I'm new to affiliate marketing and want to try direct-linking from a PPC campaign to a ClickBank merchant's offer page (seriously - humour me here...) Could anyone point me to a post or website that describes how to: (1) Cloak my affiliate link (2) Track which keywords make sales? Not much to ask, I know Thanks a lot! Moe
cloaking your affiliate link can be accomplished as follows: send the visitor to a php page on a domain you own. PHP code should look like this header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently'); header('location: myaffiliatelink'); To track keywords append a unique tracking id to each of your affiliate links. This will allow you to track which keywords make sales. Your php script could than look like this: Adwords destination url: mydomain.com/cloak.php?tid=uniquekeywordid cloak.php: $tid = $_GET['tid']; $url = 'affiliate.publisher.hop.clickbank.net?tid=' . $tid; header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently'); header('location: ' . $url); exit; This is a very basic way to track keywords and cloak your aff link at the same time. I suggest you learn some PHP. I hope you find a good product because I've tried direct linking and have lost a lot of money with it. Hope this works for you
Thanks a lot, Andrew! Much appreciated. I also hope I have a good product. I've spent a lot of time learning about AM, and need to start doing something... Moe
That's the spirit. Don't be afraid to fail though. I've failed miserably for months before I started making money, but now I only do this for a living. I always remember a quote my english teacher gave at graduation "most people never realize just how close they were to success". It keeps me going when the going gets rough.
To track which keywords make sales, eg clickbank. A free manual way is to number your keywords from 1 to 100. insert /?tid=1, /?tid=2, /?tid=3 The tids will appear in your back office, then just cross reference it to the keyword.