I recently watched a video about Affiliate Marketing by Russell Brunson that really touched a nerve. It was a short presentation but the presentations style was highly effective. In this video, Russell Brunson stated “That 97% of affiliate marketers make less than $157 per month”.

That’s shocking!

Now there are many reasons why Affiliate Marketers are NOT earning significant commissions.

One reason is that they are NOT properly cloaking and tracking their affiliate links and this makes them very vulnerable as the following story illustrates…

I was promoting a product by a well-known Internet Marketer. It was an excellent product. It had a great sales page. The price point was right. It had great bonuses. Naturally, I bought the product myself and found it was as easy to use as the promo videos demonstrated.

So I promoted the product and made sales. My EPC while certainly not as high as the top affiliates, they were consistent. Then, just before the first affiliate commissions were due to be paid my account went blank. There was no record of any clicks, no record of any sales – just a row of zeros.

I stared at my affiliate dashboard aghast because this money had been earmarked for a very special project. My heart felt heavy. Then I raised the first of many tickets to customer service. I eventually got paid but the experience left me rather disillusioned.

Now I don’t know if what happened to me was deliberate or accidental but in an interview on how to win affiliate contests I heard Willie Crawford say:

“…all affiliate tracking software is in some way flawed and so whether it’s cookies being deleted or whether it’s just something in the query string…because of hiccups somewhere, a certain percentage of sales over time are not going to be credited to affiliates.”

This is why I like the additional reassurance that using Easy Redirect Script gives me. Using Easy Redirect Script I can quickly and easily set up a variety of cloaked links. and, while I may not be able to track the actual number of sales I achieve I can, at least, prove that I did indeed drive traffic to a particular website.

Also, by logging into one account I can review the performance of any or all of my affiliate campaigns.

It’s so important to be able to track the performance of your affiliate campaigns and to independently  maintain your own statistics. Failure to do this will result in your leaving money on the table and losing affiliate commissions for one reason or another.

And when you take into account that as, Russell Brunson says, most affiliates make “almost $0 per month” then you owe it to yourself to safeguard your commissions.

I said that I wanted to use the commissions from the aforementioned campaign for a special project. Well, because of the length of time it took me to resolve this matter I was unable to do so. And, this brings me to another reason why many affiliate marketers do not earn a significant income from their affiliate commissions.

They simply do not have a strong enough reason why and they do not think of affiliate marketing as a business.  But what if, as Russell Brunson asks, “…you HAD TO feed your family with nothing but your affiliate commissions?”

Then, I think it would be fair to say that you would do more to safeguard your affiliate commissions and boost your income. And with the variety of link cloaking tactics you have at your disposal with Easy Redirect Script plus the ability to monitor the number of clicks a particular campaign generates can certainly help you to achieve these goals.

I become rather frustrated with leading Internet marketers when they insist on using free URL shorteners as it sets a bad example.

I recently received an email which contained a link that had been shortened using the Google URL Shortener. Because it was from an Internet marketer that I know, like and trust (and because I was also curious) I clicked on the link and saw a message that stated that the URL had been disabled.

This highlights the danger of using free URL shorteners – even Google’s. When you do this you don’t have control over your links. Even if your shortened links work in the initially there’s no guarantee that they will continue to work and, generally, you have no reliable way of testing and tracking your links.

Fortunately, this Internet marketer discovered his error and send a second email with an apology: “Sorry, in my earlier email I tried Google’s link shortener, apparently, they don’t like marketers too much. ”

However, this error could have been avoided by using a product like Easy Redirect Script.

Easy Redirect Script offers you a variety of ways to cloak your URLs both quickly and securely. When you use free URL shorteners you run the risk of people not being able to access your content and you almost certainly lose sales. When you use Easy Redirect Script you don’t run the risk of Google disabling your links or individuals not clicking on your link because they are wary of clicking shortened URLs.

Click the link below to see the variety of ways in which you can use this software:

Easy Redirect Script

And, be warned, if you insist in using free URL shorteners you will end up, needlessly, leaving money on the table.

Easy Redirect Script can be used to create what are called “Promo Redirects“.  What this allows you to do is to display additional content before you send someone who clicks on your link to the final destination.

With Easy Redirect Script this is very easy to do as the video below demonstrates.  However, I’m sure you can appreciate that this is a sophisticated affiliate marketing tactic.  This advanced affiliate marketing tactic is by the top affiliate marketers.

Done effectively, using this tactic can really help to enhance your marketing campaigns and boost your conversions.  You can use it for any page and you can edit it in seconds.

Check out the video below for a quick demonstration of how to set up and use a Promo Redirect.

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And remember that with Easy Redirect Script you have access to link clicking statistics so you can monitor the performance of your links.  Among other things this can help you to determine which of your campaigns you should focus on to get the maximum return on your investment of time.

Click below to add the Easy Redirect Script to your affiliate marketing arsenal:

As mentioned in the last post, Easy Redirect Script can be used for stealth redirects. For instance, there are some affiliate marketers who are happy to promote a particular product but don’t always want to send their subscribers to another marketer’s squeeze page. After all, they worked hard to build their mailing list and they may not want to give away their leads. This is an example of when you can use a stealth redirect.

There are even times when you might want to link directly to the order form. If you’ve done your marketing so that an individual is ready to buy why would you send them to the sales page?

With the Easy Redirect Script you can chose the precise URL you want to send a potential buyer to, cloak your links and, most important of all, get credit for any sales that occur when someone makes a purchase through your link.

For a demonstration on how stealth redirects work and how easy they are to set up using Easy Redirect Script see the video below:

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Use Easy Redirect  and Stealth Redirects  to Resolve Upsell Hell

If you’ve ever purchased a product/service online (or offline for that matter) you would have no doubt at some time been offered an upsell.

Offline, a classic example is when you buy a burger at McDonald’s and you’re asked:

“Would you like fries with that?”

And an example from the online world is GoDaddy.com.  If you’ve ever made a purchase on that site before you can complete your transaction they will offer you the chance to purchase Private Registration, email accounts, hosting and much more.

It actually is an excellent selling model and, when applied sensibly and sensitively, can dramatically boost your revenues.  However, some Internet Marketers don’t seem to have heard of the expression “less is more“.

So, when you’re in the process of making a purchase or even you just want to leave a particular website you’ve just visited you’re made an offer.  But sometimes, this process of offer after offer just goes on and on.  You just want to take your product and go or just leave the website.  I’ve perhaps experienced a series of 6-7 upsells (one loses count after the first two!).  It’s a situation that expert Internet Marketer Armand Morin describes as “upsell hell”.

Internet Marketers can and do significantly increase their revenues using upsells but when applied relentlessly I believe that marketers may gain in the short-term but lose in the long-term.

If I’m presented with too may upsells I lose interest in the product and I won’t recommend it to others because I don’t want others to go through the same upsell hell and I may be turned off wanting to purchase anything else from this product owner in the future.  But product/service recommendation is the essence of Affiliate Marketing.

And, in the same way that I won’t promote a product if I don’t like the sales process, other Affiliate Marketers feel the same way and they may decide not to promote a product to their subscribers which, fundamentally, is actually quite good.

But what if you could customize the experience that a potential buyer of that product has when they visit the product’s website?

And what if you could by-pass the tortuous sales process all together?

Well, using the Easy Redirect Script you can create a Stealth Redirect to bypass the product owner’s sale’s page.  In this way you don’t risk alienating your subscribers by putting them through upsell hell, the product owner still makes more sales and you earn more commissions.

Visit the link below where you can see a free Easy Redirect Script video that shows just how easy it is using Easy Redirect Script to create a Stealth Redirect.