SEO, Affiliate Marketing and Domain Names

Why would one redirect a link?  There area few number of reasons.  One would be affiliate link theft.  Bad boys will see your affiliate link and then replace it with theirs, making the sale thus, them having the commission.  Another would be the simplicty of the link.  It matters when your links are shown like this:

http://mydomainname.com/offer.php

rather than having an affiliate link like

http://mydomain.com/?offer=123aff

or something to that effect.  If you were the reader, what link would you click? And so on and so forth.

Now, Here is one quick tip on how to redirect your affiliate link using php.  No programming required, and we can actually do this in one minute.

First off,  you will be needing:

1. notepad application
2. access to your ftp
3. the affiliate link

Ready?

1. Open notepad and copy this line

<?php
header(’Location: http://your-affiliate-link-here.com’);
?>

Wherein you replace http://your-affiliate-link-here.com with the actual affiliate link you want to hide.

2. Save it as php with any filename you want. example is ORDER.PHP

3. log in to your ftp, accessing your domain name root -/public_html

4. Create your directory: Here are some familiar directory names for your convenience, but you can actually use any directory name you wish.

• /go
• /goto
• /recommends
• /loves
• /presents

5. upload your .php, in our example - ORDER.php

6. Check your link if it really redirects, usually its http://your-domain-name.com/go/order.php

Your all  set, being conservative myself, I should have written at the title “under 5 minutes,” but really, one can do it under 2 minutes. Congratulations on your new beautified redirected link

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