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Further to my post on url shorteners no longer supporting Clickbank affiliate links, I began searching for a paid tool that would sort out this rather pressing problem.
All my links were turning to dust and I was being forced to leave the uncloaked link out in the open where people could see it was an affiliate and also leaving it vulnerable to internet miscreants.
So when I got an email that talked about three reasons why marketers should never use free url shorteners and offered a cloaking redirect device, I was all ears.
1) A lot of ISPs block them because they often collect your data and share it with other sites. ISPs don’t like that!
2) You don’t control the service, so if they go out of business all your links quit working overnight – as had been the case for me.
3) Those URLs you shorten are impossible to remember and/or edit later. Now that’s something I hadn’t really thought of but is very true.
But there was more! With mobile being the in thing for 2012, I was making sure that all my affiliate sites were accessible from smartphones. The problem was that the sales letters were definitely not mobile friendly, so I was building my own sales pages and then linking to the Clickbank order form which is mobile ready. Unfortunately, in so doing, my affiliate link was being scraped off, leaving the whole thing a pointless exercise on my part.
So the second sales letter I got asked if I had ever wanted to promote something but NOT send traffic to the sale page of the product you’d like to promote?
When they talked about the new script that would allow me to create ‘stealth’ redirects that would retain my affiliate link, I really started to take notice.
Because there was more! The script could make QR codes showing the new link and there was also a way to do promo redirects. Hence the little advert you saw before this post loaded.
When I went to the site, I liked that there was no sales letter, it just did what it said on the tin. My only beef is that when I uploaded the plugin via ftp, the instructional video missed off one vital instruction. Your hosting has to be set up so that files are on a 777 permission not 755 – they have to be read and write permissible for the ersadmin script to work.
Here’s a video that explains how the Easy Redirect Script works very simply.
Check it out and see what you think!
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