can someone please help me with redirecting from one site to another, because my article i wrote to promote a product was not approved yet because they don't accept affiliate links. Can someone please help me with this situation?
What domain provider do you use? Some dont offer this option unless you purchase hosting. I am using GoDaddy, the domain cost me $0.87 for 1 yr and its really easy to set up redirecting.
did you really need to make a new thread (and PM me)? http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1572549
Possibly. (Sounds like EZA?). You can buy a ".info" domain at GoDaddy for $1, and "forward it with masking" to your affiliate-link. All the person who clicks on it will see in their browser bar is "www.yourcheapdomain.info" but when they get to the order page, your affiliate-name will be there at the bottom of the page. But ... ... it's not easy to make sales with this sort of direct-linking, and you can't follow up your leads, or build a list that way. So most affiliates consider it a poor second-best. And if we're talking about EZA, although they do allow this in principle, they can still reject it if they consider your article to contain "derivative content" as well, and obviously to be purely for marketing purposes (and they're getting stricter about this just recently, which to be honest some of us welcome).
Use your website instead of your hoplink in the article author's resource-box, then? And promote your hoplink on your own site. And publish your articles on your own site first before submitting them to EZA! (It will perhaps be easier for people to advise you if you give a little more information, here, you know? Just saying!).
i'm sorry to not understand what you're trying to explain to me, so how exactly can i use my website and redirect visitors
Got it ... cool (so far your income from this site is AdSense and you wish to add one Clickbank affiliate product, yes?). So, what you could do is add an extra page to the web site, about the subject-matter of the Clickbank product, and put on it things like (i) an article or two about the subject and/or product with some clickable links (your hoplinks) saying stuff like "To find out more about this, click here" and so on; (ii) a clickable banner advertising the product which will also take people to your hoplink (and you could perhaps put that on some of the other pages, too?). And you can use that page of your site as the link in the author's resource-box of the articles you're submitting to article directories? It's possible that EZA might still not like this (depending on what the article's like and how "promotional" it is) but I think every other article directory won't have a problem with it.
i don't want to add a page to my website because this product or products i'm promoting doesn't have anything to do with my website. Basically what i'm trying to do is since EA won't accept affiliate links, i need a redirect method to use so my article can possibly get approved. I just don't know how other people are exactly doing it. Because for example i scrolled thru other people's articles on EA and some of them have the exact same product i'm trying to promote and their article is live and approved, so i know they had to do some redirecting, cause when i click on their link it does redirect to the product site. So that's what i need help with. Do i need to get a domain or some other method?
In order to do this you need to register a domain and do a frame redirect. 1st step - buy a new domain 2nd step - The following code should be in your index.html file for the new domain: <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="your domain url"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="onekeyword, anotherkeywords, etc"> </HEAD> <FRAMESET border=0 rows="100%,"" frameborder="no" marginleft=0 margintop=0 marginright=0 marginbottom=0> <frame src="http://youraffiliatelinkhere.affiliateproduct.hop.clickbank.net" scrolling=auto frameborder="no" border=0 noresize> <frame topmargin="0" marginwidth=0 scrolling=no marginheight=0 frameborder="no" border=0 noresize> </FRAMESET> </HTML> Code (markup): Do this and you're good to go. I do recommend using a landing page, but If you want to use direct-linking the above method is the way to go.
is EZA the only article site that doesn't accept affiliate links and that you have to do redirecting?
Ok, understood. In that case, you should try what Ripped suggests in the post above. Or what I suggested in post no. 4 above. Don't forget that they're changing their policies just very recently (as they explain in their blog). They admit openly that things have been allowed in the past that are not allowed now. Specifically, they now say they won't accept redirected affiliated links in cases where they feel the article is also "derivative in content". (Subjective, to some extent, obviously). So there's isn't a guarantee that just because other articles there have done it, you'll be allowed to do it, unfortunately.
so i will have to buy a domain name and basically use it for EZA, since they don't accept affiliate links?
For EZA yes, one way or another. But you can buy a ".info" for $1, you know? It doesn't break the bank ...
No, you don't need a web site for it. You just need to buy it from a registrar that allows free domain-name forwarding with masking, without needing hosting (GoDaddy will do, I'm sure there are many others too). You're just using it so that you can link to yourcheapdomain.info and it will take people to your hoplink without your hoplink actually showing. (But note the comments above and in other threads about affiliate marketing by direct-linking. It's very much a second-best method!).
To have your own landing-page with your own opt-in. This way you can pre-sell (which will dramatically increase the conversion-rate) and build your own list. That's where the real money is, in affiliate marketing. But there are also a few people (though nobody I know) who claim to make sales regularly just by direct-linking from articles to the vendor's sales pages, and that's obviously easier to do, if you can really sell that way.