How To Set Up Redirect
Links
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As
an affiliate, one of
your best tools will be an affiliate redirect link. When you set up a
redirect, you are redirecting web traffic from one URL to another.
Why should you bother doing this? There are a couple of reasons. First
of all, your unique affiliate link will most likely be very long. It
will be hard for people to remember, not to mention type into a browser.
Another reason is that some people who recognize that a link is an
affiliate link will choose to simply type in the main domain.
When you redirect your links, you can avoid all of those hassles. For
example, if your website is yoursite.com, you can set up a page titled
yoursite.com/suggestion.
When people go to yoursite.com/suggestion, they will be automatically
redirected to whichever site you choose.
Here are two different methods for creating affiliate links:
To do this through your cPanel:
1. Log into your cPanel
2. Click on Redirects
3. Type in the URL you want people to go to (yoursite.com/suggestion)
4. Type in the URL you want people to be redirected to (your affiliate
link)
5. You can choose either the permanent or temporary redirect choice
6. Click “add” – it’s that easy
With an HTML editor:
1. Open up your HTML editor (DreamWeaver, FrontPage, etc)
2. Open the page you want people to go (in this example,
yoursite.com/suggestion) and type in the following:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;
URL=http://www.AffiliateLink.com">
</head>
</html>
3. Save the file and publish your site.
Please note that in the above example, the fake URL
“affiliatelink.com” was used. When you create your
redirect, you will need to put in the URL to whichever page you want
people to be redirected to in that spot.
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