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There are two primary methods you can employ in order to use affiliate marketing as part of your overall business marketing strategy. You can either be an affiliate marketer yourself or you can allow others to become affiliate marketers of your products. Either way, you create a win-win situation for the owner of the product as well as the affiliate marketer.

Become an Affiliate Marketer

Affiliate marketing is a popular way to make money online. There are literally millions of affiliate marketers all around the globe. You have probably purchased products from an affiliate marketer, although you may not have known at the time that the person you purchased the product from was an affiliate marketer. Affiliate marketers sell products that others have created and in return, they get to keep a portion of the profits, like a commission. Some affiliate marketers are very good at marketing; however, they either don’t want to create their own products, don’t know how to, or don’t have the capital. This way, they can make money online without having to create anything themselves.

Many, but not all products that are sold through affiliate marketing are digital products. That is, they can be downloaded over the Internet and therefore, do not have to be shipped. The purchaser pays with a credit card, Paypal, or whatever form of payment is accepted and instantly downloads their new product. It is all very fast and easy. Many affiliate marketers sell products that are found on ClickBank and there are plenty of other places to find affiliate marketing opportunities as well.

Some products that are sold through affiliate marketing are tangible products. Wal-mart and Amazon.com have an affiliate marketing program and so do thousands of other businesses. Affiliate marketers have no shortage of products to sell. If you want to be an affiliate marketer, you have your choice of a wide variety of products to market.

Allowing Affiliate Marketers to Sell Your Products

Perhaps you’re the one with the product or products to sell and you’re looking for another way to market them. Consider letting others be your affiliates; that is, they can sell your products in return for a commission. This is a great way to boost your online business; it’s not as if you won’t be marketing your products any more, you’ll just be taking on more help and you won’t have to pay when they don’t perform!

By allowing others to sell your products in return for commissions, you are really opening up the doors to your business. The people who become your affiliates will be advertising your products on other sites; sites that you have not thought of or had access to, perhaps. You won’t be responsible for any additional advertising costs because your affiliates will be covering any costs they incur for their own advertising.

You can really boost your profits by using affiliates. In fact, to really send your income over the edge, consider running a contest, perhaps even a monthly contest and reward the affiliate who sells the most product. You can either give a cash prize or give away free product; just make it something that is truly valuable that people would want to work hard to earn. The sky’s the limit when you motivate others to sell your product!

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So you’ve decided you either want to be an affiliate marketer or you want to offer your product to others so they can try and sell it on your behalf, either way you will have to give some thought to cloaking your affiliate links, just like I cloaked the link above.

There are a few good points supporting the fact that you should cloak your.

1. Affiliate Link Hijacking – This occurs when someone uses their own affiliate link to purchase a product. For example; I talk about and recommend a product on my blog and there is also a link to the products main sales page. If I use an obvious affiliate link then someone can substitute their affiliate code in place of mine. When they use the new link to buy the product, they get the commission instead of me.

2. Affiliate Link Bypassing – This occurs when someone simply removes the affiliate link to go directly to the product’s main selling site. I really don’t know why someone would do this because it takes no extra money out of their pocket. Why not give someone a commission for doing some work to get you there?

3. Affiliate Link Condensing – Some affiliate links can be long, ugly, and uninviting, which can cause some people to avoid clicking the link. Many people will recognise an affiliate link and will not click on it because the do not like being sold to, or only view it as a sales pitch. You want as many people to click your link as possible so if you have a link that looks something like this, www.productsite.com/affiliatepage.asp?affid=prodaffid4653, you would cloak the link to look something like this, www.yoursite.com/productsite, to make it appear more inviting.

So how should you cloak your links?

There are several ways to cloak your links and there also exist various pieces of software that will generate cloaked link pages for you.

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One other method you can use is a link cloaking service, such as tinyurl. These services will take any URL and create a redirect for them using a shortened URL (usually related to the service’s main URL. E.g. tinyurl/productsite). This may be desirable if you are marketing an affiliate product and you do not yet have your own web host. But if you use this method, be aware that some ad sites and pay-per-click programs do not allow you to use a redirected URL such as those offered by link cloaking services.

Should you cloak your affiliate links?

Now that you know the problems facing affiliate links and how to cloak them, you may be asking yourself if you should in fact use link cloaking.

Some marketers may consider the use of cloaked links dishonest – they feel that if they have a good enough relationship with their customers and develop a high level of trust, people will not have any issues clicking on the original affiliate link (this really only works for email marketing). Others simply feel they are optimising their marketing and protecting their sales; to get as much possible returns for their efforts as possible.

There really is no correct answer. In the end, you will need to decide if affiliate link cloaking is the best approach for your business.

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