Monday, May 28, 2007

AFFILIATE TIPS: Link Cloaking To Protect Your Affiliate Program Links

By By Luis Galarza, Affiliate Marketing Secrets Blog.

Affiliate Link Cloaking Or Be A Victim Of Commission Theft Or Hijacking!



Just like you heard, out there are a lot of low life people that will do anything to make a buck on the web, specially knowing that is to easy start an online home based business for free using affiliate programs. Hope this affiliate tips can help you defense your money.

This type of people will use illegal programming codes to hijack your affiliate link and change it with theirs, which will turn your internet marketing efforts into profit for them...

Link hijacking is one of the most use tactics to steal other marketers commissions, using their efforts, but is not the only one. There are also link bypass, and link replacement.


Link Bypass
This is when your website visitors will try to bypass your affiliate link by typing the merchants URL directly on their browser.

Link Replacement
This is when another merchant visits your site or blog and notice an ad from a new company or product that is being offer at an affiliate network that his part of. So, he replace your affiliate ID with his to get a rebate or commission from his own purchase.


So, how can you protect your affiliate program links and commissions?

Simple, by cloaking your affiliate link... The two most popular ways to do this are: One is using special link cloaker software that make it easy for you without any programming knowledge like Covert Your Links. Another way is to use free web link cloaking applications that can help you cloak your links like Link Brander.

For more information about link cloaking techniques visit Affiliate Link Cloaker and for advanced promotion secrets click here.


To Your Success,

Luis Galarza and Anna Phommatham, Affiliate Marketers.

- Free Internet Marketing and Trends.
- Offline Marketing & Advertising.


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Saturday, May 26, 2007

AFFILIATE TIPS: How To Marketing Cell Phone Affiliate Programs

By By Luis Galarza, Affiliate Marketing Secrets Blog.

Let The Consumer Tell You How To Promote Cell Phone Affiliate Programs The Right Way!



When you trying to apply Internet marketing strategies to promote cell phone affiliate programs you need to know why people are buying or not buying cell phones online. Why most consumers or business professionals go online to find information and reviews about mobile phones but still ending purchasing the cellular in their local offline wireless retail store...

Here is what a online consumer said about why he didn't purchase his new cellular phone on the web:


"When i was looking to buy a cell phone online, the challenge I had was finding a site that showed cell phone's that you didn't have to buy the 2 year contract. I would have bought online if I could find a site that offered more options and compared services and plans. I'm sure its around in some way but i gave up in finding it."

There it is! You see, one of the main problems that regular consumers have when going online looking for information with their mind ready to buy a wireless phone from whoever haft the best information resource site, not the best price... and why most of the times they go back to their regular offline store.

Here are some affiliate marketing recommendations:

1.- Reviews
Provide a extensive review of each cell phone affiliate program you are promoting providing all features and benefits if someone buy from them.


2.- Offer Choices
Give people the power to decide by letting them compare merchants, cell phones, brands, plans, and more. This will give you a better opportunity to increase sales conversions.


3. They Don't Know This
Most cell phone buyers don't know that online merchants offer better deals than any local offline wireless store. Your job is to make sure they know this right away when they visit your site.


4. Call To Action
Well you got your visitors to your site, you provide them with the tools, and information they needed it to make the final decision on their new mobile phone purchase. So, now what? You don't want them to go back to their local store, don't you? So, you need to make sure you tell them where to get it and why to get it now!

By adding a simple call to action like "Get It Here Now" or "Buy This Cell Phone Now!" makes a big different to conversions... So, don't forget to close the sale!


Cell Phone Affiliate Program Marketing Mistake To Avoid

Don't use call to action link text like "Click For More Info", "Click Here", "Full Details", or anything like that... Why? because you already give them all the details they needed to know, the next step is for them to purchase the cellular phone, and done!

One of the best cell phone affiliate programs to join is TMIWireles.com, because their program have a complete resource of marketing or promotion tools that can help you build your online cellular phone business.

Want more advanced affiliate promotion secrets click here.

To Your Success,

Luis Galarza and Anna Phommatham, Affiliate Marketers.

- Free Internet Marketing and Trends.
- Offline Marketing & Advertising.


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About The Authors

Luis Galarza is a successful Affiliate Marketer and the publisher of the Free Internet Marketing And Trends Blog where he provides Free strategic training and tools to help beginners market their goods more effectively.

Anna Phommatham is a small business and marketing expert with a lot of information in the food industry, retail, guerrilla marketing, and direct marketing. You can get some of her advice at the Marketing and Advertising Blog and also you can visit her "How To Start A Pizza Restaurant Business" blog.

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