One of the critical tasks you need to do in your back end is to set up the technology properly to do less work for yourself. Once you decide to become an affiliate, it’s essential to learn about how to redirect your affiliate links and review them regularly to ensure they are still active, still earning income, and are still relevant to your audience.
Think about the process of having 20 different products to recommend to your ideal customer, all with various links and codes. All those different platforms and links can get confusing, and updating the links can become a nightmare.
The product creator may choose to change how they do things, including eliminating the sales pages or products you like to entirely. This makes it a little tricky controlling the links so that you don’t accidentally send your customers to dead links and waste the sale opportunity.
For this reason, I recommend that you use a special type of technology called a redirect. Redirects work by creating a file that belongs to that one link and product so that your link for that product is easy for you to remember since it hides the look of the affiliate link with its random letters and symbols.
You can do redirects in a few ways, but the best approach is to pay for upgraded software like Prettylinks.com, but you can also use a .htaccess file, or you can also use a PHP redirect. Let’s look at each of these methods for creating a redirect.
- Pretty Links – This software is used with self-hosted WordPress to create more attractive links from your own domain. Any link you want to create can be done. Plus, it also tracks the data you need to know to ensure that what you’re doing is working. This is a plugin, so it’s simple to set up and use. Once you install it, just follow the instructions for creating all kinds of links from redirecting affiliate links to simply creating shorter, more attractive links right on your own website.
- .HTACCESS File – You’ll need to understand how to use your website hosting options within cPanel to edit your files. You can redirect single URLs utilizing the system or an entire site. You can often look to your WebHost to provide step-by-step instructions on how to do this.
- PHP Redirects – This involves creating an index. PHP file. While it might seem complicated, you just need to follow the directions provided on Geeksforgeeks.org. Try it on one of your links to find out how easy it really is. You just use your text editor to create a file with one simple line of code then upload it into your files using FTP or cPanel.
The advantages of using redirects for your affiliate links is that you can more easily remember the link, the link looks more attractive, and you can easily share them with others off the website without worrying about the type of affiliate program. For example, you can’t share JVZOO links on Facebook, but if you share a link originating from your website that simply redirects to the sales page, you can share it in more places without concern.
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