Shortening Your Own Affiliate URLs The Professional Way
Even if you have a free website with free hosting, if you can upload files you can shorten your own Affiliate URLs and they will look professional.
First of all when you use URL shortening sites such as tinyurl or bit.ly, it gives off the impression that you might want to send visitors to a site where they might not want to go. You might be promising them information, but sending them to a landing page or a huge sales letter that offers nothing that was promised. Also, you could be sending your visitors to a site that has malware that installs on their computer so that you can get information they might not have wanted to share with you.
Second of all when you display your affiliate URL, you stand a good chance at losing money. I don’t know why, but some people like taking you out of the equation even though you were the one who introduced them to the product or the site. They look at the affiliate URL and start cutting your personal identification information out of it. If you are working with legitimate people, they will follow the link you give them. But if they are trying to claw their way to the top and kick everyone else down to get there, then you have to protect yourself.
I store files on my computer that have my affiliate URLs listed in them. Then, I direct my potential clients to those files. They are automatically directed to the URL where I want them to go. Here’s an example:
The secret to this URL shortening feature is spelled out in the book I published on Scribd called Business From Bayshore. You can find that book at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16498471/Business-From-Bayshore-Absolutely-No-Investment
When shortened with a file that I store on my server, it looks like this:
http://michaelallenonline.com/businessfrombayshore.php
Finding out the code that is written in the file businessfrombayshore.php is what you’re trying to do!
