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Create Custom Short Links to Reinforce Your Brand

February 9, 2010
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Yesterday bit.ly released a Pro edition of it’s popular url shortening service. The Pro edition essentially let’s you brand your own short links so you can distribute across Twitter and Facebook and in services like e-mail, SMS and instant messenger. The service is free and includes up to 10,000 shorten requests a day. What’s totally cool is that all of the statistics associated with your…

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How to Track Keywords Through Your Affiliate Links

February 3, 2010
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One of the most useful components you can add to your affiliate links are subid’s. With subid tracking you can pass through a lot of useful information, but one of the most useful is which keywords are generating sales on your affiliate link. If you know which keywords are sending you clicks and which keywords are converting to sales, then you can better optimize your…

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How to Control Your Online Brand with WordPress

January 29, 2010
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Serious internet marketers know about cloaking their links. Just recently I recommended affiliates use php redirects to cloak their affiliate links. However, if you’re using the self-hosted version of WordPress, then you’ll want to check out a plug-in created by Blair Williams called Pretty Link. Pretty Link can shrink, cloak and track links using your blog’s domain name. You have 100% control over how all…

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How to Cloak Your Affiliate Links to Make More Money

January 22, 2010
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Top affiliates cloak their affiliate links for one main reason, it works. The reason it works is because it helps to fix two problems that undermine an affiliate’s bottom line. One, it helps to increase click-throughs and two it keeps others from hijacking your affiliate code. When an affiliate can increase their click-throughs and reduce link hijacking, it means increased traffic which leads to more…

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