Am I Cloaking Correctly ? Is this the best way?

Discussion in 'ClickBank' started by Malmsteen, Aug 1, 2008.

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    I am asking this because I really did expect to get more clicks on my clickbank links after getting good traffic from ezinearticles.

    Anyway here is how Im cloaking at the moment:
    I have made a folder on my blogs called "myblog.com/recommended/" and inside that folder I will have like "myblog.com/recommended/product1"

    Now in the "product1" folder I have a php file that is called "index.php" which includes these codes:

    <?php 
header("Location: http://affilitecode.publishercode.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=tidcode1"); 
exit; 
?>
    Code (markup):
    Is this done correctly ? And is it recommended way of cloaking links?

    Thanks.
     
    Malmsteen, Aug 1, 2008 IP
  2. SuperAffiliateBlogger

    SuperAffiliateBlogger Peon

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    Looks good to me.
     
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  3. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    Yeah thats right :)
     
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  4. rikat

    rikat Well-Known Member

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    Exactly right.

    A php re-direct follows this format:

    <? header("Location:http://affid.product.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=yourtid"); ?>

    If you find the re-direct to be a bit slow (shared hosting environment for example) you can use an html re-direct. This is a hair faster because the work is done client side, as opposed to server side with PHP.

    An example would be:

    <head>
    <title>same title as destination page</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=http://affid.product.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=yourtid">
    </head>


    Regardless of which method you use, I recommend recreating the title tag to match that of the site your are re-directing to.

    This way the top title bar of the browser shows no sign of a redirect.
     
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  5. jaiburn

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    yeh that is the right way to cloak.

    perhaps your articles aren't bringing in enough targeted traffic. Just to explain there are 3 phases in the buying cycle:

    1. the research phase, where they are looking for information about different products, this won't bring you as much sales from your traffic as they are still looking for info. These are more general searches.

    2. the decision phase, where they are deciding which product they want to buy. This might be searched of "review of productX". In this stage you could persuade someone to buy something form a good review of a product, or a comparison of why your chosen product is better

    3. The purchasing phase, this is searches of the form "buy productX". These people have their credit cards out and are looking to buy, so if you make them a good offer with a bonus or something, they will buy from you.

    You want to try and target people in phase 2 or 3, rather then more generalised search terms. Or your articles and pages should build up together to bring them to this stage. For example in your article you write about how to do something, and what to look for in a good product. In your landing page you then put some comparisons of products, and then they click on the affiliate link and get more info about a specific product. So you are leading them through the 3 phases, and as they click on more links, they get deeper into purchasing.
     
    jaiburn, Aug 1, 2008 IP