Improve Affiliate Link Clickthroughs

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Affiliate Link Clickthrough Rates Video

If you noticed that I used a .info domain… that was just a cost thing.

Depending on how committed you are to promoting the affiliate program you may want to spend more and get a better domain extension.


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Posted on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 at 9:29 pm In affiliate |

8 Responses to “Improve Affiliate Link Clickthroughs”

  1. By David Laing, August 6th, 2006 at 5:53 pm

    Jon,

    Interesting tip; it would be interesting to see some stats backing up you hunch - perhaps in a few weeks you could report back and let us know how much your CTR for the HostGator link improved?

    A slightly cheaper method I use is to encode my affiliate links using tinyurl.com - this has the added benefit that the link is nice and short, so doesn’t break when being stuck in a email.

    Finally, I think your use of screen captures to explain technical concepts is great; much better to “show” rather than “tell”.

    Warm regards

    David

  2. By Jon, August 7th, 2006 at 10:31 pm

    Thanks David.

    It will be a tough thing to measure the CTR on the hostgator…since I didn’t really keep any stats before I changed it…oops.

    I have used tinyurl too, yes it’s cheaper, but it still looks kind of messy and don’t forget, the redirect goes through their site, so if they go out of business or get hacked and lose their database…all your links will be dead…if you submit articles with those links in them, you’ll never be able to change them.

    I love doing the videos…so much easier to show rather than tell…especially for a poor typests like me :)

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  4. By bala, September 22nd, 2006 at 11:10 pm

    my internet connection is slow so please give me the download link so that i can download with acclerator and see, thanks

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  6. By Doug, July 1st, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    Great idea, Jon.

    I’m just thinking that your technique could be taken a step further, but setting up a website with redirection PHP. So now your link, instead of being hostlab.info, would be xyz.info/hg (for example) where xyx.info is your special redirection website, and /hg is specific to Host Gator (in this example). Now you can manage as many affiliate links as you want all from one place (of course it would need a back end). Probably nothing a plugin for wordpress couldn’t handle.

  7. By Jon, July 2nd, 2007 at 10:39 pm

    Thanks Doug. The WordPress plugin idea is a good one, I’ve looked and haven’t seen one. I started to spec one out, but didn’t ever complete it.
    As for linking out with subfolders on one domain that would defeat my purpose with the domains.

    I’ll need to write a post about this, but in short I’m trying to build value in the domain name, that I can later leverage, not just simply hide the affiliate coded URL.

  8. By Doug, July 7th, 2007 at 3:43 pm

    I think I sort of understand what you mean, Jon. But not exactly. I’ll look forward to your future post on the subject.

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