Affiliate Marketing: Using Redirects To Manage Your Traffic

10:28 pm in Charly Leetham, Internet Marketing, Making Money by Charly Leetham

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I had an interesting discussion with my Mastermind Group the other day about using redirects to control your affiliate marketing traffic. I was relating how one of the affiliate programs I was promoting had closed down and that all of my affiliate links were disabled on the host site and when someone clicked on my link, they got a ‘dead page’.   It was really frustrating.

The problem I was lamenting wasn’t that the program had closed down – I had already found something to replace it – the problem was that I had linked my raw affiliate link ‘all over the place’ and I couldn’t remember where!   I was sending good quality traffic (quite likely qualified traffic) to a dead link and there wasn’t much I could do about it.

I had also spent the better part of several days going through the sites I knew about and changing my links.

If I had heeded the advice that every piece of literature on affiliate marketing had given me – I wouldn’t now be sending traffic to a dead link and I would have saved myself several hours of tedious, mindnumbing work in changing all my links….

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