Affiliate Marketing for Newbies – Affiliate Links
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So if you have been following this blog you will have chosen your affiliate product and you now have an affiliate link that looks something like this:
http://www.yourdomain.com/?ref=abcd1234
The next question is what do I do with this ugly looking domain name (URL)?
The easiest thing to do is use the raw affiliate link to drive traffic to the product sales page and collect the commissions. However in this case the simplest is definitely NOT the best.
Reasons NOT to use the Raw Affiliate Link
1. People trust direct links with normal looking URLs more than they trust an affiliate link with lots of foreign looking code.
2.The long ugly affiliate link can also drive potential customers away from your site which is exactly what you don’t want to happen.
3. If your raw affiliate link is visible then people can either chop off the code bit at the end of the affiliate link and you lose your commission or worse still they can substitute their own affiliate link for yours and once again you lose your commission for the sale!
