
The drawback is that
it's obvious to the visitor that we used an
affiliate link to access the page. It is not
obvious to people before they clicked on the link,
but it is obvious afterwards. This may in some
cases put visitors off buying the
product.
Link Cloaking is a more advanced link
hiding method. It also makes the link look like a
web address on your own site, but when the
visitor clicks on the link, the address of your
website is still shown in the web address of the
browser, even when the sales page is being
shown.
Example: Someone clicking on our "hidden"
link:
http://www.mysite.com/info/ebook.php
would see the sales page in their browser as
normal, but in the web address of their
browser, they would still see:
http://www.mysite.com/info/ebook.php
As you can see, this
offers significant benefits over the simple link
hiding solution.
Link Branding is a variant on Link
Cloaking. It works in exactly the same way, except
that in addition to showing the sale page
being promoted, a small message is shown at the
top or bottom of the visitor's web browser. This
is usually in the form of a single line strip
containing some form of an advertising
message from the affiliate with a clickable
link.
The method has all the advantages of Link
Cloaking, but with the extra feature that this
special message from the affiliate is shown at the
same time as the sales page.
This allows you to advertise another offer,
advertise a bonus for ordering through your
affiliate link, or just provide a link back to
your own website in case the visitor is not
interested in buying the offer.
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Link cloaking and
branding are advanced affiliate link hiding methods that
allow you to further boost your commissions.
But they do have a
drawback. These methods (like ALL advanced affiliate
link hiding methods) have the potential to lose you
money, if used on incompatible affiliate
links.
To protect you against
this risk, Affiliate Fire
Extinguisher automatically checks each affiliate
link and warns you if you try to use any
solution that is incompatible with that affiliate
link.
This means you can use
all link hiding solutions SAFELY, without risking the loss of
your commissions.
Quick And Easy To
Use...
Below you can see a
screenshot of Affiliate Fire
Extinguisher:
More and more affiliates are now using
link hiding pages to boost their affiliate
commissions.
Most of them are using software that
does not incorporate our special safety features - and
as a result, they end up burning some of their own
commissions - in some cases burning more money than they
make by using the software.
You might expect to pay a lot for these
valuable features.
But if you order now, you'll pay just
$9.95 for your copy of Affiliate Fire
Extinguisher.
