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This
page describes how to set up your links to go through
your domain rather than directly through Plimus.
Instead of something like this as the
link:
http://www.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=1647673&referrer=YYYY
You can have something like this
instead:
http://www.yourdomain.com/resources/ap.htm
For an example, just follow this link
to one of the affiliate products I'm promoting:
http://www.effexis.com/journal/journal.htm
This has several advantages over the
standard link:
- It looks nicer
- It's easier to change - If the
Plimus links ever change (or we switch to another
affiliate program), you only have to change links in
one place.
- You can get statistics - Clicks
on the link get recorded as visits to the page, so
you can get an idea of how many people are clicking
on your link
To setup something like this, use the
following HTML code in the link page (ap.htm in the
resources directory):
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.plimus.com/jsp/redirect.jsp?contractId=1642953&referrer=rodgerc102">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">
<title>The Journal</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>If you are not redirected in a few seconds, please
<a href="http://www.plimus.com/jsp/redirect.jsp?contractId=1642953&referrer=rodgerc102">
click here</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
This is the code in the journal.htm
page above.
The key is the <meta
http-equiv="refresh" ...> tag, which basically tells the
browser to go to the url page immediately upon loading.
Just replace the link URL with your
own affiliate link that you want to use.
You should also replace it in the <a
href="..."> tag in the main body.
If you have access to your hosting
control panel and you are familiar with web hosts, you
can also setup a redirect from the target URL to the
affiliate link URL. This will redirect all visitors to
your resource page to the product page via your
affiliate link.
Finally, you can use a service like
www.tinyurl.com or
www.metamark.net
to create short URLs representing your affiliate links. |
