Great Affiliate Tools For Affiliate Promotions
Successful affiliate merchants will always provide affiliate tools for your affiliate marketing. Normally what they provide will include targeted keywords for their product and also proven sales marketing materials including: solo ads, pay-per-click ads, ad banners and product images. They will also provide something called the Product datafeeds which is a 'catalog' of the merchant's products.
The second thing you need to do is to cloak your affiliate link, i personoally recommend: Link Cloaker or A Link Tracking Solution. where Link Cloakers are necessary to protect and shorten your affiliate links. Very often, affiliates lose out on commissions because potential customers recognize affiliate links, and try to bypass them
Before cloaking:
- www.merchant.com/products/myproducts.asp?aff=youraffilateid
After cloaking:
- www.yourwebsite.com/yourname/yourecommends
This is really a secret trick. The buyer sees the nicer looking 'recommends' link and they are more willing to click on it and when they click, they are being redirected to the merchant's product page.
On the other hand, Link Tracking software, has to do with tracking and monitoring the effectiveness of your advertising campaigns. You can track your regular or your cloaked links to check whether your campaign is working effectively. The software works by giving you yet another links, which is a specially formatted 'tracking link'. .Some link trackers can also serve as link cloakers. Meaning, you can set your 'pseudo-link' up there to appear in anyway you like. So,for example, you're running an email promotion, you want your subscribers to see the “recommends” style link, instead of your regular affiliate link, but you also want to track who clicks on the link, how many of those clicks convert to sales, etc. Your tracking software can transform this ugly link:
- www.merchant.com/products/merchantproduct.asp?aff=superaffilateid
cloak it into
- www.yourwebsite.com/path--link-tracker/myemailcampaign/product5.html
cloak it into
- www.yourwebsite.com/yourname/recommends/productname
So, your buyer or subscribers will see the 'recommends' link instead of the ugly link and as i said earlier, they are more willing to click on it now and being redirected to merchant's website.
