Comments on: Increase Affiliate Sales Conversions Dramatically

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:14:01 +0000

Affiliate Link Cloaking is 100% necessary. I believe that in order to make any sort of commission from these products you have to hide your links.

By: Gina Jennings

Gina Jennings — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:13:23 +0000

Great Tip, Doug. I do like cloaking with an affiliate domain, but I’m too cheap to pay for a .com.

I register a .info domain with Go Daddy which is only $1.07 and mask the domain. Takes less then ten minutes. No need to worry about hosting because the domain is already parked on Go Daddy.

Plus, I try to name the .info domain as closely as possible to the original name, but this is a great tip. And it works well for submitting to Ezine Articles.
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By: Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:00:16 +0000

I disagree very much that revealing a link is an affiliate can only lead to less sales. I started putting a note on each post on ATMac which contains an affiliate link and both clicks and sales have increased by several hundred percent.

I don’t think cloaking disclosed links is inherently bad, although I don’t bother doing it, but I have a problem with not disclosing. No matter how impartial we try to be, earning comisions does change how you treat a product.

I am interested in the domains as redirections idea – it sounds useful – do you just use 301/302 redirections, or something fancier?
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By: JIm Hardin

JIm Hardin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:59:00 +0000

Yeah I have to say for fun I bought a domain name for $0.89 cents. Sure its a .info domain, but I thought what have I got to loose. But it is really pretty cheap way to try things out and see if they work. I think I paid more for a candy bar at the vending machine at work.
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By: Paul Hancox

Paul Hancox — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:31:40 +0000

@John, are you referring to the bit where he actually BOUGHT the product? I always think it helps to own the product you’re promoting – you can talk about it with more authority.

@Doug, the domain thing is a great tip. Thanks!
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By: Sire

Sire — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:05:19 +0000

Hey Doug, interesting post mate. I’m pretty sure that I may have mentioned on your other post that I don’t hide my affiliate links, or though I did on one particular, now defunct campaign.

I just wrap it in html code so the only way you can see the link is if you hover your mouse over it. I know that webmasters and such do this to see if it’s an affiliate link, but am wondering if the average Joe does, especially as it’s the average Joe who is the one that is more likely to purchase the product. Depending on what the product is I suppose.
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By: Deneil Merritt

Deneil Merritt — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:09:08 +0000

Redirecting the domain to a product is one of my favorite ways to cloak an affiliate link. Like you said, there’s no way around going through the affiliate link.
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By: Doug Dillard

Doug Dillard — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:53:04 +0000

We use Ninja Affiliate and Max Banner Ads Pro to cloak links on this site and our other WordPress sites… and a simple PHP redirect code on our non-blog sites.

By: Sahil Kotak

Sahil Kotak — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:40:40 +0000

Yeah Doug,

Affiliate cloaking is important, Which Plugin you use for cloaking your links? Is it Ninja Affiliates? Or any other.

BTW: I will be here only for posting comments and sharing.

Thanks
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