One of the best ways to get a higher click-through-rate on your affiliate links is to hide the affiliate network that you are promoting. Use a link redirect script. Many people wont click on a link if they see a long URL or if it looks like an ad.

When you have a website or blog and you want to display affiliate links from the Firelead Affiliate Network - the best way to do this is to use a redirect script. There are a number of different paid programs out there that will do this for you, but we have found that it works best with a few lines of a simple PHP script. You must have a newer version of PHP enabled on your hosting for this to work:

<—-START CODE BELOW—->

<?php
header(”Location:http://www.firelead.com/?CID=105&AFFID=1065″);
?>
<—-END CODE—->

Note the affiliate link is “http://www.firelead.com/?CID=105&AFFID=1065″. Name the above script “mylink.php” or make it more specific to the link your are promoting, and place it on your website’s hosting. Here is our finished example: http://www.firelead.com/mylink.php. Note that when you click on the link with the file, it will redirect to the URL in the “Location” area of the script.

This is a simple way to set up a redirect to make a long URL shorter, or to hide an affiliate link.

Posted on February 13th, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
Filed under: Information Center, Tools